The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1903-02-27
ground lying adjacent to and directl.
connected with the main vein.
MINING NOTES.

slightest signs of weakening, either at
home or abroad.
The Chinese placer miners are al.
ready starting out for the spring work
along the banks Of British Columbia
rivers.
Circle City, Alaska, is deserted and
hundreds Of miners have joined the
stampede to the new Tanana district.
near the Yukon boundary.
From Amalgamated interests Is OBJ
tanned the positive Information that
the proposed merger of the Lake Su.
perior copper properties will 60
through.
D. M. Hyman, who is negotiating
the big $4,000. 900 deal for the consoli-
dation Of the Occur d'Alene mines. has
secured an extension Of his option un-
til March 81. $ IA
The discovery of oil near Mount Joy
Square. Dublin, has created great in.
terest and has raised hopes that the
lold bog land throughout Ireland may
prove similarly productive.
"As soon as the 20 additional stamps
are installed at the Jumbo mine our
output will be $4,000 a month";" said
Frank Brown, the manager Of this Buf-
falo Hump property, who was in Spo.
kane recently.
A company os being formed to invest
$780, 900 In Ignite coal mine at VIII
liston, N. D., the output of which, 1t is
claimed, will be 1000 tons daily when
the installation of new machinery has
been completed.
Never in the history of the sampling
works, below Wallace, Idaho. was such
a large tonnage sampled as during
January. The amount treated was
13,485 tons. which exceeds that Of pre-
vious months by about 5000 tons.
Production Of copper increased dur
ing the year about $4,000 tons; con-
sumption increased 10S,500 tons, the
total being 100000 tons, against 381,-
500 tons in 1901. the apparent increase
of consumption over production being
| $4,000 tons.
Ten more stamps for the mill equip
ment Of the Jumbo mine, near Stites
Idaho, will be installed during March
of this year. There is said to be $780,.
900 worth of ore in sight on this prop
osition and the owners claim the mine
is worth $1.000,000.
A strike Of no small Importance to
the camp was made recently at Tyson,
Idaho, when the drill struck the ledge
in the lower workings on the War
Eagle claim, owned by the Tyson Con-
solidated Mining company. and ad
joining the Richmond on the east.
Advices received from Hamilton,
Mont, say that H. L. Hollister, acting
for a syndicate composed Of Chicago
capitalists, has completed a deal for
the Homestake & Idaho group OF
claims, II in number, for s125,000. The
properties are located on Beaver creek
in the Thunder Mountain district, and
are among the richest in that section
The people Of Orofino. Idaho, are
preparing to handle the greatest bust
ness in the history of the town. It is
will be in the mining districts this sea
on than for many years and the placer
miners will have more water with
which to work than there has been
since the camps were first established
o. P. Lee. a miner, aged "a years
was crushed to death at the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan mine, near Wardner,
Idaho. recently. by large body OF
rock giving way from the roof Of the
drift. He was engaged with another
man timbering the drift at the time the
accident happened. but his comrade es-
capped injury. Lee had been working
at the mine for year.
A $26,OOO,00 mining deal is pending
in the Occur d'Alene silver-lead min
ing camps of northern Idaho. The
contemplated purchaser is the Ameri
can Smelling & Refining company (the
lead trust). The negotiations involve
every great producing mine in the
Coeur d'Alenes, with the single OK
ception of the Hercules, and the pos
, sible exception of the properties Of the
|, Empire State-Idaho (Chas. Sweeny'f
company.
, The greatest interest taken in tht
, eastern Oregon gold fields since tht
palmy days of the Auburn placers II
the COS is now evidenced ON ever,
hand. More mines are on the prOduc
y ing list, more men are employed un
|. derground and more scientific work II
being done than ever before in the his
tory of mining in Oregon. Deep sink
ing is the order of the day and mum
Der of leading properties are now clos'
!. to the 1000 foot level.
Because the mine was not beinl
q worked at a sufficient profit 81 mel
q have been laid on permanently at tn,
q Frisco mine, near Wallace. Idaho. Th'
day shift or the mill has been close,
and from now on 1t will be run onl.
= during the nights. A force OF Its mel
= is retained, but previous to the layo1
:, yesterday morning another force ha
: been released. The real cause for tn
reduction in the force. as given ou
by the management, is that the ore Il
the upper workings is too low grade t
+ be mined at profit.
The big ore-shoot at the Golcond
mine, near Sumpter, Ore, that ha
T. been drifted on In the tunnel level an
explored ESQ feet, was picked up Las
o week on the 100 foot level In the dri.
south of the ore shaft. The manag'
81 ment is greatly elated, and as 1t ha
,r this same shoot on the 300 foot leve
e. 1t expects to catch 1t on any shift o
a. the south drift In the 500 foot leve
b Arrangements will be made to increas
le the plant to 60 stamps. The Columbl
Df mine has ordered 40 more stamps.
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