The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-08-28


struction of a smelter in the Keller
mining camp on the south half of the
Colville reservation, Ferry county,
Washington.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Charles
Sweeney and a party of friends visited
in the Occur dAlenes this week to
examine the mines which their new
Federal Mining & Smelling company
expects to acquire.
A good strike is reported on the
Sugrue group, on Thunder mountain.
The property is situated on the head
of Little Indian creek, and the ledge
discovered is said to be over 800 feet
wide, and has been traced for 5000
feet.
Forest fires are reported from sew
eral sections in Montana. Northwest
of Anaconda, near Blue Eyed Nellie
mine, the largest fire in the memory
of the earliest settlers is raging and
unless the wind shifts thousands of
dollars worth of fine pine timber is
doomed.
Word from Virginia City, Mont,
says: me Watseka Gold Mining COM
pany, at Rochester, was attached for
$4,000 Proceedings were begun by
F. Augustus Heinze and George Rob-
inson of Butte A. w. McCune, the
Salt Lake millionaire, is behind the
Watseka The money is said to be
due on promissory notes.
, A. H. Wright, Whatcom, Wash,
) mining man, arrived home recently
= from the Mount Baker country, on the
/ line of the B. B. & R. c.. extension
. with the report that a cleanup had
Just been made on the Post-Lambert
mines, and the net result Of 25 days
run of the 10 stamp mill was $27, 1000
The mine is owned by Henry Hair
! and Leo Friede of Portland. There is
large reserve of high grade ore
blocked out in the mine.
w. c. Hussey, claim agent of thu
Union Pacific company, has made ;
{ settlement with the estates of Al min
ers who lost their lives in the Hanna
Z explosion of June 80. near Rawlins
Il Wyo. The sum of $500 will be pai
. TO each WluOW anu pOO " CdNh ShAi
u and s45 for each unmarried man.
Details concerning the organizatio
- of the United Lead company, whic
- has been under way for severe
, months, have been announced. TIL
company will have a capital of $27 900
- 900. 1t is understood that Baton Sew
:. all. vice president of the America
- Smelling & Refining company, will b
made president of the new combin
The relations of the new company wit
- the American Smelling e. Refinin
company are expected to be very clos
Fred N. Cummings is back to SIP
10 kane from Morgan county, Ind, soul
n Of indianapolis, where he was exa1
no lining the placer gold fields that hay
10 lately attracted considerable attentio
~ He has with him a vial containiI
cd some beautiful flake gold with game
and black sand, taken from the T
ar fes. He said he examined Il
To- ground for 80 days in company wi
nc a New York and an Oregon expert, b
we could not get values anywhere 81
-al ficient to warrant development.
We The Highland Chief, Klondyke al
ne other mining properties on Pine ere
have recently cut ore bodies, viii
or place them among the best strik
10: made in the Occur d'Alenes this We;
10; The Pine Greek district below Wal
Gil ner now comes to the front as one
to- the most prosperous in the COe
d'Alenes. A wagon road nine mil
Try long. for which the county APPROX
in ated $1,000 and the interested mini
he companies made the additional
)ut essary appropriation, is nearing co
MS pletion.
i'm Steps have been taken in the distr
I'M court at Butte by attorneys for
an Boston & Montana Mining company
ely the Amalgamated group to compel
Ing Augustus Heinze's United Copper CO
us pany to cease operations in the ri
red Minnie Healy mine. pending a seco
trial of the noted mining case, as
ere Gently directed by the affidavits fl
the by engineers for the Boston & M
ack tana company. Judge William ClaI
lar has granted a temporary injunct
and issued an order for the He'll
'ss- people to appear in court next Sat
to day and show cause why the inju
oss ton should not be made permane
on While John McCush of WhatcC
ON Wash, was drilling a we'll six mi
east Of that city, recently, to sec
water supply for his shingle mil
AOw Of natural oac was encounter
The men were in ignorance of W