Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-28
John D. Rockefeller, Jr, Charles

John D. Rockefeller, Jr, Charles
Sweeney and a party of friends visited
in the Occur d'Alenes this week tc
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 300 feet
wide, and has been traced for 30oo
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 or
dollars worth of fine pine timber is
doomed.
Word from Virginia City, Mont,
says: Inc Watseka Gold Mining COM
pany, at Rochester, was attached for
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. II. Wright, a Whatcom, Wash,
mining man, arrived home recently
from the Mount Baker country, on the
line of the B. B. G. R. c. extension,
with the report that a cleanup had
just been made on the Post-Lambert
mines, and the net result of rs days
run of the 10 stamp mill was 1000.
The mine is owned by Henry Hahn
and Leo Friede of Portland. There is
large reserve Of high grade ore
blocked out in the mine
W. G. Hussey, claim agent of the
Union Pacific company, has made a
settlement with the estates Of Al min
ers who lost their lives in the Hanna
explosion of June 80. near Rawlins,
Wyo. The sum of $500 will be paid
to each widow and $50 to each child
and s45 for each unmarried man.
Details concerning the organization
of the United Lead company, which
has been under way for several
have been announced. The
will have capital Of 1927, 000,-
000 It is understood that Baton Sew
all, vice president of the American
& Refining company, will be
made president of the new combine.
The relations of the new company with
the American Smelling & Refining
are expected to be very close.
Fred N. Cummings is back to Spo-
kane from Morgan county, Ind, south
Of Indianapolis, where he was exam
lining the placer gold fields that have
lately attracted considerable attention.
He has with him a vial containing
some beautiful flake gold with garnets
and black sand, taken from the riff
fies. He said he examined the
ground for 80 days in company with
A New York and an Oregon expert, but
we could not get values anywhere suf-
flcient to warrant development.
The Highland Chief, Klondyke and
other mining properties on Pine creek
have recently cut ore bodies, which
place them among the best strikes
made in the Occur d'Alenes this year.
The Pine Creek district below Ward
ner now comes to the front as one of
the most prosperous in the Occur
i'Alenes. A wagon road nine miles
ong, for which the county appropri-
ated $1,000 and the interested mining
made the additional ne
sssary appropriation, is nearing com
pletion.
Steps have been taken in the district
court at Butte by attorneys for the
Boston & Montana Mining company Of
he Amalgamated group to compel F.
Augustus Heinze's United Copper COM
pany to cease operations in the rich
Minnie Healy mine, pending a second
trial of the noted mining case, as re-
Gently directed by the affidavits filed
by engineers for the Boston & Mon
tana company. Judge William Clancy
has granted a temporary injunction
and issued an order for the Heinze
people to appear in court next Satur-
day and show cause why the injunc-
ton should not be made permanent.
While John McCush of Whatcom,
Wash, was drilling well six miles
east of that city, recently, to secure
a water supply for his single mill a
flow of natural gas was encountered.
The men were in ignorance of what