Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-31
MINING NOTES.

Work has been begun on the Black
thorn mining claims, in the Meteor
camp, on the Colville reservation.
The property, which lies within q
miles of Heppner, Ore, has been de.
veloped to the point of a producer.
Recent reports from Sumpter tell OF
strike of 10 feet of $40 ore in the
Congo vein of the Red Boy group.
The work of recovering the bodies
from the Hanna coal mine in Wyom-
ing is progressing uninterruptedly
Fifty-seven bodies have been taken
out. Over a hundred more remain.
The Washington mining property, To-
Gated about seven miles from Orient.
y. ash, has resumed work. A crew OF
men are now oing development work,
with everything running smoothly.
The regular monthly dividends on
the Standard and Kendall were paid
at the offices of the company last
week in Spokane. This is the seth div
idend on the Standard Of cents per
share, amounting to $4,000. The Ken
dial paid its ninth dividend Of cents
per share, totaling 100000.
]. A. McEachran, representing Spo.
kane capital, is now in the Hump dis.
trict experimenting work on the Buff
falo Star group of claims. The prop
erty is situated between the Hogan
brothers property and Buffalo Hump.
The addition of coal in the Blue
mountains to the list of products has
opened new industry in Morrow
county, Oregon. So quietly has the
mine been worked that little is known
by the outside world Of the extensive
coal fields of the section.
Judge w. Napton this afternoon ap-
pointed Paul A. FUSE receiver of the
Granite Bimetallic Mining company at
Phillipsburg, Mont, with power to re-
sumo full operations at once, and his
bond was placed at 100000. The
mines will resume Monday.
Recent finds above Lake Arkell are
causing much excitement up north.
The district is said to be fabulously
rich and hundreds Of people are go.
ing in. The new strike is on the, tribu-
taries of Alsek river, 20 miles from
Champagne landing and 80 miles above
Mush creek. The distance from White
horse is 100 miles.
Sol Camp and Lou Williamson have
made strike in the Golden Chariot
claim, about two miles east of Stump
ter, Ore. They recently bonded the
rropartv froy,, tho Gum pt or Uollov p nil.
road company for $4,000 and have since
then pursued a policy of development
work which has earned for them a
rich reward in few days. One pc
culiarity is that the payshoot lies In
limestone formation about IL feet
wide. Specimens of the ore show free
gold visible to the naked eye, assays
from which run up into the thousands
While eight men were employed in
handling heavy steel roof plates which
were being hauled to the top of the
big f1ue at the Washoe works at Ana
conda, Mont, the supporting columns
gave way, allowing the crossbeams to
pull away from one wall, and precipi-
tating the whole mass to the bottom
of the flue, so feet. One man was in
stantly killed, one fatally injured and
three less seriously. The dead:
e. X. Joss, married.
Fatally injured: Hans Aarensen,
skull fractured.
Less seriously: Ole Thorsen, Olaf
Swanson and Sam Revor.
Foreman Johnson jumped as the
crash came and caught on the wall.
Joss head was severed by a heavy
roof plate.
Upon the application of Is different
mining companies operating in the dis
trict around Prescott, Ariz., and one
private individual Judge E. R. Sloan
has granted an injunction against the
Yavapai district union Of the Western
Federation of Miners, the McCabe,
Walker and Groom Creek miners I'm.
ions and Hugh Burns and F. p. Starr,
walking delegates, restraining them
from interfering with the peaceful op-
Grafton of the respective properties of
the companies named. The application
is the result of the alleged interfer.
ence by union men recently with the
working Of some Of the mines.
Montana Mines.