The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-10-09

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The Hecla-P Portland Cement & Coal
company, with a factory at Bay City,
Mich, has filed a trust mortgage for
1871 ,S1S, conveying all its property in
Bay City, Iosco, Ogemaw and Alpena
to the Detroit Trust company as tTus-
tees. The mortgage is given for the
benefit of creditors, to raise funds for
the liquidation Of Indebtedness and
to make possible certain and necessary
changes in the plant.
Frank Stevens, well-known mining
man, died at the Jumbo mine, Buffalo
Hump. He was a brother of w. A.
Stevens, one OF the owners of the Jum-
DO, and also one of the best known
mining men in the country. Frank
Stevens was known to almost every
mining man in the northwest He was
early associated with the devel-
opment of the Occur d'Alenes, and lat
er went to Buffalo Hump, where he
has been an active factor in the devel-
opment of that camp. Several weeks
ago Stevens fell and broke several ribs.
Being careless in his actions, he
caught a severe cold, which finally set
tied into pneumonia, and that was the
cause of his death.
The Pearl, Lone Pine and Surprise
mineral claims, belonging to the Lone
PineSunrise Mining company, have
been sold to the Pearl Consolidated
Mining company, the original company
retaining only the Last Chance claim
free of all incumbrance.
Since the Hercules made the great
strike in the lower tunnel there has
been considerable demand for stock
in the Ajax property, which adjoins the
Hercules on the east
tunnel is now being driven which
will tap the ledge at a depth of over
200 feet There is considerable stock
held in Spokane.
The ledge in the lower tunnel of the
Hercules has now proven to be As feet
wide, with Is feet of shipping ore.
The Post Lambert mine, in the
Mount Baker district, owned by Hahn
& Friede of Portland, made it's second
clean up Sunday for 26 days run. The
mill is crushing 20 tons daily of rock
thought to go better than $35 per ton.
The owners will install another 10
spring.
A number Of improvements are be-
ing made at the Tiger-Poorman mine
at Burke, Idaho. A new dam is being
built on the upper lake, which will be
27O feet long and 80 feet high. Re
pairs are also being made on the
fume.
The final payment on the Denver
& Rock Island group has been made,
and it is now the property of the Du-
quesne Mining company of Pittsburg
The bond was secured by w. T. Hales
of Wallace IS months ago from the
owners, A. L. Thurston and George
Cox. The amount of the bond was
$4,000 and the previous payments
were s12,50O. The payment made yes
terday was ST. 500. The property, which
is near Deborgia, Mont, was located by
Thurston and Cox in 1889
John ConnOrs, superintendent of the
Gold Crown quartz mine, who has
reached Portland, Ore, declares that
Mount ST. Helena was in eruption on
September Is, the date on which an
earthquake shock was felt over the Pa
cifc northwest country.
President Charles Sweeny of the
Federal Lead company says the gross
profits for September, which is the
first month of the merger, are 1891 900,
or little over 100000 in net earn
ings. But it took ten days to trans
fer some of the plants, so the Stand
ard and Mammoth how for only two
thirds of a month. The company is
handling 1000 tons of crude ore per
day now and will handle 10000 per
month when the full capacity is
reached, making 1900 tons of concen
trates, with $125,0OO net earnings. Mr.
Sweeny says no new railroad con
structiOn is contemplated at present
1t is said the Federal lead tonnage
will be divided equally between the
railroads reaching it's mines and
plants
Eleven hundred miners in the
! Springfield, ILL.,, subdistrict have struck
because the operators have refused tC
comply with the law providing thai
the operators shall erect washhouses
near the mines. 1t is believed the strike
r will not last long.
Rapid progress is being made or
the construction of the new $4,000
schoolhouse at Mullan. 1t is expected
that the brick work will be completed
this week and that the entire build
ing will be complete within two