The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-15
MINING News.

King will treat the ore from the Wyo-
ming mine near Wardner,
Idaho, which is being worked
under lease by o. R. Young of Wal
lace, Idaho. Hauling from the mine
to the mill was begun last week. but
the condition of the road has prevented
the transportation of large loads. About
20 tons day are now being hauled,
and this will be increased to 40 tons
a day when the condition of the roads
improves.
Headed by a brass band, striking
miners of the Loyal Sauna Coal &
Coke company marched to the various
plants about LatrObe, Pa, recently, and
succeeded in making the strike inau-
gurated on Monday general. 1t is con-
servatively estimated that $500 men
are out, and operations at a majority
of the plants have been stopped pend
ing a settlement of the differences.
r. p. Stoddard has arrived at Re-
public from Bellingham to examine the
coal property in the camp belonging
to Tim COnnors. j. r. Sinclair, a con-
ductOr on the Washington e. Great
Northern railway, sent some of the
coal to st. Paul to be tested, and it
was found to be of excellent quality
and of the same character as that used
on the Great Northern road.
GOldfeld, Nev.-The lessees on the
Sandstone are doing good work and
getting encouraging results. In an
open cut which was made by ]. G.
RalstOn's men the ledge was uncov-
cred for a width of 10 feet, and of three
assays one returned values of 5000
and the other two 500 each per ton.
DOugherty q Beckley are down IS feet
on their lease, and although they do
not figure they are in the ledge proper,
they found rock showing free gold.
At the Standard mill at Wallace,
Superintendent George Ruggles has
completed the installation of the IA
new Whitley slime tables which have
supplanted the old canvas plant that
had been in operation at the mill for
a number of years. There are eight
Frue vanners and six Standard Will
tleys. The former were the first in
stalled, and they have been treating
the shines for some time. while the
Wilheys have just been made ready
for operation.
The Lucky Lad Mining company of
the Hump expects to resume opera
tiOns within a few days. Manager
Geo L. Hedges. who has returned from
an extended trip to coast points and
the east, says that three shifts will be
put on.
c. NJ. Fassett of Spokane has left
for the Bodie mine, west of Republic
Wash He will be accompanied by
Fred H. Flood, who will install and
manage the cyanide plant at the new
mill. The frame for the plant is up
and the mill should be running by
July 1.
The Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining
company has just paid $4,000 April
dividend. 1t has paid to date $1,673,-
600.
w. E. Harris. manager of the Review
Mining company, came to Northport
jubilant over a strike this afternoon
in the 40 foot crosscut tunnel. While
some of the specimens were principally
gangue, others were solid galena mixed
with gray copper, iron and zinc. This
property consists of five claims and
lies on the west side of the Columbia
river and in plain view of nearly every
house in Northport, two and a half
miles away. The ore just uncovered
greatly resembles the surface pockets
which assayed over 500 per ton in
gold, silver, copper and lead.