Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-08-12

company OF Montana after long and
successful career in operating mines
and reduction works, is winding up its
affairs. Dividends to the amount OF
1890. 900 have been distributed. Near
ly ali stockholders are residents Of
Indianapolis, Ind. The late vice presi-i
dent, Thomas A. Hendricks, was one
of the organizing and largest stock
holders.
A definite amount of radioactive
matter has been found to exist in rain
water. Here is chance for cloud
mining promoter.
Mullan, Idaho, Fire destroyed sew
eral buildings at the lower workings OF
the Snowstorm mine. The loss was
insignificant.
Superintendent w. G. Perkins of the
Northport smelter has left to accept q
similar position at Basin, Mont.
s. H. Tweedell, young man who
was scalded at the Northport smelter
February 5, 1908, is beyond danger and
rapidly recovering, but his body is q
sight. Nearly 800 skin patches, from
one to three inches in length, were
grated on his body. Mr.. Tweedell
was caught in a lime bin and subjected
to scalding steam for rs minutes. The
skin grated on his body was donated
largely by his fellow workmen and his
brother Walter.
Forrest ID. Phillips, foreman of the
matte house at the Northport smelter,
was accidentally caught in the Stag
ditch and seriously scalded.
The Montana Ore Purchasing COM
pany and others have filed an answer
| in the district court to the complaint
filed by the Butte & Boston Mining
company to recover damages in the
sum Of $1,500,00O. The suits now pend
ing on similar complaints aggregate
$26, 900, 900. In the answer the defend
ants state that there are suits now
pending that would cover the present
suits If the complaints had been fled
in good faith. These suits, 1t is as
serted, are extravagant and unfounded
land are only filed to injure the creu4
land standing of the defendants In the
community. The answer describes IL
detail the property owned by the de
PENDANTS and asserts that the ore
which it is alleged they stole, was IL
their own property. Upon these con
tentions the defendant asks that thu
: case be dismissed.
1t is reported that five foot body o
: high grade gold ore has been strucl
in the Eagle-Comet mine, near Nun
: ray, Idaho.
: Ore shipments will megin this weel
from the Ben Hur mine, in the Repuh
lie (Wash.) district, to the GREENWOOD
/, smelter.
There has been encountered in tn
tunnel being driven on the Hand Spik
mine, on the North Fork, above KING
> ston, in the Occur d'Alenes, body Q
i pay copper ore two and half feet Il
Y width.
Y The dump of No. / tunnel of tn
|, Mammoth mine, in the Occur d'Alenei
D is being worked over by the Cornis
!. Ijig. Twenty-Five tons of the produc
. carrying values of $50 per ton, are b.
D ing shipped.
q High grade ore is being encounters
+ in the west drift on the Snowstorr
/ mine, near Mullan, Idaho. The drift
r being extended an additional $50 fee
o to reach the shoot of rich ore found !
the upper workings.
A number of prospectors are dali
leaving Priest River, Idaho, for tn
West Branch country, where the receI
? gold discoveries were made.
! Six hundred men are said to be mil
ing and prospecting on the Black Lea
(Idaho) mining district.
y ]. R. Battenburg, shift boss at tn
Northport smelter for the past tw
J. years, has left for Butte. where /
!, will work in similar capacity.
= A cloudburst in Fisher canyon. thre
:, miles north of Trinidad, COL, cause
= the loss of two lives and flooded mine
Z and property in and adjacent to tn
2 canyon.
Fl Joseph Letter has sold his min
, stockade and the town of Zeigler, II
The deed conveys. 1900 acres Of lam
Including the town of Zeigler, to IL
p Zeigler Coal company, corporate
8 chartered in Delaware several month
o ago, for $498,500.
7, A four foot vein of ore, carrying 81
of gold to the ton, has been discovere
n three miles south Of Butte, Mont.
s. is outside of the copper zone, and
a creating considerable interest.
vi Manager Urquhart, representing
a. Scotch syndicate, is preparing to r
,r sumo operations on the Monitor min
Is near Saltese, Mont.
ri Funston Goes to Chicago.
ID Brigadier General Frederick Funstc