The Western news., 1904-08-10

the Snowstorm mine. The loss was
insignificant.
Superintendent w. G. Perkins of the
Northport smelter has left to accept a
similar position at Basin, Mont.
>. H. Tweedell, young man who
was scalded at the Northport smelter
February 5, 1903, is beyond danger and
rapidly recovering, but his body is a
sight. Nearly 800 skin patches, from
one to three inches in length, were
grated on his body. Mr.. Tweedell
was caught in lime bin and subjected
to scalding steam for 25 minutes. The
skin grated on his body was donated
largely by his fellow workmen and his
brother Walter.
Forrest d. 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 $1,5OO,000. The suits now pend
ing on similar complaints aggregate
SIT, 100000. In the answer the defend
ants state that there are suits now
pending that would cover the present
suits if the complaints had been filed
in good faith. These suits, it is as
serted, are extravagant and unfounded,
and are only filed to injure the creu..
and standing of the defendants in the
community. The answer describes in
detail the property owned by the de.
PENDANTS and asserts that the ore,
which it is alleged they stole, was in
their own property. Upon these con-
tentions the defendant asks that the
case be dismissed.
1t is reported that five foot body of
high grade gold ore has been struck
in the EagleComet mine, near Muir
ray, Idaho.
Ore shipments will megin this week
from the Ben Hur mine, in the Repub-
lie (Wash) district, to the Greenwood
smelter
Manager Urquhart, representing a
Scotch syndicate, is preparing to re-
sumo operations on the Monitor mine,
near Saltese, Mont.
A four foot vein of ore, carrying $50
of gold to the ton, has been discovered
three miles south of Butte, Mont. 1t
is outside of the copper zone. and is
creating considerable interest
There has been encountered in the
tunnel being driven on the Hand Spike
mine, on the North Fork, above King
ston, in the Occur dAlenes, a body of
pay copper ore two and half feet in
width.
The dump of No. tunnel of the
Mammoth mine, in the Occur d'Alenes,
is being worked over by the Cornish
Jig. twenty-five tons of the product,
carrying values of $50 per ton, are be-
ing shipped
High grade ore is being encountered
in the west drift on the Snowstorm
mine, near Mullan, Idaho. The drift is
being extended an additional $50 feet
to reach the shoot of rich ore found in
the upper workings.
A number of prospectors are daily
leaving Priest River Idaho, for the
West Branch country, where the recent
gold discoveries were made
Six hundred men are said to be min
ing and prospecting on the Black Lead
(Idaho) mining district
J, r. Battenburg, shift boss at the
Northport smelter for the past two
years, has left for Butte, where he
will work in similar capacity.
A cloudburst in Fisher canyon, three
miles north of Trinidad, Col, caused
the loss of two lives and flooded mines
and property in and adjacent to the
canyon.
Joseph Letter has sold his mine,
stockade and the town of Zeigler, III.
The deed conveys $500 acres of land,
including the town of Zeigler, to the
Zeigler Coal company, corporation
chartered in Delaware several months
ago, for $49S,5OO.