Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-02-05
Mininu Notes.

Ground has been broken for the
site of the new shaft on the Lone Pine
claim at Republic, Washington.
The body of Whitaker Wright was
buried in Whitley parish churchyard
near London after brief special SER
vice at the grave side by the vicar of
Whitley
The tank and conical bottom for the
Hendryx agitator have been set in
place at the fountain Lion mill at
Republic, and the men are putting in
the shafting, with the propeller screws
and the inclosing well.
The Dumont Powder company has
secured practical control of the manu-
facture of powder on the Pacific coast
through the absorption of the Cali
fornia Powder company. The con-
sideration paid is stated to have been
$500, 900.
Probably the highest price ever paid
for an undeveloped property in Ari-
iona was paid the other day by the
transfer of the Snattuck- Costello group
of copper claims from their Bisbee
owners to eastern capitalists from
the Lake Superior copper belt, for a
consideration of $1,100,0O0.
Elmer Sinclair, an employee of the
Standard mill at Wallace, Idaho, was
whirled to frightful death at the
mill by being caught by belt which
was running with tremendous speed.
His head was drawn down between
the belt and the pully and was horribly
crushed.
The Zala M. Consolidated Mining
Company, after having closed down
the Zala M. mine near Republic, for
! few weeks, has leased it for two
years to Thomas Hughes and two
brothers. The latter have started work
with five extra men, and will extract
ore for shipment.
Development at the Quilp, in Re-
public camp, is being extended by q
north drift on the 400 foot level and
by a south drift on the 500 foot
level. Both are being driven from
the winze which was carried down on
a stringer of good ore. The property
is shipping about so tons day to
Grand Forks.
"Smelter returns on 1926 pounds of
Security ore gave us $774.6S, or just
about 80 cents q pound, practically
all in gold, said Elliott w. Beidler,
at Spokane recently. Mr.. BeidIer,
who is superintendent of the Palmer
Mountain Tunnel, operating near
Loomis, Washington is back from Ia
coma, where he went with the ship
ment of Security ore.
When the work of recovering bodies
from the Harwick mine was stopped
the remains of $50 victims had been
taken out. 1t is estimated that 90
more are buried under the extensive
fall of slate brought by the recent
explosion, and it will be several DAYS
before they can be recovered. Mine
inspector Cunningham is satisfied that
the explosion was caused by a defec-
tive shot.
That Whitaker Wright, the London
mining magnate who committed sui
eide the other day after being
sentenced to seven years penal servi-
tude, was never actuated by criminal
intent, was the opinion expressed
recently by Bernard Mcdonald, mining
engineer of Spokane, who was in
charge of the LIE Roy property at Ros-
land during much of the period that
Whitaker Wright was in control of
that property.
A miner names Rasmussen was kill
ed Saturday night in the White Bear
mine. The deceased got on the cage
at the 1000 foot level with two fellow
workmen. They intended to take the
machine drill to the surface and Ras.
lmussen took the bar Of the machine