The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1904-01-08
The Bunker Hill & sullivan Mining

a total paid since January l, 1908, OF
$4,000, and total to date of 81 $50, 900.
! Without any spectacular announce
ment of the fact, the Sumpter. Ore,
smelter made its initial blow in re-
Gently. A few invited guests were on
hand to witness the first run, and
were each presented with specimens
OF matte as souvenirs. The plant
works satisfactorily to the manage
ment and good results are assured
from the large quantity of ore now
on hand
John Geraghty, an old time associ-
ate Of Patrick Clark in western min
ing ventures, is dead at Butte. He
was one of the best known and most
popular mining men of pioneer Mon
tana. tsss
The quarterly statement of the val
ue of foreign coins issued by the d.
rector Of the mint shows a net in
crease in value of silver of .02318 cents
an ounce.
Samuel Olson was instantly killed;
Fred Dryvel fatally injured, and Fore
man John Penaluma overcome by gas
in what appears at first to have been
slash between the Amalgamated Cop
per company's miners from the Penn.
,sylvania mine operating in the Mich
ael Dewitt property, and miners from.
the Rarus mine, Heinze property ad-
Joining, at Butte.
The Banner & Bangle Mining COM
pany has extended it's bond on the B.
e B. mine, near Troy, Mont, and has
given Larson & Greenough six months
aonger time to work the property. The
price. in the bond is 100000, or 5 cents
per. share. y
Government reports show 32,5O0,O0O
epounds of copper exports in Novem-
Der against z3,5O0,0O0 in the previous
November, the amount sent to Ger
many being trebled. France nearly
e4oubled, but England one sixth less.
4 IT'S reported at Boise, Idaho, that
the Franklin mine, at Pine, had been
purchased by. Larson & Greenough,
|0wpers Of the Morning mine, at Null
VAN The price is said to have been
about 100000. The property has been
opened during the past year. 1t shows
! al great shoot of ore that mills about
$50 on the plates. A 10 stamp mill
has. been running on the ore nearly a
year
3Ehe %Hecla mine at Wallace. was
closed "a few days recently owing to
a. break IN the main shaft Of the com.
pressor.
During the last year California pro.
duced twice as much gold as Alaska,
apd Colorado more than three times as
much.
= Peter Sherlock, the hermit placer
miner, believes that he will take out
much gold next season from his placer
claims near the st. Joe basin, at the
head Of the 81. Joe River. Idaho.
:, Bernard Mcdonald, of Spokane, for.
merly manager of the LIE Roi at Ross.
land, has commenced the expenditure
Of $500, 600 on the development of the
Gornucopia mines in eastern Oregon
His project is one of the most extern
sive that has been undertaken lately
| in the northwest. The Cornucopia
mining district is near the easterly
end of Baker county, about 20 miles
due west of the Snake river, and about
65 miles by wagon road from Baker
City, which is the nearest railway sta
| ton and the commercial center OF
eastern Oregon.
Net profits of $1,456,916.45 were
made by 10 Occur d'Alene silver-lead
mines during the past fiscal year. The
figures are supplied under oath by
the mine managers of the district, in
the statements which they are requir
ed by law to furnish the county asses
sor of Shoshone county. Taxes are
levied on the net profits of the mines
after paying for mining and smelling
and all improvements around the
mine. The sworn profits remaining
are as follows:
Bunker Hill & Sullivan. IS 67,891.3(
Occur d'Alene Develop. Co 143,096.Si
Cleveland (R. Wilson)... 12,607.3.
Empire State (Wardner). 279,697.7t
Empire State (Burke) 80. 7,007.4(
Hercules ..... ........ 1859, 527.03
Mammoth 80. ..... -. 347,386.34
Morning ........ ...... 111,054.1t
Hecla ......... ........ 45,04S.SI
Standard ...... ........ 271 1858