Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-05-18
MINING NOTES.

1uTee miners QdQ b narrow escape
from death in q fire which destroyed
the shaft house and all machinery Of
the Evolution mine near Osborn, Ida.
Charming Clapp. for many years a
we'll known capitalist of Boston, is
dead. He was graduate of Harvard
and civil war veteran.
The Loretto mine at Norway, Mich,
has shut down, throwing about 200
men out Of work. Other mines are
closing and miners are leaving for Eu-
rope.
The distinctive iron age has passed
and iron has become simply the raw
material awaiting conversion into steel
which has become the standard mate.
rial of construction.
J. McClelland, an employee Of the
Morning mine at Mullan, Idaho, was
caught between a car and one Of the
walls Of the mine recently and was
badly pinched.
Falling rock at the Standard mine
recently struck c. Cruise on the leg
and fractured it.
After an idleness of nearly 10 years
the old Granite mine, formerly one
Of the most prominent producers of
the Occur d'Alene district, will re.
sumo operations.
J. H. Waterbury Of Denver, who has
been in the Occur d'Alene district for
some time conducting experiments
with Snowstorm copper ore, says that
arrangements are practically complete
for the erection of 200 ton teaching
plant.
Work in the Senator Stewart mine
on the Bunker Hill vein near Ward
ner, Idaho, has exposed q fine body Of
ore in its lower tunnel.
The Columbia mine MANAGEMENT Is
making extensive arrangements to sink
from the 700 foot level in this mine at
Sumpter, Ore.
Spokane and Pullman, Wash, men
have secured the John Bull group OF
claims on the st. Mary's river.
The big drive, containing $4,000, 900
feet Of logs for the Grande Ronde Lum-
Der company at Perry, three miles west
Of La Grande. is finished. This has
been one Of the most successful log
drives ever made on the Grande Ronde
river, in which some $50 men were EN-.
ployed. The mill is running to its full
est capacity.
Several of the silver and lead mines
In the Murray district, in Idaho, are
planning to ship this summer.
Papers have been signed transfer.
ring to the Pacific Coast company the
entire property and interests of the
Black Diamond Coal company, the
owner of important coal mining inter-
ests in Washington. The purchase
price is over 100000. but the exact
terms are not made public.
The electric power brought from
Spokane has now completely supplant.
ed steam at the Hecla mine at Burke,
Idaho, and that well known property
is operated by power transmitted 100
miles. The Last Chance mine at Ward.
ner. the property Of the Federal Min
ing company. is entirely operated by
electric power. as is its mill at Sweeny.
J. F. Collins. manager of the Spo-
kaen & Montana Mining & Milling
company, has returned to Spokane af-
ter a six months trip to the property
on Fourth Of July creek in the West
Fisher mining district near Libby,
Mont. Mr.. Collins said: I'VE are
driving tunnel and will have about
$50 feet Of work done in the early part
Of June. Two miles north of US the
group is in about $40 ore."
Word from Lolo Hot springs tells of
q big. strike Of copper ore made by
Joseph Eberly and his partner. pros.
pectors in the employ of former Gov.
ernor Mcconnell Of Idaho.