Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-08-25
MINING NEWS.

Large deposits of tin have just
been discovered in the aCornucopia
district. adjacent to Baker City, Ore.
The Crackerjack mine at Buffalo
Hump produced $1270 during July
with only two stamps of the mill in
operation. OF this sum $1100 was
taken from the plates and $170 was
cleared from three tons of concen- |
trates which were put through the
chlorination plant at the Jumbo mine. |
Ore has been encountered in the raise
and now all the stamps will be run.
Eastern experts are reported at
Boise. looking over the ground with
view to building there a smelter to
employ 400 men.
Rich ore has been found in the tun-
mel on the Monarch mine in the Swauk
district, near Liberty, Wash.
| A one-stamp mill has been erected
on the White Monument mine, near
Warren, Idaho.
Average assays of $40 to the ton
have been returned from ore taken
from the claim recently found at Gar
field bay, on Lake Pend d'Oreille.
The Acme group of claims near Ket-
tie Falls, WASH has been bonded to
S. Disclaimer of Colville by the
company owning them. The bond is
for $4,000.
Mining activity is again manifest at
Ainsworth in the Kootenays in British
: Columbia.
The mill on the Mattoon mine, near
Baker City, Ore, was started this
week, having been installed in the
record breaking time of 43 days. The
mill has capacity of 2Oofons day.
Work is about to be resumed on the
Del Rio, Colonel and Wise Boy mines
in the Buffalo Hump district of Idaho
A contract for 100 feet of develop
ment work has been let by the Nortl
Star group of mines in the Buffal'
Hupm district of Idaho.
Quite a rush to Florence, Idaho
as taken place in the last few week
'ollowing the report of the recent ricl
,old strike near the old placer cam
I that town.
Ground is being broken for tn
arson concentration at Metaline, o
he Pend d'Oreille river in Steven
r ounty, Washington" said G. Mckay
/, The Oregon mine at Elk City, Ore
P 5 about to install an air compresso
+ The fire which has been raging nea
D. almo and Ymir for a week eliminate
is W making a complete wreck of tn
IS erial tramway which connects tn
10 funter V. mine and the Nelson 2. Fol
st sheppard railway.
The mining industry at Ainswortl
III The oldest camp in the Kootenays
u. british Columbia. has taken on ne
u lease of life and things are more activ
u than ever before in the history of tn
- camp.
:. Instead of pinching out, as SON
9 feared it would, the Pilots remarkab
pay streak keeps growing richer an
wider as it is worked upon. TT
tunnel is in over 45O feet, and has a
10 tanned a vertical depth of about II
N feet. The pay streak, which average
from five to eight inches wide, is no
IS said by the management to be fu
10 foot in width in the face of the tunne
.s having been growing steadily wide
81 1t is estimated by some men that tt
as entire pay streak as it shows up no
ok averages $4,000 to the ton in gol
H. The mine is located near Murra
of Idaho.
he Searchlight, New, was recently II
of recipient of an immense deluge of
IS. ter which greatly resembled a clou
he burst. The water came down in tc
he rents and the streets were turned in
,ly swiftly flowing rivers. None OF q
III large buildings was damaged, b
lot many tents, houses and shacks we
ed flooded. Many tons of lose dirt we
en- washed down Hobson avenue, and
he posed a ledge of copper stained quar-
Many samples were picked up wi
free gold visible.