Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-10-26
MINING NEws.

| Announcement is made that the
wages OF miners in the Aspen silver
district, Colorado, will be increased
from $3.50 to $2.75 a day. Several
thousand men are benefited by the adj
vance, which is made possibly by the
recent steady gain in the price of sill
yer.
Official estimates given out by the
CRANKY Consolidated are to the effect
that the next fiscal years output of
copper will be 10000, 900 pounds, and
5O,000,000 pounds annually within the
next few years with much lower cost
Of production.
Owing to the closing down of the
furnaces at Trail, because of a short
age of coke caused by the strike at
the Crows Nest Coal mines, the ship
ments were again small last week
from Rossland. The LeRoi continues
to ship its output to Northport, where
ore is stored pending the time when a
supply Of coke can be procured.
The Boundary ore output and smell
ter treatment for the week follows:
To CRANKY smelter from CRANKY
mines, 13,2O5 tons; from Skylark, 20
tons; from Emma, go tons. To B. c..
Copper company's smelter, from
Mother Lode, 1850 tons; from Emma,
70 tons. To Dominion Copper com
pany's smelter, from Brooklyn Stem
winder, 1871 tons; from Rawhide, 1853
tons; from Sunset, SIC tons; from
Mountain Rose, 1913 tons. Total ship
ment for week, 20,303 tons; total
shipments for week to date, 964, 500
tons. Boundary smelters treatment
this week follows: Cranky smelter,
1857 tons; B. G. Copper smelter,
1856 tons; Dominion Copper compa-
ny's smelter, 1898 tons. Total for
week, 20,240 tons. Total treatment |
for year to date, 972,838 tons.
The Washington State Mining asso-
citation, with headquarters in Seattle,
has been in existence about four
months, succeeding several former at
tempts to form similar association,
all of which were short lived
The Hayes-Monette lease on the
Mohawk mining property was robbed
of $4,000 worth of ore Saturday by a
band of robbers, whose operations
were most daring. Just before day
break four men drove up to the Hayes
Monette shafthouse and jumped from
the wagon. Entering the shafthouse
they ordered the two engineers to
throw up their hands. They were
heavily armed and, under their drawn
weapons, ordered the engineers to
carry % sacks of high grade ore from
the house to the wagon, After max
ing the engineers load the wagon the
drove off. An alarm was
given, but up to noon Saturday the
robbers had not been caught The
had been preparing for
= million dollar shipment of ore.
Some of the ore being hoisted runs as
high as 800 per pound.
For the four months ended Septem-
Der 80 the Providence mine near
Greenwood, B. c., output of ore yield
ID returns Of $117,23O.74 This repre-
'ents nearly 80 per cent of the com
'any's outstanding shares at par
lalue.
The Hecla Mining company has de- s
'lared its regular monthly dividend of l
.wo cents share, or $4,000 in all. I
The first dividend was paid in 1900,
Ind the grand total to date is $780, {
OO The mine is in the Occur d'A- '
enes. 2
The sawmill which the Palmer
fountain Tunnel & Power company b
ecently placed on Toatscoula creek /
ear Loomis, Wash, is about ready to
egin cutting The mill is to be used +
Or the purpose of saving lumber and S
lmbers for the big reduction works
hat the company intends to erect on \
IS property this winter. T
The affairs of the old U. S. Marble :
ompany. which for a time operated r
he marble Quarries 10 miles west Of !
ALLEY, on the Spokane Falls & North
IN railway, have been wound up. n
An option has been given to Butte !,
arties for the control of the Ala &
leda mining property north of Gem, !,
iaho. !.
GALE IN SAN SALVADOR. n