Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-17
MINING NEWS.

According to a statement made today
by Stanley A. Easton, manager Of the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine and mill
at Kellogg, Idaho, the company's plant
for working over its immense tailings
dump of million tons win be ready
for operation November 1. The plant
will have a capacity Of 1000 tons Of
tailings a day. The tailings, 1t has Deen
calculated, will run between $3.50 and
$3.50 a ton, gross.
Pay ore is being taken from the
Cracker Jack mine near Buffalo
Hump.
The long tunnel in the Barnes-King
mine at Kendall, Mont. will be COM
pleted, and the ore bodies in the north
end Of the property, located q year ago
by means of the diamond drill, will be
available. The tunnel extends 5000
feet and is the largest engineering I'M
dertaking yet carried out in the camp.
The Kendall mine will also be taking
out ore from the new bodies, reached
through workings from the new shaft,
within a short time, and both mines
will begin taking out higher grade
ore at about the same time.
Shipments of ore from Rossland, B..
c., last week were somewhat lower
than for the week previous, as the
larger mines are paying attention
chiefly to development work and the
additions to their working facilities.
Today was payday for the large min
ing and smelling concerns in the
Boundary, B. c., district, the amount
of cash to be distributed by them and
a few days later by the railway com
panies, who haul the ores and mining
supplies and shelters products, being
about the same as last month, namely,
about $2UU,000.
John Sullivan committed suicide at
Eureka by touching off a stick Of giant
powder and standing over it until the
explosion occurred.
The Cascade Mining company, which
has been running a hydraulic plant
near Liberty, in the Swauk district
near Ellensburg, Wash, has ceased
operations. For several years the com
pany has actively pusheu operations
with the largest and best equipped hy-
draulic outfit in the northwest. Gold
was found, but not in sufficient guam
tity to make the proposition a paying
one.
Resumption of silver coinage means
9 big boom in silver mine product and
allied metals.
Development will be resumed soon
on the property of the Capitol Mining
company near Wallace, Idaho.
The three compartment shaft, which
is to be the main working shaft of the
CRANKY mine near Phoenix, B. c., is be-
ing rapidly pushed forward.
A survey is to be made of the upper
tunnel of the Tamarack & Chesapeake
mine, near Wallace, Idaho, and the
tunnel is being cleared for this pur-
pose.
The old Ruby mine, near Conconully,
Wash, is to be again operated by the
Plant & Callahan Mining company
which has been incorporated with a
capital Of 100000. Several claims
adjacent to the mine have been &C.
quired by the company.
The installation of the new smelling
works of the British Columbia Copper
company, at Boundary, B. c., is expect
ed to be completed inside of two
months. The smelling plant will have
a capacity of from 1000 to 1900 tons
day.
The East Hecla Group Mining COM
pany has just been organized to de-
velop "a claims adjoining the Hecle
and Gertie mines near Burke, Idaho.
Some work has been done.
About $500 worth of placer gold was
brought into Wallace by the Hauck
brothers, who are operating placer
claims on Placer Gulch, near Wallace,
Idaho. The largest quartz nugget
weighed $50.
The East Butte Extension Mining
company has just acquired some more
mineral land in the immediate vicinity
of the properties operated by the COM
pany near Butte, Mont It now owns
about 80 acres of land in all.
Wood Finds Graft.