Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-07-20
MINING NOTES.


Notable contributions have been
made for the great picnic Of the Butte
Miners union to be held at Columbia
gardens on August 10. The contribu-
lions are of $1,000 from the Amalga-
mated Copper company and $500 from
John D. Ryan personally, the money
to be used as prizes in a drilling con-
test.
A strike of ore is reported on the
Strathmore mine, near Greenwood, B.
C. The ore has not yet been assayed,
but experts believe 1t will run 5000 or
$o.J ton. The ore was found at the
O1O foot level. Considerable excite
ment has been created over the dis
covery of a new mineral district in
Nevada, just over the Oregon line. The
discovery was made by A. w. Ellis,
one of the locators of the famous Della
mar mine in Nevada.
Colonel Willard Hunsicker has re-
signed the management of the Euro
pean agency at London of the onited
States Steel corporation.
Los Angeles oil company an
nounces that it has signed contract
with private parties in Chile for 49,,
600, 900 barrels of OIL to be delivered
within period of 10 years at the port
of Iquique, in the state of Turapaco.
w. A. Nicholson, who lost his eye
sight last winter in an explosion at the
Providence mine, near Greenwood, B.
c., was awarded $1,000 damages in a
suit against the company recently
Walter Barieu, who killed Sheriff
Thomas W. Logan April at Manhat-
tan, was acquitted by jury. The de-
tense claimed self defense.
The big mines of Boundary, B. c.,
have sent out 633,526 tons of ore in
the half year ended June 80.
The men in the bituminous coal dis
trict in Pennsylvania, numbering near
ly 10000, who have been idle since
April 1, when the mines closed down
because the operators would not re-
store the scale of 1908, will resume
work on practically the same scale as
1905.
George A. Mcleod has made the
first payment of $4,000 at the Royal
bank to Fee Bros. of Grand Forks and
H. w. Young of Vancouver, owners of
the Maple Leaf group of copper claims
in Franklin camp, B. c., on which a
strike was made recently. American
capitalists have taken working bond
of $125,O00 on the Maple Leaf group.
Five thousand dollars was paid and
the balance is to be paid during the
life of the bond, which is 10 months.
Reports from the Snowstorm are to
the effect that one of the greatest
strikes of ore in the Mullan, Idaho,
district has just been made in that
mine on the 400 and 500 foot levels. 1t
is said that an immense body of black
sulphide of copper ore has been tap
ped, running from IL to 80 per cent.
in copper.
Thomas D. Nichols, president of
district No. l, United Mineworkers of
America, has been nominated for con-
gress from the 18th district by the
Lackawanna county, Pa, democratic
convention.
A. ]. Mcmillan, managing director
of the LIE Roi, telegraphed from Lon
don directing that the Rossland man
agement at once begin the task of
deepening the shaft from the 300 to
| 100 foot level.
Eugene R. Day and Ed B. Boyce, in
terested in the Hercules lining com,
pany, recently inspected the Pilot gold
mine. near Murray, Idaho, in which the
recent strike was made 1t is rumored
that the Hercules people are negotiat
ing for the purchase of the Pilot
Louis Laither, miner, was instant
ly killed Sunday in the Hercules mine
at Burke. He fell down an ore chute
a distance of 100 feet. The coroner
held an inquest Monday morning.