Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-08-18
MINING NEWS.

According to statement made today
by Stanley A. Easton, manager of the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine and mill
at Kellogg. Idaho, the company's plant
dump of a million tons will be ready
for operation November /. The plant
will have a capacity of 1000 tons of
tailings day. The tailings. it 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 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,
a
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 smelters' products, being
about the same as last month, namely,
about 500, 900.
John Sullivan committed suicide at
Eureka by touching off 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 pushe. operations
with the largest and best equipped by
draulic outfit in the northwest. Gol(
was found, but not in sufficient guam
tity to make the proposition a paying
one.
Resumption of silver coinage mean
9 big boom in silver mine product ant
allied metals.
Development will be resumed sool
on the property of the Capitol Minin
company near Wallace, Idaho.
, The three compartment shaft, whicl
is to be the main working shaft of tn
CRANKY mine near Phoenix, B. c., is BIZ
). ing rapidly pushed forward.
A survey is to be made of the uppe
, tunnel of the Tamarack & Chesapeake
! mine, near Wallace, Idaho, and tn
tunnel is being cleared for this pul
pose.
The old Ruby mine, near Conconull.
Wash, is to be again operated by tn
d Plant & Callahan Mining compan.
t which has been incorporated with
capital of 100000 Several claim
q adjacent to the mine have been a.
a quired by the company.
e The installation of the new smeltin
0 works of the British Columbia Cope
company, at Boundary B. c., is expec
y ed to be completed inside of tw
r months. The smelling plant will hav
= capacity of from 1000 to 1900 tons
|. day.
e The East Hecla Group Mining con
pany has just been organized to d
g velop "a claims adjoining the Hecl
e and Gertie mines near Burke, Idah
e Some work has been done.
d About $500 worth of placer gold We
n brought into Wallace by the Hauc
e brothers, who are operating place
!, claims on Placer Gulch, near Wallac
Ie Idaho. The largest quartz nugg'
g weighed $50.
The East Butte Extension Minir
% company has just acquired some MOI
- mineral land in the immediate vicinit
y of the properties operated by the col
)" pany near Butte, Mont 1t now owl
. about 80 acres of land in all.
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~ Wood Finds Graft.