Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-08-24
MINING NEWS.

Large uepOSllS VI III nave JUST
been discovered in the Cornucopia
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 $40 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
a 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.
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 Nation mine, near
Baker City, Ore, was started this
week, having been installed in the
record breaking time of 43 days. The
mill has a capacity of 200 tons 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 North
Star group of mines in the Buffalo
Hupm district of Idaho.
Quite a. rush to Florence, Idaho
has taken place in the last few weeks
following the report of the recent ricf
gold strike near the old placer CANT
in that town.
Ground is being broken for thu
Larson concentration at Metaline, OIL
the Pend dOreille river in Stevens
county. Washington" said G. Mckay
The Oregon mine at Elk City, Ore
is about to install an air compresso
to facilitate work on the tunnel.
The fire which has been raging nea
Salmo and Ymir for a week eliminate,
by making a complete wreck of tn
aerial tramway which connects tn
dunter V. mine and the Nelson 2. For
Sheppard railway.
The mining industry at Ainswortt
the oldest camp in the Kootenays 1
British Columbia, has taken on ne'
lease of life and things are more activ
than ever before in the history of tn
, camp.
, Instead of pinching out as som
feared it would, the Pilots remarkabl
pay streak keeps growing richer an
= wider as it is worked upon. TIL
tunnel is in over 45O feet, and has a
tanned a vertical depth of about II
r feet. The pay streak, which average
from five to eight inches wide, is no
said by the management to be flu
foot in width in the face of the TUNE
l having been growing steadily wide
It is estimated by some men that tn
S entire pay streak as it shows up no
' averages $4,000 to the ton in gol
The mine is located near Murra
9 Idaho.
Searchlight, New, was recently II
I recipient of an immense deluge of W
ter which greatly resembled a clou
: burst. The water came down in to
# rents and the streets were turned in
e swiftly flowing rivers. None of Il
large buildings was damaged, b
many tents, houses and shacks we
flooded. Many tons of lose dirt we
u washed down Hobson avenue, and e
y posed a ledge of copper stained quart
. Many samples were picked up wi
free gold visible.