Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 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 a million tons will be ready
for operation November /. The plant
will have a capacity of 1000 tons of
tailings 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 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.
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
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 $4,000.
John Sullivan committed suicide a
I Eureka by touching off stick of gian
powder and standing over it until thu
; explosion occurred.
The Cascade Mining company. whicl
has been running a hydraulic plan
near Liberty, in the Swauk district
near Ellensburg, Wash. has cease
{ perations. For several years the CON
! pany has actively pusheu operation
: with the largest and best equipped by
q draulic outfit in the northwest. Col
A was found, but not in sufficient quar-
4 tity to make the proposition a payin
A one.
r Resumption of silver coinage mean
q q big boom in silver mine product an
allied metals.
t Development will be resumed 500
: on the property of the Capitol Mimi
v company near Wallace. Idaho.
IS The three compartment shaft, whic
e, is to be the main working shaft of IL
n CRANKY mine near Phoenix, B. c., is b
s ing rapidly pushed forward.
D. A survey is to be made of the upp'
tunnel of the Tamarack & Chesapeal
y mine, near Wallace, Idaho, and Il
u tunnel is being cleared for this pu
" pose.
/ The old Ruby mine, near Conconull
u Wash, is to be again operated by Il
'e Plant & Callahan Mining compan
n which has been incorporated with
&c capital of 100000 900. Several CLAIM
duJdtCnt W AAV iiiiC hoNS bC~h
C. quired by the company.
III The installation of the new smeltil
&c works of the British Columbia Copp
20 company, at Boundary, B. c., is expe
Ut ed to be completed inside of t'
months. The smelling plant will ha
capacity of from 1000 to 1900 tons
IS day.
he The East Hecla Group Mining co
IT. pany has just been organized to {
nd velop "a claims adjoining the He'
lis and Gertie mines near Burke, Idal
Some work has been done.
40 About 500 worth of placer gold W
20 brought into Wallace by the Hau
-. brothers, who are operating plaC
an claims on Placer Gulch, near Walla
~ Idaho. The largest quartz mugs
- weighed $50.
of The East Butte Extension Mini
of company has just acquired some me-
mineral land in the immediate vicin
of the properties operated by the &C
pany near Butte, Mont. It now ov
obOt,t on ocrac Of land in all