The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-08-17
MINING NEWS.

by Stanley A. Easton, manage LAY
Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine ana ue
at kellogg, Idaho, the companv's
for working over its immense tahiau
dump of a million tons will ba
for operation November l. Tho ~
will have a capacity of 1.OOO ton
tailings a day. The tailings, it has
calculated, viii run between 80 Eo
$3.50 a ton, gross.
Pay r is being taken from a.
Cracker Jack mine near Pn,,aIS
Hump.
The long tunnel in the Barnes.K,.-
mine at Kendall, Mont, will ha -
pleted, and the + bodies in the no~l
end of the property, located a wear .H
by means of the diamond drill, will ~
available. The tunnel extends Eooo
feet and is the largest engineering ~
dertaking yet carried out in the cam
The Kendall mine will also be taL;r"
out ore from the new bodies. reaches
through workings from the new sboft
within a short time, and both minos
will begin taking out higher grada
ore at about the same time.
Shipments of ore from Rossland D
c., last week were somewhat lowe,
than for the week previous. as tbo
larger mines are paying attention
chiefly to development work and tbs
additions to their working facilities
Today vas 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, beiry
about the same as last month, namely
about $780, 600.
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
perations. For several years the com.
pany has actively pusheu operations
with the largest and best equipped by.
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
q 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 $4,000, 900. Several claims
adjacent to the mine have been &C.
quired by the company.
The installation of the c 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 a
day.
The East Hecla Group Mining com
pany has just been organized to de-
velop "a claims adjoining the Hecie
and Gertie mines near Burke, ldanO'
Some work has been done.
About $500 worth of placer gold wa
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 Mlnlns
company has just acquired som more
mineral land in the immediate ylclht'
of the properties operated by the COM
pany near Butte, Mont. 1t nov OWLS
about on aoroe of Iopd in all