Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-10-26
MINING NEWS.

announcement is made that the
wages OF miners in the Aspen silver
olstrlct, Colorado, will be increased
from $3.50 to $2.75 a day. Several
thousand men are benefited by the ad.
vance, which is made possibly by the
recent steady gain in the price of sill
yer.
omcial estimates given out by the
Granby Consolidated are to the effect
that the next fiscal years outnut of
copper will be 10000, 900 pounds, and
eN'-"S.oO0 pounds annually within the
next few wears with much lower cost
of production.
owing to the closing down of the
furnaces at Trail, because of a short.
age OF coke caused by the strike at
the Crows Nest Coal mines, the ship.
ments were again small last week
from Rossland. The LeRoi continues
TO ship its output to Northport, where
ore is stored pending the time when a
supply of coke can be procured.
The Boundary ore output and smell.
Ter treatment for the week follows:
TO CRANKY smelter from CRANKY
mines, l3,205 tons; from Skylark. 20
tons; from Emma, so tons. To B. G.
Copper company's smelter, from
Mother Lode, 1850 tons; from Emma,
10 tons. To Dominion Copper COM
pany's smelter, from Brooklyn Stem
winder, 1871 tons; from Rawhide. 1853
tons; from Sunset, SIG tons; from
Mountain Rose, 1913 tons. Total ship
ment for week, 2O,30S tons; total
shipments for week to date, 964. 500
TONS Boundary smelters treatment
this week follows: CRANKY smelter,
l2,167 tons; B. C. Copper smelter,
S255 tons; Dominion Copper compa-
ny's smelter, 1898 tons. Total for
week, 2o,240 tons. Total treatment
for year to date, 972,S3S tons.
The Washington State Mining asso-
citation, with headquarters in Seattle,
has been in existence about four
months, succeeding several former at
tempts to form similar association,
all of which were short lived.
The Hayes-Monette lease on the
Mohawk mining property was robbed
of $4,000 worth of ore Saturday by a
band of robbers, whose operations
were most daring. Just before day
break four men drove up to the Hayes
Monette shafthouse and jumped from
the wagon. Entering the shafthouse
they ordered the two engineers to
throw up their hands. They were
heavily armed and, under their drawn
weapons, ordered the engineers to
carry % sacks of high grade ore from
the house to the wagon. After max
ing the engineers load the wagon the
robbers drove off. An alarm was
given, but up to noon Saturday the
robbers had not been caught. The
HayesM had been preparing for
a million dollar shipment of ore.
Some of the ore being hoisted runs as
high as 800 per pound.
The sawmill which the Palmer
Mountain Tunnel & Power company
recently placed on Toatscoula creek
near LOOMS, Wash, is about ready to
begin cutting The mill is to be used
for the purpose of saving lumber and
timbers for the big reduction works
that the company intends to erect on
its property this winter.
For the four months ended Septem-
Der 80 the Providence mine near
Greenwood, B. c., output of ore yield
ed returns of $117,230.74. This repre-
sents nearly so per cent of the COM
pany's outstanding shares at par
value.
The Hecla Mining company has de-
clared its regular monthly dividend of
two cents a share, or $4,000 in all.
and the grand total to date is $780,
900. The mine is in the Occur d'A-
lenes.
w. F. r. Mills of Denver was elect
ed director of the American mining
to succeed J. Frank Watson
Of Portland. Ore. whose term expired.
The affairs Of the old U. S. Marble
which for time operated
the marble quarries 10 miles west of
Valley, on the Spokane Falls & North
ern railway, have been wound up.
An option has been given to Butte
parties for the control of the Ala
media mining property north of Gem.
The first dividend was paid in 1900.
IDAHO.
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