The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-07-20
MINING NOTES.

Notable contributions have been
made for the great picnic of the Butte
Miners union to be held at Columbia
gardens on August Is. The contribu-
tons are of $1,000 from the Amalga-
mated Copper company and $500 from
John d. Ryan personally, the money
to be used as prizes in a drilling con-
test.
A strike Of ore is reported on the
Strathmore mine, near Greenwood, B.
G. The ore has not yet been assayed,
but experts believe it will run 5000 or
$o.J ton. The ore was found at the
010 foot level. Considerable excite
ment has been created over the dis
covery Of a new mineral district in
Nevada, just over the Oregon line. The
discovery was made by A. w. Ellis,
one Of the locators of the famous Della
mar mine in Nevada.
Colonel Willard Hunsicker has re-
signed the management of the Euro
pean agency at London of the United
States Steel corporation.
A Los Angeles oil company an
nounces that it has signed a contract
with private parties in Chile for TO-
100000 barrels of oil, to be delivered
within period of 10 years at the port
of Iquique, in the state of Turapaco.
w. A. Nicholson, who lost his eye
sight last winter in an explosion at the
Providence mine, near Greenwood, B.
c., was awarded $1,000 damages in a
suit against the company recently
Thomas w. Logan April at Manhat-
tan, was acquitted by jury. The de-
Tense claimed self defense.
The big mines of Boundary, B. c.,
have sent out 633,526 tons of ore in
the half year ended June 80.
The men in the bituminous coal dis
trict in Pennsylvania, numbering near
ly 10000, who have been idle since
April J., when the mines closed down
because the operators would not re-
store the scale of 1908, will resume
work on practically the same scale as
1905.
George A. Mcleod has made the
first payment of $4,000 at the Royal
bank to Fee Bros. of Grand Forks and
Il. w. Young of Vancouver, owners of
he Maple Leaf group of copper claims
n Franklin camp, B. c., on which a
strike was made recently. American
capitalists have taken a working bond
If $125,000 on the Maple Leaf group.
Five thousand dollars was paid and
he balance is to be paid during the
life of the bond, which is IS months.
Reports from the Snowstorm are to |
he effect that one of the greatest |
strikes of ore in the Mullan, Idaho, |
district has just been made in that
nine on the 400 and 500 foot levels. 1t |
S said that an immense body of black |
iulphide of copper ore has been tap
ped, running from IL to 80 per cent. |
n copper.
Thomas D. Nichols, president of |
district No. l, United Mineworkers of |
America, has been nominated for con-
sress from the 18th district by the |
county, Pa, democratic |
A, ]. Mcmillan, managing director
II the lie Roi, telegraphed from Lon
Ion directing that the Ressland man.
lgement at once begin the task of |
deepening the shaft from the 800 to |
100 foot level
Eugene R. Day and Ed B. Boyce, in
crested in the Hercules lining COM
'any, recently inspected the Pilot gold |
nine. near Murray, Idaho, in which the
'ecent strike was made. 1t is rumored |
hat the Hercules people are negotiat-
ng for the purchase of the Pilot.
Louis Laither, miner, was instant
y killed Sunday in the Hercules mine
It Burke. He fell down an ore chute
distance OF 100 feet. The coroner
leld an inquest Monday morning.