Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-24
MINING NEWS.


Large deposits of tin have just
been discovered in the Cornucopia
district, adjacent to Baker City, Ore.
The Crackerjack mine at Buffalo
Hump produced 1920 during July
with only two stamps of the mill in
operation. OF this sum $11OO was
taken from the plates and $17O was
cleared from three tons Of concen-1
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
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.
Average assays Of $40 to the ton
from the claim recently found at Gar
field bay, on Lake Pend dOreille.
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 40 days The
mill has capacity of 200 tons a day,
Work is about to be resumed on the
Del Rio, Colonel and Wise Boy mines
in the Buffalo Hump district of Idaho.
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
las taken place in the last few weeks
GLOWING the report Of the recent rich
'old strike near the old placer camp
I that town
Ground is being broken for tn
arson concentrator at Metaline, on
he Pend d'Oreille river in Stevens
2ounty, Washington" said G. Mckay
The Oregon mine at Elk City, Ore,
$ about to install an air compressor
The fire which has been raging near
almo and Ymir for a week eliminate
" making a complete wreck of tn
erial tramway which connects the
Iunter V. mine and the Nelson 2, For
iheppard railway.
The mining industry at Ainswortn
he oldest camp in the Kootenays in
ritish To1unlria hos taken ~ ro-
lease of life and things are more active
than ever before in the history of the
camp.
Instead of pinching out, as some
feared it would, the Pilots remarkable
pay streak keeps growing richer and
wider as it is worked upon. The
tunnel is in over 45O feet, and has at
tanned a vertical depth of about ITO
feet. The pay streak, which averaged
from five to eight inches wide, is now
said by the management to be a full
foot in width in the face of the tunnel,
having been growing steadily wider
1t is estimated by some men that the
entire pay streak as it shows up now
averages $4,000 to the ton in gold
The mine is located near Murray,
Idaho.
Searchlight, New, was recently the
recipient of an immense deluge of wa
ter which greatly resembled a cloud
burst The water came down in tor
rents and the streets were turned into
swiftly flowing rivers. None Of the
large buildings was damaged, but
many tents, houses and shacks were
flooded Many tons of lose dirt were
washed down Hobson avenue, and ex-
posed ledge of copper stained quartz
Many samples were picked up with
free gold visible.