Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-07-06
MINING NOTES.

What is claimed by old mining men
OF the Occur d'Alene section to be
the richest strike of gold ever made
has just been reported from the
tiers around one James Fairchild-the
Pilot group of claims, almost adjoin-
ing Murray. The strike consists of
IL inches of phenomenally rich gold
quartz. However narrow or wide the
vein may prove to be, the samples of
the ore exhibited bear out even the
most sanguine reports from the mine.
No genuine assays of it have been
made. The vein was encountered at
a depth Of IT'S feet, APO feet in the
tunnel being driven on the property.
The Pilot group is owned by John
Docktor, Frank Frohling and Louis
Prayer. 1t mas been discovered and
worked for IA years, but this is the
first strike of any moment ever made
on the ground.
Heretofore all surface labor in the
mines of the Boundary, B. c., has been
at the rate of So for day of 10 hours.
Hereafter, in the mines of Phoenix,
at least, the pay will be the same,
but the day will consist Of nine hours.
This went into effect last week at
the CRANKY mines, and Manager
Drummond of the Dominion Copper
company states that the same rule
will obtain in his company's mines
after the celebration holiday, or on
July 4.
Only three weeks more and the
once famous Frisco mine at the camp
at Gem, Idaho, will be working full
blast, announces one of the head en-
ployes of the company. At that time
the company will commence work
sinking a 200 foot shaft from it's 1000
foot level and before long the Frisco,
long dormant, will be once more on a
dividend paying basis.
The Boundary, B. c., mines output
for this week will exceed last week
by just 1000 tons. Total treatment
for week 2S,101 tons. Total treatment
for year to date 635,51O tons.
COrroboratiVe reports have been
received regarding the phenomenal
strike on the west fork of the Kettle
river which exposed big bodies of sill
yer ore few days ago on Wallace
mountain in which cobalt has been
found. 1t was first thought that the
Duncan mine, where the first samples
were found, was the only property
having these values, but recent care
full prospecting has disclosed the fact |
that considerable virgin ground on
Wallace mountain possesses cobalt. |
The average assays of the silver ore
taken from these recent rich strikes |
was $125 ton.
According to Manager Groesbeck, |
Beartop mill, Murray, has been entire
ly remodeled and new concentrating |
table was put into operation. The |
Beartop mill has been running only |
half the time, but beginning today
it will be run full time.
Herbert Aurbach, manager of the
Golden Chest mine at Murray has
a thorough examination
and announces that within a short
time operations will be resumed.
Ted Mueller, representing the Chi
cago owners, has just put a force of
men on the Don Pedro, a near neigh
Dor to the Crescent and a promising
claim near Greenwood, B. c.
Four men were precipitated to the
bottom OF a 400 foot shaft of the Roa-
noke Coal & Mining company at Roa-
noke, ILL.,, Sunday night, and instantly
killed. The miners were working on
a scaffolding below the surface, and
when the structure gave way the men
dropped 400 feet.
Orders have been issued at Phoe-
nix, Ariz., to hold three companies of
The Arizona national guard in readi-
ness to proceed to Morenci and Cliff
-On, Ariz., where a strike is threat
ened in the mines.