The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-11-16
MINES and Mining
NOTES FROM SEVERAL DIS
TRICTS OF NORTHWEST.
Miners Of Butte, Mont, Get Volun-
tary, Big Raise of Wases-Priceof
silver Goes up-Pioneer Mining
Man lDles-Big Mining Company In
Gold Fields, New.
Southern Idaho Mines.

Southern Idaho Mines.
The run of the mill on the Minerva
mine near Atlanta cleaned up $12,Ooo
last month. All of the ore milled was
taken out in the process OF devGior
ment work, drifts and raise 10 con
pecr the two tunnels.
Wayne Darlington has secured
lease and an option for the purchase OF
the South Mountain mine In Owyhee /
county. The mine liz owned by George
A. Sorenson. The price named III me
option Is said to be $65,0OO.
The property Of the A. d. M. &c Il.
mining company, situated in Lemhi !
county, has been sold to w. +. NC
Ouarrie of Denver, COL, for $3.50, OOO,
and by him reorganized and incorpor-
st,d under the laws of Arizona with
a capitalization of 100000. with shares
1t 81 par value.
Eastern Oregon Mines.
A contract has been closed with
Baker City company for 20 stamp
mill ON the Gold Bug mine. The mill
will be in operation before Christmas.
The vein recently struck in the
Fourteen Thousand Dollar mine in the
I Greenhorns has widened to ledge OF
go feet, with average values Of SIS in
copper and $6 in gold.
| The Crane Flat dredge near Granite,
owned by company in which e. w.
Burbridpe of Spokane is large stock
holder, has finished its seasons work.
The final balance was most satisfying,
for the weekly cleanups averaged near
ly $1,000, while the operating expenses
were but $3.50 week.
Mines in the Cascades.
The Snoqualmie Gold Mining COM
psny is building five mile wagon
road from its mine near Snoqualmie to
the railroad. The managers have an
rounced that concentration will he
erected in the spring.
A three foot ledge of rich gold ore
has been found in the Tunnel on the
} property of the Esther Gold & Silver
Mining company, which lies on Cole
creek in Kittitas county. The ave. age
: return from samples sent 70 the Tia
coma smelter was $107 a ton.
: Shipping galena ore has been eE
countered in the property Of the Bell
3 Fontaine company north OF Clealum
!, The ore was found when the shaft wa
down 65 feet A steam hoist is nov
/ being installed to handle the ore an
D to facilitate sinking on the ledge.
"Silver is going to reach price Q
/; 76 or better within two years, and
!; is going to hold that price," said Gee
t.. w. Roberts, director of the Unite
States mints. in recent interview.
The coal strike continues to affeC
a. unfavorably shipments of ore from tn
mines of Rossland, B. G. 1t is evider
). now that if the strike continues for al
other four or five weeks LIE Roi NJ
a. and the Center Star will be compel
y ed to close down pending settlemeI
of the trouble.
E. Butte Miners Big Pay.
The miners at Butte, Anaconda an
b, Great Falls have been given notice
an unexpected raise in wages that wi
mean an addition of 100000 mont
to Butte's payroll.
The notices posted at all the lars
mines were to the effect that tt
wages of all underground men wou
u he increased from $3.50 to 1915 ds
~ and that all men receiving less ths
9 SO a day would receive So day aft
November Is, when the changes |
.' into effect.
~ In each case the notices state: "Th
~ increase is made on account OF Il
satisfying condition of the world
Is metal markets. and it may be undt
stood that the increase will stand
w long as the price of electrolytic &C
per remains over Is cents pound.
This new Scale will affect about |
900 men in Butte. 1000 in Amazon
,ss and as many at Great Falls, and W
mt enable the miners to earn in IL mont
of as much as they have heretofo
zen earned in year. The increase W
Ike entirely voluntary on the part OF t
de- companies, for the men had made
ter request for such an action