The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-10-26
MINING NEWS.

announcement Is made that tho
wages OF miners in the Aspen s,,vos
district, Colorado, will be incroo.s,
from $3.50 to 1915 a day. Savo"",
thousand men are benefited by tho ~
vance, which is made possibly nv ~.
recent steady gain in the price q, Of,
yer.
Official estimates given out by tho
CRANKY Consolidated are to the affoo,
that the next fiscal years output ~
copper will be sO,OOO,OOO pounds ana
5O,OOO,OO0 pounds annually within tha
next few years with much lower cost
of production.
Owing to the closing down Of tho
furnaces at Trail, because of q sbo,.
age OF coke caused by the strike AZ
the Crows Nest Coal mines the shin
ments were again small last weel
from Rossland The LeRoi continue.
to ship its output to Northport. where
ore is stored pending the time when .
supply Of coke can be procured.
The Boundary ore output and smo,.
ter treatment for the week follows.
To CRANKY smelter from GRANNY
mines, 13,2o5 tons; from Skylark %
tons; from Emma. 60 tons. To p. 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, 2871 tons; from Rawhide 135a
tons; from Sunset, SIG tons: from
Mountain Rose, 1913 tons. Total shin.
ment for week, 20,303 tons; total
shipments for week to date, 1854 600
tons. Boundary smelters treatment
this week follows: CRANKY smelter,
12,167 tons; B. c. Copper smelter,
1855 tons; Dominion Copper compa.
ny's smelter, 1898 tons. Total for
week, 20,24O 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 a 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
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
Hayes-Monette had been preparing for
a million dollar shipment Of ore
Some of the ore being hoisted runs as
high as 500 per pound.
For the four months ended Septem-
Der 80 the Providence mine near
Greenwood, B. c., output of ore yield
ed returns of $117,23O.74. This repre-
sents nearly 80 per cent Of the com
panys outstanding shares at par
value.
The sawmill which the Palmer
Mountain Tunnel & Power company
recently placed on Toatscoula creek
near Loomis, 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
it's property this winter.
The Hecla Mining company has de-
clared it's regular monthly dividend OF
two cents share, or $4,000 in all.
The first dividend was paid In 1sOu'
and the grand total to date Is $slO,-
900. The mine is in the Occur d'A'
lenes.
The affairs of the old U. 8. Marble
company, which for a time operated
the marble quarries 10 miles west OF
Valley, on the Spokane Falls Il Nortn'
ern railway, have been wound up.
An option has been given to butle
parties for the control of the Ala
media mining property north OF Gen.
Idaho.