The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-07-20
MINING NOTES.

Notable contributions have been
made for The great picnic Il The B---c
/ Miners union u Js held a. Columbia
gardens On angus, u. The coItriDu-
|t.grs are q, 1900 from the Amalga-
mated copper company and 500 from
I John y. Ryan personally q money
~ BE- used a. prizes ~ q drilling con
test.
4 strike u ore is reported On the
/ Srrat1mgrs mine near Greenwood, 3.
r.. The ore has not yet been assayeo,
but experts believe 81 sIIl run 800 or
g. q ton. The ore vas found al the
90 foot level. Considerable excite
ment has been created over the dis
c,very II a new mineral district in
Nevada. just over the Oregon line. The
discovery vas made BY A. W Ellis,
one " the IOcators Il the famous Della
mar mine in Nevada.
Colonel Willard Hunsicker has re-
signed the management Of the Euro
pean agency a. London Of the ~nited
States Steel corporation.
4 Los Angeles oil company an
~Lounces that II has signed a contract
with private parties in Chile for 10
100000 barrels Of oil. 10 be delivered
WITHIN . period u I0 years at the port
II Iqulque, in the state Of Turapaco.
W. A. Nicholson, who lost his eye
sight last winter in an explosion at the
Providence mine. near Greenwood, q.
C.. was awarded 1880 damages in a
suit against the company recently.
Walter Barieu, who killed Sheriff
Thomas W. Logan April Z at Manhat-
tan, was acquitted by a jury. The de-
Tense claimed self defense.
The big mines Of Boundary. p. C.,
-have sent ont 633.52G tons Of ore in
the half year ended June 80.
The men in the bituminous coal dis
trict in Pennsylvania, numbering near
y 10000. who have been idle since
April J., when the mines closed down
because the operators would not re-
store the scale Of 1903. will resume
work on practically the same scale IS
1905.
George A. Mcleod has made the
first payment Of $4,000 at the Royal
bank 10 Fee Bros. Of Grand Forks and
H. ". Young Of Vancouver. Of
the Maple Leaf group Of copper claims
in Franklin camp. b. C., on which a
strike was made recently. American
capitalists have taken a working bond
Of $i25.O00 on the Maple Leaf group.
Five thousand dollars was paid and
the balance Is to be paid during the
life Of the bond, which is Is months.
Reports from the Snowstorm are to
the effect hat one Of the greatest
strikes Of ore in the Mullan, Idaho,
district has just been made in that
mine on the 400 and 500 foot levels. II
Is said that an immense body Of black
sulphide Of copper ore has been tap
ped. running from ~ to 30 per cent.
in copper.
Thomas d. Nichols. president OF
district No. /, United Mineworkers of
America. has been nominated for con-
gress from the 18th district by the
Lackawanna county, Pa, democratic
convention.
A. j. Mcmillan, managing director
Of the lie Roi, telegraphed from Lon
don directing that the Rossland man
agement at ono begin the task OF
deepening the shaft from the 300 to
1900 foot level.
Eugene r. Day and Ed b. Boyce, in
terested IN the Hercules lining com
pany, recently inspected the Pilot gold
mine, near Murray. Idaho, in which the
recent strike was made. 1t is rumored
that the Hercules people are negotiat-
Ing for the purchase of the Pilot.
Louis Laither, a miner, was Instant
~ killed Sunday I'm the Hercules mine
at Burke. He fell down an ore chute
a distance Of 100 feet. The coroner
held an inquest Monday morning.