Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-19
MINING NEWS.

A smelter will be built at Mullan,
Idaho, not by the SnowstOrm Mining
company, but by eastern and Butte
capitalists and the Greenough inter
ests
w. e. Zwicky, superintendent of the
Kroa Silver Mining company near
Ainsworth. B. c., is enthusiastic over
the company's mine. He says that if
it were deemed advisable the prop
erty could begin ore shipments at
once.
Paul Roseman was probably fatally
scalded and burned by the explosion
OF converter at the CRANKY smelter |
at Grand Forks, B. c., recently. Sew
eral others received severe burns, but |
not serious ones.
John Koski was dragged into the
machinery at the Cottonwood coal
mines at Stockett, Mont, and instant
ly killed, by his hand catching in the
haulage rope. He leaves a wife and
one child.
Bakersfield, Cal.-The recovery of
the body of George Warner, one of
the miners who was killed in the cave
in of the Edison shaft December 7,
in which Miner Hicks spent Is days,
has been: made. This is the second
body recovered to date. The identifi-
cation was made by means of an ar
tificial eye.
Seattle papers estimate the output
of gold from Alaska for 1906 at $24,-
100000 This estimate is based large
ly On the receipts of the Seattle as
say office, which up to November first
amounted to $21,711, 1926, most of
which came from Alaska. The Alas
kan gold received at the San Fran
cisco mint during the past IL months
has been considerably more than in
preceding years and the amount, of
: which only an approximate figure can
be given, brings the estimated Alas
/ kan yield to amount above noted.
The st. Eugene mine at Moyie, b
c., milled during the first six months
of the year 84,066 tons of ore, pro
l. ducing 14,00S tons of concentrates
. which, together with 1889 tons O.
crude ore, were shipped to the smelt
err. From this product there was ex
tracted about 418,000 ounces of silve
and 100000 pounds of lead; tota
" value, $798,660. The output of tn
second half of the year has not beef
ls obtained, but it was probably abou
~ 1000 tons of concentrates. The min
is reported to be in better conditio
than ever before, developments di.
~ closing the occurrence of big shoot
- of ore not previously met with, an
with large ore reserves.
~ The furnaces at the CRANKY smelte
y were barred out early this mornin
"a and over $50 men are now idle, shor
VI age of coke being the cause. 1t is M
definitely stated when the plant wi
~ resume operations.
nd deal of Importance has just bee
or closed here for the purchase of tn
No. Little Bertha group of four claim
&c near Grand Forks, B. c., by Alex M
nm Ter and F. H. Knight for a sum II
ID ported to be $4,000, the former ow
VS. ers of this group being ]. Pringle al
tx w. Kendrick.
,at Salmon river Qdaho) mining me
,st are hopeful that there will be sui
by cient water this spring and SUNNI
nd for them to work their placer claim
led which has been an impossibility
yn- more than one instance for two yea
RS. past.
the Hosslanu, b. C-Snlpments Tor I
Ida week were: Center Star, 1890;
Roi, 2065; lie Roi No. 2, $50; LIE r
,w No. (milled), $50 tons. At the SINE
lid er of the Consolidated company
ike Trail the receipts of ore for the we
not were 1885 tons.
the w. c. Greene, the Cananea copp
king, has been sued in Cochise COZ
oy- ty, New Mexico, for 100000 by Ep
100, Randolph president of the ella V
iah ley Globe & Northern railroad and
the Canonea Yaquois River &
cific railroad, for 5000 shares of sto
of the Cananea Central Copper co
pany. The other defendants q
her Lycurgus Lindsay and the Canaan
low Central Copper company.
ost The great tin centers of Cornw
anu are agitated over report that
set American syndicate is buying up t
Jul richest tin mines there. repres
rus tative of the syndicate, it is stat
'pie has been in Penzance for some wee
ses The report has not been confirmed
With a minimum commission
ee. $3.50, the Spokane Stock Brokers'
III ISOLATION has adopted the amend
Iin scale, which follows: On stocks s.
len ing up to and including &c per sha
'on' 1Sc per share; over &c and up to
ms per share, lac per share; 12c and
'oA to soc per share, 1-2c per share;