Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-06-14
MINES AND MINING.

A strike has been made in the Bay
City mine at Garfield bay, according
to reports which have reached Sand
point
Valuable iron ore deposits have re-
Wash, within half mile of the North
ern Pacific tracks.
Tom Burke, miner in the Stand
ard mine at Mace, Idaho, fell down an
ore chute in the mine recently and |
was instantly killed
The books of the Tiger-Poorman |
mine at Burke show that Harry Or |
chard was not at work on April 80, |
1899, the date on which the Bunker |
Hill & Sullivan mine at Wardner was
dynamited.
j. q. Befdelman, manager of the
Amalgamated Republic Mines com
pany, which has taken options on
seven properties near Republic,
Wash, says that work on construc-
ton of the new mill at Republic will
begin at once.
Victoria, B. C.-The fire which was
discovered on May 20 in No. 10 mine
at Comax, is still raging. Water is
being poured into the mine and the
outlook is serious. The fire will have
the result of increasing the coal short
age already being severely felt.
! A new refinery and a zinc precipita-
ton plant is to be constructed at once
at the Barnes-King mine at Kendall,
Mont, which will complete the many
improvements the new management
has added to the recovery department
of the plant. The cost will be about
$4,000.
The directors Of the Cranky Con-
solidated Mining, Smelling & Power
company have declared a regular
quarterly dividend of per cent, and
the usual quarterly extra dividend OF
1 per cent on the issued capital stock.
The dividend totals $4O5,OOO. The COM
pany's total dividends to date total
s2,563,360.
| By deal closed in Denver, Col, the
Japan group of mines near Telluride
: Cold, has been transferred to the Con
| solidated Mines Selection company
limited, of London, England, the con.
sideration being $1,000,000
The coal companies have posted no
tees to the effect that an increase Of
10 per cent would be granted to al
, employees who would return to work
The miners have been out and the
mines closed for week, pending the
> organization of a union, which the
company refused to recognize.
S The Copper Zone company is devel
&c ole ir1c in Gal
: mon river, Idaho. The tunnel work
under the direction of ]. T. Davis, hal
been carried on during the winter anC
5 spring This mine has been operated
for the last four years and assays from
e the surface yield over $40 ton. Thu
striking of the ledge lower down ha
shown yields in copper, silver ant
: gold.
. 1t is now settled that work on TIL
! group of claims of Phoenix, B. c., own
. ed by the Phoenix Amalgamated Cor
= per Mines company limited, will b.
:, taken up within the next few weeks
u F. P. Buck, president of the company
{ was a visitor here this week, comin
: from the company's head office
e Sherbrooke, Quebec. This compan
= owns a group of eight or ten cope
i claims adjoining the CRANKY Cor
g solidated property on the south,
being a consolidation of three othe
companies.
- The scheelite deposits of Montan
= bid fair to make more secure its It'll
- of Treasure state" as more recen
Q developments prove the existence {
| 20 hn hn 10
y posits in the world of this meta
- whose value is now recognized tn
- world over. The scheelite mine is 81
- luated at Jardine, not far from the Ye
- lowstone national park. The value {
the concentrates is about 60 cents
: pound or $12 ton. The deposit
:, without blemish and is believed, frol
:. expert development, that the ledge
= are as regular as those of copper {
>. gold. The scheelite carries as hig
= as 20 per cent of metallic tungstel
= which shipped as broken from til
ledge, averages between $500 and $50
a ton.
A remarkable story comes fro
Basin, Mont, the thriving mimi
Is camp between Helena and Butte. R
e Gently a miner named Collins miracu
1t ously escaped death in the Hope mir
le at that place through being protecte
j. in .cave-in by falling timbers in sue
Ia manner that he was unscathed, g
ID though tons upon tons of loosene
IS earth and rock were resting imm
X diately above him. After II hours
m work on the part of a rescue part
u Collins was extricated from his pr
carious position. So great, howeve