Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-09-13
MINES AND MINING.


The Last Chance placer, south of
has had a most prosper
Gus season.
A shipment of ore will be made this
week from the Galena mine, near Ros-
Ign, Wash. The ore will be sent to
the Tacoma smelter.
A force Of two shifts will be en-
ployed all winter on the 1S00foot tun-
mel on the Lynch property, near Fish
lake, in the Cascades.
News from Musquiz, Coahuila, says
that another terrible mine fire occur
red at the Esperanzas mines, in
which q men were killed.
A trial run has been made at a
stamp mill at Florence from the Mi
kado mine. The returns were most
satisfactory, the ore running more
than $50 to Inc ton.
]. j. Browne of Spokane and Mr.
Sealye, mining man of Spokane and
Occur d'Alene, have purchased a ma
jority interest in the Mother Lode
mine, situated in the Hoodoo district
40 miles east of Palouse, Wash.
There are now II furnaces in blast
at Boundary's (B. c. three smelters,
six at CRANKY, two at B. c. Copper and
three at Dominion Copper-or one
more than last week, showing that
coke is coming in a little more freely.
"a force Of so men, both at the smell
ter and at the mine, the Sullivan,
near Marysville, B. c., is turning out
over 1000 tons daily, shipping it to the
Marysville smelter and getting gross
returns of 100000 monthly for its out
put" said James L. Ford, a heavy
stakeholder in the mine.
The tentative agreement entered
into between the Consolidated officials
and the miners committee relative to
the Mohawk change-room and the
question of jurisdiction over watch
men was finally approved and accepted
by the miners union in special ses-
sion recently. Watchmen and carpen-
ters in the mines will not be under
the jurisdiction of the miners union
Of Goldfields, New.
Los Angeles, Cal.-Lewis Williams,
known as Don Lewis" father of Bis
bee, who developed the great Copper
Queen mine of Arizona and founder
of the town of Bisbee, died at his
home in this city of heart failure, at
the age of 70. He was a native of
Wales, and amassed large wealth in
his mining operations in this country
The big stone which will be used in
the drilling matches at the coming
interstate fair at Spokane, Wash, ar
rived at the fair grounds, and it is
now in place and ready for the con
tests, which will be held on Wednes
day, Thursday, Friday and Saturday
of the first week of the fair. Entries
for the contest will close at noon
September 20. The stone is about
so inches thick, and was secured neal
Wallace, Idaho. being the usua
granite used in such contests.
A strike of four feet of rich copper
ore was made last week on the prop
erty of the Avalanche Copper Mining
company, in Broadwater county Mon
tana, about 80 miles east of Helena
and consists of 10 full claims. 1t il
"a miles from the East Helena smell
ter and adjoins the Argo mine, a prop
erty which is now shipping about $100'
worth of ore every day with a force o
only Is men underground
Nelson, B. C.-The Reco mine ha
discovered upon the old vein of tn
property a ledge of gray copper II in
ches wide. which assays high.
The drift on the north lead of tn
Comet, on which a good strike wa
made recently, is said to be opening
up better showing than any hereto
fore found