The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-06-14
MINES AND MINING.

0ASNS
traffic.
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-
Gently been found near Centralia,
Wash, within half a mile of the North
ern Pacific tracks.
Tom Burke, a miner in he 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 20.
1899, the date On which the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan mine at Wardner was
dynamited.
Harold ]. Read, who has returned
to Wallace, Idaho, from Butte, states
that another payment of 100000 has
been made on the bond of h Moni-
tor mine, taken up by the Rossi-Read
company of Wallace.
j. G.. Beidelman, 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 he
outlook is serious. The fire will have
the result of increasing the coal short
age already being severely felt.
t 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
SIG, 900.
The directors Of the CRANKY Con-
solidated Mining, Smelling & Power
company have declared a regular
quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, and
the usual quarterly extra dividend OF
s l per cent on the issued capital stock
The dividend totals $4O5,000. The COM
pany's total dividends to date total
n So, 563, 800.
J. BY a 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, he CON
sideration being 81, O00, 900.
- The coal companies have posted no
tees to the. effect that an increase of
= 10 per cent would be granted to all
=. employees who would return to work.
10 The miners have been out and the
" mines closed for a week, pending the
q organization of a union, which the
company refused to recognize.
" The Copper Zone company is devel-
a. oping it's claims in Big canyon, Sal
~ mon river, Idaho. The tunnel work.
W under the direction of J. T. Davis, has
10 been carried on during the winter and
K spring. This mine has been operated
~ for the last four years and assays from
ne the surface yield over 500 a ton. The
'e- striking of the ledge lower down has
wv shown yields in "copper", silver and
as gold.
1t is now settled that work OF the
lc- group of claims of Phoenix, B. c., W
of ed by the Phoenix A~malgamated Cop
of per Mines company, limited, Will be
lie taken up within the next few weeks
80 F. P. Buck, president of the company,
at was a visitor here this week, coming
lin from the %company's head office al
Sherbrooke, Quebec. This company
vi owns a group of eight or ten coppe'
#. claims adjoining the CRANKY Con
10. solidated property on the south, Il
~ being a consolidation of three othel
raj companies.
n The scheeIite deposits of Montana
IA bid fair to make more secure Its IT'LL
n of Treasure state" as more, recen
developments prove the existence o
what are said to be the largest de
posts in the world Of this metal
ok whose value is now recognized tn
world over. The scheelite mine is sf
be- uated at Jardine, not far from the Ye
ed lowstone national park, The value Q
the concentrates is about 60 cents
pound or $12 a ton. The deposit
without blemish and is believed. fror
expert development, that the ledge
are as regular as those of copper G
the gold. The scheelite carries as hig
as as 70 per cent Of metallic tungsten
which shipped as broken from tn
ledge, averages between 5000 and $Sl
a on.
A remarkable story m fro
Basin, Mont, the thriving mimi
>. camp between Helena and Butte. R
lail. Gently a miner named Collins miracu
r. ously escaped death in the Hope mil
at that place through being protects
} In in a cave-in by falling timbers in SUI
,ket a manner that he was unscathed, {
though tons upon tons Of loosent
who earth and rock were resting imm
par diately above him. After II hours
work on the part of a rescue part
nan Collins was extricated from his pr
lg a carious position. So great, howeve
had been the strain o. Collins mel
'eak Gus system that upon going to But
atch for rest and recuperation he dropp.
dead of heart disease. The cave
has nrovad q rather extensive one a,