Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-07-27
MINES AND MINING.

Word has been received in Council,
Idaho, that a rich ledge of ore has
been struck in the North Star mine,
near Pollock. The company in charge
will erect a mill at the mine as soon
as it can be put on the ground.
Development will start this week |
on the copper prospect known as the |
old Anderson mine, nine miles east |
of Troy, Idaho, the new owners, |
Steelswith & Broman, pushing the
work. Some fine ore showings have
already been encountered at $50
foot level.
Kingdom Gould, the youngest son
of George J. Gould, is one of a party
of half dozen Columbia university
students who are now studying min
eralogy at first hand and doing some
prospecting in southern Arizona.
S. Spaulding is developing the Red
Bird mine at Florence, Idaho. He has
tunnel on the ledge 200 feet, obtain
ing a depth of $50 feet. The pay shoot
is two feet wide and carries $25 in
gold.
J. L. Harper has resigned the man
agement of the Belcher property in
the Belcher camp near Republic,
Wash, and will devote his entire time
to the interests of the Bortle Copper
Gold company.
Owing to the united opposition of
property owners south along the pc
lninsula and the prospects of long and
annoying litigation against them, the
Guggenheims have finally abandoned
their proposition of building a $5,000,-
600 smelter at San Bruno point, eight
miles down the bay from San Fran
, cisco.
/ The treasury department purchased
! on Saturday 100000 ounces of silver
} for delivery at New Orleans at 6S,707
per fine ounce.
= The developments in the Copper
< Key mine are among the most inter
2 esting of the Belcher mountain prop
8 critics, and the same is true of the
Oversight it's southerly neighbor
4 which, however has not been opened
S to as great depth.
$ The Mizpah Copper Mining com
+ pany, operating in the Hoodoo dis
D trict in Idaho, is working three shifts
|. on the tunnels on the property.
> The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin has
l. received a report from German South
d west Africa of the discovery near the
S coast of Luderitz bay of rich deposits
It of copper ore An expedition will sooI
s leave Luderitz to continue prospect
ing. The newly found ore lies in ;
If waterless region. The coast is with
s out harbors, and there are but few
# places where the ore could be trans
G. shipped. out in steamers and barges
If George l.. Walker editor of thu
r. Boston Commercial. a financial week
ly, has left Phoenix, B. c., for Cali
fornla and Nevada, having spent {
o week in the Boundary inspecting ant
examining the three district smelter
RI and the large copper mines. MI
Walker is now on a trip through tn
west during which he has visited tn
copper producers of Butte, Uath an,
T. British Columbia, and will also TAX
u in those in California, Nevada, Ar
y iona and Colorado before he returns
n In the Occur d'Alenes.
IN The Surprise Mining company ha
a. begun to install the machinery at tn
new concentrator which has just bee
or finished on their property at Pin
r Creek.
IN An important strike on the Ri
Id Eight group on Pine creek is reported
as The group is the property of the II
k ternational Mining & EXploratiO
I'd company.
k A big strike in the Missoula cope
IN mine is reported from Wallace.
IN A contract has been let to ]. B. Str;
Id der of Warder to extend the mai
Id tunnel in the Samson property a di'
IS lance of at least 90 feet. The Samso
Sc is located on Big creek, near Wardne
ed A strike of ore in the Trapper grou
is reported by James L. Batterlou,
charge of development work on tn
property, which is located on Hunt6
creek. 1t is stated a vein of goo
Ct shipping ore has been cut.
VII Ore from the Tamarack e Ches
Oy peake mine is now being hauled to tn
III railroad by the teams lately haulin
ore from the Hercules, the install
- ton of the Hercules tramway rende
ns ing hauling by teams unnecessary.
ny A strike in the Reliance is reportC
So by John NJ. Scrafford, manager.
no Eastern Oregon Mines.
IN The new electrical compressor plai
oi- for the Red Boy mine has arrived
Sumpter, and will soon be Unstable
and in working order.
George r. Wiegand will at once I
tn open the Royal White property ne
ed Greenhorn. A quantity of high gra
wo ore has been shipped from the mir
ed and much milling ore IS still in 4