Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-07-27
MINES AND MINING.

IuduO, jliL FlCn IeuBG or ore has
been stack in the North Star mine,
near Po' Dck, 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 a $50
foot level.
Kingdom Gould, the youngest son
of George j. Gould, is one of a party
of half a 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
a tunnel on the ledge 200 feet, obtain
ing depth of l so 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 $1,000
1000 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 Cope
< Key mine are among the most inter
z esting of the Belcher mountain prop
3 critics, and the same is true of the
Oversight, its southerly neighbor
which, however, has not been opened
to as great a depth.
The Mi2pah Copper Mining com,
pany, operating in the Hoodoo dis
trict in Idaho, is working three shifts
on the tunnels on the property
The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin has
received a report from German South
west Africa of the discovery near the
coast of Luderitz bay of rich deposits
of copper ore. An expedition will soon
leave Luderitz to continue prospect
ing. The newly found ore lies in a
waterless region The coast is with
out harbors, and there are but few
places where the ore could be trans
shipped out in steamers and barges.
George l.. Walker, editor of the
Boston Commercial, financial week
| ly, has left Phoenix, b. c., for Cali
fOrnia and Nevada, having spent a
week in the Boundary inspecting and
| examining the three district shelters
and the large copper mines. Mr..
Walker is now on a trip through the
west, during which he has visited the
copper producers of Butte, Uath and
British Columbia, and will also take
in those in California, Nevada Ari-
IONA and Colorado before he returns.
In the Occur d'Alenes.
The Surprise Mining company has
| begun to install the machinery at the
new concentration which has just been
finished on their property at Pine
| Creek.
An important strike on the Big
Eight group on Pine creek is reported.
The group is the property of the In
ternational Mining & Exploration
company.
| A big strike in the Missoula copper
mine is reported from Wallace.
| A contract has been let to j. B. Stra-
| der of Warder to extend the main
tunnel in the Samson property dis
lance of at least 80 feet. The Samson
is located on Big creek near Wardner
A strike of ore in the Trapper group
is reported by James l.. Batterlou, in
| charge Of development work on the
property, which is located on Hunter
creek. 1t is stated a vein of good
| shipping ore has been cut
Ore from the Tamarack & Chesa-
peake mine is now being hauled to the
railroad by the teams lately hauling
ore from the Hercules, the installa-
| ton Of the Hercules tramWay render
| ing hauling by teams unnecessary.
A strike in the Reliance is reported
| by John NJ. Scrafford, manager.
Eastern Oregon Mines.
! The new electrical compressor plant
for the Red Boy mine has arrived at
Sumpter, and will soon be installed
and in working order.
George r. Wiegand viii at once re-
open the Royal White property near
Greenhorn. A quantity Of high grade
ore has been shipped from the mine.
and much milling ore IS still in the