Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-06-14
MINES AND MINING.


| A strike has been made Il
City mine at Garfield bay ~ Nv y
to reports which have reach nsSOlal.
point. Saaa
| Valuable iron ore deposits h..
! Gently been found near ~ =
Wash, within half mile of ~ bop "
ern Pacific tracks. III Noltt
Tom Burke, a miner in ~
ard mine at Mace, Idaho, fell M s1a
ore chute in the mine recan MN
was instantly killed. q
The books Of the Tigarp.
mine at Burke show that H.s sOlll'
chard was not at work on Az
1899, the date on which the p p
Hill & Sullivan mine at Wardr nuas
dynamited
Harold ]. Read, who has -.
to Wallace, Idaho, from Bntto S' ~
that another payment Of s9o M =
been made on the bond Of tb ~ y,
tor mine, taken up by the Roosi y y
company Of Wallace. 9'''a
]. G. Beidelman, manager !,
Amalgamated Republic Mines
pany, which has taken optlon.
seven properties near paa.,,
Wash, says that work on cons.
ton of the new mill at RepubIla
begin at once.
Victoria, B. C.-The fire wbi.h
discovered on May 20 in No n
at Comax, is still raging, ws,a
being poured into the mine M
outlook is serious. The fire viii
the result of increasing the cal L
age already being severely felt
A new refinery and a zinc nreoi.
ton plant is to be constructed #
at the Barnes-King mine at Ken
Mont, which will complete tho !,
improvements the new manager !
has added to the recovery depar- :
of the plant. The cost will be !,
$4,000.
The directors of the GRANNY
solidated Mining, Smelling & u I
company have declared 4 i, !,
quarterly dividend of 2 per cent n
the usual quarterly extra diyi5ma i,
1 per cent on the issued capitaI + 70
The dividend totals $4O5,OOO Tbe 4
pany's total dividends to date
$685. $3.50. %,
By deal closed in Denver. Col 2,
Japan group of mines near Teln
Cold, has been transferred to the IS,
solidated Mines Selection conn
limited, of London, England, the OF
sideration being $1,OOOO0O toI
The coal companies have posta
tees to the effect that an incres g
10 per cent would be granted 4 pth
employees who would return to lis
The miners have been out and S
mines closed for week, pending Of
organization of a union, which 5
company refused to recognize Vel
The Copper Zone company is
oping its claims in Big canyon
mon river, Idaho. The tunnel
under the direction of ]. 7. Davis
been carried on during the winta RI
spring. This mine has been opel
for the last four years and assays H
the surface yield over 500 a ton, c
striking of the ledge lower doVl nS
shown yields in "copper" silver u
gold lkel
It is now settled that work q Sc
group of claims of Phoenix, B. C, wi
ed by the Phoenix Amalgamated WI
per Mines company, limited VI ties.
taken up within the next few Will
F. P. Buck, president of the COM %
was a visitor here this week, er
from the company's head oHa les
Sherbrooke, Quebec. This con + f
owns a group of eight or ten M
claims adjoining the Granny OF
solidated property on the sou Vi
being a consolidation of three an
companies. n
The scheelite deposits OF u ack
bid fair to make more secure dra,
of Treasure state" as more err
developments prove the exista ov
what are said to be the larg n n
posits in the world of this the
whose value is now recognl Or
world over. The scheellte nll, does
uated at Jardine, not far from Drate
lowstone national park. The An
the concentrates is about 6O hat
pound or $12 a ton. The ds We
without blemish and is beleV9 +
expert development, that the i've
are as regular as those Of co
gold. The scheelite carries luest
as 70 per cent of metallic sett
which shipped as broken ~ emse
ledge, averages between $6V I of
a ton.
A remarkable story come roo W.
Basin, Mont, the thriving @
camp between Helena and Ba fioI .,
Gently a miner named Collins ,al I
ously escaped death in the H' . 90 e."
at that place through being or
in cave-in by falling timDels ! 90
a manner that he was unsG no.
though tons upon tons q So1,.
earth and rock we're restls igton
ulaUely ABOVE 'llln' az, lam. a to
Collins was extricated IRON &C -
carious position. So great rom
had been the strain upon 0OH elm
GUS system that upon going tbe
Tor rest and recupeIaliOA ms d to ]
dead of heart disease, ~ bf So
proved a rather extensNs ent >
the comnanY determined Y asent.