Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-08-24
MINES AND MINING.

vious one in spite of the continued
coke shortage.
The enlarged success mill is still
inactive, pending the arrival Of roll
ers. About 1000 tons are being ship
ped each month at present
Little can be learned concerning the
theft of $40 900 in gold from the mail
room of the Steamboat Seattle which
has just reached Dawson, Y. T.
S. H. Tinker has discovered rich ga
lena ore practically at grass roots in
the West Eagle district near Murray.
The find has attracted attention.
Figures for the first month of the
last half year give total of more than
10000 tons of copper ore mined and
smelted in the Phoenix, B. c., sec
ton.
A strike of four feet of rich concen-
trating ore is reported to have been
made on the 200-foot level of the Ma
bob. The report receives little ere
dence..
A rich gold and copper strike has
been made by the Tubal Cain Mining
company on it's properties in the Olym-
pic mountains. The assay shows the
gold to run SIG and copper to $40 a
ton
The vein last cut in the Hunter tun-
mel is said to- carry two feet of gray
copper ore which assays as high as
1900 a ton. The ore carries 2,100
ounces of silver to the ton and 1919
per cent of copper
A big mining deal has been put
through at Nelson, B. c., when syn
dicate of Nelson men purchased the
control of the Goodenough and Blue
Bird mines at Sandon. The terms of
the deal have not been made public.
An order has been filed with the
clerk Of the district court signed by
Judge Steele, confirming the sale of
the Croesus lode in Eagle district to
Lee Mantle for $l7,.vy, in the matter
of Mantle VS.. W. L. Blossom ct al. The
order also includes a confirmation Of
the sale of the Bullion lode in the same
district to Mantle for $500. The
latter action grew out Of the suit of
Mantle VS.. H. L. Frank ct al.
Reports have reached Spokane of
rich strike of 81 feet of copper ore
on the property of the Winnipeg, a
mine owned by operators of Winnipeg,
Man, which is located on Belcher
mountain, in Washington, near the
Belcher mine and the Blue Bell Bel
cher.
There is no danger of coal short
age in the territory tributary to the
head of the lakes if the roads enter
ing there are allowed to handle the
business the coming winter. Receipts
up to the present time have broken
all records. There are actually on the
docks at the present time about 1000.
900 tons.
At Sonman, Pa, cage containing
eight miners who were about to de
scend to work recently shot upward
instead OF downward and struck the
top of the tipple, eighty feet above
the ground, overturned and precipitat
ed five men to the bottom of the shat
400 feet below, killing all five.
1t is officially announced that as 6
result of the voting in the Butte min
ers' union recently the union has
. adopted all the amendments of thu
constitution of the Western Fedora
\ ton of Miners, but voted down the
resolution for a convention in Chicago
October 1, to reunite the warning di
|, visions of the Industrial Workers O
: the World.
o There is enough asphalt lying il
, the open, inside a square of grount
on the Athabasca river where claims
have been staked by the Athabasc'
Oil and Asphalt company, to pave al
the streets and thoroughfares Of thu
civilized world" said Oil Expert ]. w
(; Frank who yesterday returned from
|, Athabasca province, B. T., in whicl
F; the Hudson Bay Fur company ha
t been operating for years.
The first days conference between
J. Washington and Vancouver island Goa
mine owners and miners held in Sc
attic resulted in partial victory TO
7 the latter. An agreement was reached
2 by which a straight eight-hour da.
|, will be effective, both in and aroun'
:, the mines, but the miners will tax
y their own time in coming to and goinl
!, from the works. Engineers, cagers
motormen and riders will work over
time if necessary in lowering an
; hosting the men, but all overtime vii
/; be paid on an eight-hour basis, instea'
/: of 10 hours as heretofore.
While naturally the principal eS
C hibit from Alaska at the Alaska-Yu
e kon-Pacific exposition, which will b
/; held in Seattle in 1909, will be tn
J, different Colds produced by the north
b there is another far more valuable ele