The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-07-12
Mines AND MINING.

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arn Federation of Miners and local
agitation friendly to that organization,
an attempt is being made to enron
the smeltermen employed by the Cop
ner Queen and Caluet and Arizona
shelters as members Of the fedora
tion. The refusal of the companies to
recognize the union, which is certain,
will probably result in a strike.
Rock Springs, Wyo.-As a result OF
the suits filed by the government
against the Union Pacific Coal com
many. forcing that company to aban-
don coal property alleged to have been
illegally secured from the government,
three Of the big coal mines situated
on the disputed property have been
closed down. The mines belong to the
Superior Coal company, which Is
owned by the Union Pacific. The eff
feet will be a further shortage of coal
in the west.
NEGOTIATIONS are now on between
the Chewelah Copper King Mining
company and the B. c. Copper COM
pany for the production from the Cop
per King mine, near Cheweiah, Wash.
For $4,000, with a 10 per cent in
itial payment, the Dominion EXplora-
ton company has taken a bond on the
Davis & Park group in the Metaline
district. Washington. The purchasers
,ere ~.-ented by Frank Brown,
no is widely known in the mining
camps Idaho and Alaska. The deal
was clused up this week and Mr..
Brown has already placed a crew OF
men on development work.
Grand Forks, B. C.-The official an
nouncement that the CRANKY company
will further enlarge its furnaces
means more than it appears on the
surface. The enlargement of the fur
naces, which will hardly take place
before next year, a big eXpan-
sion of the whole plant. The work
will be under way II months.
Rossland, B. Gle Roi is closed
down to make important improve
ments. The skip service of the main
shaft was extended down in four COM
partments from the 135O-foot level to
the 1650-foot level. A new crusher
was installed on the surface and a
new wire rope put on the traway.
Phoenix, B. Cast weeks Bound
airy smelter treatment is slightly larg-
er than the previous week, which was
a new record. The total shipments
for the week, 36,543 tons; total ship
ments for the year to date, 1861
tons. Boundary smelters treated as
follows: CRANKY smelter, 1879 tons;
B. c. Copper company's smelter, 49,
226 tons; Dominion Copper company's
smelter, 5845 tons; total for the week,
$4,000 tons; total treatent for year to
date, 536,919 tons.
The Panhandle smelter at Sand
point, Idaho, has one of the most
advantageous locations for a smelter
in the country. 1t is on the main line
of three transcontinental railroads,
and at the head of Lake Pend
d'Oreille, 81 miles long, and surround
ed by mines. The Panhandle smelter
is within easy reach of the Occur
d'Alenes, the richest silver-lead dis
trict in the world, and is the only
smelter in northern Idaho. The smell
ter was blown in about a month ago,
and the management has already
made arrangements to double it's ca
In the Occur d'Alenes.
The Advance Mining will
in a few days let a contract for a 100
foot extension of its lower tunnel. The
company's property is near Mullan.
The ledge in the Sonora mine is
now 13 feet wide and carries all but
commercial ore.
A 100-foot raise is being run to con
meet the lower Orc Elmo tunnel with
the shaft. The raise is being put up
good ore all the way.
A new boiler was taken to the Hy-
potheek mine at Kingston recently.
The shaft on the Alice is still in
the good ore shoot which dipped in at
the 350-foot level, and, from it's pres
ant dip, will probably stay in the
shaft for so feet more. Part of the
ore is a shipping grade of galena.
The new concentrator at the Stew
art, in Government gulch, has been
completed, though no machinery has
been installed except the crusher from
he old concentration of the Silver
King. All the other equipment has
been ordered and is now on the way.
The concentration will have a capac-
ty of $50 tons daily.
A contract has been let by the Black
Hawk Mining company to drive its
unnel 200 feet further on the Black
rawk group of claims. The contract
VAS awGrfad to Samuel Calkins, John
John Dillon and o. Bishop
Wallace, Idaho-After an exciting
contest George Baker and Walter 10.
If Murray beat c.. NJ. Patterson and
Pete Half Of Osborn, holders of the
occur d'Alene drilling record, by five
ixteenths of an inch, and secured the
irst prize of $3.50, which with entry
ees added, brought the total value to