Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-26
MINES AND MINING

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 G. Broman, pushing the
work. Some fine ore showings have
already been encountered at a $50
foot level.
Kingdom Gould, the youngest son
of George ]. 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 $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
N~~S DOAShOA NoAhP ACdl
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
ninsula and the prospects of long and
annoying litigation against them, the
Guggenheims have finally abandoned
their proposition of building a $1,000
900 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,7O7
per fine ounce.
The developments in the Copper
Key mine are among the most inter-
esting of the Belcher mountain prop
critics, and the same is true of the
Oversight, its southerly neighbor.
which, however, has not been opened
to as great a depth.
The Mizpah 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 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, a financial week
~, has left Phoenix, B. c., for Cali
'ornia 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 |
n those in California, Nevada, Ari- |
iona and Colorado before he returns. |
In the Occur d'AIenes.
The Surprise Mining company has
Begun to install the machinery at the
lew concentration which has Just been
inished 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
ernational Mining C Exploration
company.
A big strike in the Missoula copper
nine Is reported from Wallace.
A contract has been let to j. B. Stra-
Ter of Warder to extend the main
unnel in the Samson property a dis
ance OF at least so feet. The Samson
located on Big creek, near Wardner.
A strike of ore in the Trapper group
reported by James L. Batterlou. in
harge of development work on the
which is located on Hunter
reek. 1t is stated vein of good
hipping ore has been cut.
Ore from the Tamarack G. Chesa-
cake mine is now being hauled to the
ailroad by the teams lately hauling
re from the Hercules, the installa-
lon OF the Hercules tramway render
ng hauling by teams unnecessary.
A strike in the Reliance is reported
y John M. Scrafford, manager.
Eastern Oregon Mines.
The new electrical compressor plant
Or the Red Boy mine has arrived at
and will soon be installed
nd in working order.
George R. Wiegand will at once re-
pen the Royal White property near
ireenhorn. A quantity of high grade
re has been shipped from the mine
nd much milling ore IS still in the
topes.