Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1907-08-21
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 $4,000 in gold from the mail
room of the Steamboat Seattle which
has Just reached Dawson, Y. T.
S. II. 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 Gre
dence.
A rich gold and copper strike has
been made by the Tubal Cain Mining
company on its properties in the Olym-
pic mountains. The assay shows the
gold to run SIG and copper to $50 a
ten.
The vein last cut in the Hunter tun-
mel is said to carry two feet of gray
copper ore which assays as high as
$1,000 a ton. The ore carries 2,1O0
ounces of silver to the ton and 1919
Fer cent of copper.
| A big mining deal has been put
through at Nelson, B. c., when a syn
dictate 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 $l1,..-, in the matter
Of Mantle VS.. w. L. Blossom ct al. The
order also includes 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,
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 a 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 2,00O,-
900 tons.
| At SOnman, Pa, a 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 shaft
400 feet below, killing all five.
1t is officially announced that as a
result of the voting in the Butte min
ers' union recently the union has
adopted all the amendments of the
constitution of the Western Fedora
ton Of Miners, but voted down the
resolution for convention in Chicago
October 1, to reunite the warning d.
visions of the Industrial Workers of
the World.
There is enough asphalt lying in
| the open, inside a square Of ground
on the Athabasca river, where claims
have been staked by the Athabasca
Oil and Asphalt company, to pave all
| the streets and thoroughfares of the
civilized world" said Oil Expert ]. w.
Frank who yesterday returned from
Athabasca province, B. u, in which
the Hudson Bay Fur company has
been operating for years.
The first days conference between
Washington and Vancouver island coal
mine owners and miners held in Sc
attic resulted in a partial victory for
the latter. An agreement was reached
by which straight eight-hour day
will be effective, both in and around
the mines, but the miners will take
their own time In coming to and going
from the works. Engineers, cagers,
motormen and riders will work over
time II necessary in lowering and
hoisting the men. but all overtime will
be paid on an eight-hour basis, instead
of 10 hours as heretofore.
While naturally the principal ex-
hibit from Alaska at the Alaska-Yu-
kon-Paci1c exposition, which will be
held in Seattle in 1909, will be the
different colds produced by the north.
there is another far more valuable ele-
ment that may also have a place in
the mineral building. Radium, &C
cording to leading Partisan scientist,
states an exchange, can be produced
in large quantities from certain of
the rocks of the north, and this sa-
want, Henri Bertholet, son of a men,
Der Of the French Gallery of Forty
Immortals, is now in Alska arranging
for a shipment of rock to Paris, where
it may be treated under the most
favorable circumstances, and its value
as a radium producer ascertained.