Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-11-02
MINES AND MINING.


mines at Butte have resumed opera
tons after a period of suspension of
about two months. Two hundred men
are afforded employment. The Pitts
burg-Montana company is composed .
of Pittsburg and New York /
The Stanley mine, one of the most |
promising properties in the Occur |
d'Alenes, is to be equipped with a 10
stamp mill The work of installing the |
mill is to be started at once and it |
is expected it will be in operation |
within three months. The management
estimates the cost of the mill at $1O,-
900.
A big strike in the Tiger mine near
Burke. Idaho, is reported. 1t is stated
that two and a half feet of solid
galena ore has been encountered on
the 2200-foot level.
Frederick Keffer, managing engineer
of the B. c. Copper company at Green
wood, who recently made an exhaustive
examination of the Copper World Elk
tension mine, located on Palmer noun
tain, has submitted his report of in
vestigations. Mr.. Keffer says in his re
port that if work is continued ore will
increase in value with depth.
Loomis, Wash.-H. Stevenson, who
has had charge of development work
at the Dolphin group of claims, lately
bonded by Spokane mining men, states
that sufficient work has been done dur
ing the summer to demonstrate that
there are large ore bodies on the Dol
phin holdings. Prospects for the bond
being taken up are encouraging.
A crosscut of the great body of cop
per recently discovered in the Lucky
Calumet for rs feet and have not yet
struck the footwall A shot placed in
the side of the crosscut brought down
chunks of such ore as was first found
in the Snowstorm mine in the Occur
d'Alenes.
Reno, Nev.-The United States be
gan suit in the United States district
court at Carson to set aside patents
to $4,000 acres of land held by the
Southern Pacific company in the White
Horse mining district, on the ground
that the land was fraudulently repre-
scented by the railroad company to be
agricultural, when it was VIGOROUSLY
mineral.
Phoenix. b. C.-With this week s
output, more than 100000 tons of ore
have been produced thus far in 1907
by the mines Of the Boundary district,
and over 100000 tons have been
smelted by the three district smelters,
although a considerable amount is sent
to the Trail smelter outside the dis
trict This week again the Cranky
smelter reduced more than 5000 tons
of ore for every day of the seven, but
Dominion Copper does not appear in
the list.
At the San Francisco stock exchange
board Saturday it was announced or
the authority of United States Sena
tor Nixon of Nevada that the Goldfelt
Consolidated Mines company will pay
dividend of 25 cents a share on Jan
uary % next. The dividend will amour
to 100000.
Keystone, S. D.-Excitement con
tinues here over the find of the de
post of rubies, zest for the hunt fol
the gems being added to by the declar
alton of experts that the stones are o
the true oriental hue and the cleares
ever found in the United States.
The men employed at the Snow
storm mine at Mullan have been lai'
off and the mine has practically closed
How long it will remain closed is no
known.
The Panhandle smelter at Ponderay
near Standpoint, Idaho, has shut dow
and Monday the lead concentrates ant
ores shipped in from Canada to b.
smelted are placarded with red sign
stating that the ores are in charge o
the United States customs. A customs
house officer is in charge at the smell
er. When asked the reason the GOV
eminent had attached the ores the OF
ficer made the laconic answer: Lac
: of funds" Seventy-five men were lai
} off and paid Tuesday.