Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05
MINING NEWS.


dus engaged as miners at Comox have
struck for higher wages. A Nanaimo
dispatch says number of Hindu wom-
en- are among them masquerading as
men and doing mems work. One Hin
du woman gave birth to child at
Comox. 1t was said by immigration
officials that there was no woman
among the arrivals.
While William Cuddihy was inspect
ing a huge crane at the Washoe
smelter at Anaconda he fell to the
floor below and received injuries from
which he died
A strike at the Bryant mine is re-
ported which as described eclipses
anything that has occurred in the
Occur d'Alene district during the past
two years. The Bryant mine is just
east of the Silver Cable on the Mon
tana-Idaho divide. $50 s.t1r fss 1I
AS recently as 1888, says the Cop
per Handbook, the 1906 edition of
which has just been issued by Horace
j. Stevens of Houghton, Mich, the
value of the copper produced in the
United States was only 1888, 1854,
and for 1904, only two years ago. was
the second in the history of the coun-
try in which the value of the copper
output exceeded $10O,000,00O, yet, at
the present moment the copper mines
of the United States are producing
copper to the value of 100000, 000
yearly, and the Lake Superior copper
mines alone are making copper worth
$150,000 for every day in the year, OF
at the rate of more than 100000
weekly. So great has been the
growth of the industry and so rapid
the increase in price of the metal
that the production of three counties
of the single state of Michigan is as
great in value as the entire copper
production of the United States as
recently as 1897-only nine years age
and double the value of the entire
copper output of the United State.
in a year as comparatively recent al
1889.
Figuring copper at an average price
througout the globe, of 20 IL cents
pound, which is a trifle below thu
average quotations, the mines of thu
world are making copper at the rat
of exactly 100000 a day for ever,
day in the year, including Sunday
and holidays.
1t is reported that the vein on tn
Trop group which is an extension Q
the Banner, near Mullan, Idaho, ha
widened out from about three inche
to three feet.
Poplar creek, the rich free gol
camp on the Lardo river, short dii
I lance up that stream from the mort
: end of Kootenay lake. B. c.. show
: some signs Of bringing its riches
: the light of day.
I The Northport smelter has resume
operations There are 10000 tons {
ore delivered from the LIE Roi read
d for reduction. The intention of th
LIE Roi mine, now that the smeltt
/ has resumed operation, is to increas
the daily output of ore to abo'
J. double what it is at present.
{ The old Bodie mine situated in til
l. Toroda creek country, about IA mile
y south of Chesaw, Wash, has agai
II changed hands, the York Mining cor
q pany, the owners, having sold out
n a party of Okanogan men-Fran
s Charles and Walter Bibbee and Fran
e Williams of Chesaw and the Fish
S brothers of Bodie.
e Boundary, B. c., ore shipmen
n Christmas week were: To Granl
D. smelter from CRANKY mines, AL
1t tons; from Emma, 33 tons; to B.
Copper company's smelter from Il
IS Mother Lode mine, 3.45O tons; fro
IF Snowshoe mine. $50 tons; from Ell
x ma, 264 tons; to Nelson smelter fro
70 Skylark, 20 tons; to Dominion CO
per company's smelter from Broo
lyn-Stemwinder, 1872 tons; from Ra
hide, 1,594 tons; from Sunset,
g tons; total for week, 22,174 tons;
IL tai shipments for year to date,
y, 1862, 034 tons.
"a A few days ago, DR.. w. A. Lo
ol and his associates gave an option
se Judge j. Y. Moore of Spokane on t
lie Standpat and Arsnoa claims, INN
ei diately adjoining the Barnes-King
d. Kendall, Mont, on the north, the pri
III agreed upon being 100000.
lo1 Hartman is Seriously III.
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