Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-11-01
MINES AND MINING.

The Pittsburg-MOntana smelter ana
mines at Butte have resumed opera
lions after period of suspension of
about two months. Two hundred men
are afforded employment The Pitts
burg-Montana company is composed
principally of Pittsburg and New York
stockholders.
The Stanley mine, one Of the most
promising properties in the Occur
d'Alenes, is to be equipped with 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 $780,
O0O
A big strike in the Tiger mine near
Burke, Idaho, is reported. II 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. G. Copper company at Green
wood, who recently made an exhaustive
examination OF the Copper World Ex-
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 win
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 hond
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
o the side of the crosscut brought down
! chunks of such ore as was first found
| in the Snowstorm mine in the Occur
o dAlenes.
I Reno, Nev-The United States be-
9 gan suit in the United States district
q court at Carson to set aside patents
r to $1,000 acres of land held by the
O 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
l. agricultural, when it was VIGOROUSLY
n mineral
IS Phoenix. B. C-With this weeks
n OUTPUT. more than 100000 tons of ore
II have been produced thus far in 1907
d by the mines of the Boundary district,
e and over 100000 tons have been
Is smelted by the three district smelters.
although considerable amount is sent
to the Trail smelter outside the dis
p. trfct. This week again the CRANKY
70 gmelter reduced more than 5000 tons
q. of ore for every day of the seven, but
n Dominion Copper does not appear in
70 the list.
"a. Al the San Francisco stock exchange
&c board Saturday it was announced on
81 the authority of United States Sena'
he tor Nixon of Nevada that the Goldheld
No. Consolidated Mines company will pay
m dividend Of 20 cents a share on Jan
70 uary rs next. The dividend will amount
on to 100000.
keystone, S. D.-Excitement con
tinues here over the find of the de
post of rubies, zest for the hunt fol-
en- the gems being added to by the declar
ng alton of experts that the stones are o.
eli the true crientai Eue and the cleares
IN ever found in the United States.
mt The Panhandle smelter at Ponderay
nd near Standpoint, Idaho, has shut dow
,ur and Monday the lead concentrates ant
ial ores shipped in from Canada to b.
as smelted are placarded with red sign
lot stating that the ores are in charge o
the United States customs. A customs
.-. house officer is in charge at the smell
ant er. When asked the reason the gov
-',' eminent had attached the ores the OF
oat ficer made the laconic answer: Lac
CIV of funds" Seventy-nve men were lai
off and paid Tuesday.
The men employed at the Snow
storm mine at Mullan have been lai
emit off and the mine has practically CLOSED
Ac- How long it will remain closed is no
zen known.