Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-01-05
MINING NEWS

Victoria, B. CA number OF Hin
dus engaged as miners at Comox have
struck for higher wages. A Nanaimo
dispatch says a number of Hindu wom-
en- are among them masquerading as
men and doing mems work. One Hin
du woman gave birth to a 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.
AS recently as 1883, 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 S33,S33, 954.
and for 1914, only two years ago, was
but S105,629, S45, the year 1904 being
the second in the history of the coun-
try in which the value of the copper
output exceeded s100,000,000 yet, at
the present moment, the copper mines
of the United States are producing
copper to the value of 100000, 900
yearly, and the Lake Superior copper
mines alone are making copper worth
$150.000 for every day in the year, or
at the rate of more than $1,000, 900
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 1S97-only nine years ago
and double the value of the entire
copper output Of the United States
in year as comparatively recent as
1889.
Figuring copper at an average price,
througout the globe. of 20 IL cents
a pound, which is a trife below the
average quotations, the mines of the
world are making copper at the rate
of exactly s1.0OO00O a day for every
day in the year, including Sundays
and holidays.
1t is reported that the vein on the
Trop group which is an extension of
the Banner, near Mullan, Idaho, has
widened out from about three inches
to three feet.
Poplar creek, the rich free gold
camp on the Lardo river, a short dis
lance up that stream from the north
end of Kootenay lake, B. c.. shows
some signs Of bringing its riches to
the light of day.
The Northport smelter has resumed
operations. There are 10000 tons of
ore delivered from the lie Roi ready
for reduction. The intention of the
lie Roi mine. now that the smelter
has resumed operation, is to increase
the daily output of ore to about
double what it is at present.
The old Bodie mine situated in the
Toroda creek country, about IA miles
south of Chesaw, Wash, has again
changed hands, the York Mining COM
pany, the owners, having sold out to
a party Of Okanogan men-Frank.
Charles and Walter Bibbee and Frank
Williams of Chesaw and the Fisher
brothers of Bodie.
Boundary, B. c., ore shipments
Christmas week we're: To CRANKY
smelter from CRANKY mines, 14.141
tons; from Emma, 33 tons; to B. C.
Copper company's smelter from the
Mother Lode mine, 1850 tons; from
Snowshoe mine. $50 tons; from EN-
ma, 264 tons; to Nelson smelter from
SlSylark, 20 tons; to Dominion Cop
per company's smelter from Brook
lyn-Stemwinder, 1872 tons; from Raw.
hide, 1904 tons; from Sunset, $40
tons; total for week, 22,174 tons; to-
tai shipments for year to date, L.
1862, O34 tons.
A few days ago Dr. w. A. Long
and his associates gave an option to
Judge ]. a. Moore of Spokane on the
Standpat and Arsnoa claims. imme.
diately adjoining the Barnes King at
Kendall, Mont, on the north, the price
agreed upon being 100000.