Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-09-28
MINES AND MINING.

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Boundary (B. c. ore shipments took
big squirt last week, being more than
5000 tons above those OF the previous
week and making a new highwater
mark for shipments in one week from
this district. CRANKY has been ship
ping heavier than ever. to keep the
battery of eight blast furnaces busy
continuously. One day this week more
than 1000 tons having been sent out by
both railways for this one company
alone.
A promising body of ore has been
opened up in the old Anderson copper
mine, six miles east of Troy, near the
main canyon of Big Bend creek, Idaho.
Baker City, Ore.-A body of ore
which assays 80 per cent copper, SIS in
gold and SO in silver has been opened
up on East Eagle creek. The ore is
about two or three miles from the near
est wagon road and has to be tran
spOrted this distance on pack horses,
as it is impossible to get to the mine
with a wagon. The discoveries Of the
mine are taking out two carloads to
send to the smelter to learn the aver
age amount of copper carried.
This week at the East Helena plant
of the American Smelling and Rein
ing company, another blast furnace
will be blown in, making the fourth in
operation. This step has been neces-
STATED by the renewed activity in min
ing in the Helena and adjacent dis
tricts With the exception Of lead
ores from the Occur d'Alenes, only
Montana ores are being smelted at
East Helena for the first time on rec
ord.
By a cage plunging 76O feet down
the shaft Of the Jones & Laughlin
iron mines at Negaunee, Mich, IL men
were killed and seven fatally injured.
Millions Of dollars are being spent
by private corporations and by the
Union Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad companies in OPEN
ing up vast tracts of bituminous coal
lands within a radius of 70 miles of Ia
coma.
, Interests connected with the Davis
DAILY Estates Copper company declare
that large shipments of ores to the
! Washoe smelter will be begun before
long. When F. Augustus Heinze set
tied his Butte litigation with the
Amalgamated Copper company several
months ago he secured, as part of the
deal, a contract assuring favorable
rates at the Washoe smelter for Davis
DAILY and La France ores. 1t is ex-
pected he shortly will be able to take
advantage of the benefits of this con
tract.
The mining plant of the Tennessee
company of East Joplin, Mo, was
blown up by dynamite recently, the
loss being estimated at several thou
sand dollars. One charge was placed
on top of the 100-horsepower boiler
another near the hub of the 1ywhee
of the engine and a third in the nitric
ate portion of the pump machinery. A
week ago the News-Herald plant il
Joplin was wrecked by dynamite. The
same night a mining plant belonging
to the Grany Mining company wal
blown up. Recently Patrick Hennes
sey, Joplin councilman, found an I'm
exploded stick of dynamite beneath hi
front porch.
In The Occur d'Alenes.
The Sheridan Mining company ha
levied an assessment of one mill
share, payable on or before Septembe
&c, 1907.
The north drift from the 900 foo
crosscut on the Ruth is now in 400 feet
and is believed to be close to the ledge
The face of the drift shows heav,
/ naturalization.
/ The shaft on the Evolution has bee
completed to a point 200 feet beloV
: the level OF the lower tunnel and
station has been cut preparatory t
2 prosecuting for ledge which is though
: to be 100 feet away.
Charles Wright of Burke, Idaho, wa
r killed in the Standard mine recently
l About $50 men were laid off in thre
I mines at Wallace, Idaho, Saturday.
r the Gold Hunter mine 20 to 80 me
D were dropped from the rolls, from tn
. Snowstorm 70, and the Morning
2 men. The Snowstorm has receive
+ word from the smelter that it coul
D not handle ore in such quantities q
e bad been sent in the past.
= The Idora mine will be furnishe
y with electric power within a fe
y weeks.
British Columbia Mines.
With the increase in quantity I
coke received, there is an augment
:. ton in quantity of ore produced
mines at Rossland, B. c., and in Bou
a. dairy. The Trail smelter has five Oh
y Of its seven furnaces in operatio
# while Northport is now running tire
It The North Fork wagon road hi
y been extended to the Maple Leaf mil
d in Franklin camp. New buildings a
t being erected at the mine.
A four drill compressor has been
stalled at the Cambrian property
+ Moyie, and the cribbing has been SUI
st 80 feet into the lake, about half WI
ie to bed rock