The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-15
MINING NEWS.

A smelter will be built ..
Idaho, not by the Snowstorm %9lC
company, but by eastern AN
capitalists and the G~reeDoraS B'r.
ests. ISL lts
w. E. Zwicky, superintenao
Kroa Silver Mining comma" VI
Ainsworth, B. c., is enthusiast, ase
the company's mine. He savs 0'a
it were deemed advisable n ~sI
erty could begin ore shinro pq
once. uS
Paul Roseman was probable
scalded and burned by the @A
of a converter at the GRANNY 9
at Grand Forks, B. c., recentin sa
eral others received severe brrs. S
not serious ones. a
John Koski was dragged ~.
machinery at the Cottonwood
mines at Stockett, Mont. n
ly killed, by his hand catcbina
haulage rope. He leaves a w;ta
one child. q
Bakersfield, Cal.-The raco,.-
the body of George Warner y
the miners who was killed in r. y
in of the Edison shaft Decent
in which Miner Hicks spent II
has been made. This is the soa
body recovered to date. The ido.',a
cation was made by means of ~
tificial eye. "i
Seattle papers estimate the or.
of gold from Alaska for 1905 AZ a.
100000. This estimate is based ,
ly on the receipts of the SeattIa =
say office, which up to Novembar a.
amounted to $21, Ill, 1926, mos,
which came from Alaska. The All
kan gold received at the San H.,
cisco mint during the past - mo,,s
has been considerably more than \
preceding years and the amount n
which only an approximate figure c,,|
be given, brings the estimated Ala,
kan yield to amount above noted
The st. Eugene mine at Movie Il
c., milled during the first six mont]
of the year S4,066 tons of ore nr|
ducing 14,00S tons of concentrate
which, together with 1889 tons n
crude ore, were shipped to the smell
er. From this product there was II
tracted about 41S,O00 ounces of sfEgI
and 100000 pounds of lead; to,|
value, 1898, 600. The output of MI
second half of the year has not Neal
obtained, but it was probably abOu|
1000 tons of concentrates. The mi1l
is reported to be in better condttm|
than ever before, developments al,
closing the occurrence of big shOrl|
of ore not previously met with. and
with large ore reserves.
The furnaces at the CRANKY smets|
were barred out early this morningI
and over $50 men are now idle, short
age of coke being the cause. 1t is naI
definitely stated when the plant will
resume operations.
A deal of importance has just beelI
closed here for the purchase of te
Little Bertha group of four claims
near Grand Forks, b. c., by Alex NH
Ter and f. II. Knight for a sum rel
ported to be $4,000, the former OWE
ers of this group being ]. Pringle and
w. Kendrick.
Salmon river Qdaho) mining med
are hopeful that there will be suAI
cient water this spring and summed
for them to work their placer claims
which has been an impossibility b
more than n instance for two yeaH
past.
ROssland, B. C.-Shipments for tls
week were: Center Star, 1890; H
Roi, 2065; lie Roi No. 2, $50; lie Rdl
No. 3 (milled), $50 tons. At the smell
er of the Consolidated company d
Trail the receipts of ore for the Wsei
were 1896 tons.
w. c. Greene, the Cananea cOppd
king, has been sued in Cochise cOufI
ty, New Mexico, for 100000 by Eps|
Randolph, president of the ella Va.
ley Globe & Northern railroad and y
the CanOnea Yaquois River & re-
cific railroad, for 5000 shares OF StodI
Of the Cananea Central Copper com
pany. The other defendants aH
Lycurgus Lindsay and the Canansl
Central Copper company.
The great tin centers OF CornWal
are agitated over a report that ~
American syndicate is buying up w'
richest tin mines there. A represelI
tative of the syndicate, it is stalea.
has been in Penzance for some wees
The report has not been confirmed
With a minimum commission u
$3.50, the Spokane Stock Brokers ~
sociation has adopted the amenuS4
scale, which follows: On stocks SsH
ing up TO and including Sc per snais
1-Sc per share; over &c and up TO ~
per share, lac per share; lie ana y.
to zoe per share, 1-2c per share ~
and up to soc per share, SAC ~
share; SOC per share and up 10 ~
per share, 1c per share; 75e per sna,,
and up to 81 per share, l l'ZT ~
share; 81 and up to $3.50 per snals
&c per share; $3.50 and up to " ~
share, 2 1-2c per share; 81 and w
$3.50 per share, &c per share; s-~