Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1907-09-11
MINES AND MINING.

The Last Chance placer, south Of
Grangeville. has had most prosper
GUS season.
A shipment Of ore will be made this
week from the Galena mine, near Ros-
lyn, Wash. The ore will be sent to
the Tacoma smelter.
A force of two shifts will be en-
ployed all winter on the 1800-foot tun-
mel on the Lynch property, near Fish
lake. in the Cascades.
News from MusQuiz. Coahuila. says
that another terrible mine fire occur
red at the Esperanzas mines, in
which ~ men were killed.
A trial run has been made at a
stamp mill at Florence from the MI
kado mine. The returns were most
than $50 to Tue ton.
]. ]. Browne of Spokane and Mr..
Sealye, mining man of Spokane and
Occur d'Alene. have purchased a ma
jority interest in the Mother Lode
mine, situated in the Hoodoo district,
40 miles east Of Palouse, Wash.
There are now II furnaces in blast
at Boundary's (B. c. three smelters,
six at CRANKY. two at B. c. Copper and
three at Dominion Copper-or one
more than last week, showing that
coke is coming in little more freely.
"A force Of so men. both at the smell.
ter and at the mine, the Sullivan,
near Marysville, B. c., is turning out
over 1000 tons daily, shipping it to the
Marysville smelter and getting gross
returns Of $4,000 monthly for it's out.
put" said James L. Ford, a heavy
stakeholder in the mine.
The tentative agreement entered
into between the Consolidated officials
and the miners committee relative to
the Mohawk change-room and the
question of Jurisdiction over watch.
men was finally approved and accepted
by the miners union in special ses.
sion recently. Watchmen and carpen.
tiers in the mines will not be under
the jurisdiction of the miners union
of Goldfelds, New.
Los Angeles, Cal.-Lewis Williams
known as Don Lewis" father of Bis.
bee, who developed the great Copper
Queen mine of Arizona and founder
of the town Of Bisbee, died at his
home in this city of heart failure. at
the age Of 70. He was a native OF
Wales, and amassed large wealth in
his mining operations in this country
The big stone which will be used in
the drilling matches at the coming
interstate fair at Spokane, Wash, ar.
rived at the fair grounds, and it is
now in place and ready for the con.
tests, which will be held on Wednes'
day. Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Of the first week of the fair. Entries
for the contest will close at noon
September %. The stone is about
so inches thick, and was secured near
Wallace, Idaho, being the usual
granite used in such contests.
A strike of four feet of rich copper
ore was made last week on the prop
erty OF the Avalanche Copper Mining
company, in Broadwater county, Mon
tana, about 80 miles east Of Helena
and consists Of 10 full claims. 1t is
"a miles from the East Helena smell
ter and adjoins the Argo mine, a prop
erty which is now shipping about $1,000
worth of ore every day with force Of
only Is men underground
Nelson, B. C.-The Reco mine has
discovered upon the old vein Of the
property ledge Of gray copper IL in
Il
The drift on the north lead of the
Comet, on which good strike was
made recently, is said to be opening
up a better showing than any hereto
fore found.