The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-05-29
MINING NEWS.

Phoenix, B. C.-The British Column |
bia Copper companys Mother Lode
and Orc Denoro mines are shipping.
The total ore shipments from Boun-
dairy this year is 425,97S tons.
The Occur dAlene Consolidated Min
ing compan., the property of which
is near Kellogg, Idaho, is installing a
three-drill air compressor which will
be operated by water power Driving
on the tunnel is to begin soon.
1t is given out locally that the Oriole
mine in the Metaline district, is to be
furnished with an air compressor in
short time.
H. l.. MoOrehouse is now construct
ing engineer for the Panhandle smell
ter
Sumpter, Ore.-Operations at the
Spero mine, in the Greenhorn district,
have been suspended. 1t is reported
the suspension is but temporary.
Machinery for the concentration of
the Morning Concentration
company at Metaline has arrived at
Newport.
The summer activity in Ainsworth,
B. c., camp is not marked at present,
but it is shortly expected that several
properties will commence operations.
| Receipts for ore from the First
Thought mine, at Orient, Wash, for
April just past, are shown to have
been in the vicinity of $250,00O and for
a year back, since the owners began
shipping the substance of the andesyte
dixie, receipts have been phenomenally
4 large.
Stanley A. Easton, manager of the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine, Ward
ner, Idaho, says that in a few days
the picking plant of the mine will be
complete and ready for use in the
preservation of timbers to be used in
the mines.
There are numerous agents OF capt.
talists in Nelson, B. c., looking up
mines in the immediate neighborhood.
This is despite the fact that the price
of metals is lower now than it has
been for some years past. 1t is gen.
orally considered, however, by the
newcomers that this will merely serve
to depress the price Of properties and
thai with ma short period of time
metals will again go up in value and
in consequence a good bargain will
have been secured.
A bill, was passed by the house re
Gently establishing in the department
of the interior bureau of mines. A
} commissioner of mines is authorized
General Manager Hurd of the Grows
Nest Pass Coal company says thai
f he understood that the Michel loca
5 union passed resolution to return t.
/ work.
D Thirty-fve thousand coal miners o
e Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Ar
S kansas, members of the United Mine
j. workers of America who have been OF
}. strike since March / last, will return
e to work this week. The convention
|. of miners of the states ratified an
/, signed the agreement reached by tn
e Joint subcommittee of miners an
d operators recently. Prices and cor
h ditions remain the same as they wer
r last year.
s. u0 OIOpClO VI IAC VoAA0 40 - 49,
l. ternal mining organization, having 1t
n head stope Qodge) at Portland, Ore
n with branch Slopes in various mimi
j. cities and camps of the country. 1t
d purposes are for mutual protection
benefit, education and information l
connection with legitimate, as oppose
to wildcat, mining the suppression {
- fraudulent mining schemes and tn
&c protection of the investing public
~ Spokane stope No. 8, of which E. +
~ Hutchinson, proprietor of the Nortl
~ west Mining News, is superintendent
w gave delightful banquet recently.
The case against James Dougla
ie Charles Garner and William Whit
u house brought by the Crows Me-
% Pass Coal company charging Violate
of the industrial disputes act by Il
io citing a strike, which was tried befol
% Magistrate McMullen, was dismisse
~ Saturday. The decision is importan
nc as it renders the act ineffective, so TIL
it will remain a dead letter on tt
's- statute book until amended by parli
ment
- The miners at Michel, B. c., marc
ed in a body, 900 strong, to the office
~. Superintendent Darbyshire OF II
-. Crows Nest Coal company al
~ told him they were going on vac
=. ton until the Is men who were d
- charged for the part they had TAX
~ in last weeks shutdown were TAX
70 back by the company.
w LOS Angeles leads in the percenta
- column in the Pacific Coast leagu
Tacoma in the Northwestern, and G.
cago the National league.
vim John Thomson, superintendent
fth the Red Boy Mines company, Sumpt
Eat Ore, has rendered his resignation. +