Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-01-25
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The Phoenix, B. c., miners union
has issued circulars warning men to
stay away from Grand Forks anil
Pnoen x. 1t is stated that there are
10 men for every job and there is no
use "a coming into the district now
in search of work.
The main ledge of copper ore which
has been sought by the Grant Consoli-
dated Copper Mining company in its
claims near Chesaw, Wash, \ was
struck Saturday.
Ely, Nev.-The ground continues
soft in the Alpha shaft. The rescuers
are keeping up an average OF 10 feet
per day. The entombed men have
been furnished, through a six-inch
pipe, with enough food to last them
for two months.
Representatives of the smelter trust
say they are now prepared to take all
G%oldfelds ores offered up to 800 a
ton in value and pay cash therefor.
The Dawson Industrial Workers of
the World deny they are openly fos-
tering a movement looking for an
eight-hour day.
a rettibone will undergo an
operation at Los Angeles shortly for
ulcer.
D4arence barrow, attorney for the
Western Federation of Miners, is i'm
proving and will escape an operation,
although he still suffers much pain.
A rich strike of free milling gold
ore has been made in the lower drift
tunnel on the West Goodenough mine,
in the Marshall Lake district, in cen
trail Idaho.
A quarterly dividend of two cents a
share, or $4,000, will be paid to the
stockholders of the international Coal
& Coke company on February /.
"The tungsten property is looking
well and considerable activity is ex
hibited throughout the district" said
w. S. Thyng, mining engineer, who re
: turned yesterday from Deer Trail, Ste
vens county, Wash, where he has
! been inspecting the tungsten propert.
q of the Roselle Mining company, 0
which he is manager.
Three new shippers are being add
n ed to the list this week from th'
a Sheep Creek camp, near Ymir, B. c
o These are the Nugget and Summit
gold quartz, and the Emerald, silver
lead. All are shipping to the Ira
e smelter. Some good ore has bee
e found, especially upon the Nugget.
James Breen has filed a deed tram
is ferring to A. j. Davis of Butte !
le claims n parts OF claims in valu,
o. BILE mining properties in the Ten-Mil
1T district, Lewis and Clark county, Mo
re tana. While the consideration name
e. is but 81, it is understood that MOI
re than $1,000, 900 was paid for the mi
rs ing property.
The Cranky mines and smelter a
lie just about getting back into their nc
at NAL productive shape. Six blast fu
De naces are in operation at the smelte
Ill The treasury department Saturd;
purchased 300,0 900 ounces OF silver f
delivery at Denver, San Francisco al
New Orleans, at 55.255 cents p
IN unc
10 Edward T. Davis of PHILADELPHIA
RS president of the Twin Buttes Mini
re & Smelling company at Tucso
Ariz., that the directo
oh have decided to resume operations
once, under the superintendency
he Captain William McDermott.
- The directors of the Wonderful Mi
ing company will soon let a contra
nd for a 10O-foot extension of the 1910
is drift on the property.
ty Four men are employed at the Fat
er Lode, on Sunset peak. 1t is SO
ny that punches of nice ore have been
rst countered in the mine recently.
Owing to a delay in the arrival
quicksilver, the new 10-stamp mill
the Twin Butte property, near o
us grande, will not be started un
ne spring.
-. Montana Mines.
ng Inc smeiting SITUATION IN Mon'a
ISL is one of paramount interest at Il
los time. The East Helena smelte
his owned by the American Smelling a
ION Refining company, the largest comm
cial smelter in this state, and viii
practically treats all the ore produc
in Montana aside from that in I
- Butte district, has fixed a new SC
for treatment, which mining men
lege is an approximate increase
e. from 80 to 100 per cent
In the meantime the smelling &C
pany has announced a reduction of
~ per cent in the wages of its emplo,
it'll peoause u INC REPRESSION
market.