Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-01-18
MINES IN MANY CAMPS.


stay away from Grand Forks and !
Phoenix. 1t is stated that there are
10 men for every job and there is no |
use in 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
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
Gold6elds ores offered up 10 800 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.
George A. Pettibone will undergo an
operation at Los Angeles shortly for
ulcer.
Clarence 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,
/ t.. ~, 10 I o1~ 4 c4~sa IN,
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 1.
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 property
of the Roselle Mining company, of
which he is manager.
Three new shippers are being add
ed to the list this week from the
Sheep Creek camp, near Ymir, B. c.
gold quartz, and the Emerald, silver
lead All are shipping to the Trail
smelter. Some good ore has been
found especially upon the Nugget.
James Breen has filed a deed trans
ferring to A. J.. Davis of Butte 1e
claims and parts OF claims in valua
BILE mining properties in the Ten-Mile
d;etrio, awio opd CLARK county Mon
tana While the consideration named
is but 81, it is understood that more
than S1,000,000 was paid for the min
ing property.
The CRANKY mines and smelter are
just about getting back into their nor
NAL productive shape. Six blast fur
naces are in operation at the smelter
The treasury department Saturda.
purchased 300, 900 ounces Oh silver 70
delivery at Denver, San Francisco an
New Orleans, at 55.255 cents pc
ounce.
Edward T. Davis of Philadelphia
president of the Twin Buttes Minin
& Smelling company at Tucson
Ariz., announces that the director
have decided to resume operations a
once, under the superintendency o
Captain William McDermott.
The directors of the Wonderful Mil
ing company will soon let a contrac
for a 10O-foot extension Of the 1S5-foC
drift on the property.
Four men are employed at the Fatf
| err Lode, on Sunset peak. 1t is sal
| that punches of nice ore have been Ell
countered in the mine recently.
II Montana Mines.
The smelling situation in Montan
is one of paramount interest at thi
time. The East Helena smelter
owned by the American Smelling an
| Refining company, the largest CONNIE
cial smelter in this state, and whic
practically treats all the ore produce
in Montana aside from that in tn
Butte district, has fixed a new sea
for treatment, which mining men a
lege is an approximate increase
from so to 100 per cent.
In the meantime the smelling COZ
pany has announced a reduction OF
| per cent in the wages of its employs
because al the depression in the les
| market.
i James Carpenter and James Mill
: have made shipment of high graz
\ ore to the East Helena smelter fro
| their Alice mine at Rochester, Mac
4 son county.
| Batter and Thompson, who ha'
| been developing the Homestake mil
l in Madison county under lease al
| bond. have made a strike.
| Despite the slump in metal valu
| activity is reported in the Basin d
| trict, half way between Helena a.
| Butte.
A splendid strike has been report
| in the property of the Butte compar
on the south fork of the Little Bould
| river.