Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-05-15
MINES AND MINING.

After t1eup of six months the Brit
ish Columbia Copper company's mines
in Phoenix (B. c. district are again
in operation, the whistles of the
Mother Lode, Emma and Orc DenorC
are blowing regularly, hundreds OF
miners have started to work, and there
is general rejoicing throughout the
boundary.
Mine superintendent property own
ers prospectors and common laborers
in Elk City Qdaho) district have con
tracted the Four-Mile excitement
fever and have gone to the scene OF
the recent strike in rich quartz
Superintendent Joseph F. Thorn OF
the Buster mine and Ralph Middleton
one of the owners of the Hercules
mine, left yesterday. Six men have
left their work in the Buster mine to
join the goldseekers.
President Walker of the United
Mineworkers of Illinois states that the
canvass of the referendum vote of the
local unions showed majority of the
miners voting in favor of continuing
the agreement of 1906 and paying the
shot-firers.
CRANKY mines last week shipped
23,l7S tons of ore and the Crescent
mine shipped 80 tons, making the total
ore shipments from the Boundary this
year 37S,422 tons. Last week the
CRANKY smelter treated q, 763 tons of
ore, and for the year to date has
treated 369, 1892 tons.
There seems likely to be trouble al
Greenwood over the starting up of the
b. c. Copper company's mines and
plant. Manager McAllister has opened
up with copper at IL 1-2 cents, in face
OF a rumored war between the big
copper interests of the United States.
At the same time the miners refuse to
accept the scale laid down for this dis,
trict, under the terms of the Lemieux
act, as in the case of the CRANKY, by
Judge Wilson last December.
The renewed activity in the Ymir
district is exemplified by the bonding
OF the Yankee Girl and Yukon by H.
Rogers of Spokane for American per
sons.
One of the finest mining hoists in
use in the United States is now being
tried out at the Hecla mine near
Burke, Idaho, after four months spent
in installing it.
Machinery is now at Sites. Idaho
for use in sinking to the fifth level
the Thunder Mountain Gold com
pany's mine, in the Elk City district.
and will be taken to the property
soon.
Samples of ore shown in Grangeville
from the new strike on Four-Mile
creek have been causing a great deal
of interest to be taken in the new
district.
Kansas City, Mo.-After weeks of
conferences, during which time numer.
GUS proposals were made by both
sides, resulting in leaving the entire
matter to subcommittee of each or.
gan1zatlon, a settlement of the diff.
Guilty existing between the United
Mine Workers of America and the
operators of the southwest has been
reached and the joint subcommittee
adjourned.
The Silver Crown Mining company
mas completed payment on the bond
upon the group of mines near Libby
Mont, 1t is operating, and is taking in
steel car and tracking for use in de,
'eiopment. A compressor has been
bought and will be set up shortly.
Uncle Billy" Park, a we'll known
Montana pioneer, and for whom one
OF Butte's chief business streets is
named, as we'll as Park City, Utah,
has made a rich strike in Georgia
gulch, Madison county, Mont. Assays
from his strike show $149 in gold and
1870 ounces of silver.