Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-05-29
MINING NEWS.

Phoenix, B. C.-The British Colum
bia Copper company's Mother Lod,
and Orc Denoro mines are shipping
The total ore shipments from Boun
dairy this year is 425,97S tons.
The Occur d'Alene Consolidated Min
ing company, the property of which
is near Kellogg, Idaho, is installing &
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 concentrator of
the Morning Mammoth Concentrator
company at Metaline has arrived at
Newport.
The summer activity in Ainsworth.
b. c., camp is not marked at present,
but 1t 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 $3.50, 900 and for
a year back, since the owners began
shipping the substance of the andesyte
dixie, receipts have been phenomenally
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 I'D
mines in the immediate neighborhood.
This is despite the fact that the price
of metals is lower now than 1t 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
that With ma short period of time
metals will again go up in value and
in consequence good bargain will
have been secured.
bill was passed by the house re.
Gently establishing in the department
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commissioner of mines is authorized.
Thirty-five thousand coal miners of
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Ar
kansas, members Of the United Nine
workers of America, who have been on
strike since March l last, will return
to work this week. The convention
of miners of the states ratified and
signed the agreement reached by the
joint subcommittee of miners and
operators recently. Prices and con-
ditions remain the same as they were
last year.
The Stopers of the World is a fra
ternal mining organization, having its
head stope (lodge) at Portland, Ore,
with branch slopes in various mining
cities and camps of the country. Its
purposes are for mutual protection,
benefit, education and information in
connection with legitimate, as opposed
to wildcat, mining, the suppression OF
fraudulent mining schemes and the
protection of the investing public.
Spokane stope No. 3, of which e. H.
Hutchinson, proprietor of the North
west Mining News, is superintendent,
gave a delightful banquet recently.
General Manager Hurd of the Crows
Nest Pass Coal company says that
he understood that the Michel local
union passed a resolution to return to
work.
John Thomson, superintendent of
the Red Boy Mines company, Sumpter,
Ore, has rendered his resignation. His
place will be filled by N. w. Chapman.
The case against James Douglas,
Charles Garner and William White
house brought by the Crows Nest
Pass Coal company, charging violation
of the industrial disputes act by in.
citing a strike, which was tried before
Magistrate McMullen, was dismissed
Saturday. The decision is Important,
as it renders the act ineffective, SO that
1t will remain a dead letter on the
statute book until amended by parlia-
ment.
The miners at Michel, B. c., march
ed in body, 900 strong, to the Office of
Superintendent Darbyshire of the
Crows Nest Coal company and
told him they were going on a vaca.
ton until the Is men who were dis
charged for the part they had taken
in last weeks shutdown were taken
back by the company.
Los Angeles leads in the percentage
column in the Pacific Coast league;
Tacoma in the Northwestern, and Chi.
cago the National league.
AT. kooTENAI FALLS, THREE DIE.