Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-12-26


A group Of 20 mining claims located
near Burke, Idaho, il being developed
by the Eastern Star Mining company.
The directors of the Tonopah Min
ing company of Nevada have declared
the regular quarterly dividend IT Is
per cent, payable January 21.
About carload of gray copper ere
has been sacked at the property Of the
Butte & Coeur d 'Alene Mining com
pany, which is located near Mullan,
Idaho.
The Hecla Mining company of Wal
lace, Idaho, has declared regular divi-
dend No. &C for December. Stockhold-
ers will receive cents a share, or 500
600. This makes a total distribution
of profits to date of $1,710,O0o-
J. P. Graves, general manager of the
CRANKY company, states that the com
pany is not represented in the large
copper combine reported as being
formed in New York by about s5 per
cent of the copper production of the
world
A fatal accident occurred in the
CRANKY mines Saturday, by which John
I. Anderson and Charles johnson we're
killed They had just completed charg-
ing 10 holes with dynamite when there
was premature explosion. johnson 3
body was mangled beyond recognition.
A company has been formed by
Occur 'Alene mine operators fer the
purpose of building smelter OF 100
tons capacity on the Little North
Fork. The necessary funds have been
subscribed and it is probable that the
plant will be built and in condition to
operate early next summer.
A compressor plant will be installed
at the property of the Nabob Mining
company, which is located near Ward
ner, Idaho. The company is driving
5000 foot tunnel, which is now in
about 100 feet. A contract for 200 feet
of work in the tunnel has just been let,
and the work will be started at once.
1t is reported that great excitement
prevails in the Silver City mining camp
over the discovery of rich cinnabor ore
on Sinker creek, 20 miles from Silver
City. 1t is reported that there are
large quantities of the ore in the vi
cinity of the new discovery, and as
says made in Boise show it to run rs
high as 1872 per cent mercury.
The honor of having the first cleo
trical smeter established on a com
mercial basis is claimed by the city of
| MoIo Il -. IA
er of the Canadian Zinc company of
Nelson is now producing spelter and
lead-silver bullion from mixed zinc
ores, and the operations of the plant
have proven to be a complete success.
L. w. Anderson of Seattle, president
of the New Republic mine, says:
"Twenty miners are now employed,
and when the improvements to the
railway leading to the No. tunnel,
now being prosecuted by consider
able force of men in the employ of the
Great Northern railway, is finished,
steady shipments to the smelter will be
made from the mine"
At a meeting of the bondholders of
the Dominion Copper company recent
ly held in New York. the trustees for
the bondholders handed in a report in
favor of selling the property of the
company. There is a bonded indebt-
edness of 100000, with interest, and
a floating debt of about $4,000. The
trustees do not know what time will be
required to bring about the sale.
There died in London this week Eng
, land g most eccentric millionaire and
, richest untitled man. He was Henry
1saacs Barnato, elder brother of Bar
ney Barnato, the "Kaffir King" and
the man of the family who kept down
the lid of one of the largest fortunes
in the world. The British treasury
will collect, as soon as it can decently,
81, 900 in death duties from the ee-
fofa