Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-05-30
MINING NEWS.

IHocuiN, Is. C.-lne BRUSH Column
bia Copper company's Mother Lode
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
q 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 concentration of
the MorningMammoth Concentrator
company at Metaline has arrived at
Newport.
The summer activity in Ainsworth,
B. c., camp is not marked at present,
but it 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 s250,0O0 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 up
mines in the immediate neighborhood
This is despite the fact that the price
of metals is lower now than it 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
thai With ma short period of time
metals will again go up in value and
in consequence a good bargain will
have been secured.
A bill was passed by the house re-
Gently establishing in the department
of the interior a bureau of mines A
commissioner of mines is authorized.
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
Thirty-five thousand coal miners of
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Ar
kansas, members of the United Mine
workers OF America, who have been on
strike since March 1 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 anG
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 it,
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 II
connection with legitimate, as opposed
to wildcat, mining, the suppression O
| fro INT, n.
protection of the investing public
Spokane stope No. 8. of which e. II
Hutchinson, proprietor of the North
west Mining News, is superintendent
gave delightful banquet recently.
The case against James Douglas
Charles Garner and William White
house brought by the Crows Mes
Pass Coal company, charging violation
of the industrial disputes act by in
citing a strike, which was tried befor
Magistrate McMullen, was dismisse'
Saturday. The decision is important
as it renders the act ineffective, so tina
it will remain a dead letter on tn
statute book until amended by parlia
ment.
The miners at Michel B. c., march
ed in body, 900 strong, to the Office O
, Superintendent Darbyshire of tn
} Crows Nest Coal company an
: told him they were going on a vacs
: ton until the Is men who were di:
t charged for the part they had take
v in last weeks shutdown were take
D back by the company.
T. Los Angeles leads in the percentag
4 column in the Pacific Coast league
Tacoma in the Northwestern, and Oh
cago the National league.
q John Thomson suDerintendent {