Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-04-04


Patsey Clark, who has returned to
Spokane from New York after sew
eral months absence, expresses the
belief that the entire metal situation
is improving slowly but surely, and
that by another year the production of
copper will have nearly recovered it's
normal extent, but at prices in the
neighborhood of IS cents
At special meeting of the Douglas
Island local No. 100, Western FEEDER
alton Of Miners, a general strike was
called and notices were sent out or
dering union men and sympathizers to
stay away.
A late report from the Finlay river
(B. c. district confirms the rumor
sent out from that country few weeks
ago to the effect that there has been a
rich strike of gold in that section.
strike of rich ore about two and
a half feet in width has been made in
the Interstate mine.
John Hays Hammond, the mining
expert with the Guggenheim Explor-
alton company, says his contract ex-
pired March l and he has refused to
renew it unless he gets $4,000 a
year. Heretofore he has been receiv-
ing 100000 cash, and stocks in the
various Guggenheim enterprises that
brought the annual average up to
100000.
Washington State Mining Inspector
D. c. Betting has completed his figures
of the coal production of the state of
A1o tn fo 81,
ton Of the returns from a few small
mines which under the state mining
laws are ont required to give infor-
nation as to their output The total
production in 1907 was 3,713,S24 tons,
against 3,293,09S tons for me preced-
ing year. By counties the production
was as follows: Kittitas, 1,524,363;
King, 1,446,602; Pierce, 6,12O; Lewis,
100,SS5; Thurston, 25,752. All of the
coal produced was consumed locally
except little over 5000 tons, which
was exported to Mexico from Tocoma
Nearly four feet of silver ore has
been exposed in a crosscut of the Lead
of the Butte and Occur d'Alene prop
erty, located near Mullan, Idaho.
Engineer j. H. Goodwin and two
trainmen were killed and another seri-
ously injured recently, when an en-
CINE on the Copper Belt railway, the
line that carries the ore to and from
the mine in the Bingham district to
the smelters, jumped the track and
plunged into the Dewey custom mill,
which was destroyed.
w. Clayton Miller, general manager
of the Federal Mining company, states
that the closing down of the Last
Chance mine will be only temporary.
In order to meet a pressing demand
of $4,000 against the Sullivan Min
ing company, George Turner presi-
dent of the company, asks the stock
holders to submit to an assessment on
their stock of Z cents per share.
| Forty mines have been added to the
force of the Snowstorm mine, situated
near Wallace. The mine has been
shipping only about 100 tons daily
lately
After % years of prospecting for
gold in the Fish lake district, near
Clealum, Wash, John Lynch says he
has struck the long-sought-for vein.
Lynch has been working on this one
prospect for nine years.
Ore shipments from Rossland (B.
c. mines during last week reached a
total Of 500 tons, including $500 tons
from the Centre Star, 1900 tons from
the LIE Roi and $50 tons from the
Josie.
The success of the Granite Poorman
mine, situated on the Kootenai river,
about five miles below Nelson, B. c.,
has led to other properties in that
vicinity starting work