Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-02-28
MINES IN NAVY CAMPS


The Ruby mine, near orovilla
Wash, which recently entered. the Hsf
of shippers, is to be operated more
extensively than ever
The Superior Mining company bas.
resumed the running of its tunnel
after close-down of several weeko
1t is planned to run the tunnel con,
feet to cut the ledge at depth.
The long tunnel on the property of.
the Copper Age and Edison groun of-
II claims, lying near Saltese Mont
on the divide between that state an =,
Idaho, is being steadily driven on tba-
lead.
The Fifty-Two and the Mountaip
Con groups of quartz-gold claims Il
Elk City district of central Idaho have
been purchased by Patrick j. JENNINGS
of Portland, and John Nassau Of Sna-
kane.
Phoenix, B. C.-Granby shipments
for last week were 17,147 tons, maxi
ing the total Boundary shipments foy.
the year 123,49S tons. This week tbo
CRANKY smelter treated 2O,S4O TINS
making the total Boundary treatment
for the year 124,12S tons.
The Robena mine, located naa,.
Bossburg, Wash, is to be equipped
with a concentration to cost about S1e
600. The work of installing the con-
centrator will be started Within a few
days and it is planned to have the milp
in operation about August /.
John Harvel, a well-known mining
man who is interested in properties i'm
the Occur dAlenes, writes from
Mexico that he has secured an inter
est in two copper mines in that conn
try having wide lodges of ore which,
run from five to nine per cent copper
By decision of the supreme court
of Mexico the ancient claim of ,Jesus,
Aguirre Navarez to the famous Dolores.
mine in Chichuhua is sustained and,
the clam of e. D. Cobur and Rose de-
clared void The mine has been SOLD
several times on the Escor and Rose.
title The last sale was to ]. P.
hutchinson, representing the Cinco
Sonores company in which +. Augus-
tus heinze is said to have been largely
interested.
Phoenix, B. CA B. w. Hodges
local manager of the CRANKY companv =,
states that on Wednesday, February
10, the company's smelter at Grand
Forks made new high mark for ton
mage smelted in one day, being con-
siderably above the next best figure.
In the "a hours the CRANKY smelter~
put through 1850 tons of ore. The en-
tire battery of eight furnaces were in
full operation, and did not require
any outside ores of any description
whatever
The cost of production, including,
and smelling, is between 10
and 1O12 cents a pound. Based on a
4 cent market, the company's profits
are running at the rate of approx
mately $3,350,000 a year, or about
S35O,OOO in excess of the dividend re-
Quirements of the Amalgamated stock.
based on 2 per cent year the share.
With the completion of the improve
ments at Great Falls, the production
VIII be increased one-sixth Operat-
Ing It's mines to the full capacity of
It's shelters at Great Falls, the Boston
" Montana company, subsidiary to the
Amalgamated, is now producing con-
per at the rate of about 9O,00O,00O
pounds year, the mines being work.
ed only six days week.
In the Occur d'AIenes.
The tunnel in the Rob Roy mine. or
peak, is now in 100 feet.
The Snowstorm is again opentne I'M
and 1t is almost sure that another
week will find it running full blast.
An unlocked for vein has been
opened up in the old workings of the
Ierman-American mine, near Osburn.
A Judgment for $446 in favor of A
j. herns against the Olympic Mining
company has been fully paid and sat
SIZED.
Inc property of the Idaho Lead
silver Mining company is said to be
showing up well under extensive de-
'elopment work.
Inc Acme Consolidated SiIver-Lead
M Y, company has sold to the New
, ouSnI Mining company four lode
claims in the Hunter mining district
"A rlch strike of high-grade ore. car
ylng good values in gold, silver ana
opper, has been made in the propertv
i the Advance Mining company, near
Julian
A two-foot vein of galena has beep
truck in the Ambergris mine i'm
ne Occur d'Alenes. The ore ASSAYS
. ounces of silver, and from rs to 80
unces of lead.
"A carload of concentrates from the
surprise mine, in the Pine Creek dis
rlct' was shipped a few DAYS ago.
MS IS the first shipment ever made
rom Pine Creek
unprecedented activity in the mines
nu consequent prosperous conditions
! tne towns and cities of the Coeur
Alenes is confidently predicted, The,
y mines and mills now closed down
III De started up, it is said. ana busi-
ess VIII resume its normal trend
ithin 60 days. Gnu