Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-07-24
MINES AND MINING.
New York Metal Market.
Lead, quiet, $4.4O@4.45. Lake cop
per, 12% @12%c. Silver, 53Ac.

per, lz%4 QlzSc. Silver, 53Ac.
After over two years incarceration
and after having been tried and ac-
Quilted of two murders, Steve Adams
of the Western Federation of Miners
arrived in Baker City Saturday and
expressed his intention of making that
county his home in the future. He
will go to his homestead today, where |
he was arrested at one time by Harvey
Brown, then sheriff of Baker City, for
alleged completely in the assassination
of Ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg of
Idaho. Adams was tried twice for the
murder of Fred Tyler in Idaho
Boundary, B. c., mines have made
a record in ore tonnage last week,
shipping 36,545 tons. The total ship
ments for this year to date are $3.50
tons. CRANKY mines shipped 21,744
tons, and for the year have shipped
5S2,4S tons.
George d. Potter, one of the wealth.
est mining men of the northwest, was
found dead in his room at hotel in
Seattle recently.
The Canadian Girl and Yankee Girl,
crown granted claims on Dundee
mountain, Ymir, B. c., were recently
bonded to Harry L. Rogers of Spokane,
who is said to represent New York
capital, for $4,000.
Men will be put to work on all the
suspended improvements of the Pan
handle smelter. This machinery will
be sent to Ponderay at once and the
plant put into running order as soon
as possible. This is the substance of
an interview with S. w. Gebo of Mon.
tana, one of the most prominent coal
operators in the state
, The Peacock mine, one of the big
producers of the Seven Devils, has
80 teams employed hauling copper ore
a from the mine to the p. & |. N. railway
at Council, Idaho, from whence it is
shipped to Tacoma for treatment. Il
is the intention to ship 500 tons {
:. month as long as the wagon road will
permit, or until snowfall. The ore
averages about $40 to the ton copper
1t is the intention to employ about 81
: siX-horse teams.
a A deal has been closed for the Ton
# Paine mine, located few miles ives
of Baker City, Ore, and G. M. Power
a. of Worcester, Mass, the purchaser. i
# here hiring men and putting them T.
10 work getting the mine in shape TO
j. doing more work.
IS Nothing has been learned yet of
n A. Downall, the missing mining mar
;e who was last heard of at Salt LAX
lie on June 90. Mr.. Downall was pres
TX dent and general manager of the Littl
m Ell Freida Mining company, operatin
mining properties about 100 mile
northeast of Weiser, Idaho
Twelve more bodies, victims of tn
explosions in mine No. of the Unto
TX Pacific Coal company's mines Marc
as 20 near Hanna, Wyo., were brought
rd the surface Saturday. The bodies wei
er badly decomposed and were identifie
Ir. only by their clothing. Twenty-hV
al more bodies are believed to be in tt
mine.
ee Thomas ]. Lewis, national presidel
A. of the United Mine Workers of Anne
M lea, has practically served notice
nj Samuel Gompers, president OF II
he American Federation of Labor,
he keep hands off the mineworkers in
political way and not attempt to u
ut the power of his position to win vot
he for Bryan in the Lewis organization.
sa- After years of litigation the La
ed Chance mine, near Sandon, B. c., o.
re- of the SLOGAN principal silver shipper
soon again will be operated.
lrg The state of Washington shared
he the general increase in the products
on of coal in 1907. The total output 1
at the year was 3,6SO,5 short tons, ha
he ing a spot value of s7,679,SO1, an
US crease of 4O4,S4S short tons, or IL
The per cent in quantity, and OF sl,77l,S'
of or 2S.9S per cent in value, compar
ais with 1906. The average price per I
ex- advanced from $3.50 in 1906 to $2.cs
ans 1907.
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