Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-05-15
MINES AND MINING.

After tieup of six months the Brit
ish Columbia Copper company's mines
IN Phoenix (B. c. district are again
IN operation, the whistles of the
Mother Lode, Emma and Orc Denoro |
are blowing regularly, hundreds of |
miners have started to work, and there |
is general rejoicing throughout the
boundary.
Mine superintendent, property own
ers prospectors and common laborers
In Elk City udaho) district have con-
tracted the Four-Mile excitement
fever and have gone to the scene of
the recent strike in rich Quartz.
superintendent Joseph F. Thorn of
the Buster mine and Ralph Middleton,
one of the owners of the Hercules
mine, left yesterday. Six men have
left their work in the Buster mine to
join the goldseekers.
President Walker of the United
Mineworkers of Illinois states that the
canvass of the referendum vote of the
local unions showed a majority of the
miners voting in favor of continuing
the agreement of 1906 and paying the
shot-firers.
CRANKY mines last week shipped
23,173 tons of ore and the Crescent
mine shipped 80 tons, making the total
ore shipments from the Boundary this
year 37S,422 tons. Last week the
CRANKY smelter treated 81, 1853 tons of
ore, and for the year to date has
treated 369,992 tons.
There seems likely to be trouble at
Greenwood over the starting up of the
B. G. Copper company's mines and
plant. Manager McAllister has opened
up with copper at IL IL cents, in face
of a rumored war between the big
copper interests of the United States.
At the same time the miners refuse to
accept the scale laid down for this dis
trict, under the terms of the Lemieux
act, as in the case of the CRANKY, by
Judge Wilson last December.
The renewed activity in the Ymir
district is exemplifed by the bonding
of the Yankee Girl and Yukon by H.
Rogers of Spokane for American per-
sons.
J Machinery is now at Sites, Idaho
for use in sinking to the fifth level
the Thunder Mountain Gold com
pany's mine, in the Elk City district
: and will be taken to the property
soon.
One of the finest mining hoists il
use in the United States is now being
-
. Burke, Idaho, after four months spen
in installing it.
U Samples of ore shown in Grangevillt
D from the new strike on Four-Milt
U creek have been causing a great dea
U of interest to be taken in the new
district.
4 Kansas City, Mo.-After weeks o
8 conferences, during which time numeI
6 GUS proposals were made by bot
8 sides, resulting in leaving the entir
l matter to a subcommittee OF each OF
4 ganization, a settlement of the diff
Guilty existing between the Unite
g Mine Workers of America and tn
! operators of the southwest has bee
3 reached and the joint subcommitte
9 adjourned.
a The Silver Crown Mining compan
9 has completed payment on the bon
upon the group of mines near LIB!
% Mont, it is operating, and is taking i
x a steel car and tracking for use in d.
: velopment. A compressor has bee
&c bought and will be set up shortly.
~ Uncle Billy" Park, a well know
* Montana pioneer, and for whom on
n of Butte's chief business streets
NJ named, as well as Park City, Utal
has made a rich strike in Georgi
,e gulch, Madison county, Mont. Assay
"a from his strike show $149 in gold an