Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-01-17
MINES IN MANY CAMPS.

use in coming into the district now
in search of work.
The main ledge of copper ore which
has been sought by the Grant Consoli-
dated Copper Mining company in its
claims near Chesaw, Wash, was
struck Saturday.
Ely, Nev.-The ground continues
soft in the Alpha shaft. The rescuers
are keeping up an average OF 10 feet
per day. The entombed men have
been furnished, through a six-inch |
pipe, with enough food to last them
for two months.
Representatives of the smelter trust
say they are now prepared to take all
Gold6elds ores offered up to 500 a
ton in value and pay cash therefor.
The Dawson Industrial Workers of
the World deny they are openly fos-
tering a movement looking for an
eight-hour day.
George A. Pettibone will undergo an
operation at Los Angeles shortly for
ulcer.
Clarence barrow, attorney for the
Western Federation of Miners, is i'm
proving and will escape an operation,
although he still suffers much pain.
A rich strike of free milling gold
ore has been made in the lower drift
tunnel on the West Goodenough mine,
in the Marshall Lake district, in cen
trail Idaho
A quarterly dividend of two cents a
share, or $4,000, will be paid to the
t stockholders of the international Coal
' & Coke company on February 1.
1.-The tungsten property is looking
S well and considerable activity is ex-
S hibited throughout the district" said
q w. S. Thyng, mining engineer, who re
e turned yesterday from Deer Trail, Ste
l. vens county, Wash, where he has
been inspecting the tungsten property
r of the Roselle Mining company, o.
j. which he is manager.
e Three new shippers are being add
IS ed to the list this week from The
2 Sheep Creek camp, near Ymir, B.
l. These are the Nugget and Summit
gold quartz and the Emerald, silver
lead. All are shipping to the Trai
smelter. Some good ore has bee
found, especially upon the Nugget.
II James Breen has filed deed trans
W ferring to A. J. Davis of Butte /
claims and parts OF claims in valu'
lie BILE mining properties in the Ten-Mil
d, district, Lewis and Clark county, MOI
"a tana. While the consideration name
d. is but 81, it is understood that MOI
e. than $1,00O,000 was paid for the mil
IL ing property.
ke The CRANKY mines and smelter al
g just about getting back into their no
NAL productive shape Six blast fu
ly naces are in operation at the smelte
IT, The treasury department Saturda
on purchased 100000 ounces OIL silver fl
as delivery at Denver, San Francisco al
he New Orleans, at 55.255 cents p'
ounce.
of Edward T. Davis of Philadelphi
as president of the Twin Buttes Mimi
OS & Smelling company at Tucso
Ariz., announces that the directo
int have decided to resume operations
Of once under the superintendency
Sc Captain William McDermott.
ub The directors of the Wonderful Mi
ing company will soon let a contra
for 100-foot extension Of the 1870
ms drift on the property.
po- Four men are employed at the Fat
er Lode, on Sunset peak 1t is sd
nd that lunches of nice ore have been {
he countered in the mine recently.
les
zen "0h'a"a "'nes'
ma The smelling situation in Monta
is one of paramount interest at Il
elk. time. The East Helena smelte
the owned by the American Smelling a
she Refining company, the largest comm
cial smelter in this state, and viii
ing practically treats all the ore produc
zen in Montana aside from that in
Butte district, has fixed a new SCI
de- for treatment, which mining men
lege is an approximate increase
to from so to 100 per cent.
eat In the meantime the smelling CO
pany has announced a reduction of
Hi per cent in the wages of its employ
An because Of the depression in the le
market.
yer James Carpenter and James Mil
ion have made shipment of high gra
Ia ore to the East Helena smelter fir
nts their Alice mine at Rochester, Ma
and son county.
Batter and Thompson. who hi
out been developing the Homestake m
of in Madison county under a lease q
bond, have made a strike.
re- Despite the slump in metal vail