The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-07-24
MINES AND MINING.
New York Metal Market,
Lead, quiet, $4,4O@4.45. Lake cop
per, 12A @12%c. 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
record in ore tonnage last week,
shipping 36,545 tons. The total ship
ments for this year to date are 66S,072
tons. CRANKY mines shipped 21,744
tons, and for the year have shipped
5S2,4SS 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
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
| hn 70 OF hn
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
35 teams employed hauling copper ore
from the mine to the P. & |. N. railway
at Council, Idaho, from whence it is
shipped to Tacoma for treatment. 1t
is the intention to ship 500 tons a
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 so
siX-horse teams.
A deal has been closed for the Tom
Paine mine, located a few miles west
OF Baker City, Ore, and G. M. Powers
of Worcester, Mass, the purchaser, is
here hiring men and putting them to
work getting the mine in shape for
doing more work.
Nothing has been learned yet of J
A. Downall, the missing mining man.
who was last heard Of at Salt Lake
on June 26. Mr.. Downall was presi
dent and general manager of the Little
Ell Freida Mining company, operating
mining properties about 100 miles
northeast of Weiser, Idaho.
Twelve more bodies, victims of the
explosions in mine No. of the Union
Pacific Coal companys mines March
20 near Hanna, Wyo., were brought tc
the surface Saturday. The bodies were
badly decomposed and were identified
only by their clothing. twenty-five
more bodies are believed to be in the
mine.
Thomas J. Lewis, national presiden
. of the United Mine Workers of Amer
: lea, has practically served notice or
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, tt
keep hands off the mineworkers in {
political way and not attempt to use
the power of his position to win vote:
for Bryan in the Lewis organization.
After years of litigation the Las
Chance mine, near Sandon, B. c., ONT
of the SLOGAN principal silver shippers
soon again will be operated.
The state of Washington shared il
the general increase in the production
of coal in 1907. The total output TO
: the year was 3,6S0,532 short tons, hav
, ing a spot value of $7679,S01, an in
crease of 404,34S short tons, or 1913
per cent in quantity, and of $1,771 1867
I or 2S.9S per cent in value, compared
with 1906. The average pride per tol
: advanced from $3.50 in 1906 to $2.C9 il
1907.