The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-03-27
MINES IN MANY CAMPS.

Patsey Clark, who has returned to
Spokane from New York after sew
eral months absence, expresses the
belief that the entire metal situation
is improving slowly but surely, and
that by another year the production of
copper will have nearly recovered it's
normal extent, but at prices in the
neighborhood of Is cents.
At special meeting of the Douglas
Island local No. 100, Western FEEDER
alton of Miners, general strike was
called and notices were sent out Or
dering union men and sympathizers to
stay away.
A late report from the Finlay river
(B. CO district confirms the rumor
sent out from that country few weeks
ago to the effect that there has been a
rich strike of gold in that section
A strike of rich ore about two and
half feet in width has been made in
the Interstate mine.
John Hays Hammond, the mining
expert with the Guggenheim Explor-
alton company, says his contract ex-
pired March l and he has refused to
renew it unless he gets $4,000 a
year. Heretofore he has been receiv.
ing 100000 cash, and stocks in the
various Guggenheim enterprises that
brought the annual average up to
100000.
Washington State Mining Inspector
D. c. Betting has completed his figures
of the coal production of the state Of
Washington for 1907, with the excep
ton of the returns from few small
mines which under the state mining
laws are ont required to give infor
: nation as to their output. The tota
production in 1907 was 3,713,S24 tons
against 3,293,O9S tons for lne proceed
J ing year. By counties the production
was as follows: Kittitas, 1924 1868
s King, 1,446,602; Pierce, GIG, 120; Lewis
100,885; Thurston, 25,752. All of tn
coal produced was consumed local.,
except a little over 5000 tons, whicl
d was exported to Mexico from Tocoms
e Nearly four feet of silver ore ha
v been exposed in crosscut of the lea
b of the Butte and Occur d'Alene prof.
d erty, located near Mullan, Idaho.
= Engineer J. H. Goodwin and tw
y trainmen were killed and another ser
l. ously injured recently, when an Ell
CINE on the Copper Belt railway, tn
line that carries the ore to and frol
N the mine in the Bingham district
the smelters, jumped the track an
ID plunged into the Dewey custom mil
i, which was destroyed.
w. Clayton Miller, general manage
of the Federal Mining company, STATE
that the closing down of the La
lo Chance mine will be only temporary.
70 In order to meet a pressing demar
u of $4,000 against the Sullivan Mi
~ ing company, George Turner, pres
a. dent of the company, asks the stoc
IT holders to submit to an assessment {
u their stock of Z cents per share.
ed Forty mines have been added to tt
3D. force of the Snowstorm mine, situat
at near Wallace. The mine has be-
ne shipping only about 100 tons dai
nc lately.
le- After % years of prospecting t
gold in the Fish lake district, ne
ed Clealum, Wash, John Lynch says
", has struck the ong-sought-for We
nd Lynch has been working on this o
cl- prospect for nine years.
RS Ore shipments from Rossland
ra- c. mines during last week reached
he total of 500 tons, including 5000 to
from the Centre Star, 1900 tons frt
no Inc LIE Roi and 760 tons from
eu Josie.
ar The success of the Granite Poorm
Ell mine, situated on the Kootenai riv
OF about five miles below Nelson, b.
IDS has led to other properties in Il
vicinity starting work.