Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-24
MINES AND MINING.
New York Metal Market.
Lead, quiet, $4.40@4.45. Lake cop
per, 12% @12%c. Silver, 53Ac.

per, 12A Ql2Bc. Silver, 53Ac.
After over two years Incarceration
and after having been tried and &C
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 668072
tons. CRANKY mines shipped 21,744I
tons, and for the year have shipped
582, 488 tons.
George d. Potter, one of the wealth.
est mining men of the northwest, was
found dead in his room at a hotel in
Seattle recently.
!, The Canadian Girl and Yankee Girl,
crown granted claims on Dundee
mountain, Ymir, B. c., we're recently
bonded to Harry L. Rogers of Spokane,
: who is said to represent New York
I 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
y plant put into running order as soon
p as possible. This is the substance of
Z an interview with s. w. Gebo of Mon.
!. tana, one of the most prominent coal
- operators in the state.
II 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. & l. N railway
~ at Council, Idaho, from whence it ii
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
p six-horse teams.
A deal has been closed for the Ton
Paine mine, located few miles ives
20 of Baker City, Ore, and c. M. Powers
~ of Worcester, Mass, the purchaser, il
here hiring men and putting them t
=, work getting the mine in shape TO
doing more work.
= Nothing has been learned yet of ]
~ A. Downall, the missing mining man
who was last heard of at Salt LAX
- on June 26. Mr.. Downall was presi
- dent and general manager of the Littl
M I'll Freida Mining company, operating
- mining properties about 100 mile
northeast of Weiser, Idaho.
,4 Twelve more bodies, victims of tn
: explosions in mine No. 1 of the Uniol
~ Pacific Coal companys mines Marcl
81 29 near Hanna, Wyo., were brought t
~, the surface Saturday. The bodies wer
badly decomposed and were 1dentifie,
=, only by their clothing. twenty-five
~ more bodies are believed to be in tn
"a mine.
IN Thomas ]. Lewis, national presiden
81 of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, has practically served notice o.
,st Samuel GOmpers, president of tn
az American Federation of Labor, t
ov keep hands off the mineworkers in
ar political way and not attempt to us
the power of his position to win vote
no for Bryan in the Lewis organization.
II, After years of litigation the Las
m. Chance mine, near Sandon, B. c., on
ei. of the SLOGAN principal silver shippers
nh soon again will be operated.
The state of Washington shared /
cb the general increase in the productio
vs Of coal in 1907. The total output 70
10 the year was $3.50, 532 short tons, ha,
at ing a spot value of $7679,SO1, an il
,er crease of 404, S48 short tons, or 1873
en- per cent in quantity, and of $1,771, 36I
or 1898 per cent in value, compare
an. with 1906. The average price per to-
nj. advanced from $3.50 in 1906 to $2.O9 il
a. 1907.