The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-01-09
MINES IN MANY CAMPS

Easily the richest strike ever mo-,
in the Kendall (Mont.) district was ="
corded last week, when an entiraE
new body of cyanide ore, running sss
was struck on the North Moccas,S
owned chiefly by John A. Drake ~
New York millionaire.
John Trisg, miner, employer at ~.
Center star mine at Rossland p ~
was injured by fall Of rock.
This winter has witnessed moo o.,
tivity in the mines near Priest ,a..
(Idaho) than has ever before beoU
seen.
It is safe to say that 100 stamps will
be dropping in the Orc Grande and FL
City districts by next summer" said
A. Allarydice OF Chicago recently aftor
having spent the summer in that dis
trict
G.. r. HOFFMAN of Libby, Mont 70
ports five-inch streak of clean lead
found in newly opened vein in tho
Porcupine mine in that district.
John D. Cameron, who has bee,
employed some years at the Cram,
mines, died recently at the Phoeniy
general hospital.
During 1907 the mines of the Bonn.
dairy district of southeastern British
Columbia produced 1,148,237 tons of
ore, the largest shippers being the
CRANKY, B. G. Copper, Dominion Con.
per and Snowshoe mines, we'll known
as large producers of low grade con-
per ore. This total is about $1,000
tons less than that of 1906, but the
value of the output is probably larger.
In the settlement of the controversy
between the Western Federation of
Miners and the CRANKY company the
union workmen accepted the reduced
scale of wages proposed at the start
by the company; that is the scale now
in force at Rossland, B. c., and Butte.
Mont
The powder house at the Lucky
Calumet mine, in the Occur d'Alenes
blew up recently, 100 pounds of pow.
| der exploding. The house was wrecked
and the line of the Washington Water
Power company was blown down. This
| line supplied power for the National
| mine, and as result it was put out of
commission. The shaft at this mine
Immediately began filing with water
and is now half full 1t will take sew.
eral days 10 pump it out.
A good strike of free milling gold
hoe honY tho To- olo
the Orogrande district, in central
| Idaho
The Big Twenty Mining company, a
! Spokane corporation which owned and
was developing a group of % lode
claims on Two Mile creek, near o.
lburne, in the Evolution district of the
Occur dAlenes, has disposed of all OF
| it's holdings
Iron pyrites crystals carrying $50
in gOld to the ton have recently been
found in the East Snowstorm mine,
near Mullan.
From appearances it would seem
that the backbone of the strike at
Goldfield is about broken and that all
AAlAAOS VIA uO III AdlA OpOI 6IlOu> pOSSl-
bly, within 10 days.
Steps are now being taken to incor-
porate the Spokane Stock Exchange,
which is to supplant the present Spo-
kane Stock Brokers' association.
A carload of ore, the first big ship.
ment to be made from the property,
was shipped from the Montana-Mam.
moth mine, near Thompson Falls, Mon.
tana, to the East Helena smelter
A copper furnace with q daily ca
pacity of 100 to $50 tons will be built
this summer near Chewelah, Wash,
by the United Copper Mining company,
which owns a promising copper mine
near that town. The smelter will be
a copper mating plant and will cost
about $4,000. The force employed
a. the mine has been doubled, and now
is men are employed at underground
week. The long lower tunnel, which
has attained depth of about 325 feet,
La betn following the ledge for 800
feet.
A strike of 16 inches of clean ship
ping ore is reported on the Cedar
creek property, located north Of the
Hercules mine, at Burke.