Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-10-16
MINES AND MINING.
New York.-Lead quiet, $4.4o@4.45.
Copper, 19.37h@19.621A. Silver, 511sc.
Mineral Awards at Spokane Fair.

Mineral Awards at Spokane Fair.
Mineral awards were made at the in t
terstate fair as follows: Best gen
eral mining display, silver cup, value
$100-Nelson Board of Trade.
Most handsome cabinet display-E.
E. Alexander, Spokane.
Best Typographical map and exhibit
of coal-International Development
company, Kootenai, B. q.
Cups were won by the following:
ing company of the Kamloops district;
De Moro Copper company, the Roslyn
Center Star, Nelson Queen Victoria. In
Washington, for the Chewelah district
the United Copper company won, and |
Deer Park won a diploma for the
tungsten exhibit.
Butte Drillers Win.
The awards have been made in the
miners rock drilling contest at the
Spokane Interstate fair for double
hand, the prize being $1,000. McNichols
and Pickens of Butte, Mont, win first
money, $3.50, and McGilvery and Erick-
son of Silverton, B. c., winners of the
first prize last year, win second, $3.50.
The result of the double hand contest
time IS minutes-is as follows: Nc
Nichols and Pickens, Butte, Sc So
inches.
McGilvery and Erickson, Silverton,
SO rs inches.
Half and Patterson, Osburn, Idaho,
4s 11-16 inches.
Whipple and Baker, Elk City, As 3-1e
inches.
Nygren and Anderson, Wallace, 43 ga
inches.
Mcdonald and Isnor, Sandon, 43 Tie
! inches.
/, Johnson and Dunn, Silverton, 4S Is
\ inches.
An asbestos discovery is reported
> from the Okanogan (Wash.) district
! An immense bed has been found abou
"A miles southwest of Twisp, said to b.
s. 400 feet wide and $500 feet along tn
3 cropping, and long, white, silky hpr
hoye been shown as average specl
:, mems. -.
y The most important strike made !
a tbe Mullan district for long time
~ the encountering of two feet OF I'M
u shipping quality ore in the Butte
10 ~ Occur d'Alene property.
II The Golden Fawn group of CLAIMS
sheen creek. near Salmo, B. c., hay
~ heen bonded to Salt Lake parties II
ar s4o 600 under terms which provide II
IN develonment work to the extent
- $4,000 per month.
To- Six feet of concentrating copper .
ne has been exposed in the drift on u
up No level in the Birthday group
al claims located near Grand Forks
In A foot of good copper ore has De-
up encountered in the Independence pro
a's erty near Mullan. .
,n' A big strike has been maue On
tn nronertv of the Handspike people,
aotad in the Little North Fork dlstri
Prospectors who have been WORK 4,
on mining claims near spirit Ia,
Idaho assert that they have found
WV rich enough and in large enough qua
.ho titles to make mining in TINS uis'i
YES pay. ~ rode on
'o 70 nropertv of Grant A. Stewart WIN
We. lies about half a mile from tne L"u'
pos nine near Republic, Wash. ~
e. e.. Work on the property of the Diam IAN"
Gus Toe Mining company, which is ioca a
fern Uear Carbon Center, on Beaver cie
-. iii he continued throughout tne
one ter. ..4;,o ouality
smst being exposed right along on ono r.
n u"s ertv of the Bullion Mining 0OiHp'
Tor near Saltese. ao m 6
Ter Ter up Preparations are being MADE 70
such - +Se vein of the Anchor NINE
she Oh Oia;ms of which are located at
sou lower end of Burke, Idaho. ,r 20
'Os Some fine galena ore is beng IL "a
on tO Of the Tiger mine, which Is
Gated near Burke.
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