Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-03-27
MINES IN MANY CAMPS.

PatSey CLARK, who mas returned 10
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 its
normal extent but at prices in the
of Is cents.
At special meeting of the Douglas
Island local No 109 Western FEEDER
alton of Miners, general strike was
called and notices were sent out or
dering union men and sympathizers to
stay away.
late report from the Finlay river
(B. c. district confirms the rumor
sent out from that country a 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 s1,200,00 a
year. Heretofore he has been receiv-
ing $4,000 cash, and stocks in the
various Guggenheim enterprises that
brought the annual average up tc
100000.
w. Clayton Miller, general manager
of the Federal Mining company, states
that the closing down of the Las
Chance mine will be only temporary.
Iniorder to meet a pressing demand
of $4,000 against the Sullivan Min
: ing company, George Turner, pres
+ dent of the company, asks the stock
7 holders to submit to an assessment O
S their stock of Z cents per share.
e Engineer j.. H. Goodwin and tw
trainmen were killed and another ser
e ously injured recently, when an Ell
e. CINE on the Copper Belt railway, tn
n line that carries the ore to and frol
e1 the mine in the Bingham district
y the smelters, jumped the track an
plunged into the Dewey custom mi
4 which was destroyed. q.
N Forty mines have been added to Il
'e force of the Snowstorm mine, situate
near Wallace. The mine has bee
Il shipping only about 100 tons dai
u lately.
a. After % years of prospecting I
gold in the Fish lake district, ne
IN Clealum, Wash, John Lynch says
"a; has struck the long-sought-for We
Lynch has been working on this o
W prospect for nine years.
-, Ore shipments from Rossland
III c. mines during last week reached
total of 500 tons, including 1900 to
nd from the Centre Star. 1900 tons FRI
est the lie Roi and 76O tons from
his Josie.
'n- The success of the Granite Poorm
"A mine, situated on the Kootenai riy
siu about five miles below Nelson, B.
srs has led to other properties in Il
vicinity starting work.
~ Washington State Mining Inspec
d. c. Betting has completed. his figu
of the coal production of the state
wy Washington for 1907, with the exc
ton of the returns from few sn
+: mines which under the state min
lne laws are ont required to give in
I'M nation as to their output. The t.
sh- production in 1907 was 3,713,S24 t.
wn' against 3,293,09S tons for the pre-
ing ing year. By counties the product
the was as follows: Kittitas, 1,524,S
King, 1,446,602; Pierce, 616,120; Lee
on 1OO,SS5; Thurston, 25,752. All of
10y, coal produced was consumed loo
an except a little over 5000 tons, WI
eri- was exported to Mexico from TOGO
Nearly four feet of silver ore
SEQ been exposed in a crosscut of the
the of the Butte and Occur d'Alene p
I IL erty, located near Mullan, Idaho.