Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-01-10
MINES IN MANY CAMPS.

Easily the richest strike ever made.
in the Kendall (Mont) district was rel
corded last week, when an entirely
new body of cyanide ore, running $28,
was struck on the North Moccasin,
owned chiefly by John A. Drake, the
New York millionaire.
John Trigg, miner, employer at the
Center star mine at Rossland, B. c.,
was injured by fall of rock.
This winter las witnessed more &C.
,tivity in the mines near Priest lake
Qdaho) than Las ever before been
seen.
1t is safe to say that 100 stamps will
be dropping in the Orc Grande and Elk
City districts by next summer" said
A. Allarydice of Chicago recently, after
having spent the summer in that dis
trict.
G. R. Hoffman of Libby, Mont, re-
ports five-inch streak of clean lead
found in a newly opened vein in the
Porcupine mine in that district
John D. Cameron, who has been
employed some years at the CRANKY
mines, died recently at the Phoenix
general hospital.
During 1907 the mines of the Boun-
dairy district of southeastern British
Columbia produced 1,148,237 tons of
ore, the largest shippers being the
CRANKY, B. G. Copper, Dominion Cop
per and Snowshoe mines, well known
as large producers of low grade cop
per ore. This total is about 10000
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 a result it was put out OF
commission. The shaft at this mine
Immediately began filling with water
and is now half full. 1t will take sew.
eral days to pump it out.
A good strike of free milling gold
has been made on the Star claim in
the Orogrande district, in central
Idaho.
The Big Twenty Mining company, {
Spokane corporation which owned anC
was developing a group of % lode
claims on Two Mile creek, near Os
burne, in the Evolution district of thu
Occur d'Alenes, has disposed of all o
it's holdings.
Iron pyrites crystals carrying $Sl
in god to the ton have recently beef
found in the East Snowstorm mine
near Mullan.
From appearances it would seen
that the backbone of the strike a
} Goldfield is about broken and that al
mines will be IN full operation, poss
bly, within 10 days.
Steps are now being taken to incol
porate the Spokane Stock Exchange
which is to supplant the present SpC
kane Stock Brokers' association.
. A carload of ore, the first big shil
ment to be made from the property
was shipped from the Montana-Man
moth mine, near Thompson Falls, MOI
tana, to the East Helena smelter.
, A copper furnace with a daily CO
, pacity of 100 to $50 tons will be bull
: this summer near Chewelah, Wash
. by the United Copper Mining compan!
+ which owns promising copper min
, near that town. The smelter will b
q a copper mating plant and will COS
about $4,000. The force employee
a at the mine has been doubled, and no
: 16 men are employed at undergroun
a work. The long lower tunnel, whic
has attained a depth of about 1926 fee
q has betn following the ledge for sc
feet.
q A strike of 16 inches of clean shi
f ping ore is reported on the Ceds
creek property, located north of tn
Hercules mine, at Burke.