Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-08-15
MINES AND MINING.

There is great activity at Pierce
City, Idaho, in both quartz and placer
mining, according to reports.
1t is reported that the B. c. Cop
per company produced copper at 90
cents per pound during the month of
June
Three dead and one dying is the
death roll of a frightful accident in
the Coal Creek mine, near Fernie, B.
c., recently.
The Humming Bird mine, located
about II miles north of Grand Forks,
B. c., will soon be taken over by
New York capitalists.
A. B. Ward came into Wallace re-
Gently from a placer property across
from Murray with about $1,000 in mug
gets, one of them being worth from
$3.50 to 5000.
Ore shipments from the Boundary |
d. c. mines totaled 37,16S tons last
week. CRANKY mines shipped 20,261
tons and for the year to date have
shipped ga, 566 tons.
The main shaft of the Center Star
the sixteenth level, a depth of 2200
feet from the collar of the shaft. The
lower levels of the property are all
looking well and are improving as
depth is attained.
An operation performed recently at
a Denver hospital on George A. Petit
bone, formerly a member of the execu-
tive board of the Western Federation
of Miners, showed that he is suffering
from cancer and the physicians agreed
that his life could not be saved.
The county commissioners Of ShO-
shone county, Idaho, sitting as
board of equalization, have reduced
the assessed valuation placed by the
county assessor on the big mines of
the Occur d'Alenes. The reduction
made by the board amounted in all
to $4,000.
The MOllie Gibson, a property To-
Gated above Nelson. b. c., just over
the divide of the Gold Range. and
which is under bond to a syndicate
Of Rossland mining men. has lately
shipped six carloads of ore TO the Trail
p shelter The ore is pyrrhOtite, but
2 carries good values in gold.
! An important mining deal has just
q been closed whereby Thomas L. Green
6 ough Wilbur d. Greenough and assO
q ciates secured from Dayton ii. Stew
I art of Spokane a controlling Interest
6 in the Laurier mining property, 10
international boundary line.
The total production OF coal in Ore
gon in 1907 was 7O,9S1 short tons, hay
g ing 2 spot value of S166.304. The Coo
Bay field is the only productive Goa
field in Oregon. 1t is situated in tn
II southwestern part of the state, il
e Coos county. and occupies a total arei
q of about 250 square miles, its lengu
. north and south being about 30 mile
and its maximum breadth at the mic
De- die about II miles.
s. The Pelly river valley IN Alaska
Of am empire in itself, and is gold bearin
le from end 10 end. states am exchange
Of n offers encouraging prospects for th
he real prospector who Is well eQuippe
10 Withstand the rigOrs and 10 kee
D. himself from starving such ls ~
D. opinion of Dell Van GOrder who ha
M just arrived al Seattle from the Pei
e. lakes. al the extreme head of Pei
al Pelly river lie has just spel
ar seven years In the Pelly country, fol
ss IN the Mcmillan division and thre
ie at the head Oi the Pelly proper
to The Mining World Of Chicago says
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United States to pay dividends amour
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