Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-10-30
Dominion Employees Settle.

I - " H.
fillen and Andrew O Neal
Dominion Employees Settle.
Phoenix, B. Can agreement has
been reached between the New Do
minion Copper company and the unpaid
employees of the former Dominion com
pany, whereby the latter accepted in
full payment rs per cent of the amount
due each. 1t is expected the Rawhide
mine will resume operations in few
days as a result of this agreement.
Mine Mexico Bonded
T. A. Ross, late managing director of
thte DAILY Reduction company, (Ltd),
of Hedley, B. c., which recently sold
its Nickel Plate group Of gold mines
to 1.-THE Exploration Syndicate of New
York, is at Hostolipaquillo, state of
Jalisco, Mexico, in the interests of the
estate of Marcus DAILY, which has
bonded the famous Cinco Minas prop
erty at that point. These mines are
Spanish antiques" which have pro-
duced great values under the crude OPP
erations of the old Spaniards
Morning Work Tailings.
A company, said to be composed Of
Minneapolis men, has taken a bond on
the big tailings dump of the Morning
mine, near Mullan, Idaho, and will in
stall at once a big plant with Foust
jigs, and begin working the tailings.
Rich Alaska Miner Insane.
Samuel A. Bonnifeld, the banker of |
Fairbanks, Alaska, whose fortune is es-
timated at $3,000,000, rushed into police |
headquarters at Seattle Saturday and |
demanded protection from his enemies,
who, he said, were pursuing him.
Bonnifield was locked up and it has
been arranged that a commission will
investigate his mental condition. Bon
nifeld is one of the best known of the
Alaska and Klondike gold field pio-
neers. He established the first saloon
and gambling house in Dawson, in the
spring of 1897, and one winter cleared
100000. He was at one time the
richest man in the north.
Miners Own Church.
Mace, Idaho, has a non sectarian
church, organized and supported by the
mining men of the place, and which is
attended by practically all the miners,
some 600 or 700 in number John Barko
q miner in the Standard mine, breaches
each Sunday evening. The church has
a choir of 90 voices, which is not ex-
selled by any choir in the Occur
! 'Alenes. Superintendent R. H. Pascoe
IF the Standard mine, is one of the
most enthusiastic supporters of the
,hurch and choir.
Copper in Snowstorm.
Wallace, Idaho.-In the Snowstorm |
nine, at a depth of 900 feet, in $
copper formation, has been discovered 6
! substance known as chlophosphate of
cad. Never before in the Occur t
Occur d 'Alenes, and so far as the old !
st mining men here are aware, has l
his substance been found before at q
,reater depth than 100 feet, and only l
n lead formations. i
New Strike at Libby.
A strike of eight feet of molly \
re has been encountered on the prop +
rty of the International Copper Min r
ng company, operating near Libby, s
don't. This new strike was made in o
he 2,000foot tunnel and at a depth of n
90 feet.
Find Coal on Bornite.
The working tunnel being run on
he property of the Bornite Mining y
ompany, near Newport, Wash, is now i
a 80 feet and small deposits of coal
ave been encountered. Z
Develop New Mine. a
Active work in developing has begun h
n the newly Incorporated Grand Chan 81
ellor property, situated on Rosebud Il
ulch near Osburn, Idaho. q
Granby's Annual Report. =
Very interesting figures are contained Z,
| the annual report of the CRANKY COM
any. As compared with the previous D
ear 100000 pounds more of copper Il
ere produced, the total being 81, 901,- :
q pounds. The gross value of all y
'oducts was $3,9s3, 536, the net profits u
sing $6S1,134. The average price OBJ I,
.ined for copper during the year was i
'.22 cents per pound and for silver /
rs cents an ounce. A dividend of N
10000 was distributed and $411,134 NJ
lded to the surplus which now II
MOUNTS to $2,e9s,6s7. d
The Lucky Jim again led all the Of
ines of the SLOGAN Kootenay district al
st month with shipments of 700 tons vi
Ed Ehrenberg of Wallace, who re- M
ntly took lease and bond on the w
elvet mine, near Rossland, has already m,
arted development with good force an
miners. III
The fact that the Hercules people
We bought the Tiger hotel at Burke T
d leased or purchased the old Tiger re-
ncentrator foreshadows the operation in
that mine through the Hummingbird tol
mel whose portal is between the two ms
d in the center of the town along Co
lie the railroad. tb,
The annual report of the Consolidated ril
ming and Smelling company of Can wi