The Daily Missoulian., 1909-06-04
:.|,i NEWS OF THE MINES

&DfifSTy, VINO is prominently iQeHtt1ted
WITH the H. E. NJ. Mining company.
operating the Fl. E. M. mine in the
| Coeur d'Alenes. announces that if the
| pre- body in No. tunnel is as wide
| as expected the directors viii be in
| position to declare the first dividend
sarly next. winter. The company has
| shipped one car of ore to the Tacoma
smelter and the returns from this
will be expended in machinery for de-
velonnent work. The ore taken out
now is being stacked. SO that in a
short time the company can ship
| from four to five cars month.
Fourteen men are working on the
mine but only two are working on
ore. The rest are running No and
No. 8 tunnels. The last named is
cross-cut tunnel. It is in $50 feet and
it is expected to tap the ore body in
200 feet more.
W. II. Brownlow, president and
Mining & Smelling company, operat-
ing in Stevens county, Wash, an
nounces that a process plant for
treating ores will be installed in the
CheWelah camp at once. The cost of
a plant equal to reducing 100 tons a
day, including building and equip
ment, is estimated at $4,000. With
the new method, perfected at Denver,
1t is claimed that five-ton lots can
be ground-leached, the copper pre-
cipitated and cast into ingots in less
than two hours. Under favorable
conditions 2 and 8 per cent copper ore
mine and mill owners.
Pierce City camp in central Idaho
is active, now more than 15O men
are operating with modern machin-
cry. Power elevators and hydraulic
machinery and other up-to-date gold
saving appliances have displaced the
rude utensils used by the Chinese
and high clean-ups are expected. The
Wild Rose property is the scene of
active development work A 1885,
foot tunnel, which will tap the main
ledge, is now being driven. The tun-
mel has been driven to depth of
900 feet and will show the extent of
the ledge.
7. Maher, widely known mining
man in the northwest, has uncovered
lead on the old Robin Hood prop
erty, four miles from Nelson, B. c.
The assays show from $50 to s117 in
gold. He has restlked the property
as the Anthony. The Robin Hood
was owned and prospeoted by VAN
couver people several years ago. Miss
Leigh Spencer, broker at Vancou-
yer, had an option on it at one time,
but it was abandoned and lay
neglected until Maher struck the lead,
which he uncovered for 15O feet.
Charles D. Freeman has returned to
Spokane from the Rawhide district,
where he bonded the Bouncer group
for $4,000, representing Spokane and
Butte parties in the DEAL He an
nounces that active development will
begin in a short time. He added:
considerable work has already been
done, and good showing has been
made. 1t looks like big PROPOSE
ton, but it will take a lot of work
to develop a mine there. Spokane
people are doing we'll in the Nevada
camps, where things are quiet at
present However, believe there will
be great activity before the close of
the year.
Rports from Murray, Idaho, say
that the ore encountered on Beartop
mine, east of there, is richer than at
first reported. The strike was made
In the drift from the raise between
No. and No. 2 levels. The drift is
in 40 feet. The property is equipped
with mill which will handle 500
tons of ore a day. Machinery cap
able Of handling 100 tons day is al
ready in place. One of the ore shoots
on the property is so feet in length
and IS feet wide, the ore being of a
milling grade, averaging Is per cent
lead. The other shoot is 80 feet long,
and is shipping ore.
Judge Carey in the Stevens county
superior court at Colville, Wash, gave
Judgment for $17,150 to the plaintiffs
and fixed the sale for June 49, in the
case of II. s. spedden and others.
against the CheWelah Copper Queen
Mining company. The decree directs
the sale of the property owned by the
corporation, which includes the Cop
per Queen, Baby s., Hillside, North
U, Copper Chief, Mllsite and Copper
Grown lode, located near the town of
Chewelah, Wash.
Ten feet of concentrating ore, two
assays. of which gave returns of 26
ounces Of silver and 4.S per cent lead
and 3.4 ounces of silver and 5.4 per
cent of lead, was broken into at a !
depth of 800 feet on the Alma Mining
company's property on Deadman
gulch, east of Mullan, Idaho few !
days ago. The company owns IL
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