The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1909-01-07
Idaho Northern Railway Opens Up Murray
Section and Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Booms St. Joe Section
Mines Around Murray With Millions Of Dollars Wortt
Of Ore IN Sight Are Expected to Commence
Shipments within a Few Months and Swell
the Total Of the Cotm d'A1ene Production
10 a Large Extent.

With estimated total of 81 900 distributed in dividends
during the year just closed bringing the grand total of dividends
from the Occur dAenes to the figure Of $ $780, @
elusive entirely Of shipments from privately owned and
also Of the gold production the north s cannot
but feel that for steady production and results Of patient labor
there other district in the world where the opportunities
equal those Of northern Idaho true that $2
dividends for 1908 really less than 50 per of those dis
buted during 1907 but at the time is be remembered
that practically all Of the big mines Of the district forced to
close towards the end Of 1907 and to remain closed throughout the
better part of the first half of 1903 longer than
that In addition this it be remembered that the prices of
lead silver and far below the of 1907
The annual report Of State Mining Inspector Robert Bell
for 1903 speaks very highly Of the Occur dAene district Of
the total output of mineral wealth of 364 for the State Of
Idaho less than $3 0815 produced in the Coeur
and here only Shoshone county is taken into
sideato mention whatever being made of the outlying
ons tributary the county and included in the general term
Occur d Alenes.''
The estimated decrease production of mineral for 1903
put Sc for the whole state and it is safe to that fully
80 cent Of this due the fact that the Hea and Morning
mines closed down for the first months of the year, the
Last Chance for months and the Snowstom mine ceased ship
en for several months Even that the total yield of for
the has been estimated at 900 tons while it is believed
that the average quality of the in spite of the great depth
which of the properties operating is better and higher
than before the history Of the district Many features Of
importance have marked the close Of 1903 and perhaps
the most important among these has been the opening Of the Idaho
Northern railroad into Murray and the north side district Only
lack of transportation has handicapped this district the past and
that this has been there every to believe
that the 1909 will break all records in the history Of this
camp
Another feature Of the year has been the construction Of the
Chicago Milwaukee st Paul railroad This line will open up
the whole the St. Joe country and give transportation facilities
hundreds Of properties the Montana side of the IdahoMon
tana divide
Strike after strike in the prospects Of the district augur well
for the Many Of these prospects have already started
shipments small scale and with few it is only question
Of time until they take place among the big mines Of the district
OF the Occur dnes it has always been said that there better
Bunker Hill Suvans than have been discovered and the
truth Of this has been orcby demonstrated than in
the just closed It h of course impossible tell just
what properties will actually join the dividend paying list in 1909
The Idaho Northern railroad has paved the way for the mines
Of the north sd and the activity haracterzes that
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