Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-01
LATE MINING NEWS.
sandpoint slnelter.

odhuHOAuI oI1elGGI.
That contract has been entered ~.
and signed by the Great Northern Raj
road company and J. Herbert Andersos
president of the Idaho Smelling & RI
fning company, located at Ponderas
whereby the Great Northern agrees y
furnish enough capital to treble the i
pacity of the smelter at the time !.
was closed down few months ago ma
the condition that the smelter comnan,
secure enough contracts from the va,;
Gus mines and mineowners of the coun
try to supply and keep the plant RIM
ming full blast for the year round. is III
rumor that has been circulated at Sana
point.
Miners Meet Death in Blast,
Eureka, Cal.-The bodies Of IT,
miners, Frederick w. Duncan aSd
Ernest Blaine Hughes, were brouobt
here from the Humboldt Gold Minino
company's mine on Horse mountain
where both were killed by fumes from
blast.
Canadian Mining Institute.
Nelson, b. C.-The sixth general
meeting of the western branch of the
Canadian Mining institute was held
Saturday. Thomas Kiddie, chairman
Of the branch, presided, and the attend
ance was large, including R. W. Brock
director of the geological survey Of
Canada; w. f. Robinson, provincial min.
eraloglst of British Columbia and vice
president of the institute.
Oregon Mines Start.
The Carson mines, up the Grand
Ronde river, in Union county, Ore, are
to be worked, after a long idleness due
to lack of funds and lack of water.
Boundary (B. Co. Mines.
Boundary ore shipments were about
normal last week, being 1892 tons.
CRANKY, 1922; Mother Lode, 1880;
Snowshoe, 4,21O. CRANKY smelter treat.
ed 1854 tons of ore during the week
and tor the year to date has treated
7O2, Jos tons.
The British Columbia Copper com
pany's smelter treated S,126 tons last
week, and for the year to date, 49,,
962 tons.
To Develop the Belcher
A. G. Cook, owner of the Washington
claims on Belcher mountain, will con.
tinue development work on the prop
! erty this fall. The principal part of the
4 development consists of test pits and
$ shallow shafts.
Strike in Arlington.
1t is reported that big strike has
E been made on the property of the Ar
Y lington Mining company near Burke
e Idaho. The ore was encountered in the
e long drift and at distance Of 1900 feet
= from the portal.
10 Supply the Mines.
A new sawmill has been purchased
= by the Idaho Copper company, whose
, property is located at Priest lake, ant
the company has taken contracts tt
:, cut 100000 feet of timber for Other
n mines operating in the district. Ih
/ IS in addition to the lumber which
70 will be cut by the company for use il
it's own mines and for the erection o.
houses at Coolin. ~
In the Occur d'Alenes.
~ The Syndicate Mining company
# whose property is located on the ives
70 fork OF Placer creek in the Saltes
p. district, is constructing new min
f. buildings and will work the claims al
4 winter
f The showing of galena ore encour
If tered in the Eagle Mountain company
N claims few days ago has widened gu
is to six feet or the full face of the drift
The vein at the Wonder property
owned largely by Harry L. Day, maj
- ager of the Hercules, is being drifte
i upon both ways, easterly and westerl,
and some galena ore is being found.
- The Chicago-Boston property on Lax
~ Creek, two miles west of Wallace,
b ,o to be worked again, and operation vi
commence in the near future.