The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-17

| appointment or a trustee by the cred
| itors, and all business done by the re-
| ceiver viii he subject 10 the approval
Of j. ID Campbell, referee in bank
| ruptcy. The action Of the courts is
| looked upon here as q victory for Mr.
| Anderson in his efforts to appease the
creditors aud gain time to pun the
company out of its financial diff
| culties.
Official announcement is made in
| Spokane that the McCHllivray Creek
Coal & Coke company, operating near
| Coleman, Alberta, viii build two miles
| of electric railway from the mines to
| the Canadian Pacific main line, also
install machinery for steam power
| plant and for the tippte, to be erected
| at Carbondale a new toWnsite Il mile
| and a half east of Coleman, where the
companv's spur will join the Canadian
| Pacific tracks. A a meeting of the
| directors in Spokane a few days ago,
James A. NOVEL; of st. Paul was
elected president and Byron e. Sharpe
bof Spokane, secretary and treasurer.
j. +. Povah was retained as general
manager of the property and Thomas
Paine Of Glencoe. Mimi, one Of the
| large stockholders, was elected aud
itor. f. c. Greene is consulting en-
gincer. The company owns 5000
acres of coal lands on McGillivray
| creek Mcssrs. NOVEL; and Greene
have gone to Cleveland to sign con-
tracts for electrical apparatus.
Oscar Wallace, manager and one Of
the chief owners Of the Interstate
nartN n n A AN.1C in
Spokane recently to place an order for
Il saWmill, and a six drill compressor
plant, to be used in expediting the de-
yelopnent of the property at depth.
The Interstate is already extensively
opened by tunnels, none of which at
tanned great depth, however, on ac-
count of the lay Of the ground, though
they have demonstrated the fact that
three great Lodges traverse the group
and that all of them contain more or
less ore While one Of them has Il rich
ore shoot. 1T was this showing mainly
which enabled Mr.. Wallace to interest
Minnesota capitalists in the enter
prise, and they have now placed at his
disposal 100000 with which to drive
a 3,00Ofoot crosscut tunnel that will
tap all three lodges at adequate depth,
and that is expected to put the prop
erty in condition for production on a
large scale when equipped with a mill.
The holdings lie between the Hercules
and Callahan mines, almost adjoining
the Rex and the Tamarack and Ches-
apeake on the cast and north.
Three feet of free milling gold ore
in Fl edo q
countered on the Last Chance Mining
4, companys property in the Elk City
district in central Idaho. The tunnel,
| which is on the foot wall, is in $50
feet and work Will be continued. The
fact that the Last Chance claims adj
join the Buster mine and the strike is
on ledge that parallels the latter
makes the find an important one. Be
sides the 1870 feet Of tunnel work there
are q number of open cuts and one
shaft II feet deep The point where
the ore was struck is IS feet below the
surface
Idaho Copper, Mining company, OPP
Grating in the Priest Lake district,
has given such satisfaction that an
other will be put in at once. Each
machine will operate three drills The
apparatus is three and half feet high.
80 inches wide and weighs 1,40O
pounds. 1t has two cylinders and the
air is forced from one cylinder, 12xl2
inches, to the other, SX12 inches, and
! this compounds It so that it is pos
sibe to raise the air pressure above
the steam pressure. With one drill
four men are sinking 80 inches a day,
in Il shaft 7x9 feet, through hard gran
lite. The shaft is down so feet and it
is expected to tap the ledge in 20
days.
Surveyors for the Idaho Northern
Railway company are running line
up Beaver creek to tap the Sunset
district to haul the ore from the prop
critics in that vicinity. This will do
away with the expensive wagon hauls
The railroad is also surveying to get
the grade for a line up the Little
North Fork II to Is miles. This will
be of great benefit to the mines, in
i the Sunset district, to the timber in
terests and to the HorSt-PoWell and
| Hand Spike copper mines on the Little
North Fork There are several good
copper properties on this stream on
which little development work has
been done, owing to lack of transpor
tatinn facilities
ST. Lawrence mine on Antelope
mountain, a mile and a half from
Clarks Fork. Idaho, owned by Spo-
, kane parties With Joseph Reed as
manager, has shipped five cars of ore
which brought smelter returns OF
16 IA ounces of silver and Is per cent
lead to 20 ounces of silver and u per
cent lead. One months run resulted
in 100 feet advance in the 5N7 tunnel
At that rate by continuous work, the
mines should tap No. vein at depth
of 500 feet, within six months. There
are said to be eight true fissures, par
alel and cross veins on this property
within a Width Of 1000 feet, one halt
of them evidently carrying values. No
, 3 vein has been traced for 5000 feet
, and is, where uncovered, 10 feet OF
more in width, carrying iron in limo