The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-16
SECURE LICENSE
IN WASH|NGTO
U. S. Smelling, Refining G. Min
ing Company Extending
Operations.
CHINESE DISCOVER
NEW PLACER FIELD
Various Interests in Northern
States Displaying Unwonted
Signs Of Activity.

SPOKANE Wash, Aug. 15.-Unlted
States Smelling, Refining and Mining
company. which operates custom plants
in Mexico. California. Utah and other
states, has taken OUT license IN Wash
ington and appointed A. c. Barke, for
merly connected with the smelter at
Northport, Wash, as its representative
The company also has agents In The Occur
d'Alene and Nelson districts Arrange
noents are being made to secure the ca
duty is talten Off Mir Barke. who was
IN Spokane several days this week con-
frined the report that the company mas
zona for 81 250 900 and the Rainbow n!iie
In the Mormon basin. Oregon for sio0,-
900. The company has no mines In the
Occur d'AIencs. but handles the bulk oi
the ore produced In that district.
silver-Lead Mining company Is plan.
ming to resume work with wh Ia men on On
Coeur d'Aene district. small crew
was sont to the property on August 10.
and this will be increased as rapidly as
mine which was closed on June 90. when
the company failed TO meet Its payroll.
has issued checks for $4,000 TO pay the
men, ami sll other claims Will be met al
once. The company. he. says, has ample
capital 10 continue development work for
long period.
Platinum Discovered,
Discovery Of platinum near sioosn
q locators 10 the kootenat river. where
a syndicate, headed by Alfred Jeffs, has
stalSed fourteen cailms on the dyke. The
ASSAYS from samples range In value from
claims being located will be under
stood when il Is known that one pros
pcctor staked a claim: which included The
city power plant al Nelson. Ranchers In
the district are defending their holdings
aeains, Invaders.
New Placer Ground
James Daniels, deputy collector for
the United States customs house IN Spo-
kane. has received advices from All Yen.
Il local Chinese trader. of the discovery of
rich placer ground In The Blackfoot dis
trct- In Idaho. ninety three miles south
east of Spokane. where fortunes were
washed from the sand and gravel more
shnn thirty ycars ago, Yen asserts that
the original find was made by two Chi
nese miners, who were killed and robbed
cleanur in 12So, The placrrs are four
miles fror, q flowing strearn. Yen says,
adding that il would require fifteen miles
of fumes 10 convey water to tho deposits:
On returning from the district Yen said
he would not locate the claims, as he
fears meeting the fa te OF his countrymen,
whose bodies were cremated after The
murder.
Conrad Wolfe Of sHPGII;ane. president Of
the t,,t United C. Copper Mining company al al
seventy -fiye.,on concentrstcr viii be in
operation In September. Operations Win
be started soon on the lower tunnel. de-
foot level. The drive Is in 900 feet. A,
the S25-foot level the vein is from five
10 twenty-five feet in width. large
body Of low-grade ore was found, re-
Wolfe ssid that the property Is not on
tho market,
Declined to Sell.
Scotch .Monnet Mining company. which
hns a big. copper property near Cook,
can Refining and Smelling company for
60 ner cent OF the stock at 10 cents n
share. provided 4 were ,priytlegsd TO
s a. MEETING ug "sFHer Of siockhoders 10 m f, in Spokane
on August Q The proposal was favored
by the Gibson faction, but the interests
represented by ". a. Kitten refused 10
TO elect three OF the live directors, who
ar; Thomas Donnelly, NJ. 4, Kitten and
!; n. Harris The other directors are
Pacific Copper Mining and Milling
company. operating in stevens county.
Wash, has four cars of high grade sorted
ore on the dump and will ship to the
the mine TO Blue Creek is completed.
Miilard Hosea, manager, reports progress
on. the shaft. which is being sunk on the
vein and says the ore is improving with
depth, The fissure vein is forty-one feet
in width. and there are several feet OF
ore running to high values IN silver gold
Independence Placer Claims company,
composed of Spokane and Wallace peo-
pie. Is organizing crew to work proper
feiow Moose City Idaho, which was
prominent mining center forty seven
years ago, Recent discoveries of gold are
ity IN ore OF the Oldest placer camps in
the Occur q Alene district