Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-01-06
FROM MINING CAMPS

WORK mas Deen reOpened on TWO
mines on Gold Hill, near Meyers Falls,
Wash.
is boring into the hill steadily with two
shifts.
The CRANKY company is operating six
of its battery of eight furnaces at its
smelter.
Mint Director George C. Roberts sees
no cause to predict any sudden increase
in the supply of gold.
The Tanana mining district, Alaska,
produced $5,OO5,OOO of gold in 1911. The
new Iditarod district yielded $3,212,-
0O0
A Milwaukee company has perfected
plan for producing power from crude
petroleum, unrivaled in cheapness and
efficiency.
The first underground emergency hos
pital in Illinois was opened January
in one of the largest coal mines near
Collinsville.
The Patterson creek tungsten dis
trict near Salmon City, Idaho, is re-
ported to be looking better as devel-
opment progresses.
A new ledge of rich ore has been en-
countered upon the property of the
Tungsten Consolidated companies, six
miles east of Loon Lake, Wash.
Fritz brothers are elated over their
important discovery of tungsten ore in
the Pierce City mining district. The
ore contains wolframite and hubenite
The Woodrat mine, near Coolin, Ida,
on Priest lake, has started shipping sill
verlead ore. The ore is hauled &c miles
to the Great Northern railroad at Priest
River.
Senator William A. Clark, president
of the United Verde Copper company,
takes a very optimistic view of the
metal situation, and expects 15-cent cop
per very shortly.
The discovery of a mountain of high
grade tale lying between Okanogan
and Ferry counties, near Bridgeport,
Wash, is the basis for plans to estab-
fish a big talcum powder factory.
While on his way to do assessment
work on his mining claims near the
old Bonanza mine, A. p. Watson, an
aged mining man and prospector of
Baker City, was stricken by death.
w. W. Taylor, general superintendent
of all the coal mining properties of
the st. Paul system of railroads and
one of the best known coal mining
authorities in the northwest, died re-
Gently at Roundup of blood poisoning
superinduced by carbuncle on his
neck
f. G. Cotterell of San Francisco an
expert of the bureau of mines, who has
been investigating the smelter fume
problem, and several Californians asso-
ciated with him, have turned over THEN
patent rights in a device for the sup
preston of the nuisance to the Smith
sonian institution.
Actuated solely by desire to keep
loOO IiiutlS III INC lldll 0ltth GOdl utlO
from being thrown out of work, Judge
George Turner of Spokane and his asso-
ciates have turned over the Yellow
stone Park railroad, which operates be-
tween Chestnut and Trail Creek, to the
Northern Pacific Railroad company to
operate for three months
Through the sale of a gold mine in
California, J. Otto Lee, of Albany, Ore
has received 100000 on an original in
vestment of $500 made one and one.
half years ago, and expenditure since
making the total investment about
$4,000 This mine is located in the
Coso mining district, in Inyo county
California, and was sold for 100000
The gold production of the United
States in 1911 was SOC, $685. 1928, and the
silver production 57,79s,117 ounces
This is reduction of gold of about
$45, 900, and in silver of about 600 OOC
ounces, as compared with the returns
for 1910. The coinage of the minis
was: Gold, $50, JIG, 1922; silver, $6,477
3O1; nickels and coppers, $3,156,726
Total, $65,790,S50. The net gain in the
country's stock of gold coin, including
bullion in the treasury, during the past
year, was $100,0Oo,OOO.
Among the states and territories the
principal gold producers in 1911 were;
California, $20,51O,9s7; Colorado, $40,
1853, $50; Nevada, $1s,96s, SIS; Alaska
$1,000 orc; South Dakota, So, 400, 367
Utah, $4,7O9,747; Montana, $3,16s, $40
Arizona, $2,954,7 200, and Idaho, SLIGO,
261.
In the order named, Utah, Montana
Nevada, Colorado and Idaho led as sill
yer producers. At the average price
for the year the total silver product
was worth $3O,s5o,50O
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