Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-01-20
FROM MINING CAMPS

Plans are on foot for the reopening
Of the Germania mine, the big Stevens
ounty (Wash.) tungsten property.
Charles Cox, superintendent of the
Clugston mine, on Bruce creek, Stevens
county, Wash, will make the first car
load shipment of ore in few days.
Thomas S. Kilgallon, Montana mining
expert closely associated with Senator
Clark in mining investments, died in
Wallace, Sunday, of double pneumonia.
The Spokane Mining Mems club has
ordered 1000 metal badges for the
delegates to the big mining conven-
ton, which will be held in Spokane
February Is to II.
The Pittsburg Idaho Mining com
pany, operating properties at Gilmore,
Idaho has announced its fourth divi-
dend in less than - months. 1t was
for 4 cents a share.
Dick Hamilton, manager for the
Illinois Silver and Copper Mining and
Milling company at Keller, WASH. re-
ports vein of fine copper ore uncov-
cred at a depth of 200 feet.
A treaty Of peace and an agreement
to arbitrate was the outcome of the
race war between Mexicans and Amer
leans on one side and japanese and
Chinese on the other, which threatened
bloodshed among the smelter workers
at Hayden, Ariz.
Believing that the proposed new
method of taxing mines is unjust and
will seriously cripple the industry in
the Occur d 'Alenes, as well as in other
mining districts of Idaho, the Wallace
Board of Trade has passed resolutions
calling upon the lawmakers to abandon
the planned change.
DR.. Walter Harvey Weed of New
York, consulting engineer of the In
terstate Silver-Lead Mining company
near Wallace, reports that an impor
tant strike was made on the com
pany's property during the last two
weeks and that drifting on the ore is
accompanied with excellent results.
George w. Forman, special repre-
sentative of the American Smelling
and Refining company of East Helena
Mont, reports that big ore shipment:
will be made from all points about
Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, during tn,
looming summer as the result of the new
rate on ore which has been put int
effect by the railroads.
Success in treatment Of platinum ore
by a slightly modified stamp mill a
the Granite-Poorman mine in the Mel
son (B. O. district, has been achieved
according to Andrew Gordon French
He declares that so tons of ore from
the poorest part of a 17-foot dyke ha,
produced sufficient iridium and plat
mum, in addition to gold, to provid
good profit.
Two suits are pending in the dis
trict court at Butte against the cit,
? of Butte and Silver Bow county t,
set aside an assessment of $4,000 upol
"a acres of land in Missoula gulch, con
stituting a portion of the Barnar,
placer claim. 1t is stated in the com
, plants that the land does not consis
of town lots and has never been use,
r for anything except mining purposes
The copper shelters at Grand Fork
and Greenwood, B. c., are both bein,
run to as high a capacity as their sup
plies of coke will permit. The Granb,
plant has six furnaces in operation
and is treating approximately 300
tons of ore a day, having started Of
with fair stock of coke on hand
The. British Columbia Copper com
pany's smelter is treating 1900 ton
of ore daily.
The North Washington Power an,
Reduction company of Republic, whic
secured a long-term lease on tn
Similkameen Falls power plant a
Nighthawk, B. CT has taken simila
lease on the Kootenai companys sci
vice on the American side of the lin
and will supply the Republic cam
from the latter source instead of frOr
Nigthhawk, as announced some month
ago. iif