Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-06-13
FROM THE MINING CAMPS

The Florence mine at Neihart, Mont,
is to be opened up with Butte capital
again.
The cyanide plant under construc-
ton at the San Poll mine in Republic
is now nearing completion.
The Standard Silver-Lead company,
operating its mine at Silverton, B. c.,
will declare its third dividend,
amounting to $4,000, payable June 10.
During April the Consolidated com
pany at the Trail (B. c. smelter treat
ed 1891 tons of ore and secured $474,-
903 worth OF metal Of this sum 81
per cent was gold.
Charlestown, w. Va.-Serious rioting
between 1900 striking miners and pri-
vate detectives of coal operators is i'm
minent at Muckow, near here, and Gov
ernor Glasscock has been called upon
for troops to preserve order.
Secretary Fisher testified Saturday
before the senate committee ON public
lands that not single existing claim
for mineral lands in Alaska could,
under the present showing of facts, be
allowed by the interior department
H. A. Taylor, R. Wills and j. S. Fea,
all of Spokane, have located 100 acres
of cement clay on the banks of the
San Poll river, three miles north of
Keller, and will form company to de-
velop the deposit and manufacture &C.
ment.
The Clungstone Mining company of
Colville, Wash, the property of which
is located near Bossburg, made a ship
ment of two cars of ore recently and
the management announced that steady
production will be kept up all sum-
mer. The ore is a silver-lead combi-
nation.
George j. Kiebler, recently appointed
receiver of the Bear Top Orofno Con
solidated Mining company, filed pc
ttion in the district court at Wallace
asking the right to sell the property OF
contract. At his request Judge w. w
Woods has set July 16 for the recep
, | UlOn OIL prOIesIS.
: Wallace.-The Stewart mine, answer
2 ing separately to the complaint flee
in the Wallace district court against F
} Augustus Heinze, M. w. Bacon, ant
. the corporation, asking for a receiver
ship, declares that no necessity exist
for the action. The case has gone t.
the federal courts.
a At mass meeting Of the Butte Min
r ers' union Sunday the proposition o
:. the mine operators of Butte to give al
underground men 1915 day when tn
= price of copper is i-2 cents. a poun
or more, and 81 a day when the pric
of the metal is II cents or more, wa
!. rejected and the committee of the unio
9 which had the matter of demands i
. hand discharged. The miners deman
\ a horizontal increase of so cents a day
bringing the scale of the common much
er in the mines up to the grade of tn
e more experienced miner.
p Grand Forks, B. C.-The Granb
r management has disposed completed
r of the services of a small army of me
h and the miniature railway system whic
o has been employed during the last se7
/ eral years in the handling of the refus
or Stag from the settlers, which we
hauled in molten condition in six to
II pots by "dinky'' engines and dumpe
4 some of it mile from the works. Aft,
i more or less experimenting and az
IL justing of the new belt conveyor sy
+ TEN, which was given its tryout IL
y first of the year, the company hi
u now reached stage where it fee
III justified in depending entirely on IL
new system.
New York.
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