Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-30
FROM THE MINING CAMPS

creased from SoOO,UOO TO Sz,OOO,OOO.
The Black Horse mine, in the Occur |
d'Alene region, is earning at the rate
of $4,000 to $4,000 a month above ex-
penSeS.
Samples of gold-bearing ore from
the Golden Era mines at Kitselas, the
latest new strike in British Columbia,
are being exhibited at Spokane.
Receipts of s31,SS1 on 1907 tons of
ore from the property of the Lucky
Jim Mines, Ltd, in the SLOGAN section
of British Columbia, is announced.
Adjustments in the several depart
ments of the Bullwhacker teaching
plant at Butte are proceeding salts
factorily and will soon have placed ii
in condition for production.
Judge w. w. Woods of the district
court at Wallace, Idaho, has rendered
decision in favor of the defendants,
the Ontario Mining company, in the
celebrated case brought by the Stew
art.
The purchase of half interest in
the MaherO'Hearn group of about II
claims in the Occur d'Alene region of
Idaho is reported to have been made
by Harry l.. Day and associates for
100000.
The directors of the Success Mining
company announce the declaration of
the quarterly dividend of per cent on
an issued capitalization of 100000. or
$4,000. The prior payments amount
ed to 100000.
John p. White of Oskaloosa, Iowa,
was reelected president of the United
Mine Workers of America. Other Of
ficers elected were Frank ]. Hayes OF
Illinois, vice president, and Edwin
: Perry of Iowa. secretary treasurer.
Nome, Alaska.-A rich gold strike
on the Holyoke claim has disclosed
pay dirt 80 feet above bedrock. The
pay streak is five feet thick and zoe
feet long. The dirt runs four cents tc
the pan. A similar strike was made
on the adjoining claim.
Delta, Cal.-Edward Treadwell, su
perintendent of the Bonanza mine
near here, and son of James Tread
= well, one of the two brothers who dis
= covered the famous Treadwell mine o
Alaska, met death in a snowslide a
the mine January Is. Dave Williams
a an employee at the mine, also wa
!, killed and two other men narrowl.
q escaped death.
= Butte, Mountaineering that he wa
assaulted December II by committe
of miners acting as pickets when al
n tempting to work on the Moonligh
z. mine, Thomas Fadden has started
= damage action in the district cour
e against the Butte Miners union No.
z Dennis Murphy, Joseph Penhall an
John Hartigan. The plaintiff allege
q that he has been damaged to the e1
v tent of $4,000.
It Dividend payments have been +,
n sumed by the CRANKY Smelling con
IS pany and a disbursement made of Il
per cent on the issued capitalizatio
# of 100000 shares at 500 a shar
a. which makes the amount of the div
W dend $225,000. The last dividend pa
O. ment prior to this was December 3
,r 1910, to which time the total amour
distributed was S4,04S,630, and the di
tribution of the new dividend wi
T. make the aggregate payments to da
IL $4,273,630.
r Warfare between two great pow
at companies, backed by millions of dc
lars, with the state of Washington
the scene of initial skirmishes and E
rs the northwest states and British
w lumbia as the ground of battle, is for
ai seen by mining men in the activity
DIT Republic of men regarded as friend
IL to the Washington Water Power col
Us pany and of the 10-year contract clos.
at Chewelah by the West Kooten
Of Power and Light company, which h
nd us prlnoipai plant DIT Doliiins'on L ai
=. B. G.
IT. Word has been received from Primo
h, ton, B. c., that the negotiations
is New York for the last three wee
er between the British Columbia Copp
company and Emil F. Voigt relative
the taking up of the bond held on t
be Voigt mines, near Princeton, by t
m B. G. company, had resulted in t
I'd, properties being taken over und
'p- the bond agreement, and immedia
at resumption of activities at Voigt cam
re- suspended a short time before t
OF conference was called, is anticipate
The deal involves approximately $25
- 600.
on New York.