Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-08-28
CONTINENTAL
IS SHIPPING
BOUNDARY COUNTY EXEMP-
TON BOARD HAS SEVERAL
WEEKS HARD WORK.
PUSH DEVELOPMENT WORK
Total of PA Have Been Called
Quota Now Secured.

The ldaho-Continental Mining COM
pany, with properties at Hickman,
Idaho, is putting Boundary county
on the map as the coming mining
district of the Northwest and the
success of the company's present eff
forts toward development will make
it the biggest asset of the district and
eventually afford a payroll of the
size that makes the Occur d'Alene
district towns the best in the coun-
try.
A. Klockmann is president and
general manager of the Idaho Con-
tinental. He and his brother, Carl
Hickman, with their relatives and
friends have spent their own money,
borrowed money, interested capital
to put up financial assistance and
through years and years of hard
ships, of unforeseen difficulties have
persevered in the effort to make GER
tain of tonnage which would war
rant the spending of perhaps a
million dollars for the purpose of
overcoming the one greatest draw
back-the lack of transportation ia
cilities.
The Idaho-Continental is one great
mountain of galena ore. A huge
vein shows from tunnel No. 8 to the
top of the mountain and a year or
so ago when Mr.. Hickman again
assumed management of the prop
erty ID carloads of highgrade ore
was taken from the very top of
the mountain and was raw-hided to
point where it could be loaded
in sleighs drawn by four horse teams
and then hauled 20 miles over a
mountain road to the Great Northern
railway at Porthill.
James Wilson, born and bred in
the mining game and man of re-
pute in the Occur d'Alene country,
came to the Continental over two
years ago to assume the RESPONSE
biilties of the superintendency. The
property is being mined under the
Colorado system. There is no tim
bering except in the ore chutes and
each succeeding day the machine
men set up on the piles of ore
previously shot and broken down
1 The waste and ore goes into the
same chutes but is sorted in the
tram chute and again in the sort
ing alley at the concentration. A
large percentage of the output OF
the mine is "high-grade" and is ship
ped to the smelter as it comes out
of the mine. The concentration is
capable of handling 25 tons daily
but is now running only two shifts OF
account of the shortage of water
There has been no rainfall at Klocl
mann since June oath and unless
rain falls in ten days it is probable
that the concentration will have Il
close down. AS it is the water
used in the concentration is being
repumped. Just now huge settling
tanks are being constructed at the
concentration in which the water from
the mill will pass in order to ALLOW
the lead slime to settle. 1t is fig
ured that if all the lead slime which
passes away in the water from con
centrators, could be saved, the ouc
put would be increased 20 per cent
The shortage of water also effect
the production in the mine for whel
the concentration is running there j
not sufficient power to run the com
pressor plant. Just now but on
shift of machine men is beini
worked.
Space does not permit details
Right now nine four-horse teams
making a round trip every four day:
and eight motor trucks are haul
ing ore from the mine to Port
hill. The trucks haul from thre
to four tons at a trip and max
two round trips every "a hours. A
but one truck are doing contraC
hauling and it is claimed the own
ers are making as high as $50 pc
day.
The Continental is shipping righ