Show BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING NEWS contributed Contribute dby by the mines exchange limited nelson B 0 ROSSLAND AND BOUNDARY notwithstanding the unexpected restricted output of the le roi and a temporary reduction in the output of the war eagle which contingencies are not likely to occur next week when the tonnage 1 should be much increased the revival is markedly apparent bear bearing ing favorable signs of increasing strength smelters shelters Sm elters are in full blast all running once again at their full ore treatment capacity there are seven furnaces running in the boundary with a total capacity of about 2500 tons I 1 NELSON the improvement is maintained and though there is nothing sensational 1 onal to report withal most of the mining properties are ro engaging extra hands the terminals for the tramway from the venus to the athabasca mill are being erected about sixty men are employed on this property EAST KOOTENAY an organization to be known hereafter as the kootenay placer t mining company for the purpose of working four or five miles of placer ground for which a lease has been obtained from the government situated above the falls on perry creek ha has been formed A steam shovel with a capacity of handling about 1000 cubic yards is being cleared the outlook has improved ali all round and active development work is more in evidence than for many months past LARDEAU MINING DIVISION camborne camberne Cam borne and the new town of goldfields Gold fields three miles further up fish river appear destined to become the center of the biggest free milling gold camp in in the province in the very near future considerable progress in all directions is now bei being F made the completion of the northwestern development syndicates mills at goldfields Gold fields will greatly mutate the growth of the town KASLO AND SLOGAN SLOCAN owing to the sev eral strikes made recently tile feeling per bading the dry ore belt is decidedly optimistic in spite i of the price of metals the returns from the le enterprise are showing a steady improvement each month the en enterprise t mine is supplementing its concentrating plant on ten mile with the elmore oil Tro process cess it being contended that this new auxiliary will prove more profitable than the water process which can hardly be said to be a success with the sulphide ores of this mine fro professor ressor J R parks of columbia college is making an examination of the arlington and speculator mines with a view to effecting ng a saving change in the treatment of the ores of the dry ore belt his researches bearc hes may mean mea n much for the mines producing ore similar to that of the arlington and speculator an important strike has hag been made on the lower tunnel of the speculator it is reputed to be the biggest chute yet encountered A zinc market from the zinc ores of the slocan seems fairly assur assured ed representatives of the lanyon zinc company of lola iola kansas are in the district and making contracts with the mines for their product in view of the depression caused by the low price paid for lead ore this is relieving the bosien bosin mine never looked better much development work has been done with sound judgment the long iona 11 no I 1 tunnel has come in contact with a fine showing of zinc the chute is about eighteen inches in thickness and assays essays aver average acre ounces of silver per ton and 2 per er cent copper there is a vertical depth of feet on the lead at the point where the ore has been encountered and an upraise has been made for a distance of feet to conne connect ct the no 1 tunnel with a ninety foot sunk from the no 3 2 thirty five nien men are employed |