Show THE KOOTENAI COUNTRY Over 873000 Worth of Gold Prom the Cariboo Western Mining World Last week tne Ashcroft stage brought 73700 worth of gold frOm the Cariboo hydraulic mines to Nelson of which 53500 was from the Carl boo Hydraulic mine the result of the first run this season at that mine rne result re-sult Vas better by some thousands than was expected The next washup i the water holds out will be very large But for the great results the owners must wait until next year when the Moorehead ditch will be completed and tho Immense reservoirs filled at Moorhead lake with two sets of giants working a mile apart on different parts of the great mine Of the balance of the gold brought down one lot was 53300 one 1000 and one 1900 wa 33 10 19 These lots were from Horsefly and Bar I kerville the results of the mill run on cement ce-ment At Horsefly all Ve said to be very satisfactory ana that tile cementea gravel I has yielded on an average more than twice as high as last year This Is only rumor but it Is now believed that the property i on a paying basis and that work will be continued from now on Mr Ward brought down also 5000 in dust the result of three days run in one part of the mine where they had to wash upon up-on account of moving boxes Park Record Notes The Silver King and Anchor Mining companies paid off this week A the sale of delinquent Lucky Bill stock the first of the week 30000 shares were converted into the treasury from nonpayment of assessments This ill not deter the company from resuming developments de-velopments however Stockholders are paying up the recent Valeo assessment ranidlv The stock is I stiffening in price every day in anticipation I anticipa-tion of what will be accomplished by those now in control ORE SHIPMENTS Following are the shipments of ore from the Mackintosh sampler for the past week Sliver King firstclass 550000 Silver King concentrates 450030 Ontario firstclass 83850 Anchor firstclass 105000 Anchor concentrates < 340000 Sundries 1 24530 Total number of pound1553630 Vernal Express Items I R Veltman passed through the city this week from the Vernal country bound for Salt Lake City The gentleman is said to havelately uncovered a very rich body I of copper ore near Vernal He was called to Salt Lake by parties who are anxious to become possessed of a bonanza Bert Seaboldt and wife were In Price Tuesday and left Wednesday morning by stage for the south They will camp on the Colorado river for several weeks with a party of friends putting in the time hunting and fishing Mr Seaboldt who is manager of the St Louis Gilsonite com pany reports that there will be heavy shipments in the near future of the gll sonlte to the eastern markets A letter received from Doc Norrell states that he Intends to at once leave the Klondike for home and expects to reach Gait Lake about Sept 1 Tom Lloyd who accompanied him to Dawsqn Is reported in good health and the letter states that Tom will remain there until late in the fall or perhaps during the winter Mining Notes Says an exchange While Captain De i Lamar Is enjoying life in Paris his manager man-ager H A Cohen ft knocking about Brit ish Columbia getting acquainted with a brand new wife M J Cheesman owner of the Dayton Douglas group has let a contract for running a drift east from the bottom of the shaft on the property in the hope of striking the vein on Its dip Development work at the Great Northern North-ern mine at Canyon City Ore is almost at a standstill pending the return of Mr Guker from Salt Lake A sale of this extraordinary ex-traordinary property may be effected and if i ic I nthor snIps of nrnnprtv in that vi clnlty will occur n n v n Mercur Miner Tests of the tailings at the mills at Manning have been very successful suc-cessful and the dump can be treated at a saving of 1 per ton fhere is estimated to bo 200000 tons which would keep the mill running two years and add 2000 monthly to the net earnings of the company com-pany The Mercur Miner says that Mr Andrews An-drews of Boston the new manager of the La Cigale has arrived and the programme so far a given to the public Is to put in immediately a roasting plant and commence com-mence the operations of the mill Superintendent Super-intendent Packard will remain with the com nan v in his present capacity uiuing reporter There is avery general gen-eral movement looking to reopening of old mines which once in oonanza have long been idle on account of the decline In values of ore bodies Cheaper methods of trpatment have invested such properties proper-ties with new values and we may reasonably reason-ably expect a large increase of tonnage from this source Butte Mining World Reports from Bear gulch during the week continued to bring information of fabulously rich returns from the recent placer locations in that district and a veritable stampede to that camp has resulted Among other reports of rich diggings i ei is I stated that George Rockinger washed out nearly two ounces of gold dust in less than five hours Tuesday Tues-day dayMining Reporter The man who thinks that the geological structure of the earth Is as eas geologcal as an open book is like some one whose experience Is confined entirely to books To most men fresh from the schools mineralogical conditions must be taken as a post graduate course Those who cling to the book theories generally gen-erally find it convenient to make a trip craly to the east and stay theret Nevada State Herald Frank K Mar tindale wellknown at Deerlodge and Pi oche was found dead on the desert about 20 miles south of Coyote spring in Pah ranagat valley Lincoln county last Sunday Sun-day Ho was traveling through the country coun-try with a packsaddle animal and a bay mare His body was found some distance from the road and i Is supposed that his horses got away from him and in endeavoring en-deavoring to catch them he perished for want o water The Overland at Mercur is showing up well and gives promise iof rivaling the Mercur and Sacramento as a mate producer pro-ducer A working shaft lately sunk penetrated pen-etrated the vein a depth oC 1 feet all of which was good milling ore and the footwall not yet reached sftys the Miner Throughout the mine the vein and values are large and uniform and the latter of I a quality so sillclous a to yield readily to I treatment by the cyanide process The I fine new mill is nearing completion and I shortly will be ready for operation |