Show MINING IN THE NORTHWEST spokane wash dec 24 two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars on terms is the amount paid by the republic mines company of spokane represented by J L harper general manager to the pearl consolidated soli dated mining company for its lone star surprise group of claims in the republic district in stevens county wash the pearl company was represented by charles P robbins the property has the largest and richest ore shoot yet developed in the camp it is nearly feet in length on the surface and has been opened to a depth of feet five men working on a lease extracted worth of ore in ninety days last summer on this shoot known as the surprise at the expiration of the lease the owners of the pearl would not consider the off offer er of a bonus and royalty for an extension L W anderson president of the republic company announces that a large force of men will be put at work at once the ore will be shipped to bacom and boundary smelters shelters sm elters pittsburg lead mining co directors of the pittsburg lead mining company operating near wallace idaho have received an offer from an eastern syndicate which purposes to expend a month during the period of a year the lessees lessels to pay a royalty of 20 per cent of the net smelter returns from all ore extracted tr that they shall have the option to purchase the property of the pittsburg lead mining company including the holdings of we the california consolidated mining company during the term of this lease for the proviso is that all payments made on account of royalty shall constitute a part of the purchase price stewart company to resume F augustus heinze president of the stewart mining company and his engineers recently visited the property in the coeur calenes dA lenes and stockholders in spokane say that resumption of work is likely to follow in a short time litigation arising over the erection of the stewarts large concentrating mill on disputed ground has been satisfactorily facto rily settled the stewart is a fully developed mine according to stockholders and in their opinion will be a dividend producer almost from the first day of opera tion before the suspension of work was brought about two years ago the concentrator which had run for a few days had been proved adequate the ore is all block out and shipping can begin shortly after the machinery starts 0 an old timer returns charles tool who located the first lead property in the sunset district of the coeur calenes dA lenes in 1883 selling afterward and cleaning up on the collyn property has returned to that camp after passing ten years in british columbia he and benjamin hammitt a pioneer of 1883 are working a property on carbon creek there were twenty three persons in the sunset district when tool and hammitt arrived they tell of two men from california abandoning a claim because they could find nothing larger than 5 nuggets two years later that claim produced in placer gold B K hemminger Hemm iger eighty four years of age is the oldest man in camp he says he distinctly remembers the appearance of balleys Hal leys comet seventy five years ago and that he is looking forward to its return |