Show northwestern estern notes note s special correspondence spokane wash july 9 extensive operations erat crat ions are underway at the baaba mine near oroville washington and the united states company composed of oroville nd spokane men contemplate increasing the output soon according to E D reiter of spokane an official of the corporation who returned recently from the property the 20 stamp mill at nighthawk now is operating night and day on the baaba ore treating about seventy tons daily states mr reiter the plant will be able to treat still more when the Simil kameen power plant which furnishes current now partly submerged by high water is operating again the company expects to be putting through about tons daily inside of thirty days four wilfley tables are employed concentrating land and separating the metals both a lead and a copper concentrate being produced the lead concentrate averages 92 per cent lead and the copper concentrate cen ranges from 8 per cent to 40 per cent both concentrates carry in addition about half their value in silver shipments are going to trail british columbia the baaba is a mile and a half from nighthawk station at the base of little mountain the vein averages fifteen feet in width and the ithe ore shoot has been opened at the surface for feet in length two shafts about feet deep together with various lesser workings pro proved the vein and the ore shoot to be persistent and well defined As depth is attained the ore changes from silver lead to the higher grades of copper and silver lead not only copper glance but native copper being present in ore from the bottom of the haggerty shaft this mine quiescent for forty years now is equipped with an electrically driven air compressor and an electric hoist and stands today near the head of the list of all washington mines in daily production the baaba mine first was located some time prior to 1874 by okanogan Oka nogan smith who carried specimens of galena taken from the outcrop to portland and created a stir there by his tale of a a mountain of 0 silver he raised some money and began desultory development when the indian department attempted to annul ills his rights claiming he was trespassing tres passing on the old columbia reservation smith stubbornly resisted and a long drawn controversy followed resulting as the congressional records show in the department of the interior under henry M teller setting aside a 20 mile strip of the reserve for mineral location and entry shoshone county idaho at a point nearly due east of spokane and close to the western boundary of montana is being mentioned as a coming mining camp at present copper seems to be the metal that may make a camp in the vicinity of ad adair air on the chicago milwaukee st paul railroad the well known mines which heretofore have been reached by way of saltese maltese the Wo monitor richmond st lawrence and others some of which lie on the idaho side of the divide eventually will find an outlet for their products at adair much ore has been shipped from these properties all of it being hauled to the railroad at saltese maltese Sal tese and all have been developed to an extent that proves the permanence and extent of the ore bodies plans are now being worked out for the deep development of the monitor through a long tunnel to start near adair and this will afford the means for exploring the other properties at great depth near the railroad at adair so close that it is almost possible to shoot the ore from the dump to lo the car is the big elk ore was found practically at the grass roots and several cars have been shipped to the smelters shelters sm elters from which big returns were received pete peterson manager shipped a car of thirty five tons recently which he says will average 30 per cent copper or 75 per ton recent work in the mine has been concentrated on making a raise of ninety foet feet from the lower tunnel to the upper the upper drift seems to have passed through the top of a big ore shoot and it is expected that a drift of fifty feet from the raise in the lower level will strike it well upon the divide between idaho and montana and connected with saltese maltese by wagon road is the the property has been extensively developed through a shaft and many cars of ore have been shipped the mine was well equipped with hoisting plant compressor and buildings but these were all swept away by the forest fire in 1910 As it was never the intention to operate the mine permanently through this shaft the company did nothing toward restoring the property but immediately took up a plan to drive a long tunnel from a point on a branch of the milwaukee railroad on the idaho side of the divide this enterprise contemplates opening the monitor ore bodies at a depth of probably 1800 feet f the work of financing the project is now under way and the tunnel has actually been started the tunnel will develop not only the monitor but will make it possible to explore the richmond and st lawrence at great depth the richmond is situated in idaho just 0 over er the idaho maha montana divide it is de through a shaft from which much high grade ore has been taken A car that averaged nearly 30 per cent copper was shipped during the winter and a similar car will be shipped in a few days A cross cut tunnel has been run to the vein giving an all additional depth of about feet and which will afford the future outlet for the mine while a plan to consolidate the san poil foil and republic mines corporation still is 13 under consideration leaders in the movement admit that the prospects for success are not encouraging at an adjourned meeting in spokane july 3 of republic mines stockholders the consolidation was practically turned down but another plan has been suggested the nature of which has not been made public and this will be considered both companies own properties in the republic camp in washington the consolidation plan which originated with the san poil company provides for the organization of a new borbor corporation capitalized for shares at 1 each san isan poil stockholders to be apportioned half the issue and R M C stockholders half this means that the san poil company now capitalized for shares will sacrifice half of its stock and the republic mines corporation capitalized for shares will suffer a loss of but 25 per cent this discrepancy is offset however by the proportionate indebtedness debt edness the san poil having outstanding obligations of and the R IVE C but the copper king company near mulian million idaho has filed a protest against the missoula copper mining company for the patenting of the wisconsin fraction claim the copper king company alleges that the missoula companas comp anys survey embraces about five acres of its blue streak claim and contends that it has a right to the ground in controversy because of the fact that the blue streak was located in 1901 while the wisconsin fraction was not located until 1907 the ground in controversy is along the strike of the vein not far distant from where the missoula is getting some of its best beat ore showings the he washington water power company of spokane has completed its power line to the ray jefferson mine in the sunset district near wallace idaho and everything is now in readiness to start the new compressor with electric power the start is expected to be made this week |