Show notes from the northwest SPECIAL correspondence chewelah Chew elah wash jan 24 the northwest mi mining lining conic convention antion this year which is the big annual gathering of northwestern operators engineers and prospectors will be held in rossland B C february ath ath and tentative plans for an excursion to rossland have been completed by frank C bailey secretary of the spokane mining mens club the itinerary provides for the departure of the expedition on tuesday february ath over the great northern railway and the return trip will be made thursday february the party will travel in a special train of standard tourist sleepers with a buffet car attached A stop of an hour will be made at northport North port to inspect the new smelter being installed by th the e tamarack ouster custer and hercules mining companies of the coeur calenes dA lenes states mr bailey the plant may be in operation by then but of this we are not sure the mines in the rossland region region will be visited including the old le roi holdings and the copper lead smelter and the new electrolytic zinc plant at trail will be inspected ralph W stuart general manager and W A archibald consulting engineer have extended us an invitation vi to be their guests while in trail earnings of united copper net earnings of the united copper mining company which owns and operates the united copper mine at this place will be between and for january and the gross earnings will ibe be from to according to president conrad reports received from E A superintendent of the property state that two additional four horse teams were put to work last week hauling ore and concentrates to the railway tile the united copper now is entering upon a period of permanent operations said president the problem of equipping the mill to the peculiar requirements of the ore has been solved successfully and the troubles we experienced perien ced because of inadequate power have been overcome the company furnishing current is having additional equipment installed and soon will be in shape shap e to provide all the energy we require at the prevailing rate of production we will ship not less than 1000 tons of crude ore and tons of concentrates aerates this month the average ore values are 16 ounces silver and per cent copper while the concentrates are running 42 ounces in silver and 1338 per cent copper we are shipping a car of crude ore every other day and a care arc of concentrates on alternate days the east caledonia the most important strike in the east caledonia mine formerly for meily the keating heating at wardner idaho since the property was ac quiren several months ago by the E ea caledonia mining company compo composed S e a coeur dalene and butte men was 0 made bently according to reports received fro aroi r officers of the corporation at 13 butte th T h report is confirmed by george ai H jenning jennin superintendent at the mine w who states tha two and a half feet of milling ore avera V ing 15 per cent lead has lia S been opened in 1 11 tt th foot level we were drifting to pic P up the ledge showing on the surface ahei the strike was made said mr jennings the entire face is a good grade of millin miliana n ore and the vein appears to be b e Avi denin eni as the drift is continued while the values value also are increasing drifting is in progress on the foot level to open the same shoot and the survey indicates that we should catch it in about thirty feet the east caledonia holdings are near ilear the bunker hill sullivan and caledonia properties and have been developed intermit 1 bently for several years the knob hill mining company operating the knob hill property at republic washington paid an all indebtedness of about during 1915 and closed the year with cash on oil hand amounting to in addition to about 2100 due for ore bre already shipped but not settled for by the smelter according to reports submitted to the annual stockholders meeting last week the years shipments of ore amounted to approximately tons of a gross value of smelter returns amounted to the gross value of the 1914 tonnage was about during the year the directors followed the policy of developing devel op new ore reserves and preparing in g the property to increase shipments ship r a ants at a future f time expending on development dev elopement elop ment and 1500 on improvements success dividend the success mining company which owns and operates the success zinc properties in the nine mile district of the coeur calenes dA lenes has declared a 3 cent dividend or payable january 23 to stockholders of record january 15 this will make the total disbursements of the success company in addition to paid by its predecessor the old granite mining company making the grand total of net earnings earning of the mine actual cash in the banks on oil january 1 1916 was and there were some settlements still due from the smelter states james F r howarth secretary of the company the gross earnings for december w were ere 11 almost the record for the concern and the net earnings were 90 loon lake copper company owners of the kemp komar group 0 01 claims six miles north of loon lake washington have begun operations on the 0 kf r claim four men having been started doing preliminary work according to andrew laidlaw of spokane stockholder holder and fiscal agent for the loon lake copper company recently organized to take over and develop tile the holdings the camp is now being put in shape and as soon as the buildings are rehabilitated we will begin watering unwavering un and re timbering tile the crane shaft preliminary to active operations said mr laidlaw we anticipate being able to begin in about a week provided weather conditions do not interfere the 0 K blue eyed nellie and other claims embraced in the acres of patented land were ivere located more than twenty years ago and the kemp komar copper mining company was incorporated to handle them on the 0 K claim a shaft has been sunk forty feet and a drift to the west shows sis sir feet of ore that will average from 25 to 30 per cent copper and carries small values in gold and silver several hundred feet west of this shaft the crane shaft has been sunk feet on the of a ledge twenty five feet wide directors of the H E AT and aurora sampson mining companies after a two days conference at wallace idaho agreed on consolidation of the two properties A new company is to be formed immediately under idaho laws with capitalization of 2 shares at 1 each of this shares will be left in tile the treasury for development velo ment and equipment purposes the exchange will be at the ratio of one share of the consolidated companas comp anys stock for two of the shares of the outstanding stock of the old corporations said ben L collins secretary of the H E AT company the new ton daily capacity mill recently constructed by the H E AT company passes into the possession of the consolidated soli dated concern a name for which has not been decided upon conditions in the ff E M mine are improving steadily and the showings recently opened in both the east and the west long lower drifts are the best ever encountered in the property crude ore shipments probably will begin soon the standard silver lead mining company operating the standard mine in the slocan section of british columbia will pay a dividend of 2 cents per share to stockholders february 10 representing the second monthly disbursement in 1916 the payment amounting to brings the standards dividend record up to 0 general manager S S arentz of the lakeview Lake view mining company operating at promontory point utah states that the company has opened nearly three feet of ore in the no 4 tunnel which averages 42 per cent zinc the highest grade ever found in the property the new strike gives from to feet of backs this company which is less than a year old has paid 80 80 in dividends counting the declared for february |