Show washington the tri state crome company owned principally by residents of spokane will ship ten carloads of crude chrome ore from its property near laurier B C within the next two weeks the ore will be consigned to niagara falls N Y its estimated content is 40 per cent chrome continued shipments of copper ore are being made by the reardan copper company operating the old turk mine in deer trail camp washington the company completed its organization and took over the property last winter and since march I 1 has hag shipped twenty carloads of ore that have returned approximately there are excellent prospects that spokane washington may have a tin mine at her very doors the syndicate which is working the property twelve miles south of the city has sunk a new vertical shaft thir ty five feet in a pegmatite dike for the entire depth of the shaft the ore is said to carry 8 per cent tin which is a high grade there are four different surface showings sho of tin on the property an important discovery of unusually pure zinc has been made in the property of the bruce creek mining company in northern stevens county washington it is a sulphide contains upward of 50 50 per cent zinc and a trace of lead and iron the body is twenty feet wide on the surface but its length has not been determined the surface showing is so rich that the owners are contemplating benching the ore nearly every camp in the pacific northwest Is affected by the influenza epidemic those which so tar far have escaped the affliction are the small rather isolated places where little work is being done and where visitors are infrequent all rossland mines of the consolidated mining smelting smelling Sm elting company of canada have closed many em aloyes have the affliction and those who have not have been released to aid in caring for the others A few coeur dalene properties are idle but all the big mines are still in operation though shorthanded short handed |