| Show washington E S campbell and associates of spokane have taken an option for on the crystal property in lincoln county about thirty five miles west of that city the crystal was located twenty three years ago by john gray of spokane who ha has s since carried on some development A ton concentrator is being erected by the bead lake cooper company on the pend oreille river north of newport A recent strike of a good grade of milling ore has encouraged the owners who are principally spokane wisconsin and ohio people the company expects to be shipping concentrates in the early spring J C haas was elected chairman of the columbia section american institute of mining engineers at the annual session held in spokane recently william J hall of the federal mining smelting smelling Sm elting company wallace idaho was elected vice chairman and L K armstrong was elected reelected re secretary treasurer the section has members of whom twenty are in the army the united copper mining company operating aratin er atin at chewelah Chew elah plans to increase its capitalization deepen and extend its workings and double the capacity of its mills A plan of expansion will be laid before the board of directors by raymond guyer consulting engineer who expects by increasing the capacity to meet the fall in the price of copper A larger tonnage and lower costs will be the aim A dividend of 5 cents a share has been declared by the electric point mining company operating near northport North port the thedis disbursement bur will be bringing the total of electric point dividends to all of which were paid within two years the company is seeking a new point of treatment for its products since the recent announcement by the consolidated mining smelt ing company that lead ores of canadian origin only would be received at its smelter at trail B C 0 A trial shipment of electric point ore had been made to the united states smelting smelling Sm elting refining company at midvale utah about a carload daily of electric point ore is being treated by the northport North port smelting smelling Sm elting refining ning company the mine was equipped recently to produce to tons daily |
