Show BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING NEWS furnished by the mines exchange Limi limited tedi nelson B C EAST KOOTENAY the parrel farrel bros owners of the society girl have been working their property all winter and will put on a force of men with the alie opening of spring to prosecute further development results of development work already done are very encouraging cou raging development work is being steadily prosecuted on the estella mine over 2000 feet of tunnels shafts and adfus have been run and a large amount of ore has been blocked out no effort has been made by the company to ship it being their intention to erect a concentrating cent rating plant at the mine the ore will concentrate 3 to 1 making a most desirable shipping product the following windermere properties have been ship shipping pi na ore this winter delphine group M T fraction paradise iron cap silver king red line silver belt and banyon the silver king group on mcdonald creek was recently purchased for cash by thomas starbird representing an american syndicate the property is a producer of very rich silver lead ore LARDEAU A new shoot ot of ore of good grade has recently been discovered where least expected in the silver cup mine which will add considerably to its possible output nearly tons of silver cup ore are now DOW awaiting shipment work is being prosecuted on the nettie L black warrior horseshoe beatrice and a few other properties in the lardeau but very little real activity is to be expected lor for a month or two yet SLOGAN SLOCAN the shipments of ore from can city for january and february are as follows arlington tons enterprise 80 ottowa 7 neepawa Nee pawa 20 may 5 total the fifth dividend of was paid on the sunset last week making a total of 30 to date the mine has shipped tons this year the basum mine shut down last week pa banding andina a a meeting ol of the company in lon don it is thought that operations will be resumed in a short time during february this mine shipped ship tons of ore tons of which was zinc ore and was shipped shipp ed to antwerp belgium A crosscut cross cut tunnel to tap the ledge at a depth of feet has been started on the silver smith the claim of the byron N white co in which a recent phenomenal strike of silver lead ore was made the tunnel will i strike the vein underneath the surface s showing h ow the ore shipments from sandon for the mouth month of february are as follows sunset tons payne tons american boy tons reco 82 tons minnesota silver co 80 tons last chance 40 tons BOUNDARY the copper converter recently installed at the cranby smelter is doing excellent work tons of blistered copper being shipped last week the converter is now treating matte for the greenwood grand forks nelson and van anda smelters shelters sm elters the smelter is now treating 1145 tons per day and in another week the fourth furnace will be in operation when the quantity reduced daily will be 1500 1560 tons the recent shipment of assorted ore from the california mine near republic to the granby smelter averaged Z over per ton YALE the B C coal co will undertake an extensive scheme of development of their properties recently acquired on the north fork of kettle river diamond drills will be used and it is intended to sink at various points to a depth of or feet two veins three feet and six feet respectively outcrop and can be traced for miles the coal is bituminous containing I 1 70 per cent fixed carbon the fieldfare field sare are reached via killarney on arrow lake or via grand forks |