Show NEWS FROM THE NORTHWEST SPECIAL correspondence spokane wash oct 10 mining experts pronounce the mineral exhibit at the spokane interstate fair septem september ber 24 to october 6 to be the most complete in the history of the district every camp and mine of consequence being represented george P larson was director of the exhibit his assistants being mrs D D birks representing the metaline products of the boundary country in british columbia the exhibit twenty two by sixty five feet in the main building and shows the various products some of the big pieces being a chunk of ore weighing 2700 pounds from mammoth mine another from monitor copper mine weighing 1800 pounds and smaller pieces from copper queen mine and stanley weighing from to 1000 pounds the feature of the exhibit was a model of the famous coeur dalene district col TJ E linsley L K armstrong and J C haas were judges of the exhibits F J rowlands of butte mont who examined the stewart mine in the coeur calenes dA lenes for F august heinze is planning to become identified with the district he said in an interview today 1 I am becoming interested in several properties in the district which is becoming a wonder in the mining world the coeur dale calenes dA lenes nes are going to make a large city of spokane and I 1 will probably make my home here according to the apportionment of taxes of shoshone county idaho for 1906 the mining companies will pay a total of which includes outside of school taxes placed at the total valuation of the county is the tax being the mining companies will pay on improvements victor langley chief of police of wallace ida will open the bonanza queen group of five claims near Debor deborgia gla mont where a find was recently made by peter olson the outcroppings outcrop pings indicate a promising prospect the rock on the surface running high in iron and samples examined anif tied by M R fisher assayer for the federal mining and smelting smelling Sm elting company show 4 per cent silver 8 per cent copper and a trace of gold joseph president and general manager of the big baldy mining and milling company compa is planning to supply power to the mines in the buffalo hump and in the salmon river valley he has a power site on cricked bricked creek near salmon river and a 1000 horsepower plant is to be installed the bitter root mining company of which W T penrose of spokane is president has begun work on a group of six claims including the pittsburg adjoining the vianna and placer creek near wallace ida the vein tapped on the pittsburg carrying iron in quantities and some gold silver and lead the first tunnel in this group is in feet and several smaller veins have been cut reports from wardner ida are that the being sunk on the charles dickens mine on moon gulch near that camp is showing fine galena ore A double compart ment shaft has been sunk on the foot and from this level A D girtman who holds an option on the majority of the stock is sinking to the vein he is in seventy feet he has completed a crosscut cross cut of twelve feet on the vein with only one wall in sight A 50 ton concentrator is being installed and mr girtman expects it will be in operation before the end of november these companies have been incorporated in washington since the last report sargent mini mining ng milling company by F P hogan F A williamson charles W sargent C D Sher sherman marl and A H shepard the monarch mining milling company to operate in kootenai county ida by henry L doble W E F alkire william L miles W J seat and J L whitney as the in corpora tors hughes mining and investment company of spokane by james P hughes johnh john H roche and burton J onstine |