Show TIGER AND FOORMAN FIRE concentrators at wallace completely destroyed lem L will assaff fth tally fully covered by mccompany mf company Is at t work buta the works bolie boise ida march ilila A special to the statesman at wallace ida says the burke burk of the tiller tiger and poorman consolidated company lie in about this morning tat nil engineer in the tiger works saw raw fire in the ceiling over the boilers boiler an alarm was wa given immediately and the firemen responded promptly but the buildings were doomed there were tramways tram ways connecting the building where the are started with both concentrators concentrator st up which the fire ran like mad beth bath concentrators caught before water wait wa turned on it soon oon became evident the concentrators concentrator could not be saved and the fireman turned all their attention to saving laying other buildings building just above the tiger concentrator stood the compressor hoist and building the whole town worked like trojans trajana and saved aved them but how they dont know and men not there cant understand denland un the holit hoist and compressor caught several times but were as a often extinguished two northern pacific cars care stood against the tiger compressor and both were burned had the hoist and compressor gone the damage would have been twice as great as the mine would have flooded new boilers will be attacked bathe to the pumps anda and a hoist operated by water power set act to balling bailing it can ball five hundred gallons a minute and pump seven hundred easily keeping the mine dry tle tie lota lose can hardly be more than guessed yet mr culbertson thought in th the e neighborhood of ansur ance in american of newark N J caledonian of edinburg scotland ma M if S aln all the machinery lr in both con concentta centra tors and the poorman compressor and holet hoist was ruined except two boilers the company li Is not dismayed by the loss los but this morning fondd men clear ing ground to rebuild under the direction of mr culbertson Culber Culbert tsoo sov and harry gild den by the th same ame hour fraser chalmers had been wired and had men on the way to take plans and estimates for a new concentrator on which work will be pushed as a rapidly as possible T the he burned mills mill had a capacity of soo tons per day and the new will be the same it will probably require six months to get in running order the tiger mill was built in 1887 the poorman in 1888 in two of f the first silver and lead claims located in cheur calenes dA lenes running most of the time since the two companies were consolidated soli dated october il 1 1885 these were always considered among the best mines in this district were well equipped with machinery and since the consolidation much new machinery was added it has been running a small force for several months past while making allera eions and only ip io men were working at the time of the fire the stock of the company Is widely scattered but the principal owners are S S glidden of spokane F R culbert son of burke B C kingsbury of kane and patsy dark of butte |