Mining News From Camp Highlights Shipments and Developments
Ivanhoe mill to restart next week. Payne mine graded for compressor plant. Chapleau work to resume early next month. Arlington and Marion ship this week. Hewitt expected next week. Noble Five first shipment in months, ore from Last Chance strike. Hoo doo claim development to be pushed or halted after Missouri expert visit. Enterprise mine cook dispute caused miner walkout. Road work done. Four Mile and Galena Farm repairs finished. no early Four Mile trail start. Silver Bind Basin activity and Red Mountain wagon road delay cited. Hartney mine reports clean galena strike, 600 feet down lower tunnel, 10 inches wide with 130 oz silver and 50% lead per ton. substantial development and ore ready for shipment.
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Galena Farm
Four Mile Roada
Four Mile Road
Legion Shipping
Silver Bind
Eight Mile Creek
Red Mountain
Hartney
Silver Mountain
Slocan Lake ore shipments rise into 1901 totals
Ore shipped from Slocan Lake points in 1899 totaled 3078 tons and 1900 shipments reached 4930 tons. The record notes deliveries up to the present week from January 1, 1901 from New Denver and Bosun Landing with partial tonnage figures listed.
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Slocan Lake
New Denver
Hartoey
Marion
Bosun Landing
Bosun Pabesererccers
Metal market closes with mixed lead copper and silver quotes
The English price for lead is 19 pounds 118 shillings 3 pence. Silver stands at 27 pence per ounce. Copper quotes at 6754. In New York on July 18 bar silver at 58 3/4 cents and lake copper at 17 dollars. Lead price fixed at 4.374 cents by the market authority.
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New York
Lake
A Kind Invitation to Fort Steele Readers
The Cranbrook Herald expands to seven columns and invites the Silvertonian editor to move to Fort Steele. The piece notes the editor “continues to give evidence of crankism” by berating Canada cursing the United States and slurring England. It ends with an invitation to become neighbors.
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Cranbrook
Silvertonian
Canada
United States
England
Fort Steele
Pert and Pertinent Sidewalk Riddle Playlet
A playful quip sequence features jokes on causes and puns. The dialogue riffs on quirky questions and punchlines about tools food and persons, ending with a light historical line about a ship built in nineteen hundred and won.
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Russell Sage
Henry Clews
John the Mongolian Cook and the Perfect Routine
A Milwaukee Sentinel tale claims a West Side woman boasted of her Mongolian cook John and his methodical work pattern. Observers allegedly found him washing his feet in the dish pan at 7 pm, proving the joke of a flawless servant routine.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
West Side
John
The Maid of Chicago Farce From Denver Post
A humorous dialogue about love and social rank unfolds between a mountaineer and a maid. The miner and the maid clash over wealth and status as she dismisses his romantic schemes with witty quips. The piece ends with a playful instruction about a blue cross on the paper’s back page.
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Chicago
Angela
Ruben
Lrook
James B. Adams
Denver Post
Lost watch on road between Silverton and New Denver
Gentleman's gold watch lost on the road between Silverton and New Denver. Finder rewarded if returning the watch to J A Morqu in New Denver.
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Silverton
New Denver
J A Morqu
Local Patchwork News From Slocan City
R A Bradahaw of Slocan City is gazetted a notary public Geo A Jackson returns to Blair and coalfield work resumes. Chas Gardiner J A Morrigan leave on prospecting trip. Chas Culver and Elizabeth White wed in London. Miner updates include Sandon Paystreak revival and bragging about coal veins. Labor Day celebrations planned for Ferguson Phoenix. football cup issue with Landon unresolved.
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R. A. Bradahaw
Slocan
Chas. L. Culver
Blocan
Star Mill
Mies
Elizabeth White
London
Pete Sinnott
Ten Mile
Silverton
Moniay
Ferguson
Phoenix
Slocan Footballers
Landon
Slocaners
Road to Heaven Joke Travels Through Arkansas
A Nebraska traveler travels with an evangelist in Arkansas. The evangelist says he has been on the road to heaven for eighteen years in a sepulchral tone. The Nebraskan, growing skeptical, notes they are only a mile and a half from hell and declines to ride with him any further.
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Nebraska
Arkansas
Heaven
Arkariens
Hell
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Noble Five
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Fist
Slocan City
Frien
Black Prince
Chapleau
the Maid OF Chicago
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Blair
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Gold Creek
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Yukon
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C. L. Copp
Larfean
A. A. Webb
Blairmore
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Calgary
J. Kirkpatrick
Alberta
L. H. Briggs
C. F. Marcy
Riverside
California
Mr. Briggs
Alpha
Emily Edith
Mrs. Briggs
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