New Flux Promises Simultaneous Smelting and Refining Breakthrough
Reports from Pittsburg describe a physician chemist Dr. Miller near Mt. Pleasant who developed a flux that, with asbestos, can melt and refine ores quickly. In tests at Fox Copper and MacIntosh Hemphill plants, metals are extracted in about forty minutes with over 93 percent recovery and layered separation of multiple metals without prior ore crushing.
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Pittsburg
Miller
Mt. Pleasant
Fox Copper and Bronze Company
MacIntosh, Hemphill & Co
Carnegie Steel Company
Mining Locals Report Ups and Downs in British Columbia Mines
Ore shipments reach 140 tons this week as the Hewett mine ramps up with a 30 ton car to Nelson’s Hall Mines smelter. A new concentrating plant is planned for Enterprise mine on Ten Mile creek while the No4 tunnel at Emily Edith nears the main ledge. A Pittsburgh Allegheny group forms to acquire BC properties with $400 000 capital as gas of ore potential grows in the boundary district.
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Hewett
Hall Mines
Nelson
Basun
Enterprise
Ten Mile Creek
Emily Edith
Pittsburg
Alegheny
Delaware
British Columbia
Inventor Promises Cheap Method for High Grade Ore
The material needed for its manufacture can be obtained and chemists doubt commercial viability. The inventor claims the formula is very cheap and will not affect value. Several Northwest copper mine chemists urge vigorous study, believing it could greatly advance future mining of high grade ore.
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Gost
Northwest
Slocan Lake Ore Shipments Through 1901
Ore shipments from Slocan Lake totaled 0 8078 tons in 1890 and 4930 tons in 1900. The current week’s figures cover Jan 1, 1901, with tonnages listed for New Denver Hartoey Bosun Landing and other points including Slocan City. Industry entries mention vessels such as Black Prince Bondholder and Speculator in the ongoing ore trade from the lake region.
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Slocan Lake
New Denver
Hartoey
Suveaee
Bosun Landing
Bosun
Enterprise Landing
Enterprise
Slocan City
Aliineton
Black Prince
Chapleau
Speculator
Local Layout Almanac of March Entries and Notices
March arrivals at Sie verton Drug Store crops and seeds. Visits to Slocan City and Coast trips. Local church concerts and mine business notes. Fresh fruits at Daigle. Community fund for hospital nearly $1000. Rubberneck definition article ends with a biting social caricature.
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Slocan City
Gleanings from the Province and Empire
The column notes no motion for an increase in sessional indemnity in Victoria and reports on John Howe’s House inquiry about Rod Tolmie. It covers the Chinese Commission, rail traffic data for Canada in the year ending June 1900, and lists British field marshals and fleet admirals. A Nelson physician’s precocious daughter quips about medical outcomes in a family office anecdote.
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Victoria
Fraudulent Pay Cheque Cashed In London Bank Route
A merchant suffered a fraud last week when a ruined pay cheque drawn by Emily Edith management on the Bank of Commerce in London was cashed locally and sent for collection via the Bank of Montréal. The scheme was uncovered in Sandon.
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Emily Edith
Bank of Commerce
London
Bank of Montréal
Sandon
February standings at Silverdots Public School
The February pupil standings list readers and primers with names including Alice Calbick Tneo Gatbick Adelaide Horton Mamie McDonald Sarah Lawson George Horton William White Evelyn Horton Leslie Carey Freddie Jeffrey Magan Parsons and Teacher.
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Alice Calbick
Tneo Gatbick
Adelaide
Horton
Mamie McDonald
Sarah Lawson
Evelyn Horton
Leslie Carey
Freddie Jeffrey
Metal Market notes price shifts in metals
The Metal Market reports New York prices with Bar Silver at 61 and Lake copper at 17. Lead is fixed by the price firm at 4.57 cents per pound at the close.
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New York
Lake Copper
Public comment mocks church smasher and saloon crusaders
A letter to the editor criticizes Fiditor Lowery and Carrie Nation analogies. It labels Lowery as a church smasher and suggests Nation is in a just cause, arguing both are misguided and self-harming in their campaigns. The writer urges readers to view both figures as maniacs, few serious about their aims.
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Lowery
Carrie Nation
Kansas
Her Choice and The Countess Schmittwicky Row
A verse scene depicts John courting Ethelier who rejects marriage to become Mrs. Smith. A suave foreign suitor courts air Ethelred and wins the title Countess Schmittwicky, highlighting witty reception and social ascent.
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Midway
Greenwood
Nelson, B. C
THE
Victori]ac
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Slocan
Jan Bowes
Liekseker
Silverton’s
Bejhad
Jacob Dover
Canada
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Three Forks
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Silverton, B
A.N. Pelly
Vancouver
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Old Maid
Marino
Alexander
Marion
Silverton ’ Hewett
Marchduna
Sieverton Drug Store
Mias Kinter
Mies Parsons
Byron
Milwaukee
J. A. McKinnon
Miss McKinnon
Frank Byron
Monitor
Father Cote
Masa
St. Patrick’s Church
Anna Sanders
Phoenix
St. Patrick’s R. C. Church
St. Patrick’s
Post‘ Office
Union Church
R. J. Hamilton
John Cholditch &Go
J.A. McKinnon & Co
Nelson Board of Trade
Great Northern
East Kootenay
R. G. Daigle’s
Wm. Hunter Co
Sguare
Silverton Drug Store
Jim” Bowes
John Howe
Rod ‘Tolmie
Chicago
Edward VII
Duke of Cambridge
Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar
Lord Roberts
Lord Wolseley
Lintorn Simmons
Frederick Haines
Neville Chamberlain
Henry Keppel
Earl of Clanwilliam
Algernon Lyon
Frederick Richards
Nowell Salmon
Nelson Economist
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Ani
Public School’ ‘Report
Silvertots
George Horton
William White
Magan
Parsons
Silverrosius
John
Ethelier
Mrs. Smith
Countess Schmittwicky
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