A Daily Star man visited Caribou yesterday and returned wih enough mining news to fill a Sunday paper, but lack of space forbids other than brief reference to it.
Two miles of cable have been stretched on tramway No. 1 and two weeks more of favorable weather will see the completion of the nearly four mile stretch.
The steamer Gleaner made a special trip frum Caribou to Conrad City yesterday, carrying a full cargo of supplies for the Conrad mines. As the steamer is expected to tie up for the winter on October 27th, she will be busy until that date taking in goods sufficient to keep the mines stocked until the ice is in fit condition for freighting.
There are now 75 tons of ore from the Montana mine in the Caribou warehouse awaiting shipping orders.
Col. Coorad states that during the coming winter be will expend from one
and a half to two million dollars in the erection of four new tramways, three concentrators and a smelter, this outlay being justified by recent development on the various properties, which are proving richer and developing larger ore bodies with every shot.
Extremely rich ore has been discovered in the "Big Thing" group where
a ledge from 30 to 36 inches wide in the Thistle claim goes 1300 ounces in silver with some gold. While the Aurora is thought to be even richer than the Thistle, no work is being done on it owing te the heavy fall of snow which prevents getting in material with which to build winter quarters for the miners.
Great disappointment is felt by Hon. Edmund Bristol M. P. and Col. Conrad at their inability to house their men for work on some of their properties this winter, but on other of their claims fifty men will be employed, and during the winter ore will be freighted over the new government road at the rate of from 50 to 100 tons daily.
Material for another tramway will be sledded over the mountain this winter. It will be five miles long and will have a daily capacity of 500 tons.
Increased impetus has been given the Windy Arm mining district by the recent purchase of two claims, the Dail property, by T. M. Daulton, of Seattle, for $105,000. Mr. Daulton will begin active work on his newly acquired property early in the spring.
