Old Timer's Column The Bonners Ferry HeraldApril 17, 1914

Paul Flynn Boundary County Historian

Mining World Shows Activity

The mining activity in this section is showing much activity and prospects for a ;large development during the coming summer and most promising, according to A.J. Kent of this place. 

Mr. Kent is deputy mineral recorder for the Moyie Yacht Mining District and is in close touch with mining matters.  The Moyie Yacht District covers all the territory in Northern Idaho in the drainage of the Moyie and Kootenai rivers.

The location attracting most attention at present is on the Moyie River where miners have located practically every foot of the ground from Meadow Creek to the mouth of the stream, and extending in width from 1 mile to 1 1/2 miles.   There is a placer proposition and the gravel runs about 30 cents to the yard.

Here Turner Brothers are working on a large scale.  They recently bought out their partners, paying the LaFountain Brothers $15,000 and Harry Falk $5,000 for their stock. 

The new company is now building 2 1/2 miles of flume, have plenty of water and will have three giants in operation within 60 days.  Forty men are employed and more will be put on later.

Something new in the mining game was opened up recently when Donahue Brothers struck a copper vein about one and a half miles from Copeland.  Two shifts of workmen have tunneled in about 60 feet where they struck a four-foot ledge that runs about $48 a ton and which is improving fast as development continues.

Another property that is showing activity is the Idaho Gold Radium Mining Co. on Boulder Creek.

 This company is building a six-mile ditch and will soon have two or three giants at work.  The gravel will average 11 cents to the yard.

G.N. Trains Must Run Slower

That there is great danger to the public on account of the speed with which the Great Northern fast mail train passes through the city was the unanimous opinion of the city council at the session Tuesday. It was agreed the speed of the train must be reduced. 

The matter had been previously taken up with the company, and a letter was read stating that the speed, while passing though the city, would be reduced to 25 miles an hour, the previous rate having been from 35 to 40 miles. 

The council still insists that the reduced speed would be excessive, and the company will be asked to operate this train at a speed not faster than 15 miles an hour.

Due to the fact that the track takes a sharp curve throughout the city and passes three crossings, there is great danger to the public. 

 A serious accident was barely averted a few days ago when the driver of the school wagons pulled his team onto their haunches just in time to avoid being struck by a train.  The wagon was full of children, and the possible result had an accident occurred can easily be imagined.

Carload of Autos Arrive

The carload of Ford automobiles, which the local agent, Dr. C.E. Moore recently ordered arrived here Wednesday from Detroit, Mich.

The machines are being set up by Moore and Claud Hydorn.

The 1914 Ford is quite an improvement over the Ford of former years.    The body has more graceful lines and is highly re-inforced while the engine of the machine is also improved in many ways.

Briefs

Andrew Lund of Moravia had his index finger of his right hand amputated at the Bonners Ferry hospital Tuesday. His finger was badly bruised a couple of weeks ago where it became caught in a knot of a rope with which he was leading a horse.

The senior class of Bonners Ferry High School gave a very successful dance Monday evening at Kent’s Hall.  The house was decorated with pennants streamers, etc., bearing the class colors.