THE WEST SHORE. 39 fipsfS THE Philadelphia Mining and Smelt ing Company of Kpt chum, Idaho, shipped 2G9 car loads of twelve tons each of bullion from the Wood River mines, during the six months from May to November, 1883. The smelter consists of two 40-ton and two 50-ton stacks. The compnny handles ore from more than eighty mines. The general average yield is 149 per ton, and the average price paid for ore is $102 per ton. E. Green is General Manager of the company and G. B. Moulton is Superintendent. During the same period 3,322 tons of crude ore worn shipped from the same region. These figures embrace only shipments by the Oregon Short Line since it was completed to Wood River. D. 0. Crane has invented a machine for saving the fine flour gold of Snake River, and if it will do what is claimed for it, that stream will be mined for 300 miles along its course in Idaho. Instead of being exposed to one surface as on the ordinary plates in this machine it is not only exposed to many surfaces, but by the mo tion of the shaft and the wings is thrown against the interior of the cylinder. The inside of the machine and also the wings are quicksilvered, so that the gold will adhere. In working tests near Blackfoot it is claimed that every particle of gold was saved." A new method for separating gold from sand without the aid of water is reported to have been discovered. A wheel, fifteen feet in diameter, throws sand by centrifugal force against a moving surface of mercury, which amal gamates the gold, while an air blast blows away the sand, This is a new application of the old style of " dry wash ing" used by the Mexicans and in California in early days. The new concentrating works of tne Helena Mining and Reduction Company, at Corbin, Montana, are the most complete in the Territory. They have a capacity of 125 tons in twenty-four hours, and cost in the neighbor hood of $60,000. It is located midway between Jefferson City and Wickes, and will treat the ores of the Alta Mine chiofly. ' The transfer of coal properties at Coos Bay to outside capitalists has been followed by on increased output A new iron collier is being constructed to run from there to San Francisco, and the outlook for greater development of the mines at Coos Bay is very bright A rich ledge of carbonate and galena was discovered last summer on the Columbia, twenty miles above the mouth of the Spokane, and is now being thoroughly prospected. The vein is eight feet wide. Wood and water are abundant The quartz of the Cariboo and Independence mining districts, near Deer Lodge, Montana, is attracting con siderable attention from capitalists. The smelter recently erected at Stevensvillo. in Mis soula County, Montana, is proving a great Bucoess. Sampling works will be erected at Dillon. Montana. in the spring. m i m INDUSTRIAL NOTES. The shipment of spars from Pucot Sound to Eastern and Australian shipyards is increasing. The new saw mill at Port Ludlow. W. T.. htm hwn running several weeks. An electric light is used to illuminate the mill anil wharf at night A Baw mill, with a daily capacity of 40.000 foot was recently completed at Springbrook, at the mouth of the JNasel lliver, seven miles from Oystervulo, W. T. The several lime manufacturers on Orcaa Island. i Puget Sound, did a flourishing business the past year. inreo arms shipped ou.ouu barrels, principally by the schooner Ruallor. A saw mill, with a capacity of 80,000 foot per day, is being constructed on Big Potlatch Frairie, in Nez P.orco County, Idaho. Settlers in that region have folt the need of a mill severely. The Echo Roller Mills of Spoknno Falls have been running Bince November. The present capacity is ICO barrels of flour, but the mills are ho planned that this can be increased to 800 barrels daily. A match factory has been established at Albany, Or., which will have a capacity sufficient to supply tho whole trade of the Northwest Tho proprietors are exiorienood manufacturers and capable of producing superior goods. The salmon canneries of British Columbia, located chiofly on FraBor River, Smith's Inlet and Skeona and Naas rivers, have an invested capital of $1100,000, employ 2,500 men, and put up alxmt 250,000 cases of minion annually. Last year 7,000 barrels of the fish were salted. The Chehalis is rapidly becoming one of the groat lumbering streams of the coast Eligible timlter lands are in great demand Several new saw mills are being erected at various points. One on Thayor's Island, in Gray's IIarlxr, is nearly completed, and will have a daily capacity of 100,000 foot At Eugene City 20,000 bottles of cider were put up lost year by W. II Abrams, who is also engaged in dry ing fruit by the evajioration process. His establishment has a capacity of 300 bushols of apples and 200 of plums daily. This is a business that should receive more atten tion. Oregon fruit can in this way bo rendered highly profitable and independent of fluctuating markoU. The works of the Skidgatn Oil Company are located on Graham Island, and consist of boilers, retorts, drying pans, settling tanks, etc. The oil of the dog fish, whoso liver yields eighty per cent of oil of a light amlior color, is refined by the company. The fish are caught in deep water with trawl lines, as many as 250 being taken at one lifting of tho trawls. This oil is coming into genoral use as a lubricator.