The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-10-28

p.,uA.rrs MINES. Mo r. IL. NJ.
~ .,;or partner, and half o~ne:
|ste ..lebrsted Cooper 4 Lo 'kwood
y Inc 10 the Yakins country,
- = n, !. Yesterday and from him
~ % y .ome interesting items con.
IN. cold mines in the Eastern
~ ~ = oar Territory. In the first
- o Iii state that there are no
- e .ssn s there, nor could any
S1 = interest in either OF the
= m .hsll mention, for love nor
- - ar readers may be assured
|bcg ;,sormation given by US is re.
tpe %ssse mines were discovered
~ -. 80. Years ego; but only for the
~ 80 have they been worked
= s!tent. Quartz mining unless
Il 9 4, large capital is necessarily
- and these mines have sup
sssrselves from the day they
s;ssoyered. Roads have been
= ss;ldings erected. water wheels
.s;.ery nut in at . great expense
-. hands hired, and every
~ has pail for all this work
:.n,o,emsnts has been taken
.he mines. At frst the quartz
ssssd or pulverised by pounding
: - rocks. This process was slow,
n. .en could make more than ex-
"a they finally had money
3 pot in wster-wheels and
Ths next thing was TO build
- c,sr which they could haul their
-. b the machinery, which cost q
4, # usaey This road is now COM
y. ssd they sre working up rock
4. I .,,rsees from fifty dollars to one
ssar,d dollars per ton. The Cooper
! Ioctvood claim is four hundred
: i'd by four thousand feet long.
= i iour different places has this rich
= I'm discovered. They are now
'...l;ar in to find if this rich lead is
.sdupous % they suppose, and if it SO
s.,.s they will immediately put in
..soa 10 be run by their turbine
~ slready in use, and then Mr..
esssr ,ays be would not thank any
= d insure them from fifty to one
l.a,sd and fifty dollars per day. The
- Quartz yet struck, however. is
- Broshay claim. In this ledge,
n !, what Is known by miners as .
800, the rock of which will actual
/ III from two to three thousand
In VT ton. The other quartz in
y nine 10 about the same ss in the
Cspss snG Lockwood ledge. but this
ana i almost a pillar Of gold. The
~ diggings in the country are also
,rsi,e veil. We were shown one
men which came from the claim
IN owned by Mr.. Kelly, who rep
I'D Pierce County in the Legisls.
md 1876, which weighed twenty
4 dolIsrs. 1t was as handsome q
~ Of gold as we ever saw. Mr..
ape had . number of other speci.
~ Of gold from his own mine, as it
~ out after being crushed and anal.
unsied. That vast field of gold east
III mountains has never been half
inspected. All the mines that have
N discovered are now taken up. but
N gre miles and miles of country
lovn % be rich in the precious metals
that section; over which the foot OF
N had never trod. Mr.. Cooper ID
] bic way 70 Salem. Oregon, where
! family reside. He leaves his son
'nprssent him in the mines and will
Iafn early In the Spring. He has pros.
It'd considerably and states that he
Hisaud gold in paying quantities in
~ places within an area of twenty
n irom his own claim. It is not
Rialention to get up . mining ex-
lsaent. but these facts are given nj
" gentleman above mentioned
~ vsracity is beyond question y
F1gach. and we venture the asser tiol
\ TIC richest and most extensiv,
~ mines as we'll IS placer digging
linerics. will be discovered and de
~ in the eastern portion of ou'
dzassy within . very few years
- hurry up the s. & w. w. r. r
~ reach the Yakima valley b,
alll Of 1880. It costs those peopl,
!Abo70 per ton on all their frsigh'
y ~