, 1889-06-06

each carrying 200 pounds OF provisions
and tools, Ia due cour~ Of time they
eamp-d . stream callrd Salmon river.
which empties Into Pend d'Oreile lake.
One day v half breed in their employ
while out hunting. found the ou'crop OF
the Silver King mite. He took back TO
| camp some Of the 6ue ore that haa made
their claims famous. They Immediately y
moved up onto Toad mountain. where the
orr WAS found, and ~ there was no one in
the country at that time they did not
make any locations. hut made their plans
for the next season 3 operations. IL July
81. after the snow had entirely disap-
pearrd. they returned and located the
Silver king. Kootenai Bonanza and A mer-
Ican Flag mines. Al told since that
time they have only shipped about fifty
tons OF mineral, but II has b.en exception
ally
RICH IN SILVER AND COPPER.
and carried some gold; they have a large
amount OF first and second class ore
mined, while the development of the leads
places many hundred, or thousands OF
tons in sight. The ores from Theses mines
and from the entire district are very rich,
one shipment OF twenty two tons sent to
Butte. Montana, netted the owners $1,000
Subst qurnt prospecting has proved that
iOdu lb Nv u ItTItCJ
network of lodps that bid fair 10 be as
valuable as the Hall brothers property ,thi,
is especially true of the Dandy, owned
by Messrs Kelley, Cook Il Fox, this claim
IL situated ou the same VEIN az the King
and bonanza, Just north OF the Silver
King in the depression OF the mountain
formed by Give Out Creek, aud has an ad.
diIional value from the fact that it is the
key to the big mines above. The Tough
Nut, owned Gy Dolan Il Morrow Is also
located on this great wien.
THE TOUGH NUT
Ia quite we'll developed and the writer be.
iie,es has been sold to u syndicatc repre-
s-nted bv Major G.. b Wright. l.. G.
DiIlman Is the owner OF the Water jacket,
nm extension, and no doubt has u
6ne property. The lroqnois, Grizzley
and number of other claims could be
mentioned and described which would
make interest n9 reading to mining men.
On the easterly slope of Toad niouItain
gold ores have been found and u number
of locations made The Victoria, owned
by CobsuRh & White. and the Starlight,
owned by Topping ~ Lay, show up we'll
and average SIX feet or more in width.
Six miles up Cotton wood creek from Mel
son is the property of an English company
who own several ,old cla,ms, and who are
now having Two small Huntington mills
packed in to reduce the quartz.
On the opposite side of
Cottonwood creek. from the Hall brothers,
Dr.iIoBan. N. L. Noon, I. C. Collins and
Charles Ewing have several silver-Ralena
lodges which pi iospect fair and yield high
assays in silver. They have large bodies
of concentrating ore.
Seven miles below Nelson, on Eagle
creek is
THE POoRMAN,
q gold mine owned by Nail & McDou9all.
They have a shaft twenty.six feet in
depth and a cross. cut tunnel cutting the
ledge at depth of ninety feet.
II Is estimated with this small
amount of development that there is
at least $l50,000 in sight. Such
briefly, Is mention of a q few of the
mineral locations made in the sections
named, many others could be named equal.
ly rs good and promising as those des.
cribed, bat space forbids. There ale no
townsite booms in the country, everything
stands on it's merits, the laws of British
Columbia concerning mining claims are
superior to those of the United States TOR
the protection of the prospector and capi-
talist. X. II. KEMP.