The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-03-27
WHERE ROLLS TIlE 0Ilnoeln
TIE New County's Mineral and AZ
rieulfural Resources.

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ErlKssruss, March 81. .Messrs.
Hurley & Ballard jast returned from
the Salmon river mining district and
report the eamp booming. The ere
prospects lately broughs 20 light IN
the Lone Star mine, owned by hlIsn
c. Mason ef Tacoma and Mr. Law
renee OF Spokane Falls, are creating
much excitement and bringing Hzin-
ing men 10 the camp In great nun-
hers. The Arlington Mining Com
pAny 0f Portland Is steadily ~ work
on It's naine and haze struck . new
fivs-foot ledge branching from the
main ledge. The ore houses OF the
r<ssss pany are full Of ore Of fine q1zl-
ity amounting to several thousand
tens. The company viii locate reduc-
ton works at their mine at once, and
are making Arrangements Tor put In
machinery as soon as possible The
stock OF the Arlington has jumped
from IS cents to IS cents on the dollar
since last summer, and none on the
market now and cannot be had at
even that price. The Arlington COM
pany was the pioneer company in the
Ruby district and have already ex-
pended some $50, 90 In building roads
and developing their property under
81 xsf furaxhff<rf
Of Denver, Col. an experienced miner
and sbrewd baslness man. 70 whom
more than any one else Is due the
honor Of first showing his confidence
in the mex camp BY putting money in
it, DEVELOPMENT and making it his
permanent residence. Gov. Laught0n
Is developing much strength as prob
able candidate from tina. section TO the
constitutional convention.
The War Eagle mine is developed TO
depth OF 20 feet, and shows strong
and gradually increasing ore body of
great richness. probably the richest in
the camp 80 far as has been discov-
cred, and work i going on steadily.
The First Thought, lying adjacent 20
the Arlington. although not as well
developed as that mine. is the second
mine in the camp in point of develop
rnent, and promises 70 be everything
the Arlington is.
The past winter in Ruby and Sal
mon was duh one for the towns, but
everything is lively there now and the
hotels are full of investors and pros
pectors. The new road from Ellens-
burg TO the Columbia river will be q
godsend TO the camp, and will supply
the one thing needful to make it the
strongest camp OF modern times. viz. i:
good transportation. The belt of min
eral, OF which Salmon is only a small
fraction, virtually begins at Cle-elum.
and extends with uniform width OF
about 30 miles clear up into British
Columbia.
A company win operate and develop
mines in the Cle-elum district this sea-
son where fine properties are said 70
exist.
In the wenatchee AMI Chelan dis
tricts some good mineral indications
are found. and recent Developments
have proven the Methow TO be an
extremely rich mining country, where
considerable excitement has existed
the last few months owing to rich gold
and silver discoveries.
Going on above Ruby 10 the Wanna
cut Lake country rich gold mines have
lately been discovered. Just within
the last few weeks miner came into
camp bringing rock fairly studded with
pure gold. running no less than SIC, 600
TO the ton, and there, too, lies the fa-
nous Pinnacle, out OF which SIC. COG
was taken with simply a pick anG
shovel in few weeks, and shipped
through here In sacks to San Fran-
cisco.
Miners claim that far richer coun-.
try in minerals than any yet diseov.
cred is on the Colvllle Indian reserva.
ton, Just across the 0kanogan river
from salmon. but ii is watched g,
jealousy By the Siwashes that miners
cannot do any prospecting. Ii seems
too bad that about 400 Indians should
hold down about 1 COO, 900 acres of the
finest mineral and agricultural land in
the territory. especially when they
do not require il aud are in
capable of protiting by II, to
the exclusion OF thousands OF whites
whom if they were permitted would
make it blossom as the rose. Ii is be-
coming plain 20 everybody but the
Eastern gushers about poor Lo,"
who never saw a Siwash outside of d
Wild West show, that our reservation
system of giving the Indians the earth
Is fallacy, and as long as they are
hundred in their shiffiess, noTnadis
life they will never change it. and Just
so long will millions upon iniiiions ot
our finest acres be kept from needy
and worthy homesteaders. and some
of our richest mineral wealth remain
undeveloped. Chief Moses, the bloody
old butcher who recently at tribal
meeting held 20 establish court gov
eminent for the several tribes In east
ern Washington boasted that his arms
were red with white mems blood UP %
the elbows, finds balm for the on
preston of his race in an annuity frona
the government Of 5000 To keep hina
quiet. when the iuster and surer way
would be 20 dangle him from limb In
expiation of his many bloody crimes;
Chief Moses il the jay Gould of the
Siwashes. BY neat bat OF engineer
ing after the Indian outbreak in 1871,
of which he was the leader. he got
himself taken 10 Washington where
he represented himself as chief of all
the Indians in his section and signed
treaty giving away the lands of the
Methows. Chelans and 0kanogan In
tlians. who instead OF being of his tribe
had nothing to do with him and We're
mostly friendly to the whites, owing
70 the troubles. and to-day those
friendly tribes who hare not imhrussi
their hands in white mems blood are
without any territory OF their own.
and the bloody old butcher who WAS
The father of all the devilnient among
the Indians in 1879 is to-day rolling in
the wealth which these friendly In
dians' lands brought him in addition
10 his 5000 yearly pension from the
government
The Amphibious Lacfes OF Seattle.
Kansas City Times.
Col. John T. Crisp said on one of
the recent wet days: lyon are very