, 1889-05-02
SPOKANE SHELTER.
Formal Steps TO ward Securing
the Prize.
A Meeting OF Business Men for
That Purpose.
A Newspaper Mans Opinion Of the Okan.
ogan District--A Miner Who Canned
with the Mother Lode.

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He Try b Clifford, a mining engineer
from New York City, accompanied by his
private secretary, Il. Gershel. arrived in
this city yesterday. A REVIEW reporter
called on the gentlemen at the Pacific for
the purpose of obtaining AN interview.
Mr.. Clifford among his other credentials,
exhibited an autograph letter from COL
onel Robert u. lngersoll, VINO set forth in
the letter the object of Mr.. Cliiforo's visit
to the Northwest. Mr.. Clifford stated to
the reporter that one Of his objects WAS to
erect warehouses and establish samping
works 70 as to purchase and store ores.
and to look no central points for the es-
tablishinH of smelling plants. As a meet
ing had been called ut the office Of A. A..
Newbery TO consider the proposition 1t was
deemed advisable to drop the interview
and ascertain what the meeting would de-
velop.
BY 8 80 o'clock the following named gen.
tlemen h, d assembled in Mr.. Newbery q
office under the First National bank: j. ID.
s |. Silverman, T.. }. Webster, FL .Carrel,
|. s. Kaufman, Il. Bolster, S. Oppen-
heimer, e. h. Burns, j. w. Chapman, n.
b, Nichols, Henry B.. Clifford and b.
Gershel.
The meeting was an informal one, hav-
ing more the appearance OF q social chat
than an mblaRe conducted under par
liamentary rules and usages. Yet Mr.
Clifford stated the object of his visit. He
advocated the idea OF sending o reliable
man TO make an examination of the sur
rounding mineral districts, but more par
ticularly that along the line of the Spo-
kane q Northern, he to report as to the
mines and the quantity of huxes, such as
q nd lima That rnulA ha nhta;nal
that when any one came here with the
idea of looking into the smelling PROPOSE.
tion they could be confroated with facts
and figures. He thought the citizens should
move IN the matter even If they did not
break ground at once, and stated that had
Spokane Falls taken step In this direction
u year ago the scheme of starting smelters
Clifford addressed the meeting, and in ad-
dition to that already stated said that he
would personally visit the several districts
and satisfy himself as to what they could
produce. II he decided to erect smelter
here he would only want ten acres Of land.
and would bny that. He did not want the
citizens to subscribe auy honus to the en-
terprise. Ii all was satisfactory he would
like TO break ground in three or four
months from date, but in the meantime he
would be establishing his sampling works
and warehouses In remote districts where
in the future we're probability,
aud he would like to hear from some of
the gentlemen present regarding the mines
to the north of this city.
II was stated 0y one Of the speakers
that there was no development TO speak of
on any Of the mines around Colville, that
they were but prospects. Yet since July
1885, over $500, 900 worth of ore had been
cayoted out of the Old Dominion mine, the
In naot nk ,uk.s snh al,
per ton; the mine had been managed In u
crude way and the deepest workings were
at Tacoma and Seattle would not have
been thought OF. u was Jos. X. Toole,
late delegate to congress- from Montana.
that first called Mr.. Clifford's attention to
Spokane Falls as smelling center, but
since he had come here and looked into
the matter he WAS of the opinion that one
could not exist without the friendship of
the railroads; yet no considered this a
grand point FOR an extensive smelling
plant, Messrs. Sherwood, Taylor and
others explained the reasons why the Col
VILE smelter was failure. At this point,
on motion of II. Bolster, the meeting
chalrm He formally introduced Mr..
Clifford to the persons present, and ex.
planned the object of the meeting. Mr..
only l20 feet on an incline.
In the Colville, on Clugston creek, in
the Little Dalles and in Summit districts
there we're number of prospects that
produced plenty of good grades of dry
ores; there were also large quantities OF
hematite of iron and lime rock In that Sec
tion.
|. S. Kaufman concurred in this view of
the situation and stated that there were
hundreds Of tons OF ore en- the many
dumps.
W. H. Taylor stated that T. +. Oakes,
of the Northern Pacific. had informed
him that when Spokane Falls was ready to
establish smelter the rates on ore and
fuel over that road wonld be made salts
factory. He had little faith in the Tacoma
works and thought but little Of them.
+. J. Carrel was Ot the opinion tn at the
Colville smelter never could be mace to
pay, for the reason that 1t was too small,
and too far from fuel, but was of the opin-
ion that large works would pay we'll at
this point.
After Mr.. Clifford announced that he
would start on his tour of observation to-
day, she meeting adjourned.