The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-10-29


Nany thousand bead Of horses anu cat9
are being raised IN this district
The veins arr in most instances what a.
called geographical veins, or, a. soH
miners call them. blanket leads, VIII
others apparently are tr1e ASSURE veins
calcareous states. limestone aud dosorlt
The Tniaa and Old Sononaa claims sho
several lodges varying from one 10 tvo ies
q ore. principally ehalcacsee, assaying Iroi
sixty 10 40 ounces of silver per ton. No.
OF the work on these claims has been
stripping the various hedges and in sin Sin
several ten TO twenty feet shafts Ihel
are from twenty-five TO thirty Claims in q
line belt and all show similar ores, q
scription of one applying 20 most OF q
Others. as far az the limited developmsI
viii allow.
Thirty-two miles north of Ruby, st u
mouth of Toats Coulee, the supposed 81
Gent bed Of the SimihksTneen river,
Palmer's mounsain, rising northeast tro'
PalmersS lake On this mountain and a.
iacent thereto are number OF good show
ing claims, some OF them having shafts {
q hundred or more feet in depth and tar
neis from twenty 70 $50 feet.
The country rock is granite. horl
bIensiic and micaceous schists. serpenfin
and choritic rock, etc. The ores are bot
gold and silver of good grade. The COLO
generally found in honeyeambed quart
partly IS free gold and partly in the So
phides. The concentrates from this kin
Of quartz run from II 10 3 per cent. OF e
pulp and contain from $50 TO 81 900 per 70
of concentrates. the free gold in the qaart
running from one to twenty ounces b
amalgamation in fine or invisible goit
while many pieces are found with coarse {
string gold, wire gold and small nugget
Most of this kind of gold rock is found &
the surface. or at a depth of from ten i
twenty i've feet, when the ore changes
sulphides still holding geld. The silv
claims show antimonial copper and AM
moaial lead ore carrying silver. Silver s.
phides, such as areentities or silver glans
are in the lvanhoe IN large quantities.
Stephanite, s;Ilphiie Of sntimony al
silver, is OF frequent occurrence. Totrahe
rise, s sulphide Of copper, and antimoa,
carrying up 10 three per cent of silver.
Work is being pushed on severed clais
TO a considerable extent, and IN no ce
as far as heard from, without favoIase
showings. Owing to most OF the propeg
being in the hands of poor men, only s.
sessment work has been done on le
majority of the claims, bar NO one seas
to want to abandon their claims. for as I'll
none have looked untavorable If shown lp
at all.
Between Pglmer's lake and the Birth
lire is Wanicut lake. some foufmiles vst
OF the okanogan river and six or eht
miles south of the British line. A nuner
OF fine showing claims are situated arond
this lake
Several companies are already organed
and extensive work is promised in the lar
future. A consolidated company finn
Chicago, with capital of $500 900, bar a
group OF four claims, and have receily
Put down sixty-five foot shaft he
Lavinn company, with capital of S250p9,
have one claim with free-miIling gold lex
assaying by mill test $i29 per ton. Cher
companies have good silver prospects wich
they are now developing TO limiteex-
tent.
great many prospectors have cen
holding on to their claims for one, twolnd
three years unable to do more than heir
assessment work, inasmueh as buyers ave
been scarce, while transportation has cen
altogether too expensive for shippIngres
10 any reduction works.
Custom works somewhere in the contry
would enable many miner 10 disp0e of
his ore and continue the developnet of
his claim. There is no doubt whateve but
that more thar sufficient ores can be lid in
this way for alarge sized custom mill iork-
ing both gold and silver. pan arAlga-
ton or leeching process will work thebulk
OF The ores OF the entire district.
Good roads have been built so tbs the
ores could be readily hauled to th mill
from most localities and not much peking
would have TO be done as side road 4ould
easily be made in the majority of case,
There is no reasonable doubt BIT that
tunnels run in from the base OF Ruy Hill
viii find extensive ore deposits at aaepth
of , 600 TO 5000 feet. and as work has been
done on the top OF the hill along tie line
two or three miles in length with sTendid
results. the opportunity for extensie tun-
mel work can be appreciated.
Coal has been found in several localities
in this lime belt and awaits DEVELOPMENT
Fine iron ores, hematite and magnetic
oxide OF iron are abundant at yeyeral
points near here
Magnanese. nickel and bismuh ores
have been found III paving quantities.
Good cIays for brickmaking are Plentiful,
one yard being started last year md an
other projected, the brick being furnished
for SO per thousand.
Lumber is sold for from SIC TO sic per
thousand in the rough. Labor Is "a cheap
a ..ltar n
tons have been omitted in this report
either from lack of information or be.
cause not enough work has been done
TO make show OF il, although the surface
prospects give appearances as favorable as
in other parts Of the district.
Every week brings in accounts of new
finds ON the Methow and Pierce rivers,
around Lake Chelan tone OF the most pic
turesque bodies of water ia America. aud
destined to become great sumner resort),
from regions west of Wanicut Lake and
along the Similikameeu river IN the north
and various points TO the west OF Ruby.
Ruby canyon or gulch is natural bed
foT railroad, and well situated for mill
sites. having abundance OF water power
The near advent OF q railroad west frUr
Spokane Falls will reduce the cost of get,
ting in machinery and supplies at req
sonable figure. The time is nov sc hsul
when this district viii rank as ope OF the
most wonderful and best mineral produe-
ing localities IN the United States. as vel
as one Soyering the largest extent Of terri
tory and showing the greatest variety If
minerals.