, 1889-01-10
Great Developments in That
Promising Region.
What is Being Done in the
Mines and Claim Work.
n Mine bonded by n Syndicate for s.oo,-
600 In the Chloride District
The Copper Market.

The summer scene is as beautiful rs imag
ination can paint IL and its accessibility
then, too, 10 ~ easy as any mining cam
in the Northwest. Winter sees change
the place being bleak and white and shut
out from oil travel; still 1t presents q very
busy aspect this winter, there being about
100 men at work and many others winter
early, and boom it will, IL the old pros.
pector's legends and the way they are in.
tended, 90 for aught--that 10, booms come
big every calender year ending with a
nine, and az to the Interpretation there
il IL, Kootenai first, last and all the time.
As to the claims. work is progressing
well and Developments fully equal to ex'
pectatious. The most notable improve
ment 10 In the Blue Bell claim, the only
one ever partly opened on the east side Of
the lake. At . depth of 1875 feet it now
shows forty feet of conceL t'atipg ore.
with ore still in the face of the cross-cut
and the ore shows marked improvement
in grade over the surface prospect, now
running FROM 25 TO 40 ounces as against
~ TO 20 on top. This is the big claim Of
the camp, but like many other very large
ones It does not grade up in assay value
with the majority OF smaller ones.
The Krao (the frat ore shipped from
British Columbial this fall opened
y A fsfcH SHOOT
Of sulphide ore, with wire silver massed
together in places through IL and at pres.
ent Q force 10 at work sinking to catch the
vein at 40 feet depth. At present there Is
NO telling what the result will be.
Certainly the prospects are very rosy for o
great strike. This shvot dips straight un.
der cave over 100 feet long. which theory
says was formed by 9 body resettling
after formation. most Of the crude ore be-
ing carbonate and very soft. Theory
may be right.
mer's biz fnds. is being opened by a tun.
mel 10 tap the vein at about 200 feet depth.
The surface work resulted in the shipment
this fall of twenty tons of 200-ounce ore,
and when top work ceased the prospects
fully justified the driving of the tunnel
200 feet lower. The spring will see this
tunnel completed, a. the work 10 being
pushed with vim.
The Little Donald is being opened with
good sized crew of men. IL shipped
at present could duplicate the shipment.
All work is done directly on the ledge. which
il large and reasonably soft; still water
has started progress somewhat. The
claim certainly shows to advantage over
this falls appearance. az the ore has
steadily improved in value, ore small
seam running about 1900 ounces per ton,
While the oulk of ore averages about l5O
ounces.
The result of the development of this
claim and new and grand strike on
THE SPOKANE CLAIM
Has induced the owners of the Maestro,
lying between the two, to put on force
at once and open up. The Spokane strike
referred to is in vain on the property
heretofore considered secondary to the
vein upon which the work was done last
summer, and upon which the sale of a
portion of the property was based and
which on the surface showed merely a
large vein of quartz, With specks Of metal
scattered throughout it. The unex-
pectedly early closing of the Kootenai river
last fall prevented its owners getting in an
ample winters supply of provisions so they
left but one man with the
property and he has made his
pressure felt by working at the hapdiest
place on the claim and uncoveriag about
i've feet of mineral assaying forty-five
ounces of silver and about fffty-fve per
cent Of lead.
OF the Gallagher family of claims. the
by force of six men. who are sinking,
bat the coming week will cross cut and tap
the vein at seventy feet deep. Fifty-two
tons of 1l5.ounce ore were shipped from
his claim this fall and all taken out in
sinking but eighteen feet, and all mined
and sacked by one man fast enough to
keep fifteen-animal pack train at work
getting the ore to the lake. This claim
was discovered last June and the shipments
of ore in 30 short time, considering that
four miles Of expensive trail had to be
An rl kvSs1ltnno of
tense erected, as well as getting in the
fret pack train ever at the lake, speaks for
itself, and add to this that the claim shows
more of the same kind of ore that was
taken out and you have pretty
GOOD PROSPECT
for mine. The present sinking was be.
gnn on rich shoot of ore, but after fol-
lowing it north to its dip it gradually
turned to the west. and rather than
butcher up the shaft it was decided to sink
straight down, tap the vein, and if o. X.
drift out to the surface and at the same
time drive deep down tunnel.
The Daddy Gallagher has sunk "a feet
this winter and shows about the same
characteristics as its relative,
LET HER GO GALLAGHER,
but the ore SO far is not SO high grade nor
20 abundant. The Whoa Gallagher,
Young Gallagher aud Gallagher's Grave
are idle for the winter, but they will be in
the hunt another year.
The Now Then is gradually improving
on it's fine appearance of the past fall and
mas large vein with very rich ore distrib
uted somewhat and an abundance of fair
paying ore in sight.
The claims above mentioned are the only
ones being worked. beyond necessary as
easements this winter, and by spring
developments should demonstrate to a rea.
sonable certainty the per.nanency of the
camp. The ores from nearly all the claims