, 1890-09-11

OFFICIAL tour OF the Okanogan cOun-
try, came upon them. The geol-
ogist had been investigating the
mineral formation of the Wannicut
lake district and had proposed fin
ishing his york there with look
over Palmer mountain. He struck
Nelson and Ryan's camp at dinner
time and was forced to partake of
the last that remained of their
grub" Then they got to talking,
and when Nelson and Ryan told
him Of their find and their sltua-
ton, he ut once demanded to see the
property. Bethune was astonished
when he got into that mine. Pos
sibly his visit there, its results and
what he found and thinks concern
ing the property, are best told in his
own words. He recounted each to
the Globe man while both were
seated In his office yesterday.
BETHUNE INsPEcTs THE NINE.
III got up there about, we'll its
nearly two months ago. began Mr..
Bethune, "and / found the boys
had the richest mine have struck
yet In all Eastern Washington. l
found them flat broke, too, and
nearly out of grub. Well, l asked
to SEQ the mine and they showed 1t
to me. They had named it The
Bunker HILL and II most appro-
pirate title / think for 1t, for 1t is
situated upon Palmer mountain
near the summit of the surround
ing country. / never saw such
quartz in the Northwest before. 1t
was literally running over with
gold. Free gold-bearlng ore, mind
you, with u vein of IL nearly solid,
two and half feet between walls.
AS staked of, located and recorded
by Nelson and Ryan In the re-
corders Office In Conconully,
the Bunker Hill Is the regu-
lation size, l,500x800 feet. AS
soon rs they recorded 1t, the
men did the first years assessment
work on the mine. This was last
spring year ago. They kept pros
pecting it all year, but tins spring
began work I'm earnest, and were
just about long enough TO go away
and earn stake with which to
continue operations when 1 ran on
to them, as have told you. They
had worked systcmatica strip
ping the lode and uucovering u
nicely defined vein of two and
half feet of ore between walls.
Along the vein they opened 1t up
In three different places, about 800
feet apart. l should judge, They
have driven tunnel In for dis
tance of sixty feet, tapping the vein
at about 100 feet from the apex.
This tunnel and its result demon
strates conclusively the permanency
of the vein. Its ore Is all free gold
and sulphurets, and samples taken
haphazard from this vein will aver
age $40, 600 to the ton in gold.
"This rich vein cuts the formation
obllquely. demonstrating ii to he
true fissure vein and assuring its
permanency and wealth of it's ore.
The hanging wall found To be of
serpentine and slate, the foot wall
of horn blendic and schist. The
vein has a dip to the east of about
five degrees, as you see being almost
perpendicular in character, with a
strike bearing north and south.
The vein matter itself Is of white
quartz carrying sulphnte of iron,
zinc and gold In this vein the pay
streak carrying gold is on an aver
age six inches in width, carrying
this latter uniformly, If anything,
widening as 1t goes down. 1t is
from this streak that ore averaging
500, 600 to the ton can be taken its
entire length as far as opened.
Their pay streak ore genera will
easily go 81. 500 to the ton, W the
balance of the vein (secoud-class ore)
will run all the way from $3.50 to
$500 to the ton In free gold. Con-
from 800 to S400 n ton.
"I think the Bunker Hill property
the most promising in this state.
told the boys so when examined
IL and its very fabulous promise
made me look over IL closely. As a
result of my investigations l decided
that tunnel driven from natural
site which found down the noun
tain would tap the vein ut driven
distance of about 800 feet, Mt Il depth
in the vein of about 700 feet. 1t
would cut this vein and also several
other big leads, such as the famous
War Eagle, Black Bear, and other
mines now well known for their
gold bearing rock. With this tunnel
driven and n few tunnels run the
mine could easily keep II ten-stsmp
mill going constantly, and should
the tunnel tap the vein as believe
1t will at depth of about 700 feet,
there would be enough stopping
ground in the mine to work from
twenty-five to thirty men right
along.
"If 1t il worked thoroughly and
presage the Bun
ker Hill mine will inside of two
years be the peer of any gold bearing
property in the country. estimate
that the ore can be mined for $3.50 a
ton. With n stamp mill built at the
mouth of the tunnel, where an un-
limited and virgin water power is
to be had, ore could be millod at an
expense of not more than $1.25 a
ton, making the total expense Incl
dent to mining and milling but
$4.75 per ton. A man milling twen-
ty tons of that class of ore day
would soon, as we put it, show up
with big dividend. The ore is
of the free milling variety and can
be easily crushed In the
California quartz mill, the
stamps being run by water power.
A ten-stamp California plant would
cost not to exceed $4,000 or $4,000.
After milling the ore the sulphurets
could be piled up for the railroads.