, 1890-08-07
THE KOOTENAI MINES.
Interesting Collection O
News From Nelson.
MORE OF THE SALE OF NO. l.
Victoria Merchants Severely Con-
domned-False Policy of the
Paternal Government.
Nelson lp. c.l Miner, July aal

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Last week a mining deal was
made that will result in much good
TO the I<ootenai lake country-the
Hot Springs camp In particular. IL
was deal that means mine develop
ment for ore, and not for specuia-
tive resale. The buyers, Mr.. Boyle
and DIR. Campbell, made the pur-
chascs for the syndicate who built
and own the smelter at Revelstoke.
The property purchased was the
whole Of the No. /, the whole OF the
United, two-thirds Of the Great
Eastern, and one-half Of the Jesse X.
The No. Is about three
and one-half miles west OF Aims
worth, and is the property
opened up by G. b. Wright, he hav-
ing bounded it In 1888. For some
reason the bond was allowed to
lapse, but not until So, 900 worth Of
ore was shipped from the mine-al-
though fully that much money
had been expended In develop
ment work. A tunnel nearly
400 feet In length was run, which
should have tapped the ledge at a
depth of 150 feet. An incline shaft,
all the way in ore, is down l75 feet,
and another, not In ore, Is down
about 100 feet. Three orfour shafts,
from forty to sixty feet in depth,
and all In ore, were also sunk. On
the property are all the buildings
necessary for Its development-good
buildings at that. After the lapse
of the bond--about year ago-the
original owners, n. Velnoweble aud
John Duncan, resumed operations
and shipped some $4,000 worth Of
ore. There Is now on the dump
fully forty tons of ore that will run
over 800 to the ton, and between
500 and 600 tons that will go from
$40 to $50 a ton. The purchasers
paid SIS, 900 spot cash for the prop
srty.
The United is located short dis
tance from the Krao, and Is an i'm
mense showing for a mine, although
but little work has been done on IL.
Soon after IL was discovered the
owners were offered s., 900 spot cash
for II, but the offer was promptly re-
fused. Since then the ledge has
been uncovered for distance of
seventy-five feet, showing a vein of
almost solid galena about eight feet
In width. The price paid Is said to
be 81 800 cash. The owners at the
time of the sale were Hugh and
Tom McGovern, owning quarter
each, and James +. Dolan, owning
half.
The Jesse r. and Great Eastern
are claims near the No. /, one of
them being an extension. Vel
noweble X Duncan own two-thirds
of the Great Eastern, Edward Bray
owns the other third; the former
also owned the jesse r., the other
half being owned by J. &. Rykert.
One thousand dollara in cash was
paid for the Velnoweble IL Duncan
interests
Work will be commenced at once
on the No. /, under the superin-
tendence of John Thompson. The
first work will he to run AN upraise
from the tunnel to connect with the
incline, to drain the latter, II being
purpose of the smelling company to
lake cut 1000 tons OF ore this fall for
shipment to Revelstoke; hut the
shipnent will depeTd on the early
completion of the yailroad from Mel
Bon to Sproat.
DIR. Campbell, the manager Of the
smelter, speaks highly of the camp,
saying that he never, In all his ex-
perience, saw better mineral show
Ing. AS an earnest OF his faith in
the country, he will, 1t is said, put
In concentrator and sampling
works mt or near Ainsworth.
Mr.. Boyle, who Is president of the
smelting company, left for England
on Tuesday, going out by way of
Bonner's Ferry to the Northern
Pacific. DIR. Campbell returned to
Revelstoke on Friday, expecting to
catch the Saturday boat vt Sproat.
VICTORIA MERCHANTS ENTITLED
TO NO CREDIT.
The following is from the Victoria
Times OF the 18th: "To-night the
City OF Kingston will take twenty
tons of groceries, shipped by Simon
Lesser, for Nelson. The freight will
be taken from the steamer at Ia.
coma, shipped over the Northern
Pacific railroad to Kootenai, Idaho,
and then by boat to Nelson. The
enterprise of local shippers In plac-
ing goods at such out-of-the-way
places Is only exceeded by the
stupidity of the govern ment, which
allows IA section of the country like
he district around Nelson to be
without proper means of communi-
cation" The enterprise of the
local shippers" indeed! The
''local shippers" Of Victoria have
done but little toward aiding
the pioneer merchants and min
ing men Of the Kootenai lake
country to obtain any facilities
whatever. If the "local shippers
of Victoria, one of whom is inem-
ber of the provincial government,
had foresight, the trade of this sec.
tion would not now be going to Spo-
kane Fails. Did the "local ship
pers" of Victoria use their influence,
or any pressure whatever, TO compel
the government to build wagon
road from the navigable waters of
Columbia to the nayigable waters of
Kootenai lake? On the contrary,
have they not aided and abetted
that governmentin handing us over,
bag and breeches, to the Canadian
Pacific's tender mercies? Have the
"locul shippers" of Victoria made u
single effort to compel the Dominion
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