The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-01


picturesqueness. The same brawnv miners
with Their sunburned faces and arms. the
PICK, shovel and upturned gold nan. the
cabin with its bachelors quarters. ali re-
mind Us forcibly of the DAYS gone by. and
take US back to the Argonauts who firs4
made pathway into the great Northwest
when the man who predicted a transcon,;'
mental railway within an ordinarv life t;,ns
was looked upon as insane. The mofhar
lode, which furnishes the gold for which
these hardy men are toiiinp has haen
sought for long and earnestly Int as vat
without avail. When found "A will h., .
bonanza to the lucky prosnector who
secures it. Where the swauk leaves the
Mountains large number of fine farms
are located, upon which good crops are
raised with very little irrigation. To the
Nor'nWest lies what Is known as the
cLE-ELuM DISTRICT.
In which many very good locations have
been made. Among these are the ..silver
Dump, "Silver King Madeline. can
rora, Mountain Sprite," BALD Eagle -
Ida Elmore, Fortune, n"Cle- Elumn and
Hawk mines, lying forty or fifty miles
north OF Ellensburg and about twentv-five
miles from Roslyn. Assays show the ore
from these claims to run from $40 tn SAX
per ton. Some very fine copper lodges
nave been located in this district and quite
large amount of development work done.
Inc copper ores assay from 80 to so per
cent copper and from $45 to 500 gold and
silver to the ton. Nine miles southwest of
Cie-Eium, between Whynemick and Ivapie
creeks, are thirty-four locations of iron ore
assaying from 80 to 80 per cent. iron and
80 In silver. These locations are made
upon SIX parallel lodes from four to eighty
feet wide and about thirty yards apart. In
TACT, there are whole mountains of iron
ore In the Cle-Elum district, and a test of
u was made at Ellensburg a few
Gays ago, IN common foundry
cupoia, the result being several bars
OF pig-iron of most excellent quality.
one mile west of the lodges mentioned
above Is 31z-foot vein of galena, carrying
% per cent. of lead and $3.50 in silver.
three miles further west are three parallel
iooes OF gold-bearing rock, carrying from
III TO Sl6 TO the ton on the surface. There
Is peculiar formation in that neighbor-
mood, covering about $500 acres, where
the country rock will assay from S1.50 to
70 per ton in silver. Coal indications are
seen upon every hand, and great lime
hedges look out from the hillsides, SEEM
ngiy begging for practical development,
mat blast furnaces may be built, rolling
mills constructed and armies of skilled la
Dor given employment in converting the
crude material so abundant on every hand
into the finished product which has made
pennsylvania the greatest state In America
today for laboring men. Four miles from
the little town of Cle-Eium and about
thirty miles from Ellensburgh is the coal
mining town of
RosLYN,
Containing about I,5OO people, who derive
their support from the coal mines operated
by the Northern Pacific Coal Company.
This company employees 960 men. and dur
ing the year just ended has shipped 49,
GOO tons of the best steam producing coal
In the state. During a number of months
within the year the output was small, due
TO many circumstances not necessary to
relate, but for the past three months the
yield has been 5000 tons per month. The
company's payroll foots up about 100000
per month, therefore Roslyn is looked
upon as good business point. The COM
pany is continually improving their works,
with view to increasing the yield, the de-
mand for this excellent coal being greater
than the supply. In addition to the large
number of white men employed by the
company about $50 colored men find en-
ployment in the mines. They were brought
by the company from the East at time
when strike was feared. Visitors at the
Spokane Exposition will remember the
great chunk of coal, weighing 9 800 pounds,
which was produced at Roslyn and attract
ed much attention from all who saw it.
All branches of business are established
at Roslyn, the Knights of Labor, Masons,
Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias have
strong organizations there; schoolhouses
and churches have been built, a good sys-
tenn of water-works constructed and the
citizens are justly proud of the little city
which they have hewn from the wilder
ness. Roslyn is one town where the COM
plant of dull times is never heard, because
it is supported by the tin bucket brigade,
that foundation of prosperity in every
country. Go where you will and if the
laboring classes are prosperous, there viii
you find happy, contented people, for the
entire system of our government rests
upon honest labor. Capital and labor are
each dependent upon the other and their
interests are identical. Four miles from
Roslyn and upon the the mainline of the
Northern Pacific is the town of
CLE-ELUM,
containing about 800 people. This little
city is supported by several sawmills, quite
a number of good farms in the vicinity,
and the many men necessarily employed
by the railroad company in making up
and handling the coal trains sent out from
Boslyn over its branch road. Two hotels.
a livery stable and a number of stores and
soloons are here to supply the needs of the
surrounding population. 1t is thought
that Cle-Elum viii make large place
some day, when iron works, coking ovens,
ETC., are built within its limits, and there
are many living there who do not think
that day for distant.
Ii is almost impossible in q newspaper
article to do justice TO a county whose
resources are so great and so varied as
those of Kittitas. With our whole noun
tains of raw material ready for the manu-
faeturer, our agricultural and horticultural
possibilities, of which | have not told a
1.-THE. the time will come when the hum of
machinery, the sound OF the pick, the
smoke of hundred furnaces and the
happy voices of thousands of con-
tented workmen, will make the
central county of the great State
of Washington not only the most
prosperous, but it will be the greatest
manufacturing center of the Northwest.
Its soil will be taxed to the utmost 10 sup
mort the small world of toilers within its
borders, pleasant homes will be built,
schools and churches established and the