The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-16
OKANOGAN COUNTY GOLD.
The Stamp Mill at Loomiston Manu-
featuring Yellow Bricks.


featuring Yellow Bricks.
LooxIsroS, Aug. Il.-TSpecial Core
spondence. IL have purposely delayed
writing you about the gold and concen-
frating mill erected by the Okanogan
Mining and Reduction Company at this
place until some results were shown that
would warrant space in the PosT-ISTEL-
LIGEscEa. The mill is a five-stamp one,
with pair of Evans tables. and is run by
a six-foot Pelton water wheel under
sixty-three-foot fall of water fiumed for
mile and half from Sinlahekin creek. It
started up July IS on low grade ore, to get
things in working order, but so far has not
shut down except for cleanup. and has
been running steadily day and night since
starting. The ore is obtained from the
Black Bear and War Eagle mines, and the
bulk of the first run from the former claim.
The first thirteen days gave a cleanup of
six bricks, weighing over twenty pounds
troy, of III fine gold. Since then the run
has been on higher grade ore.
The mines have several hundred tons of
ore on the dumps and large force of men
are now at work at further development
and working both properties.
The mill is decided success, and as the
returns so far are from only the free gold,
the concentrates, which are not slow, will
cut quite figure. Further statistics are
not available yet, as the company operat-
ing the mill desire them for their meeting
on the 18th. 1t IL Northumberland
rumor, however, that an additional five
stamp battery will be ordered in the near
future.
The results obtained by this, the first
mill in Okanogan county, will attract
more attention to this section, and our
waiting for four years in faith without
transportation may yet make Seattle find
pass through the Cascades to this coun-
try, which most surely is now putting on
its first pair of breeches. You shall soon
have resume Of work done and showings
made by some OF the best claims of the
Wannacut lake and Palmer lake districts,
which need but the bare truth, easily sub
stantiated, to prove up our country as o
great mineral section of Washington.
Another cleanup made today, after a
run of forty-eight hours, gave two bricks,
weighing l0h pounds troy, of 7S6 fine gold.
Eliensburs Excited Over Mining Matters
ELLESsBURe. Aug. Is. - Especial. l.
Twenty prospectors are in town today get
ting ready TO go up to Menastash canyon.
The road is we'll dotted with pack horses.
Senator Wilson, who has lived in the min
ing regions a large part of his life, has just
returned. He says he is amazed at the
magnitude of the lodges, some of which
have been traced two miles. He SAYS if
the ore averages SIS, which is one of the
lowest average assays, it is the biggest
thing in the world and will make a second
Denver of Ellensburg. He reports the
hills above the forks of the Menastash full
of prospectors. New lodges are being To-
Gated every day. He and II. C. Walters,
G. w. Elliott, s. NJ. Danaher and E. ii.
Remington had county surveyor with
them locating the boundaries of their
claims.
The excitement here over both the Men,
astash and Swauk regions is very high.
Several parties are already preparing to go
onto claims in the former canyon. Pros
pectors arriving today included i've Mon
tana men and one from New York.