The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-23


His ORG runs about 2G0 ounces of silver and 50
per cent lead. The Dardanelles is getting out q
sample shipment of ten tons, averaging 400
ounces of silver and 50 per cent. lead. The
Whitewater has made sample shipment OF ten
tons, assaying 146 ounces OF silver. The Well
ington IL making . great showing, but 10 not
shipping. Burke & Garrison are doing some de-
velopment on the Blue Bird. a contract has
just been lot for thirty miles of road from Kaslo
to Cody creek, near the mines, which 10 to be
completed to the Lucky Jim, the nearest claim,
by December /. At present they are paying $i5
ton freight to the lake, but the completion Of
the road will reduce this to IS to $40 to Kaslo,
and from there the freight Ia Is to any Of the
smelterA The Spokane Falls & Northern rail-
road was about finished to Northpost, ten miles
south OF the boundary. when passed through.
and the survey for the Nelson & Fort Sheppard
il finished, 20 that 1t IL ready for construction
next year.
A chuple Of prominent Eastern mining men
were registered at the Northern yesterday.
They were 8. 8. Curry, president and general
manager Of the Metropolitan Iron and Land
Company OF Milwaukee, and G. Weatherston.
superintendent of the Ropes Gold and Silver
Company OF Ishpeming. The Metropolitan IL
one OF the greatest iron mining companies in
the world. Its properties consist of the Norrie
and other mines in the Gogebic range, near Ash.
land, Wis. Last year the compAny's mines pro.
dnced ,200, 600 tons Of ore, and this year the
product will be over 1,00o,o coo tons. The Ropes
gold and silver mine 10 located about i've miles
from Ishpeming, Mich. and IL the only gold
mine being worked in that state. SIT is not .
very profitable property. however," said Mr..
Wsatherston. "We have invested in the prop
erty some $50, 000 and have only taken from It
$4,000, and it has been worked at = loss from
the beginning. The ore IL gold and silver, and
assays about IS. of which we save about so per
h. ~ 2 &C. ~~.Se vwfSI
Frue Vanners We get about 10 per cent from
the tailings. We are down about 500 feet, and il
seems that We are now in ore somewhat better
than for the last 500 400 feet, but like all deep
mines the ore becomes baser. We are pegging
away In hopes of striking 1t rich some day. No,
ours 10 not the only gold ledge in that section,
but IL the only one being worked. There are
several good prospects in the vicinity and on
one they are about to put up stamp mill As
to our business In the West, Mr.. Curry and my.
self are inspecting number OF mining proper
ties and taking look at the country generally.
We have been in Oregon and shall go back BY
the Northern Pacific, stopping to look at some
properties in Montana"
W. s. Jameson, of Port Gamble, one of the
most prominent loggers on the Sound and .
pioneer on the Coast, 10 q guest of the Airing.
ton. THE price of logs is down pretty low.
They are selling as low as S. 50, and one boom
4
worms in the logs. You see, man cant let his
logs lie moro than eighteen months in salt
water He has either got to tow them into
fresh water or sell them. Forest fires have been
doing thousands of dollars worth Of damage
every day recently down on the peninsula. Yes,
there are eomo lands where q man who wants to
let his timber stand takes great risk of Gre, but
there are other lands, where there is a green
underground. where a fire can't get started.
The CO ar shingie business may increase the
value of cedar timber some, but there is an aw-
full sight OF 1t in this country and for cornering
cedar logs I don't think it would pay. The
Puget Mill Company tried that some time ago
on fir logs. The first season guess they made
money bat the next yeal they lost have been
getting out spars for Brown 4 Sons, OF Boston,
and shipped four ship loads to them. They
peddle them out ell along the Atlantic coast.
It's Q nice job to load Q ship with spars and they
soon run into money. We hew them square and
then we pile in with them cordwood in every
corner in order to get a. much ballast as posi-
BILE. Il pays better to ship cordwood TO Boston
than lsth. The future Of numbering in WASH
ington looks very bright. I think the price OF
lumber and stumpage viii both increase. We
pay 81 stumpage here while in the East they
get all the way from IS to S."
Hon. J. @. MegIer, fishery commissioner, OF
Brookfeld, came up to Seattle Wednesday to
investigate the subject of increasing the state
fishery exhibit at the Worlds fair. lie IL par.
tieuiarly DESTROYS OF borrowing the valuable
collection OF rare shell fish, crabs aud other
Puget sound specimens belonging to the Young
Naturaiists Society, OF this city, Or OF securing
duplicates OF the collection. Mr.. Charles v.
Piper, . member OF the society, yesterday to q
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES reporter said regarding the
matter: Nothing has been accom- plished vet
We have made the commission q prnposftion
however. and they have not yet sctsd ON #
There is very little time to prepare an exhibit:
this Is why the commission want to secure ours
We have some specimens in Jars and also some
others stuffed. which are prepared ia peculiar
manner, the secret of which is known only to
the members of the society. Mr.. Megley brought
q tsxdermist with him, think for The purpose
of fnding out how we stuffed the specimens"
n. F. Mcknight, . banker Of Anscortes. Il
stopping at the Northern. Business Ia quiet
up our way" said he. 1.-The farmers ara finish.
sng the harvest. and crops all Very good
With regard TO minerals. there was recently in
corporsted in skagit county the Hamilton Coal
aud Iron Company, with . capital Of = 100000
Their properties are on Coal mountain and Oh
Iron mountain, near Hamilton. There are sew.
erai companies owning properties "a these
mountains and the prospects are that iron
suie.tiag viii soon BE begun on ore from this
region One Of the iron mining Companies
have two shifts of men at work driving a tun-
mel to crescent the vein, which is noE in leo
feet, and the breast when was there few DAYS
$40, was ten feet In iron ore. / am Interested
IN coal mines on tho opposite mountain, and
know that We have good coking coal"
E 8 lsascs. o. wslla ALA. quar.erraasser of
the Second regiment, Washington National
Guard, was guest Of ths Arlington Yesterday.
lie las been taxing in the Portland and Tacoma
expeditions, and lsis for home the niss. train
Il had . talk wita Gov. Ferry last week," said