The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-11


The Galena and 50 are extensions of the
Pride of the Mountzsns. The quantity of
ore disclosed by this vein is beyond calcu-
lation. The company has q separate camp
in the basin which now accommodates
thirty men.
To reach the mines of '76 basin one must
cross the Glacier, or return to the townSite
and take another traxs at 10 creek. Pass
ing Glacier gulch, which is in '76 and not
in Glacier basin the Monte Cristo mine,
owned by the Wilmasss Mining Company,
lies up it, another COG sradiction. The tirst
of the Monte Cristo gompany's mines one
comes upon is the fasaous rs. or the Inde-
pence OF 1776. 1t was 20 that was the first
location in the distrist-on Independence
day, the 4th of jug. 1889. 1t was the
Monte Cristo which Pearsall saw miles
away through the feed glass and started
for But he missed ls:-mistook the '76 for
it, In fact-and the Monte Cristo was not
located until last yeae-two years after.
The ledge of rs lice that of the Pride
is of immense extens. In places its ex-
posed width is seveaty-five feet, and IN
average it is from twenty-five to forty feet.
1t outcrops all the WY up the mountain
from where it emerees from beneath the
rock slide and debras, to where it finds
refuge beneath the Protecting arm Of the
glacler-perhaps distance OF 1900 feet.
1t is practically a mo:Entain of ore in it.
self Three tunnels lave been struck into
the vein in the gulch. one at an elevation
of 5000 feet, but from aone of these can 1t
be favorably WORKED. Two tunnels there
fore, are being run below, which will strike
the vein at some distance in. The ore is
for the most part aeavy concentrate,
carrying more gold thsn the Pride, largely
a galena, mixed wit:s pyrite. An assay
from sample taken without special selec-
ton from a vein twegsty-eight feet wide,
showed $50 in silver, $z2 in gold and % per
cent. lead. The Ranger, Sentinel and rs
are extensions of the 80.
Though the tunnel zsf the Ibex is not
more than 500 feet further up the basin
than the &c, the ore obtained from it shows
little lead, chiefly gold bearing con-
centrate. The upper tsinnel, which had to
be abandoned for 3 fsgwer working, de-
veloped large Quantsty of pyrite. and
the vein has been tracea up the gulch to
the summit of the bluS, 1900 feet. hex
No. 2 is an extension os:the same lead.
These mines are on tie northerly side of
the BASIN. On the opposite face are the
Congress, IA and Ennsa Moore. On the
IA fifty-six-foot development tunnel has
been driven. On the Congress the tunnel
is now in eighty-five feet. disclosing two
seams, one two feet aad the other six
inches in width. The vein is traceable
some distance up the Rulch. An ASSAY
from an average sam pig lin narrow streak,
"a,
in silver, $35 in gold anaf 81 per cent. lead.
Two tunnels on the Emma Moore, one of
fifty-tve, the other of seventy feet, have
developed very pronsising mine. The
upper tunnel cuts into i wide streak of
fine galena ore, and large quantity of
direct shipping ore is ready for shipping.
Recent assays from samples taken across
the vein show $50.
Taken as a whole the mines are remark
able, not so much for tl.e rich streaks of
high grade rock though there are plenty
of these, but for the Vase quantities of low
grade ore they contain. Roughly it may
be said that 90 per cent, of the ores are
concentrates, though the tunnels now be-
ing driven have developed larger quanti-
ties of first-class direct shipping ore than
was expected from the slowing nearer the
surface. All of the ores are base; there is
no free milling gold in tire district, and as
yet no shipments of silver, although the
indications are that tie latter may be
struck at lower levels. the ores are smelt-
ing ores, and some of .Aem will require
roasting and perhaps treatment by the
mediate working is concerned. the mines
are exceedingly accessible. Nature, In
fact, has done the minfag. and all that
remains is to take the ORES out and reduce
them. The tunnels will drain themselves,
SO that there IS no water 90 be fought, and
automatic or gravity trazns will carry the
ores cneaply and quickly to the ore bins
carry the ores and the concentrates on
\ down grade to the sea.
The tram system which the company
will put in will be an expensive one To
reach the mines of the Glacier basin an
automatic wire-rope trar1.Nay will be run
from the concentration to the Pride Of the
Mountains, distance ri over 1000 feet.
Auxiliary trans will con,sect with this to
carry the ore from the West Seattle, Clara,
Mystery, Pride of the Weeds, l. x. l.. and
others. The Rainy will pc easily worked
by surface tram running up and down
Glacier creek. the grade ssroviding ample
propusive power. Eithe- q surface or
wire tram will be feasible TO tap the mines
Of '16 basin. A main tram will run up
the basin. and feeder tratlas from this will
reach the rs, rs, Ibex, Congress, IA,
Emma Moore, and, perhaps, also the iron
group, owned by the pearsal Mining
Company. The cost of she entire tram
way system will be between $4,000 and
1900.
The cOmpany's works, IIie ore bins, con-
centrators and the like, WILL be grouped in
the open space at the foot of and formed
by the junction of the tyo basins, and
here the railroad will haze it's terminus
and depots.s For townsita purposes about
sixty acres have been set aside by the COM
pany. The plat is now completed and lots
will be put on sale next week. Like most
mining camps the available area for town
is small. Enclosed as 1T is by sheer noun
tain walls that reach up To- the clouds, this
town OF Monte Cristo can never be above a
quarter OF mile wide, and will probably
extend, as II grows, up tsss two CANYONS
on either side of Mount Wilmans. This
means a compact, closely built camp, at
least IN its main features, che business por-
ton lying along the sIoI.ng ridge which
runs between the two creeks. For once
loss for additions" Az for the size the
town Monte Cristo will reach that is
largely conjecture. With ;he opening ul
OF the mines TO their full capacity there
will he the basis of substantial town OF
all the way from 200 to 5 30 people, per-
haps more.
The general management of the Monte
Crislo Mining Company's mines has been
Intrusted 10 William c. K..tier, who has
been associated with the C1iby- Hoyt min
ing interests for number of years Mr.
Butler is a graduate Of the Columbia
school of mines. of New York, and is a
New York man. In the <sompany's iron
mines at Ironwood, Mich, he was made
superintendent IN charge. and when the
syndicate became Interested in Monte
Cristo lie was transferred TO the general
SUPPLEMENTARY here
Like Mr.. Batter, Jennings s. Cox, IT,,
The assistant superintendent who has i'm
mediate charge of the works here, IS a New
ORR man and a graduate u The Columbia
school. He comes vi a we'll = aosn family.
known a. well in San Fran alsco as in New
ork. To careful trsining as a mining
engineer he has added AL { slensiye experi-
ence III the Carnegie Iron Works at Home
stead, Pa. and later in sae Colby iron
mines al ironwood. In the six or seven
years since his graduation from the scbooI