The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-02
THE PASSING THRONG.

L l. Patrick, superintendent OF the silver
Crown mine, at Fairview. B. C., 10 at the
Rainier Fairvieu is in the Oxanogan district,
and has grown rapidly in the last year. sour
district is entirely different from the Okanogan
district on the American side of the line. The
ores, which are free milling gold. are richer
than those at Looriston, and run from &c 10 $50,
averaging $l5 10 81, and the veins run from
three to six feet and in come places ten feet
thick. The rapid growth OF the camp Is due
chiefly TO the operations OF q wealthy English
syndicate, which has bought ali the claims
around Us and spent 10000 On undeveloped
property. All it asks is So ore. The property Is
under the management OF George Atwood, the
celebrated English expert, and Mr. Reynolds,
who have put up q fine building for an office
ana residence at a cost of $1,000 and are living
there in typical English comfort They are
putting fifty men at work developing,
ana within a year expect to have sixty
TO 100 stamps working. They also talk of using
the power of the Okanogan falls, twenty three
feet high, to run electric dynamos, conducting
5000 horse power twelve miles to the camp. The
Silver Crown Ia at present the best-developed
claim, as we have done 80 feet of work, and in
three different veins four ore bodies are ex-
posed. We are making arrangements to put in
ten-stamp mill. All through the country be-
tween Fairview and SLOGAN very good finds are
being made, and believe that whole belt will
prove to be the richest in the world. All along
tIhI slTGtcu LOT miles Inc country mas only
been prospected for fourteen miles north OF the
boundary, and beyond that strip there are many
large tracts where the foot OF white men has
never trod The Canadian Pacific is building a
nne new steamer on Okanogan lake. which will
be ready very soon, and by the middle of the
summer we shall have steamers to Dog lake,
within twelve or fourteen miles of the camp"
G. NJ sproat, OF SLOGAN, is at the Rainier. He
Is largely interested in SLOGAN mines and is the
owner OF the townsite of Bear Lake City, among
the mines. In an interview with Posi- INTEL
LIGENcER reporter he said: "That is going 20
be big country. have been thirty-three years
In the country. and am almost professional
skeptic about mines, having many ups and
downs In tho business; but many men from
the American side of the line speak favorably of
IL that cannot resist the conclusion that 1t ia
going to be one OF the best districts in the
country The ore Is all high grade, running
from 80 TO 500 ounces of silver to the ton, so
that 1t can be worked at profit when fall in
the price OF silver will shut down the low grade
mines. Although transportation under present
conditions is very costly, the ore can be shipped
at profit George Hughes has a contract to de-
liver twenty-five tons at Kaslo at $42 ton. He
has about dozen sleighs which come up to
Bear Lake City every night and take a load
down to Kaslo 1t Is probable that the Cana
dian Pacific railroad will begin work in the
spring on extension of the Columbia &
kootenai road through the SLOGAN valley TO the
lake It Is rumored that the Great Northern
has acquired Mum & Hendry's charter for a
line from kaslo to the mines, connecting with
steamers from Kootenai lake, but in order to Sc
cure winter transportation it would be necessary
to build from Bonners ferry. Tho camp ia very
orderly; am magistrate for British Columbia
and draw the line at carrying concealed pis-
tolls, knives and fighting on the streets. / sent
a man up for three months the other day for
fighting and explained that, If he wanted to
fight he and his antagonist could 60 out into
the woods and / would DO the tirnekeeper, but
that the streets were for the public. The Lar
deau country, northeast of Kssio. Is making a
great showing and there is going 70 be a rush
there IN the spring"
Capt. Richard Hoyt, of Portland, Is at the
Rainier on visit to the Sound. He has been a
pilot on the Columbia river for the last twenty
seven years, and, commenting on the movement
for new pilots law in this state, he said: "The
trouble with these new states is that they think
the cheapest pilot service is the best, when ex-
perfence shows that the best they can get is the
cheapest All the great countries OF Europe
have the best pilot service they can possibly Sc
cure. We are going to raise the question in the
Oregon legislature ct the next session. The
Union Pacific now controls the service on the
Columbia river, and il is not satisfactory"