The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-07-31
MINES AND MINING.
Work Being Pushed IN Monte
Cristo and PeshaStin.
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ssols oss 1s--Dsg Deai - Otss-
sgaa County.
n. c. Hesry snd ,. W. wfImsns have
reeurned from . visit 20 the Psshsssin
distries where thsy found Ill the properties
of the Blewsst Gold Mining Company
q full opssssioa with good results.
George Blaks. superintendent Of the
Wilmans Mining Company, writes 70
headquarters thst he has thirty TO forty
men q work stsinging the tramwsy. and
= pushing work On IL - fAss - possible
He 70 also putting men 70 work IN the
Slopes.
0eorro r. Quad has returned from
trtp 70 the 6Iocan district, whore he 10
Interested with r. y. Whittier. NJ " b.
etAcsy. william Giynn and ]. II. Moran.
81 this city, In the Queen Bess mine. on
Housen creek, some three miles from
Three Torks. They have continued work
III winter and have tunnel I'D feet deep
snd have cross-cut the lead IN two
places. The lower cut shows . six-foos
and tie uppsr one . thres-foot vein. show
ing sbous l6I0 ounces m silver. Mr.. Gupd
eeid Of the sisuat,on In that district: I'VE
hove spent quite On amount Of money on
tie Queen Hess and shut down on July
bscauss We have put in al ws aGrssd 20 up
70 this time. Work Vas begun last Octo-
beF and November on good many claims,
bat should not consider many 81 them
snoss than prospects - yet, although they
ase GOOD ouss. A good deal Of dead work
has bssn done. for ths men were working
blind In the snow. sm satisfied that in
another year the district will show up well,
for tho surfscs showIngs are better than In
The C@ur d 'Aiens district Mr.. Montgom-
cry. Who has bought fivs-sighths In the
Mountain Chief and haif-intsrsst In the
Washington, 10 said TO b re-
Istsd 70 the Astors. and may repre-
ISN'T them. A half-interest in tho Sio-
can Star has also been sold 20 Angus
Smith. Of Milwaukee. J. +. Wardncr has
stopped work on the Freddy Leo and Mr..
Drumheiisr. Of Spokane, has stopped work
on the Alamo. kaslo - very quiet and
half the peopls have deserted the place.
They are Ill talking about the silver ques-
tiou and feel much discouraged. although
they claim they could work the mines 1t
profit with silver q 50 cents to 60 cents IN
ounce. Quite number Of bonds on claims
~ likely to 60 BY default. There vas
rush into the Lsrdeaux and Duncan river
districts for gold last spring. but at last re-
ports nothing had been found there and
the psopls are coming out again. met
A. d. Marshall. Who had worked under
Thomas Weir. the now superintendent Of
The Monte Cristo Company, at Granite
Mountain. Mont, and he told me that
everything was shut down there and that
3 large number Of men we're out Of work In
consequences.
1.-THE day left Il was reported that work
had begun on the railroad from Nakusp 70
SLOGAN lake The wagon road il finished
twenty-five miles and In four or five weeks
viii b extended to New Denver, thirty
miles. On tho Nelson & Fort Shepard
railroad the bridge over tho Pend d'Oreills
river was expected to be finished this
week. Very little ore 10 being shipped At
present, most Of the miners waiting until
the railroad II finished. but George w.
Hughes, who runs . regular pack train
with supplies, II hauling . good deal from
the Mountain Chief Tho Washington
shipped 600 tons last winter and has 90
tons more on the dump"
Dr.. Il. C. Kilbourne has received the
smcitsr returns on about twelve tons of
ore from the Northern Belle. In the SLOGAN
district. showing 0i.2 ounces Of silver and
10 per cent lead, and giving 1857 net, ex.
cept duty.
Among the mineral specimens on ex-
hibition at the mineral palace Is mass Of
clay found by NJ. Mcrgcns near Union
City. which he claims 10 be from the frs.
deposit Of poxxuolani ever found In any
place but Naples. This il ono of the es-
scntlAi ingredients OF Portland cement,
and burns down 10 . volcanic ash consist
Ing almost entirely Of silica and aluminium.
This material. mixed with one-tenth of
frieae lime. which Is Also to be found i'm
Washington. makes Portland cement.
Mr.. Mergcns has found two other clays on
the same claim. one OF which can he used
IN making cement and the other makes
paint.
The 0alena Miner says: John t. VOL
colt. Of Seattle. who visited Trout creek
district last week. says: Trout creek
cmpt.es INTO the north fork of the Skyko-
mish river at . point about midway be-
tween Index ana Galena. The mining
district, IN which Townsend < Merchant
own nearly every location, is situated
about four miles up the creek froia its
junction with the river and little more
than eight miles from the main line of the
Great Northern railway. branch line
could be easily built to the mines a, little
cost With grade ut no place exceeding .
per cent. and entirely free ftos.. land
ar snowslides aud requiring no expeu-
sivs bridges. Al the natural terminus Of
the railway there Is a splendid mill site
where reduction works can be located a
series Of falls in the creek furnishin !.
ample water power With head oi over sC
feet From this point all the mines in the
district can tie easily reached by a SYSTEM
Of tramwayA These mines arc a. vet IN,
developed, some 81 the property still being
covered with snow. but where the vein,
are EXPOSED they show strong. large leises
The character of the ore is "A ehalcs,-pyY ,e
carrying large amonn, Of COPPER aud :
email percentage Of silver. and as 1t seem.
~ b. FREQ from either arsenic or anumon,
teaa he very eheanly treated.
The Conconullv oatIe.s saws. Surer,n
senasns r. +. Wheeler, OF the Rriaerpor
Mining and Milling COMPANY. receive,
orders from headquarters las, Monday :,
SUSPEND work CA the Columbia suine o,
Mineral hill. Mr.. Wheeler informs n
that In the event of some settlement O
the silver question: besn. reached a, tn
coming session Of congress. they wisl &c
sumo work about the LIST of September
A. the time they shat down the shaft Va
INST fiIsy feet deep and showed fine e,i,
of rich gray copper ore the entire distance
large quantity OF ore bad been prcra.~t