The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-16
THE PASSING THRosG.

Mr.. Frank Cisrno. prominent real es-
tate and mining man OF Portland, and
one Of the principal stockholders in the
Pacific Coast Mining Company. which
owns n whole mountain OF marble near
Fort Spokane. has Just gone to that point
70 make final report upon the quality OF
the stone most easily TO be worked and the
advisahiIisy OF investing capital in the de-
velopnaent Of this industry At the present
time Sufficient investigation Of the prop
ersy has already been made 10 warrant the
statement that this deposit Of marble =
practically inexhaustible. 50 far IS the
wants OF this Coast are concerned. So
free from flaws 10 il that blocks weighing
many tons can readily be quasried and.
according TO Mr. clarno's statement. fur
nished 20 the cities of the Pacific coast at
no greater cost than The same weight OF
granite. A large monument Of this mar
bic Is nos on exhibition ~ the Portland
Industrial exposition. In order 20 show
how close 20 the surface this valuable mar
bic lies the base of the monument 10 the
surface itself and the apex of the monu-
ment only twelve feet beneath. Thus in
this one shaft can be seen how little of the
surface must be cleaned away before mar
bic Of the finest quality can be quarried.
People will use this marble within ten
years. |" said Mr.. Clarno. mot alone for
the interior decoration but also for the
construction of the outside q alls. There
is enough of il in the l60 acres owned by
the company to build a dozen cities the
size of Seattle. and IL costs no more than
and can be worked twice as easily as gran
tie. The marble can be sawed at the rate
OF two inches an hour. and is easily takes
fine polish. We can hardly hope to COM
pete with Eastern quarries in Eastern
cities, but We are bound to have the trade
of the entire Pacific Coast"
Representative W. r. Hoole, of Port
Angeles, who is guest at the Grand. tells
of two mineral discoveries in Clalam
county which are attracting good deal OF
attention on the Straits. a twenty-four-
foot vein of biiuminous coal has been dis
covered near the head of Sequim bay by
Frenchman whose name cannot recall"
said he yesterday, land n company has
been formed at Port Townsend TO develop
the property. tie found the out-cropping
about mile and half from the head of
Ssauim bag and blasted out quantity OF
1t. He then got some Port Townsend peo-
pie interested and they have organized
company. which has taken up about ] 900
acres and is preparing to thoroughly pros
peet il. Tho discoverer says the indica-
tions are that there is solid bed running
along the hog-back for tour miles, gen.
orally parallel with the shore. The other
find is goid-bearing vein near Port An
geles. Charles f. Dyer and DR.. John Z.
Frizeil brought specimen weighing four
or five pounds TO town TIE other day and
it has streak of gold running thrnngh it
about an eighth of an inch thick. which
you can pick out with knife. They say
there Is large outcrop. but will not tell
where it is or anything more about ii.
though they say that when they do talk
about 1t they will astonish everybody"
Judge Thomas Burke returned yesterday
from Chicago and st. Paul. having been to
the former city to see the Worlds fair and
TO the latter on business for the Great
Northern railroad. for which he is attorney
on the Sound. When seen by a Posr-IN-
TELLIGEScER reporter yesterday he was
not prepared to talk about the affairs of
the road, but said that President Hill ex-
pected 10 be here in about two weeks.
The judge was loud in his praise of the
Worlds fair, and said of 1t: II never saw
such crowd as was there last Monday,
and il was almost impossible TO see the
exposition; all one could see was the peo-
pie. l got into jam at the Van
Buren, street depot at 10 O'Clock
in the morning, and il took me
till after IL 10 get to the car on the viaduct
close by. But the crowd was admirably
handled by the police, the railroads, and
at the fair, as we'll rs at the hotels. Some
people had TO sleep in chairs, but that was
because they happened to strike the wrong
places. On that one day the Ferris wheel
carried 10000 people. 1t had paid for
itself SIX weeks ago and is expected to-
clear from 1906. 900 TO sJ10. 600 by the close
of the fair. A contract has been let to pay
$4,000 for taking it down for removal to
Coney island