The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-28
MONTE CRIsTO MINES.
Increased Number of Men Employed
Annual Assessment Work Beprfp

Monte Cristo, July 2-Special-Three
car loads Of concentrates went west from
this station on Monday, three car loads
on Wednesday and two car loads Friday,
eight car loads, or 80 tons, this week. for
the Everett Smelling Works. the product
of about 500 tons of Mystery ore.
The force of miners is being gradually
increased at both the Mystery and Pride
OF the Mountains mines. the new machin-
cry lately added 10 the United Companies
Concentration Works having materially
increased the capacity OF the plant and
calling for a greater output from the
mines. The new machinery is almost
noiseless in its operation.
School district No. 20 comprises
the most valuable portion of Monte
Cristo mining district all the capitalized
mines, reduction works, Everett & Monte
Cristo railroad terminal. three miles OF
track and some twenty-five or thirty busi-
ness houses and residences being held by
non-resldents for speculative purposes.
The assessed valuation OF the school dis
trlct is sls70is. and the school board has
called q bond election 10 take place on Au-
gust 3 for the purpose OF voting whether
or not TO issue $3.50 OF twenty-year school
bonds for the purpose OF buying school
grounds. building a handsome schoolhouse
and furnishing IL.
Assessment work will be commenced
claims below the Hummng Bird. west OF
Monte Cristo owned by Snohomish and
Colorado Springs. Col. parties, who have
sent their foreman up 10 arrange for the
necessary tools. high explosives. provi-
sions and shelter.
Monte Cristo postoffice changed hands
this week. Joseph T. McDevitt being the
new postmaster and removing ii TO the
store OF the Monte Cristo Mercantile Com
many. on Dumas street. Bonds have been
filed for a money order Office. and he VIII
soon be ready for regular business.
A substantial shipment OF ore In sacks
was sent doVn 10 the Tacoma smelling
Works from the Bonanza Jumbo claims
IN silver Creek district. this week for a
regular mill test. These claims are owned
by Peter c. Chiodo. Of Seattle: James f.
Rell. of Everett and other Seattle parties
and are being exported by San Francisco
rock sharps with a view 20 purchasing.
The force OF miners has been materially
Increased In the mines on the north slde
Of Monte Crlsto district. near Goat lake
owned by the Mackintoshes. OF Seattle
and Piftsburg. Pa. parties. Fourteen sur
vevs have been made by Seattle mineral
surveyors and sufficient work done 10
coynnIv with the statutes governing the
arpiica tons for mining patents There is
not the slightest doubt about the great
vaJue OF these claims, rs every possible
test has been applied to them. and another
season viii see the Goat lake properties
either reducing and smelling their own
ores or shipping out paving concentrates:
co shall be deemed most lucrative and
convenient The Goat lake camps are sit
mated about 80 feet higher by an eroid
measurement than the upper townsite OF
Monte Cristo.
Ase.sxroant work was commenced
Tbursdav on some half dozen claims ao-
Joining the Mystery and running wen over
into Glacier basin by parties from shoho-
naish and Seattle.
4 vigorous growth Of salmon berry. ser
,,tos berry and devils club bushes over all
TIE leggea-ofr and hurned-off lands IN
Monte Crfsto district keeps the ground
moist and reduces the danger from forest
f-es 10 a minimum