The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-17
NEWS OF THE MINES
The Trail Creek Country Is Doing
Very Well.
CAPITAL GOING UP NORTH
In the Past Few Weeks Great Pro-
gress Has Been Made In
the Way Of De-
velopments.
special Correspondence OF the standard.

Special Correspondence OF the Standard.
Spokane. Wash. May 15.-Superin-
tendent Bent of tSe lie Roi mine, who
has been In the city for a few days.
returned to Trail creek this morning.
THE shipments from Trail creek av-
eraged LIS tons per day last week."
said Mr.. Bent. The Nickel Plate
made a shipment OF n car load. and w.
II. Taylor OF Spokane seems to have a
good thing I'm the Mountain View. The
camp is livelier than ever. and at night
the surrounding mountains are literal
iy illuminated by the campfires of pros
pectors. New capital is coming In all
the time, and the expenditure of so
so much money and the production of
30 much wealth hold the camp right
up to the expectations of it's admirers"
Glenn b. King is down from the Car
iboo mine, which is owned principally
by Monaghan & King, in the Rock
Creek district, British Columbia. Mr..
King reports the Cariboo mine and mill
TO be running regularly. The mill.
which has ten stamps, started up about
a year ago. and has been running "a
hours a day ever since. working Carl
boo ore exclusively. Since the mill
started IL has pounded out gold enough
TO pay for itself and the mine and
cover all other expenses of whatever
dend. after deducting everything. was
$4,000. Development only tends to i'm
prove the vein.
The Loomis. Wash. correspondent of
the Spokesman-R Review says: James
p. Dexter brought In some fine speci-
mems OF quartz. which showed consid-
cradle free gold. from three claims
owned by A. l.. Spencer, c. r. Leake
and himself. which are situated about
two miles southwest OF Loomis. The
walls OF these claims are well defined,
and the lodges are about seven feet
wide. and can be traced on the surface
for nearly five miles. Thomas Brown
and William Reilly are doing assess
ment work on their claims on Palmer
mountain. They have recently located
a new claim. the Colonel Hart, with an
1S-inch ledge on the surface, and the
few shots that have been put show an
interesting width. The quartz is of a
bright rose color. and heavily impreg-
mated with mineral, the surface show
ing is very fiattering, and will warrant
considerable development.
On Ellemeham mountain. situated
on the west bank OF the Similikameen
river. 10 miles north of Loomis. are
some OF the best mines I'm Okanogan,
and some of the old prospeotors con-
slider them the best in the northwest |
The original locations were made over
10 years ago by some OF the oid-time |
residents. like "Okanogan" Smith, John |
Mcdonald and others. and a vast |
of work has been done upon |
them. but the transportation problem |
of getting the ore to the smelter at n |
rate has prevented their |
becoming permanent producers. II |
the government should make an appro-
priation to remove obstacles to navi- |
cation in the Okanogan river these
mines will be great producers.
These properties being off the regu- /
lar line OF travel. but few people are
aware OF the immense ore bodies on
them are the Big Six. located last
March. upon which the lead lies par
allel with the mountain side. and Is
located upon for nearly two miles
There is a tunnel I'm this claim 100 feet
In width and averages IS in gold and
% ounces of silver. The ore is very
heavily impregnated with lead and
IRON. There are several leads WINS
parallel with this, both above and be-
low, and three or four leads rtlnninc
lp and down the mountain. apparently
rs good. In fact. the entire hillside Is
me mass OF ore.
Across the river is the Olympia mine
which "Okanogan" Smith sold TO an
Olympia company. upon which is an
sight-foot ledge which averages SIS in
gold and 40 ounces OF silver per ton
Al present there is a contest over the
Of this property.
Captain Finch of the life-saving SER
nee Is expected back here in July to | .
'uild a dredger TO pump the sand con- ,
aiming placer gold from the bottom OF
he Simiikameen river. He has al
eady several OF these dregers I'm snc-
essful operation in British Columbia !
w. ii: Blick leaves here with some ,
companions next week for Alaska. 10 I
hsase IN placer mining. They win