Connecticut western news., 1896-11-05
MILLIONS
GOLD DISCOVERIES NEAR SPOKANE, WASH, AND IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.

S5 Per Share-Some Romances Heard
 Near the Mines and In Spokane.
 Over in Spokane, Wash, they are en- toying flood of prosperity. Whether if is merely temporary wave which will soon subside, leaving harder and drier beach than ever, or whether it is per manent returning tide, remains for the future to reveal.
 The merchants of Spokane are all do- ing well, the banks show good deposits, the clearing house remarkable gains, the hotels are crowded, and over all and everything there is spread ruddy glow from the first direct rays of the rising sun of hope and promise. The cause of these new conditions at Spokane is the development of the gold mines of Wash ington and British Columbia The de- veloping was first inspired by some rich discoveries of gold made in Trail Creek, B. O., and Spokane is fast becoming a second Denver.
 Trail Creek is essentially gold camp. The ores are not high grade. Their average is from $25 to $40 per ton. The veins, however, are very large, if, correctly speaking, they can be called veins at all More properly they are vast ore shoots. No clearly de- fined walls have ever been found. In the famous Le Roi mine, which has paid so many handsome dividends with in the past nine months, they were driving their tunnel for many months along what appeared to be a clean, smootfs clearly defined wall. An old miner was being shown through the mine workings, and his attention was particularly called to the "beautiful smooth wall" He whipped out his pocketknife, picked at the wall" for few moments and then called for pick. A few heavy blows broke through the wall, !" and from behind there tum- bled out beautiful chunk of ore, of course to the amazement of the mine superintendent and all concerned. A crosscut tunnel was run in at this point, driven for 75 consecutive feet in solid ore all the way, and at last reports was still in ore and no wall" found yet. The veins are of enormous and still undefned magnitude.
 But every new mining camp is sure | to develop, along with its ores, cranks, gamblers, boomers and swindlers, few | touches of romance, bits of story and thrilling tales of adventure, pleasant to read about on a hot summers day while swinging in hammock under a | friendly shade tree and fighting flies with a huge palmetto. A poor saloon keeper in Spokane, bucking the ghost of hard times, makes a wry face when 1 forced to take for his rye whisky and cigars stock in the Le Roi mines at cents share in settlement of the bills of some of his customers-three shares of stock for drink, five shares of stock | for two drinks. But the butcher and baker and porter and the wholesale iq- nor house in Seattle were not so Zen thusiastic" about mines and refused to accept the Le Roi stock in payment for their wares, work and whisky, and the poor saloon keeper was on the verge of being closed out Forty-six thousand shares of the 5 cent Le Roi stock had he accumulated in this way. He is out of the saloon business now, but still owns the Le Roi stock because he could not get rid of it and now lives upon the princely income of his hold ings, valued Cat today's market prices) at $276, GOO. At three shares of stock for drink he was paid for his whisky at the rate of SIS per drink. This is a record in the saloon business hard to beat.
 But while the Le Roi is great prop erty there will be other properties de- veloped up there fully as great and far greater. This may be true in the Trail creek district, but will unquestionably be true on the Colville reservation and in the Boundary creek district, just west of Trail. These districts undoubt- edly carry the great mother lodes of that mineral zone. This is the conclu sion of the best geologists and the most renowned experts, including such men as Clarence King and Colonel John Weir, who have made careful scien- tific study of, that country. At Trail creek the Le Roi bids fair soon to have rival in the Jumbo, which is situated on the opposite side of the same famous Red mountain. But over on the reser- vation and in the Boundary creek coun- try, which, by the way, are in fact geo. logically one and the same district, be. ing separated only by the imaginary boundary line between Uncle Sam's and the queens domains, the ores lie in dis Einctly marked veins as distinguished from the ore chutes of Trail. The veins are of enormous width and traceable il continuous belts for miles with that regularity which delights the geologis and mine expert. They know "whert they are at" in that country. The veint run from 20 to 500 feet wide.
 One of the most noted experts in ths world and a man who has examined every mining camp in the world ex cepting one recently spent six month! ill this district and now pronounces i
 to be "the greatest mineralized country on the face of the globe" and one ovel
 which "the world will go mad in the
 next few years" The ores of the reser
 vation and Boundary creek run mucl
 higher grade than at Trail. The in
 creased value consists ill an excess O.
 copper, which is great advantage iron
 a smelling point of view as we'll as il
 the matter of dollars and cents in ore
 70 refractory as the ores of this distric
 are.
 At Trail the average is not over pc cent copper, and it is necessary at tn, Trail smelter to ship in copper concen !, trates from Butte, Mon. On the reser vation, for instance, the great La Fleu miue assays have run as high as 66 pc , cent copper, or about 1,400 pounds O , topper to every ton of rock.-Portlan, Oregonian.
 Found Huge Basin.
 A curious discovery has been made b !, the workmen engaged upon the restora 2 tion of Peterboro cathedral. Unde | the SOutheru loo of the 1,arvise or liLra