The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-31
MINING NOTES.
RnssIana Miner.

The PoormaE viii ship four or I'VE car
loads OF ore next week.
The lower tunnel Of the Clin shows
some nice copper ore in the face.
Work has been begun on the Iron Horse
Fraction. A blacksmith shop and other
buildings are being erected.
The Caledonia Consolidated will resume
operations in a few days. Monte Erisfo
mountain is becoming the busiest spot
In the camp.
The shaft on the SlIverine Is down sew
enty-five feet. and shows fourteen inches
OF solid ore In the bottom. which Is or
shipping grade.
On the Iron Mask and Virginia tho
turrfls are both coming into ore ana are
evidently close to the veins for which
they are being driven.
The tunnel on the Red Mountain is now
IN over eighty feet. and the shaft Is down
twenty-five feet In both places the ledge
Is very wide and strong.
The shaft on the Phoenix must De all
In ore. judging from the appearance or the
dump. Much OF II Is solid arsenlcal iron.
and looks as 4 II might assay well.
The Trail Mining Company has twenty
eight men on IT'S pay rolls al present. and
this force will be doubled as soon as the
compression plant Is in running order.
A new parallel vein has been uncovered
gold have been obtained from the crop
pings. Work viii be started on this vein
In day or Two
The big open cut on the Green Crown
shows two feet OF good grade quartz ore.
In being sunk on the same vein 200 feet TO
the north. and Is all In ore Of fair grade.
o. JeIdness and partners have sold
their remaining interest, fhree-one hum
dredths. in the North Star TO the Lilloeet
Gold Fields Company, which acquired all
the rest OF the property about a month
ago.
The diamond drill is now down over
On
Is for 40 feet. The rock Is very hard, and
the drill makes rather slow progress; IL
Is esrected the vein viii be cut somewhere
within the 400 feet to be rum
The owners OF the wallingford. on Re-
cord mountain have suspended work in
their cross-cut tunnel and have resumed
The sinking OF their SHAFT. which Is now
nice body OF clean copper pyrites In the
bottom.
The Grand Prize Is looking exceedingly
well. Since Superintendent Lh1egran
took hold OF the management he has sue
ceeded In locating a most promising vein.
l. appears 10 he about two feet wide, and
shows from four 10 six inches or solid
copper pyrites.
H. c. Walters and ]. II. Young have
bonded the Badger for $4,000. II joins the
Deer Park on the northwest. There is a
tig iron capped vein running through the
claim which shows some solid ore In
places. from which assays up TO 81 in gold
have been obtained.
Scrsr very high grade silver carbonate
ore Is being taken from the Mayhower.
4 wlnze is being sunk near the mouth Of
the tunnel. which IL being run in from
the narrow. gauge railroad track. This IL
now down ten or fifteen feet. and IL is here
the rich ore is being found II viii average
so ounces In silver. and carries the usual
amount in gold
The work or installing the new thirty
drEil COMPRESSOR plant of the Trail Mining
Germany on the Copper Jack. at the east
foot OF Columbia mountain. Is progressing
very slowly. as the cement for the
Foundation has not vet arrived. Several
nafts OF The machines have been broken
Ia transit. ard 70 win take some time 10
repair or replace them.