The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-03

Jolly BOY. in which direction II Is Also
believed % reach either the Legal Tender
or Ranyon On the Royal. which is now
Owned By William ellison. shaft has
ben sssnk ten feet and makes 3 good
showing. On the Ds~r Tran No l. owned
by Charles Goi5en. b. o. Gibson. Ahra-n
NobgeY AMI a W Turner. a shaft has
been sank nfty sess and has tappe5 ne
ledge The jolly BOY Is owned by Craw-
ford. Cameron and Emerson, Sho are In
sereste6 with Layzon and LefeTre in the
Runy0n and Legal Tender. the former on
the west above the Deer Tran and the
latter adjoining II on the s0fth- They be-
gan b running tunnel on the kunyon
20 feet from tins summit. but after dr5v-
Ifg il for = feet came 70 the conclusion
that they we're TOO far up the mountain.
50 they ran tunnel zIs feet on the Legal
Tender. but again missed the ledge They
have TOW started a tunnel 50 feet from
the summit and expect TO encounter The
ledge In place.
The development OF the Deer Trail led
TO the discovery and development OF an
Other ledge CT equai richness and OF great
er length 50 far as they have both beesl
traced to the west OF the lateral canyon
In which they both outcTop. While c.
W Burdsai was in an assayer's Office in
Spokane last spring be saw a sample
OF Deer Trail ore and inquired whence 1t
G. T. Porter. and together they went pros
pecting in the same vicinity. The resul.
was the location on March rs. 1856. % the
Saturday Night By c W Burdsai. and On
the following day Of the Sunday Morning
by {. T. Porter. The Plata Rica by Burd-
sal followed on April IS and the Plata
Fina by r. c. Small ON April =. all ad-
joining North OF these are the Della
ware. discovered in MAY by Harvey Jones:
the Pride Of the Valley by Mfr. Keller. and
across the canyon stili further north the
ORC Fine by j. +. Conkling the Nancy
Hanks and Esti er Hilbert. To the south
are tbs Columbia and Silver Queen. owned
by the Vanhorn brothers. Through these
claims the ledge has been traced for 1910
feet. or over three miles
The General Formation.
Mr. Burdsal. who is an experienced min
eraIogist and mining man. defines The
country rock as augite syenite with over
laying qGartzite 10 feet thick. The vein
associates closely with phosphate lime
or apatite. eoilcquiaiiy known as sugar
lime, and In the Saturday Night cuts
through II. both walls being of this rock.
In the other veins this lime seems to lie
on one side or the other of the ore bodies
and II is question OF whether IL is not
interchangeable with the quartz bearing
mineral. Its thickness varies from four
TO 100 feet. and the vein is sometimes in
closed within it, while at other times II
incioses the VEN. The ore IS in quartz
and includes snlphurets. which assay 800
TO $50 ounces of silver. gaiena earring -
ounces Of silver tc each unit Of lead The
lead carries considerable copper. which
decomposes and colors the quartz with
carbonates Of copper and lead. azurite,
malachite and yellow carbonates of lead.
In the Plata Rica there also occurs silicate
Of copper and suiphlde of silver in streaks,
az well as little zinc and brittle silver
Burdsai and Porter have sunk Il shaft
fifty feet Oh the Saturday Night end run
drift thirty-fivc feet from the bottom.
In which the quartz varies from two TO
five feet. Two tons of this rock. in which
the mineral is scattered. were shipped and
returned II ounces of silver, but the gem
eral average is much higher. The Sunday
Morning has a discovery crosscut and
iifteen-foot shaft with vein eighteen feet
wide at the bottom. Outside of the vein
streaks of quartz varying in width
from one 10 three inches carrying sui
phurets The Plata Rica has a tunnel rs
feet long which was run to tap the vein
under the point OF discovery. which is
expected TO strike the mineral body in
lis to Is feet more. The shaft for which
this tunnel Is run was begun about a
month ago and Is worked from the sur
face with twenty-foot vein. the main
quartz being six feet wide, while several
other small streaks vary from two to
twelve inches. 1t is producing half a ton
To a ton a day OF frst-class ore of which
the first carload Is just being shipped.
An extreme illustration OF the fact that
Cedar canyon Is a poor mans camp.
where the mines are being developed by
their discoveries with what scanty means
they can acquire. Is found in the expert
encc OF T. q. Small with the Plata F'ina
iie was formerly a Western Union tele-
graph operator at Sprague and Wallace,
Idaho. and no sooner discovered the CHM
than he began to develop 1t all alone. He
sunk shaft for the purpose of tapping
the vein, going down TO drill holes and
blast the rock. ascer ding TIL his shot
was fired. going down again 10 load
bucket with rock and climbing to the
surface again TO haul IL UP with the wind
lass. So he pushed on TIL his scanty means
were exhausted and still he had not struck
the ledge He decided to work through
January and IL he stlll failed 10 give tp
the struggle. He pawned his rife 10
buy supplies AID at last received his
reward. for al a depth of fifty-five feet
he struck pay ore varying in width from
ten inches to three feet He continued the
shaft for twenty feet more and then be-
gan to drift To the right and viii stope
out the ore above He has made a test
shipment of two tons which returned
about 30 ounces in silver. Burdsal and
Porter have lately acquired an interest In
this claim
on the Delaware a tunnel was started
iNO or three weeks ago and has been
driven about sky feet. tapping four feet
~ quartz which shows some mineral The
Pride Of the Valley Is also being develop
90 ny tunnel which has struck good min
cral In the orc Elmo a orosscut tunnel
has tcen started.
some of the Mines
The Esther Hilbert group includes. be-
sides the claim named. the Nancy Hanks
Homcstnke. Riverside Fafrvlew. Horn
Silver and Blue Grouse Extension No
> and Is owned by Len Coombs. Fred
I.aucr II Allen / Bresiauar and Charles
Young pocket of ore running from 20
60 m ounces in silver was found In soft
lime formation near the surface on tho
line between the Nancy Hanks ana Esther
Hilbert. and from this point a shaft Vas
started on narraw streak OF ore The
seven claims were bonded for two months
by Cameron. Crawford and Emerson last
fail and thinking this streak too smau to
pay they only continued the shaft fifteen
feet and then went above II and drove a
tunnel rs feet. bat had not struck the
ledge Nhcn thclE bond expired and they
forfeited \ tunnel was then started Nv
the owners u, feet down fhe mountain
arS has been driven g7H feet with the e4-
uNrtation % striking The l,~iee in thirty
feet mere East Of the Esther Hilbert and
on she same mountain IS the flpe Grouse
owned ny a. p Parks John p'feary. both
- Davenport and others. which was ais,-
covered several wars agc ard has h+.en To-
Gated ans relocated again sni again. 4
;lruel has b.en ruu forty feet 20 the
lead ard rr0S~s,gf has hssn started Ire
Surface rock 50 said - ran hggh In copper
and fa carry & IN rei1
Affer 81 nag hts interest fn the Deer
NH Nann..rn ana h. I'M her-a An, =,