The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-06-07
THE MINING BOOM.
All Kinds and Conditions OF
People Get the Fever.
TRAIL CREEK RUSH CONTINUES.
wsl-Knowu seattle People Pick Up
Good Thsng-Sase OF the war
Eagle and Lo Rcf-

where's that piece OF rock rom
Then the speaker is buttonholed. led on
TO q quiet corner and listens 20 story OF
wealth Everybody * talking OK mines
There are mines ard prospects, ana H1Ols .
PROSPECTS than mines 50 far, but oeFet-
opmenc work in the various mining ais-
tricts is going ahead faster this year 1hAa
ever before. and from present prospects
mining boom and zig one. IS coming
In fact Is here
OF course the Tran creek country -
attracting the most attention Inere
are any number OF Seattle people inter-
essec In the district and q good many we.i
known citizens are on the ground, most
OF them making money The ANNOUNCE
ment yesterday that the three largest
mines In the camp. the lie Koi war
Eagle and Iron Mask. had been sold Tor
$4,000 g. s9.eoo and si.0oo.o1o. respect
iveiy. win undoubtedly add TO the sx-
element
II. u. Ballard, president OF the Nae
tional Bank OF Commerce; cx-Nayor
Frank D. Black. DR.. Z. c. kIbourne and
I. B. Parsons. have just returned from
ten days trip through the Nelson ana
RossIand mining districts in British COR
unbia- They report an immense amount OF
development work being done al over
British Colubia and some very renarAa-
bic mines being opened Up.
AT Nelson. the Silver King. through
showings made with diamond drills, has
so increased In value that stock selling
year ago at g 50 per share cannot now
be purchased fer SO per share: making
the total value or the mine over -
The sneIter for this mine IL smelling 10
TO i50 tons OF ore per day.
At Trail creek the immense smeiter
there Is running and VIII soon have It's
fun capacity In order, and will then be
able to treat about so tons day.
The greatest interest. however. eenters
at Rossiand. Here everything is activ-
ity and hustle. The tramway was just
completed TO the town the day they ar
rived. but has not yet been accepted from
ths contractors. Trains VIII be running
in few days. This tramway viii enable
the miners to ship their ore and thus
greatly increase the output The mines
here are so weil known that nothing need
be said OF their remarkable richness and
immense bodies OF ore.
While at Rossland tho above named
gentlemen purchased one OF the finest
properties In the camp. adjoining the
famous War Eagle and Iron Mask mines.
and surrounded on the other side by the
City OF Spokane. Red Mountain and Gem
mines. The name OF this claim Is the
Mugwump. and although 1t Is q high
priced property. these gentlemen did not
want any lGlL& DNk tie NtIy Dc>A di4u tsac
best comes very high In Rossland. Before
leaving they Incorporated the Mugwump
Gold Mining Company. with q capital
stock OF s.. 90. 600. They have associated
with them Judge william Melville New
ton. a man OF the very highest standing
ar Rossiand; Gilbert A. W. Rankin. a
civil engineer and mining man OF the
same place, and Harold Selous. GENTLE
man who stands very high. of Nelson.
block OF treasury stock for development
purposes was snapped up by the oldest
mine owners In the camp and was eagerly
sought for. but this amount gave the
company sufficient funds to prosecute
the work at once, and within the next
week a force OF eight or ten men VIII be
put 20 work.
The vein from the Gem mine on the
west has been exposed In two places,
four hundred feet apart, on the Mug
wump, and the railroad graders have ex-
posed a cropping OF another vein on the
extreme east end Of the property Just
across the gtiich from the showing on
the City OF Spokane. Arrangements are
being made TO use a diamond driil on the
property TO prospect IL Its fine location.
right In the heart OF the very best part
Of the camp. adjoining the finest mines.
together with the surface showings. rem
der IL one OF the most attractive proper
ties up 10 this time, unstocked. in Ross
land.