The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-12

I,zr AID the Back Cess ~ d. & Nc
LsGghlin- These ies5s range from fcur
20 szx feet developed b. % 20 - foot shafts
szi Cuts. and have pay s<reaks carving
from - ounces Upward n silver. sxur<te ef
coprer-oea-srg silver gsiena ard gray
Soppe-. T1e Schulz, whlch has q &Atoos
gor aez. hzs err zssAying ~ 70 s7a gold
ire Mp and Tick group. composed cf
sse Mp zrt Tcek. TIP To-. Nonrtst-sc-
All xoonshins. lying north cs the Noun
tain LAZY. IL = Seattle property. the own
srs being J. ". Guye ard Dr.. J. E. C-scA-
san. o< Ssa-ie. Richard oiin and William
Ta1tIe. Of Perry. -. T. w-ao have trco--
po-s.et a. ne T-easr-e Mountain Mining
Company win % 90 capital stock On
n. Nip and T1es are tunnels forty ard
s1ghty-fve fest ard q shaft twenty eees.
from WEIGH seventy to-ls was EAsed IN
October. zS4. AZ t21e S1u2w creek MIL
ira assay yzfae o. the ere vas Sc gold,
BIT the min Only saved ssout $50 ton
n free goh3. she concentrates only run
Ming 81. while tFe taih1gs assay ga Be-
tween shs Mp and Tuck ard the Ts2 Top
on re same ledge Lee ives. W. A Sex
smith. James Mclaughlin and William
Lehman have the Excelsior. on which a
ehsrry-<oot shaft shows a sxe,ye-eoo.
ledge between walls with a number OF
ssriug~rs spreading from II n al direc-
tsons- Assays average $3.50 gold and -
silver.
Discoveries were ertsnx.et n iss< 20 Csced
Poia; hs1l. TWO mts-s west OF Nerhcv and
thres-cGar-ers Of a male north % Squaw
creek. by E6 Bz-gharit and Lara larsen,
who located the Brkharct ard Larsen.
On a So-ty--ch Ledge. which has given
assays from So % SIS and a s-neiter test
OF SO gold. They have sold 20 Alex Nc
Ns.f. Mr.. Boyd. OF Chelan. and Mr.. King
man. who have put down A double con-
parcmsrT shaft foxty-6ye feet On 8 par
zIlei ledge to the north IN a contact ot
slat. and porphyry are the Double ard
Congress. Alex Mcneil has q shaft A.
teen fee. showing sixteen 20 sweuty-fcur
inrhes o. ore which gave assays o. Is and
80. On the same ledge are the White
Elephant and the EVA on which Messrs.
Klngman and Pershai have shown up n
nve-soot ledge by . 10000. ledge. On The
same mountain are IN. Button and Cur
It's. located By Henry Button and William
Curtis. but sold 10 Constant D<s NetA
Alexander Mcneil has the Chippewa and
Eau Claire on q four-foor vein heavily
oxidized and has sunk doTsble coznpa-t-
r1ent shaft ter feet. On the north slope
OF the hill he has ire Wisconsin. where
a shaft Is down eleven feet on Eve feet
OF quartz. C. J. Ogden and w. A. Boil
hnger have located the Sacramento ana St
Paul on threa ard one-haif feet OF ore
and have sank twenty feet on the Sacra-
r1ento.
North OF the Hunter lead. on the north
side OF johnson mountain, are two smaller
parallel leads. on one OF which J. r.
Esmont has located the Black Boy and
has sunk shaft showing six feet %
quartz carrying copper pyrites IN larger
proportion than sts other leads. On the
other lead. which IS ten feet wide. A.
McKinnon and Neis johnson have sunk
a ninety-soot stact on ne London. and
OIL f~1.-o frrr "a h~s IRA
4 very promising extension OK the dis
trict no-thward has been made IN the
las. two years 20 Mcfarland creek and
the two forks OF Gold creex. one ledge
on the latter creek being sixteen feet
wide. and all showing a good proportion
OF silver as wei as gold Very little work
has been done, the principal opening be-
ing on the s.x-toot vein on which the ORE
gon ana the Agnes have been located by
". A Bollinger. Of Methow.
On the east side OF the Methow noun
tains. two miles from Salmon River falls,
rather remote from this belt. large de-
post OF low grade. free milling quartz
l. s. Baldwin, r. Irwin Baldwin, John
Armstrong and Theodore Peterson II
Is ledge 100 feet vida between walls OF
mica shist with po-phyry dfkes running
parallel and has been traced for seven
miles. cropping out near the Meadows
placer on Salmon river. Assays average
about "a gold and one ounce silver, and
the ore appears TO be concentrating.
having pockets OF tale carrying hena-
tite and IL Is expected to become base
a. depth. A cut has been made across
the ieige four feet wide with twenty
fve-foot shaft IN the bottom, and It's
whole width has been uncovered for a
length OF go feet The deposit Is two
miles from Salmon River falls. which are
- - - 4~- Eel 80
feet In half nlile
The Loop Loop Canyon.
Coming over from RUBY 70 the Methow.
one comes In full view OF the main Cas-
csds range. lie climbs from the soil
tary alrnos. deserted street by a zig-zag
road Up Ruby mountain. and then begins TO
pass down the canvon OF Loop Loop
creek among deserted cabins. and n
full yisw OF the heavy stone basement OF
gaunt, unfinished s1rperstructure Of the
concentration. The only living things are
old Jacky Hayes. sitting in a cabin where
odds ard ends of lumber, sacks, tin cars
and tools OF all kinds are Uttered around
the doors, and his herd Of horses rang
ing me mountains. The way leads on
down Loop Loop creek where swamps al
te-nate with meadows Of an equally vivid
green and the rniry road IS cordEroyed 81
frequent intervals for several niles. IL
then climbs the side Of the now contract
ing and deepening canyon and works uFs-
ward anti II reaches the high, broad
summit OF the mountains which Il ira
verses for miles Under the grateful shade
OF the forests. where squirrels and chip
s1unks gambol. where birds Of all notes
ana plurnewe carol 20 no human audience
auf butterflies OF gaudy wing fiutter n
nayrizds among the equally gau6y how-
era house at about every FIVE miles
Is about the average OF human hahtta-
Hons found by the wsyside. and half OF
them are deserted miners and loggerS
cabins At last tho road strikes the
had OF Beaver creek and descends by
cts Drawing waters among fast thinning
trees and poorer bIncfgTass Into a more
farrsd atmosphere where the sun beats
Gown with unobstr1cte6 ferceness Here
TIE valley OF che Methow is in fufl view
ard the Zine OF r1-h green foliage enables
ore % trace rs course ss % rushes IN
swollen. turrti volume and almost con-
ftrEsoas r9rssss around crs rocky poir.t
after another, Overlapping It's BANKS ard
sweeping drift icrs along Ike toy boats.
Below on tha broad, arid. sanity fats Lead
srw n giant stairs down 20 the river are
scattered farms. where the iifs-gfvtrg
water, conducted around Tire broken edges
o. the benches from Beaver creek in tn
rssrccrtfhly descending bitches, cosxss
fruit grain and vegetables 20 grow IN
rns seemingly worthless sol. Reyo-d
rise terrace above terrace. each higher
ara narrower than the last. Their round
81 swelling, grassy knobs. next
htwh, steer wooded ridges on which the
hack rocks show forth among sas sorr-
per pines urttl. ssuttirE IN the horizon
wlth SIS lofty. seTr2se9 wbite-toppe9
ssrunir. the Cascade range shows against
the clear blue ssT and gives the eye
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