The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-06

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near and further side and is 40 nearly Der-
xs4nifcBiar a. 70 be bare % snow. To
r5xns and left II q forest % peaks, s.a
or 80 feet high. and IN the foreground
j. the sharp-E,oiuted King Solomon peak,
with a pile OF rock on each ss1e ike an
ASS ears. Ii II 40 steep and covered with
80 much loose rock that ii appears inac-
cesslble, bat the tunnel mouth and dump
on the west face and the trail leading up
20 X show that 1t has been scaled. Below
IL canyon followed out in perfect oval
between the mountains. It's bed being Il
meadow which extends to the head and
W the north eide, the south side being
clothed with forest OF larch and spruce.
among which are the King Solomon camp
ami sneIter. Farther down the canyons
bed and sides are strewn with logs when
have been swept down by saowsiideS>
Where they once formed forest, grass
and flowers have sprung up 10 cover the
bare ground.
First Mineral Discoveries
Mineral discoveries in this district date
back fifteen years. when = s Hawkins
A, +. Boyles and Moses Splawn went up
camp creek 10 Hawkins mountain ard
found three parallel Lodges OF quartz be-
tween walls OF bird 's-eye porphyry. carry
ing iron sulphurets. These Lodges run
along the west face OF the mountain about
900 feet apart. The following year James
Grieve went In and discovered a ledge OF
copper suIphurers and carbonates between
the headwaters OF Fortune creek and the
Teanaway river. Then came John Lynch
who had begun life a stock raiser in
Lynch couiee on the Columbia river after
no had served his term in the army. He
and James Grieve prospected Mammoth
mountain together twelve years ago and
found lodges Of quartz carrying not only
euiphurets. but large proportion OF free
gold. About 1852 an Indian discovered the
King Solomon ledge of salena ore from
which an old man named Hanson. OF Yak
ina had taken a piece of float six years
before. He took specimens 10 Yakima and
guided William Splawn and George Ca
rey TO the spot, but they made location
on the west side OF the pass instead. Then
came :. :. Hawkins in the fall OF the same
year and located the Centennial on IL,
having been grubstaked by Walter A
Bull. II. c. Walters and William Wilson.
II was not long after the first piece OF
float was brought in from the King Solo
mon ledge that Mr.. Thorp. after whom
Thorp station is named. found series OF
iron-capped Lodges of pyrtes on Red noun
tain and began working them. But for
the first ten years little actual work was
done. claims were located only to be aban-
doned and relocated. More recently, when
tho depression in every other industry
drove men TO the mountains in search OF
mineral discoveries have been extended
IN all directions and have been followed
up by development, so that now the dis
trict is on the eve OF taking rank as
producer OF bullion. Development has been
helped materially by the construction OF
the county wagon road from Roslyn to
T-i-ass lake In the very heart OF the min
Ing district, and the miners have contin-
ued this good work by cutting trails up the
mountains and esta blishing camps where
they can winter.
The Auro "a Ledge.
The group OF claims which Is first 10 be-
come a producer is the Lynch group. on
the summit OF Mammoth mountain. The
first location was the Aurora, discovered
on July II, 1856, by John Lynch. and owned
by him and his brother. Timothy. The
mountain is composed mainly of meta
morphic rock. the formation running
northwest and southeast. and is cut dag
onally by dIkes OF granite, In which the
lodges of quartz lie, running east and
west. The Aurora ledge Is five feet wide
between walls of granite. and has
strong outcrop of white quartz. II carries
free gold and slaphurets. and Is heavily OK
.dized for fifty feet from the surface. 1t
was bonded in October, 1894. 20 Nelson
Bennett and NJ. V. e Stacey. who sunk
shaft fifty feet on the hanging wall, all
In ore but left half the ledge untouched
on the footwall. They also struck
twelye-inch stringer. at a depth of thirty
five feet. Mr.. Benefits financial embar-
rassment compelled them 10 abandon the
work In August, 1895, while they were
working In fine ore, OF which there are
fifty tons on the dump, and which averages
so gold. some assays running up 10 *l&.3o.
On the same claim is a cross ledge. SIX
inches wide. running into the main Ledge
from the southwest. tunnel has been
driven sixty feet. showing II To widen 10
eighteen inches. and an incline shaft has
been started from the face OF the tunnel
on the west side OF the claim Is a twenty
foot dixie of porphyrv cropping ont very
distinctly for some distance and mineral
lied with decomposed red oxide Of copper
and Iron On the hanging wall Is two
feet of red oChre assaying STA gold and
= ounces silver. and in the center is an
eighteen-nch seam of tale, carrying cop
per and pannlng gold. II is intended TO
mine the seam OF red ocare,
on the next extension % the Aurora is
tho Barbed Wire fraction. 500 feet long.
throuEht whlcl the ledge has been traced.
also owned by The Lynch brothers. 4 iioin-
ing on a five-foo, ledge in porphvry dixie
il the Argonaut. on which a tunnel IS In
twenty feet on The ledge No assays have
heen made, but the porphyry which j. de-
COMPOSED on the surface. pans free god.
Parallel wIth tho Aurora and 40 feet
north OF Il. overlooking the crater lake
mentioned above. r. The Mountain Sprtte.
on a four~foot ledge. IN which half he
value Is free. the remainder in sulp7urets.
An average OF tfe groupings was sacked
ana sent - 'he Sethv Smelter a san Fran
cisco. snd gave returns OF Sle6 gold. $-99
SILVER. AMI several ASSAYS have shown spa.
$50 S21a gold. with a trace - 81 IN silver.
\ tunnel has been driven seventy feet -
tfaSS-cat tne ledge. \ short distance