Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-01-16
THEIR LUCKY STAR.
The SLOGAN Silver and Lead
Mine of the White
Brothers.
Great Fortunes Being Made in
Silver Mines in British
Columbia.

The Seattle Times contains an account
of the visit Of two Grand Forks men
Messrs Birkholz and Titus, OF the Firs
National Bank of that city, in British
Columbia, where they have been inspect
ing lead and silver mines in which they
own stock. The SLOGAN mines are turn
ing out ore faster than 1t can be trans.
ported to the smeltere at Everett, says
Mr.. Blrkholz. The ore from the Dead
Man mine, the property of Blrkholz
Titus, is running $50 ounces of silver to
the ton, and will run from 40 to 60 pei
cent lead. Twenty mines are being work
ed on one hill. The cost per ton to get
ore from the Dead Man mine to the rail-
road, distance Of three miles, is $3.50
ton. 1t taker an hour and q half to
walk up to the mine and fifteen minutes
to come down in a raw-hide sled by
which ore is shunted to the foot of the
hill. The Seattle Times quotes Mr..
Titus as follows:
Nov Is the harvest of the mines of
Slocan and Trail creek. At this season
N ore ore Is taken out than at any other
time in the year. Everybody Is busy
and is being amply repaid by rich re-
turns. The amount of ore coming out
now would be surprise to any one. 1t
beats four of kird.' One hundred tons
a day are being handled by one road,
not to mention that sent to Pilot bay
and sent out by other means on steam
ers and the like.
'That is only a very new country as
yet, but you Can imagine how crude it
was when went there in 1893 and 1894,
which are called early times. The No
BILE Five mines were only located in 1892
and the town of Sanden has sprung up
since my former visits. Immense devel-
opment work is the great feature to be
noticed, and IS the work that counts.
The excitement of location or a new
camp goes for nothing along with the
great tunnel work afterwards accom-
plished.
I'm my judgment the SLOGAN mines
are going to develop into the greatest
silver properties on the American con-
tinent, and while great boom awaits
all the western mines, the SLOGAN and
Trail creek countries are gong to see
the greatest Of all. They will be the
q ucleus, the great central scene of &C.
ton. People are tired OF South Africa.
"Slocan and Trail creek are both very,
very rich. The richness is not known
to the outside world. Tue extent Of
thier wealth ls just beginning
to be comprehended. One mine ls going
to begin paying $4,000 q month divi.
aends, the SLOGAN Star.
1T is owned by the White brothers of
Spokane and Angus Smith Of M1lwau-
kee. I have been told that they were
offered Sl,50O,O00 for it, but declined.
There is nearly that amount in sight.
Most OF both Trail and SLOGAN is
owned and controlled by Spokane CAPT.
talists and their friends. The towns are
simply American towns on British soil.
The Pilot Bay smelter and Blue Bell
nine are owned by Connecticut and
parties.
'To 90 into the country in the SUM-
mer time the quickest and best route is
from Bonner's Ferry to Kalso by steam
or, an eleven-hour run. No scenery in
the country equal to that along the lake
and the Selkirk mountains, especially
the former. The lake has an average
width of three miles and is 100 miles
long. A most pleasant sheet of water
1t is.''
The White brothers whose valuable
property is referred to, were formerly OF
Stutsman caunty and are brothers of
County Commissioner White. They
had experience in mines in the Lake
Superior region before coming to James
town and before going to British COL
umbia.