The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-12
|IHB MINES Or OkANOCAN.

u EuDy - q prosperous mining camp
Was assured beyond doubt
he Arlington Mining Company id
about SO feet Of 3eseioxrrert In The shape
q shafts. drifts and tunnels. reaching
depth OF - feet. ~ which the ledge was
tie same ia size and character as on the
sHrIace The company then started tire
erection OF ieechtng plant. bat owing
~ quarrel with this agents OF the Ruby
toWns4te. III. e. Thompson ard sx-(soT.
Cfsedwtck. OF Oregon. who were Interest,"
60 u the company. established new
Town called Loop Loop. or the creek cf
tsAaS name. on the summit OF Ruby hill,
three niles west OF Ruby and built q
se~usiu there. About st58eo was expend-
&c on this plant and or the other build
ifsss Under the direction OF tie manager.
sar. Aiaskl, who had been very successful
as a candy manufacturer ia Portland lie
tsAa calculated on securing water from
TIE mine 10 supply the mill, but after
sFectlns the buildings and hauling the
machinery TO tbs ground. az a cost OF
cents pound, and bricks. which cost 80
q thousand delivered, he found that there
was not enough water tapped In the rhine
20 supply the plant Thus he had 30
abandon the scheme and put the cost
down 10 experience. The town Of Loop
Loop. which occupied a beautiful site On
Inc mountain top. died OF hamilton after
brief bat lively existence. during which
ersl hundred tons OF ore had accumulated
and OF this the best was concentrated
Al the washington Reduction Company's
plant. Of which more anon
On the First Thought Mr. Bourne went
vigorously 10 work. He first ran tunnel
no 500 feet. tapping the ledge at a
depth OF 900 feet and then appraised a
shaft 20 the surface, zS4 feet He ran
another tunnel about Go feet on the foot
wall. and made a cross-cut 1Izsz feet. al
through ore. Another tunnel was
run 80 feet on the hanging wall. yhich
gaze a depth OF p. A number OF drifts
from the tunnel on the footwan TO that
on the hanging wall showed the ledge
70 De from thirty 20 sixty feet wide
IL averaged from six 70 ten ounces sIi-
ssr and - gold, though there were rich
strezAks and pockets, showing native and
ruby silver, which ran Up 10 zoo ounces
Meanwhile the Washington Reduction
Company had begun the erection OF a
coneentrator ar Ruby and built a cable
bucket tramway a mile long from the
first Thought mine. IL has two rock
crushers, two Dodge pulverlzera with
screens, eight Frue yanners, canvass
sSrakes and an electric dynamo run by
water power. the whole costing about s70.-
CD IL ran for about three months ia
Asz, ana after suspension during the
winter. due 10 the freezing OF the water
supply. started again IN the spring OF
isss and ran until July. As silver then
fei below 70 cents the mill was stopped
after producing about $4,000 Ia concern
trates. clear OF freight and treatment
charges. and has not since turned a
wheel
The Fourth OF July was bought by
Judge Reea, OF Tacoma. Jonathan Bourne,
Jr-. and Thomas Lothian. OF Denver. and
they sold 10 to William A Clark and
Joseph Clark. Of Butte. and Mr. Kauf-
man and other st. Louis people, who In
eorporated. leaving out Mr. Bourne's one
eighth. az he refused to sell. The COM
pany sank about 80 feet, ran drifts for
some zoo feet and stopped about 80 tons
or ore. This was the richest ledge on
the hin. being fifteen feet wide with a
pay streak four feet wide. from which
one shipment OF twenty tons paid $3.50 a
ton gold and silver. while specimens OF
ore carrying native and wire silver were
carried away. which would aggregate
thousands of dollars in value. ABOUT 2oo
tons of ore were shipped and 600 tons
were treated at the Ruby concentration.
Among the first locations on Ruby hin
WAS the WOoloo booloo. named after a
place In Australia, by Hugh MccooI and
others. who found a ledge eight feet wide
carrying black sulphurets the first two
assays from which ran 1000 and 5000
ounces silver. They sank q shaft iso fee,
on the ledge and then lost IL. The War
Eagle. owned by a number OF 81. Paul
men. who are stili in litigation regarding
II. has an eight-foot ledge of low grade
on which a shaft has been sunk $50 feet
On the Idaho. George Turner. w. n.
Drumheller ana William Pfnnder have a
SHAFT about $50 feet dsep on tho same
ledge.
A Minors Luck.
The discovery claim, on Anaconda HILL
was the Anaconda. located by Thomas
Hisstrun, on twenty-foot ledge OF
chloride orc. showing wen on the sur
face and assaying 20 10 so ounces Hlg-
stFun WAS offered bond for $4,000 by
John Rudberg, but would accept nothing
bat si0.0o cash. Rudherg yielded the
point. and the saloon keepers hearing OF
the deal and knowing iigasrun TO be a
man OF convivial habits. expected a har-
vest But Iigxtfun refused to take pay
nent In anything but gold so Rudherg
took him To Spokane TO obtain Il. When
.tfigstrun walked out OF the hank with
his sack Of sold. the bank officers sent
a man 10 watch and guard him against
robbery. He celebrated his good fortune
by getting into a somnoient state OF In
ehfisty, but bought a ticket Tor New
York between drlnka When he reached
the depot. he zen asleep with his treasure
In his arms. but his faithful guard Rrous-
ga him and put hlm and the sack 81 gold
on the train. lie went 10 his Scandinavian
home. where he paid or a mortgage on
his mothers home and returned in pow
erty several years later IN search OF an
other mine.
The Anaconda was sald hy Mr.. Rnd-
berg to Hale & Smith, Nen0phen Sleeves
and J. c. Moreland. Of Portland. for sis.-
soc he retaining a oue-slghth interest
The new owners sank SHAFT thirty-fve
or forty feet and then lost the ledge.
They ran a tunnel lower down the noun
takts 60, "a ali an fa4ss AZ sfrss
below THE shaft hct did not strike IL
there. They have been continuing assess
raent work and have run on the ledge
again showing up good black sulDhureta
About the same time that the frst dis
coxertes were made on Rudy hIll. SIM
tar body Of oFs WAS found near the foot
az a pelnt OF the hil running cut into
Concenuiiy lake from the north, quar-
ter 81 q mile from the town or that
ranse. by Texas" George Runnsls and
]. q. Boone. who located the Lady OF the
lake on fl the dAy the Moses reserva~
tfon Was OPENED They bonded a 70 q.
II. p~eh for ttaee. and he made about
100 feet 81 drifts ard cross-cuts. bat for
Tested the bond The cialn afterwara
passed through 50 many haRas that the
oldest inhabitAnt has forgotfen the par
ticuiars
Tsacn came the Lone star. on the west
slae og salmon river, aesat Eulle above
Couconuiy. which was ioeatesf by Henry
c. IAwrenee, who Interested Allen c. Ma
son OF Tacoma There - tesfEe ~
xaienA ere aeoat twelve feet wide which
assays about 10 ounces - silver. On
- htch A shaft has been sunk so feet. ana
arsfts have been run each way on the
ledge at every 10 fest. aTgreEatinE leo
feet, abeat $tae8 being spent 4 CON
sgAnra BE quantity 81 era was taken nsft
ard the owners Intended 20 erect = reduc-