The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-13

Capitalists Seeking Invesfment-yew
Machinery Going in.

FROM LOOMS, w Sn-s comes the news
that interest In the development OF the
mines OF that section is on the increase.
and that more work is being done than
at any time since 1sS2. During the past
month. according 10 the correspondent
of the Spokesman-Review, there have been
representatives of many capitalists ex-
aiming properties with view TO In
Testment. and the result has been num-
Der of sales. while other properties have
been bonded large number of freight
teams have been working continuously
for nearly month bringing In the ma
chinery for the new Wyandotte mill on
the Similikameen river and many car
pentsrs are at work preparing the build
ings for the placing of the machinery.
The Ivanhoe Company has commenced
hosting the water out of the perpendic-
ular and incline shafts on its property.
and Will soon put on a large force of
miners and develop the mine.
William Riley and John Wentworth
have been compelled 10 stop work on their
Palmer mountain claim. the Copper
World. BY rapid rise OF water in the
shaft This ledge is thirty feet wide be-
tween walls. the whole body being heavily
raineraIized. They have sunk an incline
shaft at a pitch of 50 degrees in the hang
ing wall and the ore improves at depth.
They intend 10 at once sink shaft on
the foot wall TO about the same depth
is very promising iron-cap prospect.
the ore closely resembling that IN the
Trail creek country.
william Lewis. of the MacriYna Mining
and Milling Company. OF Ellensburg. has
advertised for bids for sinking a shaft
on the Mammoth claim on Whisky hin
an additional fifty feet. The ledge on this
property can be traced 800 feet ard
varies from twenty 10 eighty feet In
width. The ore is an Iron suIpaUret car
rying silver and gold. A contract has
inst been completed for the sinking of
a SKI shaft thirty feet. The value OF the
ore increases as depth is gained, and II
the ore holds its present value when the
hfty-foot contract is completed, the COM
pany viii erect a mill
Messrs Henken, Riste, linden ard
BrinxoIf have brought In a large guam
ties OF samples from their group of ave
claims on Mary Ann creek. The claim
upon which they are working is 100 feet
in width and the ore a gray honeycomb
free-milling quartz, from all OF which geld
can be panned, and most OF the specimens
show gold 10 the naked eye There is
plenty OF water and timber and an ideal
min site on this property. making 1t one
Of the best free milling propositions yet
found in this section. The owners have
sfven a bond to William 3. Moore.
The Riste and o'Hein brothers have
sunk a shaft fifteen feet on their Nam
moth claim on Myers creek. This ledge
is fifty feet In width, a non-sulphite ore.
The same parties own the Comet claim,
a smelling proposition, upon which they
have sunk ten-foot shaft The ore car
ries copper, iron and gaiens, there being
one foot OF copper and iron on the hang
ing wall and four feet OF galeaa ore on
the footwall.
George j. Steel has brought in some
fine samples from his claim on Myers
creek The claim is four feet wide and
consists OF A high grade gaiena ore In
lime formation. He showed an assay Of
$50 ounces OF silver and 81 per cent. lead
from the ore thrown out By the first
shot on the prospect. Mr. Steel reported
that ex-Shertr Allison and John Nulaoi-
land Lave run their tunnel forty feet on
;aeir claim also on Myers creek, tapping
their ledge al a depth Of fifty or sixty
feet The ledge Is six feet IA width and
consists OF iron and copper sulphurets.