The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-23

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Scsafs 81 soic-besyfng nsategfa, ars gravel
hills built Up In the course q ages On
osa river cnsnzeiss running sometimes par
Aneas n otasrs across the present char
nea % eesnassla creek In the Old chan
neas the gold n mostly coarse. ard there
Tore easily sawed. bat where the present
streams have acted On II IL Is fine and re-
Qclres rnore care and skill One OF the
hrTess enterprises Of tais kind il being
carried on by W. II keene and Q. A.
Eeasarasn. OF Seattle. on gfae fats bes16e
1ns Hen2tchea On its right bank one
aud one-A&lg miles below PeShsstin. Mr..
hssEe began BIZ slgicsnx hack from the
river bank and working southwark over
TIE bar east O. the Peshassin. taking his
water from a point hait mile up ghat
creek saovsssng the dirt into the sluice-
boxes. he found rnat the old channel
bedrock sioped hack from she rresen,
river channel, and thus his ground filed
Up with water. particularly when the
river was 81 Gocas*ae. Being Joined by
Mr.. BeufRain. be - now putting in q
hydraulic and 3 puznp TO raise the dirt
frcza beneath the water on the old channel
The dirt pays web. even for manual work.
coed streAks running as high IS 81 q
yard Al the mouth Of ingalls, creek Mr..
Hensel. farmer. = working severl
claims with good results In fsne gold. On
the right bank Of the Peshassin. at the
an Lynch. Riley Easenhour and Thomas
Medhurst have six claims. which they
worked with a big hydraulic giant last
year until the water failed. and ara now
misunderstanding for lack of water 20 by
Grauiic.
Where the canyon narrows below Negro
creek J. II. Crawford, W. II. wilcox and
Frank p. Hosley have four claims on the
left bank. TO which they have built a.ee
feet Of ditch and fiszrne from Negro creek
with la0 feet of fall and are nydraaisekfng
down 10 the old channel bedrock with
seven-inch pipe and No. / giant. which
throws a three-inah stream. They have
washed back lao feet from The creek and
down 20 bedrock. which Is thirty feet
above the present level OF the creek. The
gold is coarse. in nuggets as large as ss-sA
ana they are working with only wood riff
iies and no plates or quicksilver. not at
tempting 10 save the fine gold. The gold
Is SO coarse that little Of X goes beyond
the second rifle. The giant is heavy
iron tubs. contracting towards the mouth
and working on pivot AZ the connection
With the supply pipe. 50 that one man may
turn the stream in any direction. 10 right
or left. up or down. with a twist OF the
arm. IL brings dirt and big boulders tam-
bling down with the impact OF the stream.
and the water carries al but the big
bculders surging through the sluice boxes.
from which the stream shoots up IA q
small gsyser and then PUSHES OF down the
canyon, carrying the debris with IL. The
property pays well in coarse gold and tho
owners are well satisfied with their pros
poets.
A mile above Negro creek George w.
and j. NJ. Bloom. two brothers. and John
SNYDER former cashier OF the defunct Ia
coma National bank and ex-member of the
Tacoma city council are working three
good claims which take Ia ali the bar
ground on both aides OF the creek, on tho
old channel. The Bloom brothers started
three years ago by slulcing out the dirt
on the right bank Of the creek and took
$40 from a space fifteen feet square. Last
year they took so from the spaea next be-
low. ten feet square and at the most elgh-
teen inches deep. This year they were
Joined by Mr.. snyder, who took the claim
Immediately above theirs which had been
abandoned by Il. w. Mcmillan. They cut
a ditch for n bedrock drain. but failed to
to reach bedrock and then started tun-
mel to cut across from rim 10 rim OF the
cid channel which is twenty-eight feet,
keeping the water down with bucket
wheel From the first eight feet or THIS
tunnel they took sac and they have a bed
OF gravel about twenty feet deep. when
they say carries - cents yard from rim
70 rim and surface 10 bedrock. The golt
is nearly all coarse. bat they save the nme
gold by means OF pole rifles placed length
wise OF the siulce box. with cle2ts under
meath which raise them an inch above tho
bottom This arraN cement causes con-
tinual boil in the water. which thus sucks
the gold under the crosspieces' On ths
lowest claim they are driving tunnel
back To the old channel. Of which they
have not vet found the bedrock. the dirt
running as well as on the upper claims
They propose 20 dig ditch one and one
ffth miles along the creek with capacity
OF 200 inches, and VIII put IN saA-ihch
pipe and hydraulic.
has started a drain to bedrock on six
acres, IN which he finds eolors IN every
nan. Half a NILE stili further up John
Ueoner and John johnson have been
ground-sluicing with moderate success.
The Great Rod Buttes.
After tho death OF Marshall Blinn. In
terest in the mineral belt cut by Negro
creek langusshed for some Years and aid
NO. ravtye until the purchase OF the Sui-
Yer rroup by the Biewett company. in lss2.
prospectors then began 10 pay attention
10 ire great red buttes which form dis
tinctiye feature or the landscape Aphs
Negro creek and the adjacent tributaries
OF the Peshastin. as wen as at points
along tho latter stream They soon toafu
that the dikes or which these po.tes Nsis
sba highest points contained chutes OF
nor,hyrftio auarszite. between walls CT
lime and porphyry. the chutes ranging IN
width from three 10 thirty feet. and sew
a,uy Occurring across tho width or The
wider dikes The cuartzite carries not
only gold and some silver. but nickel 10
AZ average OF "a per cent. and IN some
instances as high as 10 per CEN. :. 49,
carries cobalt, and the walls carry traces
az nickel. Some OF the lodges furthest
ar, tne creek are distinctly copper ore
carrying Is to % per cent. OF that mineral.
ard one ledge carries ciHnaoar IA ~iieb
shere is native quicksilver. Pfospestine
has gone on steadily and has extenoea IT'S
tcit across the divide at the head o. Negro
c,.et~ "a Falls creek. across ne north
wall Of the canyon 20 and across lngalss
~rs.as DOWN the Peshastin q mile below
4he latter stream and across Ruby creek,
an eastern tributary OF the PeshaStin.
large amount Of DEVELOPMENT mas been
Soue or rrsany OF the claims. but rack OF
canital and the need OF wazon roal has
Prevented the district from becoming
hhor,t a mile I'D Negro creek. which
go n en- two. q A vein showing sixty
fes. wide up ard down the creek on whiNa
7 = Ruttiess George Hco9 ard James
grzrs have located the Little Psttse"fg,
rs,,flgon. PayrnaAter and Keystone ne
.s~.--syrs.s claim running to the summit
~, ere south ani looking down 10 the
Ss.svar rroiYp. The ledge runs nearly
,,s-.h ard south. White the others run
vrora northwest and southeast. ana y has
s,rNu traced and uncovered 70 the SUMMIT
overlooking ingalls, creek. crosSeat mas
49,, s~,r .htrtv-thrp@ feet on the face
-v.ssbors+ striking either wall. a tunnel -
~ r~elve feet on the LATHE FTtta5arE. q
shaft down ten feet on The Bullion aTd
+s,-reau ara being ran on the Peynaster
ara Keystone. seven assays have been
y,ass for gold alone. the greatest oeESin
tom which q sample was taken oeffg
four feet. ard the range Vas iFola s~.f
- e. * 4&e surface srold berg free The