The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-20

The Beach Along the straits Located
In Mining Claims.

SOMEBODY has recently stated" said
Editor G. u. Timer. 81 the Port Angeles
Tribune. 20 Poss-TutelItgencsr represent
tative yesterday. IN = sweeping review
OF The mining interests 90 Eastern Wash
ingtor. that Seattle mus. now look out
o. her back door for the prosperity that X
was hoped her shipping interests would
bring her. Tie Statement. Is also made
taas L vii need IN adjustment OF the
maritime laws Of the United States before
the shipping % Puget sound viii be a
source OF substantial revenue 20 Seattle.
and the argument IS further advanced ia
favor OF tAis city interesting itself N the
mines OK Eastern Washington and not 10
allow Spokane alone TO benefit by the
general prosperity over that way.
TIE fact s." continued Mr.. Timer.
there are substantial mining invest
uls1fs o. the front door side % Seattle
that her mining investors would do vel
to Investigate. Within the past ten days
every inca OF the beach along the straits
o. Juan de Fuca. from DIngenesz spit 70
P1rt Angeles. has been located ia mining
claims The immediate cause CT the ex-
element. although i las been generally
known FOR years that there has been gold
in the black sand down that way. vas The
sale OF Two or three beach claims 10
parties who propose 70 Use the machines
inven.e . BY a California man named
Banta. Banta Is down TIE Straits now
and has been Cor several months and is
making a good thing out OF his machine
He has considerable good beach property
n the shape % claims. and the sale %
MS process for extracting four gold from
the sand has created a demand for such
property. As soon as the Por- Angeles
people found OF what vas IN the wind
they swarmed 10 the beach 10 locate
claims Everv horse that could be pressed
that bad not already been sfaked out
was put 70 use, with the result. as 1 have
already stated. that the catire beach is
taken ~.
y 90 no: pretend 10 know what the
Banta process il. bat I do know that
there Is at least one verv simple way OF
taking the gold ont OF the sand This
process consists or washing ont the sand
with water and then cutting the mineral
grease ous CT gold and sand by caustic
soda or some other s5ch agent. and finish
Ing By the use Of quicksilver.
Las; fall said Mr. Timer. &C III.
Prescott. Frank Jones and Alex Watt. all
OF Port Angeles. went hack into the
olvmpics elk hunting. When they struck
in hack % the shore range they found
what they believed 10 be 9ecomposed
quartz. They Clipped or some chunks
with their rife butts and carried them
into Port Angeles. whore trey were ex-
hi6!tsd 70 Col. CarriEan. He sent them
up here 10 Seattle. where they were as
saved by ]. n. DawAey. and pronounced
by him 70 be SAMPLES or ore that would
carry gold az a rate % sass % the ton
Mr.. Dawley recommended that the lead
Re followed. as he said the md bore all
the earnarkS % phenomsnally rich crop
pings. The pTospecfoTs delayed further
research until the spring. "a the snOrx in
The mountains preclgded investigation.
They eid. however. go down on the beach
ahove the QuillayFge river. where they
i5cated I'VE claims. Theirs were among
those sold short time ago that caused
Sumner another mar. whose name I have
point beyond where Prescott and the
others Ct his party discovered the crop
pings af 5ecompoSsd quartz. ard returned
reeentiy with other F5ch specimens. fHat
he claimed we're \ part % the same drift
5ut considerably removed. leading % the
impression fnat tnat particular part o.
tire Olympic raaee - very rich in min
eraEs his samples containing both gold
ard sflgsr-
.sIs some o. the sfort and some O. ire
CAPITAL were directed teward he Oiyrurtex
bsfieve the result would % TIE develop
i raent O. s0Hss VERY rich mining properties
faat waald Re tributary - a trade way
20 seztite ard s. would rot ~ necessary
far tbs tawn 90 look est OF her hack
deer for the prosperity that her shipping
mas failed - lzHa a. ere FROM. The
ralaes. az her very doorstep. az K we're.
xoal1 furnish plenty % prosperity