The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-04-19

this spring. The groupings Of this lead
show Q ledge over fifty feet Wide Four
teen feet OF this II solid copper ore car
rytns about s. In gold. the same n silver
and t-ifie percentage OF copper. Ten ieee
more Of the ledge Is composed 81 BLACK
and red oxides Of copper. ana me resi- Q,
the big vein contains mineral OF various
kinds This lead has been followed across
the river and small group of claims there
viii be worked on bond this spring by .
Portland syndicate
The Memo is nov working hve men on
tunnel work. They have an upper tunnel
Of seventy-five feet and one $50 feet be-
low twice that length. Both tunnels snow
about four feet Of magnetic iron ore car
rying from S to SIG per ton in gold.
On the other side of the river work -
being done on the Independent and Ana
corfes The Independent has q consid
cradle chute of mineral which averages
So per ton. The Anacortes people claim
to have had assays as high as S.7N in
silver.
These properties and many others are
accessible TO the railroad Over the
mountain to the south the Stillaguamish
4 Sultan Mining Company has a group OK
claims known as the Little Chief group.
The ledge. which was a large one. was
found exposed TO a remarkable extent.
To this natural development the company
of from twenty to thirty men, Everything
has been kept secret The company even
going so far as to change men SO that the
secrets of the ledge should not be known.
Much work has been done by means of =
diamond Grill and as soon as the core Is
taken out Ii is put In sacks. sealed and
sent to England, where the chief stock
holders of the company reside. Last sum-
mer they employed a party to survey out
hs- NJ
Wallace. The estimated cost of this rail-
road is half a million dollars and the in
dicasions this spring are that it will be
constructed.
The Silver creek and Troublesome dis
tricts are still without railroad or wagon
roads. The ores in these districts are
rather higher grade than those of the dis
tric,s to the north, and as they are now
only fifteen miles from the Great North
ern it is probable that they will not be
long without railroad transportation.
To enumelate the properties in these
districts upon which considerable work
has been done and which appear to be
mines of value is impossible. The Van
dalia has a ledge OF carbonates and ga
lena of high value The owners will build
a wagon road in the spring from Gaiena
to the mine. Two years ago the commits
sioners of Snohomish county built road
from Index, station on the Great North
ern, to Galena, so that with the COM
pietion Of the Vandalia road, the heart OF
the Silver creek country will be connect
ed by wagon road with the Great North
ern.
The Troublesome district lies east Of
Silver creek. II has some very strong
leads, recently discovered, of compare
lively rich iron gold carrying ore. There
is also a group of claims with ledge of
bromide ore upon which half a hundred
value from 1896 to 5000 per ton in silver.
Many other claims in both Silver creek
and Troublesome creek furnish small
spurs and stringers which assay from
$1,000 to 5000. These high assays are gem
orally OF silver. but the main value OF the
rock is usually in gold.
The outlook for all these districts is bet
ter this spring than at any time since
their discovery.
The development of the O. & B., men,
TONED above. by men of small means: The
apparent prosperity of the big Monte
Cristo syndicate which recently has COM
menced large amount of costly improve
ment work. the bonding Of additional
property by the Goat Lake company, the
large development work of the Little
chief company, the success of the VAN
dalia and Apex in packing ore out by pony
train. and the order of the Everett Smell
ter Company to its superintendent TO
commence work on a bullion refinery 10
COST $4,000. are all indications which point
TO lively times in Western Washington
mines before the year has passed.