The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-05

feet deep On q four-foos ledge OF salena.
which runs twenty ounces Of silver. S.
gold
Another group formerly owned hy the
wanricut Company, row by McLaren. Is
the Standard. the North Star. on the norsh
extension. the King On the south exfen-
SION, the Apex Union Consolidated and
Morning Star parallel on each side Of the
first three claims. On the Standard Is a
tunnel 10 feet prosecuting ledge which
varies from eighteen inches 10 six feet
ard averages four feet. II Is sulphide ora
carrying about 81 gold On the Apex a
shaft is down forty feet showing eight
inches OF quartz. assayinx S 70 s. gold.
between slate walls. while the Union Con-
soisdated has 1hirfy-foot tunnel on a
ledge of about the same size and charac-
ter
One OF the richest discoveries on Palm
er mountain was the Grand Summit.
which was located directly on the sum-
nit ny John Enright and William Towne.
The ledge is two to three feet wide and
had a rich pocket near the surface which
assayed -. 90 ton gold. A tunnel is in
fifty feet on the ledge and a shaft is down
forty feet at opposite ends Of the claim.
showing good average ore. Of which fifty
tons nilled at the Iyanhoe and Black Bear
mills averaged so gold
Another fine showing has been made by
the Gladstone group of three claims. at
the south end OF Palmer lake. consisting
of the Gladstone. Myrtle and Shamrock
The two latter claims were bonded in lisa
by T. 3. Hammond, OF Portland who
without doing any work on them threw
them up on the ground that they were
not as represented The present owners
then bought them and have unaided run
about 800 feet of tunnel and cross-cuts,
one tunnel being go feet on the vein.
They have four parallel lodges OF free
milling ore, eighteen, fourteen, twelve
and thirteen feet within . total width OF
rs feet running through all three claims.
the walls being diorite and porphyry and
the veins perpendicular. These lodges
could be tapped from the side of the noun
tain at q depth of 800 feet
On the summit of the mountain east OF
the Triune Is the Bullfrog group of eight
claims, owned by Mrs. Adelbert Hart and
Mr.. J. Deuel.. Through them a soven-fooe
ledge has been traced 5000 feet along the
apex OF the mountain and a tunnel has
been run loo feet to cut the lead and is
now in ore. while two shafts forty TO
thirty-six feet have been sunk on the lead
A shipment OF 100 pounds returned
about $50 Q ton in gold and silver and
twenty assays averaged sl60 gold and sill
Yer. Work is being pushed on the tunnel
and shipment continues.
The Ninety-two owned by William Deu-
Ell and William James. lies between the
Grand Summit and the lvanhoe and has
a tunnel 1oo feet on the ledge. showing
three feet OF free milling ore. which
assays sI2 TO SIS gold. Near this are the
Windsor and Rams Horn. located by
Frank Ware and Charles r. Moulton, the
slayer Of Mrs Storey and himself. Moui-
ton built log house which he called
Windsor Castle on sign posts placed along
the trail. He sank a shaft twenty feet
and a tunnel thirty feet. showing fair ore.
There 10 quite a group Of good claims ex-
tending south from the Rainbow group
two OF which. the Red Mountain. on a
peak Of that name. and the Our mine. arc
owned by the same parties as the Rain
bow. On the Red Mountain is vein OF
one To two feet of low grade ora on which
a shaft has been sunk thirty-seven feet
and twelve tons of ore are on the dump.
The Our mine Is on a parallel vein i've
feet wide, which has sbeen stripped and
has six tons on the dump. Adjoining these
Is a group owned by S. J. Liveiock, COM
posed OF the Lancashire Lass. Cherokee
Boy, Lancashire Lad. Choctaw Boy and
the millsite formerly occupied by the RAIN
bow mill. The leads on the Lancashire
Lass and Cherokee Boy run north and
south and are north extensions OF thoss
on the Red Mountain and Our mine. Tho
Choctaw Boy has an extension OF tho
Cherokee Boy and Our mine leads, and also
an east and west lead which is an extern
sion through the Lancashire Lass of the
one shown up on the Contention. On the
Choctaw Boy q forty-two foot shaft has
been sunk on the east and west lead,
showing three feet of ore, assaying about
SIS gold. An eighteen-foot shaft on the
Cherokee Boy shows the lead broken into
number of stringers. On the Larica-
shire Lass the vein has been stripped for
length of thirty feet and to width OK
six feet. with no walls in sight, ana Is an
iron cap covering iron pyrites.
The Contention. which Is UP the noun
tain above the last named group, is one
of a group of five claims owned by Mosher
a. Mcdonald, OF Seattle, for whom Frank
T.. Ware has been carrying on work and
expects soon TO resume IT. A shaft has
been sunk ninety-fve feet on the east and
west lead, which is three feet wide OF free
milling ore. with drift at the hfty-foot
level running east and another at the bot
tom, run with a view 10 striking the juno
ton with the north and south lead.
On the same side of the mountain Is the
Chicago group composed of the Chicago.
Cashdown, Bullion and Wellington. owned
by J. E. Jordan. He has crosscut ex-
tending sixty feet from black slate foot
wall against which is gouge of gravel
and sand and has not yet struck the hang
ing wall the ore carrying gold. silver and
s to per cent. lead. with copper and iron
pyrites in places. He has traced the crop
pings half mile and believes all the
claims are on the same ledge. Besides the
crosscut mentioned, he has sunk shaft
thirteen feet on this ledge which assays
SIS 10 silver. s3.en lead. So gold A tunnel
has also been run forty feet on another
deposit of copper pyrites carrying gold and
silver, from which no assays have yet
been taken. On the Cashdown Il TWEEN
ty-foot shaft on two feet OF ore. which
10 s~4ss ha
ledge. On the Bullion a cut twenty-five
feet on the ledge has not shown ND the
walls. on the Wellington twenty-foot
shaft and several small crosscuts show a
three-foot ledge of the same kind OF ore
as the Chicago. Mr.. Jordan also has the
ORC Elmo OF the south end OF the noun
tain, four miles from Loomiston, on which
he has sunk a ts1srfy-hve-foot inclined
shaft on a avs-foot ledge OF white quartz
between walls OF slate and black porphyry.
The ore carries gold. silver and platinum
and ASSAYS So r. for all values
on the south slope of Palmer mountain
f. the Defiance. which was bought by the
Everett Mining Company from John Pit
man II, fS@a A shaft is down H. feet and
al the ninety-seven-foot level drift was
run on A three-foot vein az free milling
ore forty feet TO the south and sorty-two
feet TO the north. On the same end OF the
mountain IL the baltimore. owned with
two other claim. hy j. NJ. Sparkmau.
Iyoskee A Allen and J. s. Sexton. all Of
Seattle. who bought them from William b.
Moore and Thomas Ryan. A tunnel has
been run eignty-three feet on the vein,
which is a foot wide and carries SIC gold
with some copper pyrites.
The wehe Group.
One Of the most extensive groups on
the east side OF the mountain II owned
hy the four wehe brothers. Albert c.