The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-26

<ees ga fAe Tatzn sr5 a2r. Clark AID rs
sor Frank have the Everets on snail
lead .ssseh Shows god mineral Elmer
Abernethy has TIE Lszaz On a four ana .
hsF foc< ledge csrrTtnE <oos OF sofsd o..
~hseh en- be trzrea several 1gE4red feet
hae ia Green Eye via two istgEs- a7e q
uhtrz = tie sane as the IsZzia. and TIE
Fsg<~s> Wis a fnr,<-foof Ledge He am
u n Ten5er~cn have the Summit ar1
Princess on an iron cap ~ great WIDTH
covering three n o-e-1sff feet % py-stsc
ore. On she west ems ~ ire mountain Ths
YesBsx Jacket IS Owned hF John ard SAM
rei Dsnsck. z. T. Toz4er. A. l. Tozser Sai
z 2 Gilbert
ffrs~ss has zYse been discovered On The
very hea1safers OF the TwLsp. from ehs
sources % the slopes 81 Mount Ldncoia
co~z 20 IRE forks extending the district
continuously westward AZ the extreme
head Of the rorsh FORK = HaAe's camp.
where the Tempest. Hazel, Noilse sn1
Roiersck Dha are on two parallels lea1s
five ar3 ff.een feet vide, ~-slch crop o1t
the fail length OF che group and give as
says OF SIC 70 so gold CT the surface
These claims have been incorporated Dy
the Three Links Gold Mining Company,
composed o Henry Plummer, George
wnte. p. Gilbert. J. 8 Reynolds. w B.
Cowgirl ard - Dawson. % Spokane. with
s-ssssg capital. Of which one-chird has
been put in the treasury for development
work Or the seueh fork. extending up
the side o< Noun Lincoln. Asssrs. john
son. Lockwood. Ecz1eb1e and Plunmer
have the Parmiey and Monticello on
fhree-soot ledge which they have traced
for 80 feet On the north end CT Goat
Park mountain Robert Hewitt. r Rat
cllre ard Joseph Yingee have traced for
/ 10 feet ledge which crops out twelve
feet wide and appears to be Of high grade.
though they have no assays. They have
panned out gold from the foo; Of the
mountain whscii appears 20 come from
this ledge. and have located the John Paul
Jones Between the forks OF the river
they also have the Monday on three-<oot
ledge which has been traced txo-fhirds OF
the way across the claim and pans well.
On the northwest side Of Lincoln mount
ain Jack Tracy has on the Local good
showing OF pyrific ore and gray copper.
and on what is apparently an extension OF
this ledge J. s. Reynolds. J. W. Reynolds
and w. s. Rogers. Of Spokane. have just
located the Mckinley Bin. On the Gold
Bug J. s. Taylor. G. r. Turner and +. W.
Schafer have a thres-foot ledge which
Planned well on the surface. At the head
OF Copper creek. which flows into Bridge
creek on the other side OF the divide. l. the
Three Links, on q fourteeen-foot ledge,
owned BY the Three Links Gold Mining
Company. At the head OF Cripple creek is
the Gold Bar group OF six claims. on par
sllel lodges five 10 twenty feet wide. from
which surface assays run SO gold and
per cent. OF copper. The locations wsre
made last September by W. L. Lamotte
and have been transferred to the Gold Bar
Mining Company, in which George Turner.
Judge Hougnton, and others. OF Spokane.
are interested. and which win spend 81 80
on development work this season On
their way up the river Messrs. Johnson.
Lockwood and Scheble discovered a twelve
inch ledge OF gray copper ore near the
Spokane mine, about a mile and a half
northwest of the mouth OF the Twisp. on
which they located the Gold Wing.
Placer Mining.
The considerable showing OF free gold
on the surface naturally led TO prospect
ing for placer gold, and number of ioca-
lions have resulted. extending from the
forks 10 North creek. Claims have been
located BY Messrs. Lockwood. johnson.
schebie Plummer. Robert Hewitt and j.
6 Reynolds on a bench In the forks of
the Twisp and on Falls creek. which runs
into the Twisp from the north. Frank
Creighton and Harry Laughnane have
made ashy6rauIic location on a gravel
sidehill which pans from sile surface. At
the mouth OF North creek seventeen ioca-
tons have been made by Chester Creigh-
ton. Frank Creighton and Dennis Melon
aid the dirt pannlng from the surface and
the gold not being so fine as 10 cause diff
Guilty IN saving IL.
The Twisp district is too young 10 show
much development. the snow having driv-
en- the prospectors out last fan almost as
soon as they had made their locations.
and kept them out this spring by remain
ing az least a month later than usual. II
Is said tha; there Is as much snow now
on the summit OF the Txisp pass as there
was a. the same period I'm June last year.
However work is now in full swing on n
number OF claims. and IS beginning on 9TH
ers. giving promise that at the end of the
season enough Will have been shown 10
prove the permanencs OF the lodges and
their value at depth. One advantage OF
the s:eerness Of the mountains is that
tunnel run into siiehilI ledge VIII give
grsa. depth for stopping up 20 the summit
while the gufches run to the base with
such an unnroken slope as 70 OFFER good
routes for cable tramways into the can
yon. where there Is already talk OF estab-
fishing a leeehing plant.
Work of Development.
The most development has been done at
the Spokane mine which Is fully twenty
five miles from the more recent discov-
cries. but properly belongs 20 the Twfsp
TfrTTfEF. 2i0FE3U. NICHOLS * 70. UNE&n
development LAST year under the direction
OF J. p. Nichols. member OF the firm.
ana resumed n with vigor last May. en-
pioyiug nine men on two ten-hour shifts.
The ledge IS between four ana ave feet.
between walls or rorrhyry. and runs
northwest ard soetheas. and Is nearly per-
pentscnlsr. with a slight pitch 10 the west.
Prospecting was begun with = shaft sunk
forty feet showing ore all the way and
x-sfA tA&- +Urnef the.
above the top % the shaft. which was
covered W. and Is row In eighty feet. A
dr!ft r. being run los feet lower which is
now IN xeventy-rve feet. ard viii De used
"a a working tunnel. from which an up
raise viii be made for a shaft. The work
50 far has shown twenty-four 20 thirty
inches az solid mineral on the feotwal.
sometimes crossing The ledge and coming
in on the hanging wall also. though the
whole ledge assays well. Nr. Nichols re-
fuses 20 give The valve Of .he ore bat q
- understood ttlst the rsv streak runs a.
last 81 gold and silver No ore has been
shipped. but there Is sewenty-6vs tons or
the aurar. ana y is proposed 80 erect a
mating pisnt In the valley below the
ruine. About three-Guar;srs % y mile ~
ditch has been cut and ere sna cne-half
miles more wiz gl~c water power from the
river with 10 feet head. enough 20 run the
hoist. compressor for drills. ard n1achln-
eTN ef tee mating plant. Mr.. Ntcnoss has
erscsed a residence fer himself and other
Asfgislngs. and has sent TO Minneapolis fer
his wife - spent tAe summer with tlfu1-
On tne orexonian group shaft has been
~i-k On the 0Yc<cntan twenty feet or two
feet ~ ore. 81 which the-e Is fen tors on
the sump; tunnel has Seen rzn tssuty
fest or the Alpine. showing an sfEht-foot
ledge. 81 more o. less rairsralixef. four
feet 81 s. heavily; \ SHAFT has hesa sunk
ter feet "a the Snewstcrua. showing tan
ard 4 hair feet - ore. which rsnned well
en- she Suffsce. Or Gilbert mountain THE
most work - FAR Aas bern done on re