The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-12-06
GOLD, BRIGHT GOLD.
KeoTExAY COUNTRY WILL PRO-
pUCE FULLY s5.ooo.0oo IN 1897.
There Il Enough silver and Lead in
the Lode. of SLOGAN TO Pay on the
states and France-Washingto
Has n Rosy Mining Future.

p. A. O'FArrel, a prominent mining
man. was in the city yesterday. En- route
for Victoria Is. g. where ne has mining
interests. Mr. OFzrrel has been In every
mining camp OF prominence in the coun-
try. and Is well informed az 10 mining
matters. He Is wei known among the
mining operators OF London. and has re-
go1iatsd s5zne important sales with the
Operators in that market. When seen AZ
the Raiuler-GraHd hotel yesterday ne
said.
4 have just returned from the
Koofenay. and I do not know that I can
give you much more information about the
mines % that region than your regular
correspondents supply you with. The
Rossiand group is forging fast ahead
Seven thousand people are wintering
there. and the Spokane Falls & Northern
railroad has Just reached the camp That
fact brings RoSsland within seven hours
OF Spokane. and greatly facilitate bust
ness. The road 10 Trail viii have all i:
can attend 70 20 handle the ores for the
smelter. and to bring in supplies from the
Canadian Pacific route Tue Spokane
Falls * Northern viii also be taxed 10
its full capacity 10 handle the Business all
through the winter.
"Will the advent OF the new railroad do
much for the mining industry? Unques-
tionably II will. The Center Star. Cliff,
Nickel Plate. ST. Elmo Consolidated,
Homestake. Deer Park. Lily May. Nest
Egg. Jumbo. Red Mountain. r. E Lee
and several other mines have ore lying on
the dump all ready 20 ship, but the facili-
ties have been SO poor that no effort has
ever been made 10 take ore away from
these mines. The fact that the new line
hes been constructed will change all this.
You must iecollect that $4,000 worth OF
mining machinery is now at work in the
-
1897 should see s50o0.0o0 OF gold produced
in that camp alone.
Which are the bonanza mines OF Trail
creek? The lie Roi holds the lead at pres
ent, but within year / look TO see the
Jumbo and the Deer Park become the
great mines of Trail creek. Both now look
as though they Were about TO become as
famous as the Anaconda and the Com
stock.
What is my opinion of SLOGAN and
Boundary? The SLOGAN IS about the rich
est galena district ever known 10 man.
There IS lead and silver stored IN the lodes
of the SLOGAN mountains sufficient 10 pay
of the national debts of France and the
United States. Ii VIII take generation
TO get il out, and in the process mLlons
viii be benefited and enriched. As for the
Boundary country, too. Estle development
has been done 10 pass Judgment upon IL.
yet all Indications give rise 10 the hope
that the marvellous mineral zone that has
made Trail famous extends on to Bound
airy and right on TO the Pacific ocean
do not care to give you the facts on which
this theory is based, but TO my mind they
amount to certainty.
do / think favorably of the Colvilie
reservation mines? Discoveries have been
made on the reservation that equal any
thing at Ross.and. except always Deer
Park, Jumbo and LIE Roi. But little work
has been done ON these reservation prop
critics as yet. l am satisfied. however,
that Big Iron, La Fleur. Lone Star. Wash
ington and lots of others will prove rich
mines.
us Eastern capital being invested in the
Rossland country Outside of Spokane
and Butte but little money has gone into
che Kootenay from the states. Ii is nearly
all Canadian money. and While Americans
are the discoveries and promoters or these
mines, Canada will ultimately reap the
biggest harvest Spokane is the one Amer
lean city that has been s.nguiarly blessed
bv its proximity to the Kootenay. Ii IS
the most busting, thriving. hopeful. boom