The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-17
THE PASSING IHROhG.

There is aiSood deal OF development in
progress IN Rossland, SLOGAN. on Bound
airy creek and on the Coiviiie reserva-
tion." said II. NJ. Herrin. the Spokane
mining broker. at the Butler last night.
The work on the reservation Is mostly in
Eureka and Myers creek district Work
has Just been resumed on the La FieGr.
the litigation having been settled, and a
shipment will soon be made. They are
also doing something on the Home Star
and Washington. There Is little doing
on Pierre lake. but the Little Clan, has
drills and pump at the railroad ready
to ship. The Crystal Butte on Myers
from Youngstown. O.. who will put in
mill and cyanide plant and are ship
ping test carload via Virginia City.
There Is twelve or fifteen inches Of ore
running very high in galena and gold.
Mining has been resumed on the Cleve-
land. near Chewelah, and a new body Of
good shipping: ore has been struck. The
Deer Trail. on Cedar canyon, Is running,
but not shipping ore. because il depends
on the farmers to do the hauling and they
can make more hauling grain. Several
strikes nave been made Ia Rossland late
~; the Abe Lincoln and Evening Star
have struck new bodies Of good ore.
Understand that Dutch Jake the dis
coverer Of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan,
ana Henry Baer, are working twenty
men with compressor drills on the Lame
Foot. free milling property on Lambert
creek. on the reservation.
What consider the best mining coun-
try, has been overlooked by both Spokane
and Seattle; that is the Okanogan. Col.
wharton, the principal owner Of the
elk and the Reco, is developing the
Rainbow on Palmer mountain with six or
eight men. and is shipping a hoist. To-
getner with Messrs. Raborg and Mossom.
l have been developing the Red Jacket
and Little Falls on Ceciie creek 1t had
suiphioe ore carrying gold and there is
q tweive-inch streak of 500 ore It Is
understood that Col Bryan. formerly of
Idaho. and recently associated with De
La Mar, has bonded some property on
Palmer mountain
People in Spokane have stopped buy
ing development stock, but are buying
STOCK In paying properties and In those
wnioh have considerable amount OF de-
veiopment work done.'
fulIy two-thirds OF the single mills ara
shut down." said George c. BENJAMIN
manager OF the Lincoln Shingle Company.
or Hartford, who is at the Stevens. The
cause is a glut in the Eastern market and
consequent decline in price to the fig
ures OF last winter. Those mills which are
No AefS SoulIoStS IoE tHelr output
ana are sending out few cars now and
then. but all the larger mills are closed
Inere Is no association Of manufacturers
Out the mills have been shut down by gen.
eraI agreement. Out Of forty-six mills in
Wnatcom county only six are running,
ana All the way north from here along
tne railroads The shutdown Is only tenn
porary until the surplus Is absorbed. We
expect revival after January l. The
general feeling,
Inc decline is largely due to the prac-
tice OF shipping shingles to Aurora juno
ton, Neb.. subject to orders. When the
demand was active men would ship car
loads there. expecting to sell them while
on the way and consign them to destina-
ton at the through rate. When business
began to drop OF about 80 carloads had
accumulated there, and the buyers, learn
Ing this, stopped buying. and the prica
dropped rapidly. The Burlington railroad
has refused to take any more cars unless
they are billed through to destination, and
this will stop shipment on speculation
Last month the shipments were 1000 cars,
averaging 10000 shingles each. A drop in
price from $.35 to $40 would be equal to
loss OF $3o0.0o0 to the state on this guam
tity. I do not suppose that more than 500
cars will be shipped this month.
4 was In the shingle business at Lin
coin, Neb., until two months ago, when
our firm conc "rded to cut our own shin
giles. and Dor mill at Hartford.
Yes. Line 7 Bryan's home, but he
is not thought much Of there, for not only
the city. but his own ward went against
him. think dollar wheat and Scent sill
yer has converted a good many silver men.
That was good klondike edition the
Post-Intelligencer got out. sent about a
dozen to my friends in the East
F. NJ. Gamble. who has just returned
from the Dees Lake mining district. a part
OF the Cassiar, Is at the fremont hotel.
having just arrived to spend the winter
here. He says that winter had commenced
before he came out and all the small lakes
were frozen. while the Stickeen river froze
over just after he got through. Those who
are In the district now viii have to stay
there for the winter, because snow gets
fifteen feet deep and renders travel prac-
tically impossible. Even the natives them
selves do not attempt to get in or out or to
so anywhere at this time OF the year. One
Indian was importuned TO hunt for party
OF prospectors who were going in, and the
Indian laughed at the man who proposed
such an extraordinary thing.
Mr.. Gamble says that Dunsmuir is pre-
pairing to put two steamers on Teslin lake
next spring. Material for these steamers is
now on the way, in charge OF a party OF
about sixteen men. and when Mr.. Gamble
met them they were about forty miles
above Wrangel. In some places on the
trail the snow was already three feet deep.
Mr.. Gamble proposes to stop in Seattle
this winter, although his home Is in San
Francisco. and go back TO the same dis
trict in the spring.
Whatcom and Fairhaven are sharing In
the general Klondike excitement. In the
Substituting steamship line. whose head
quarters will be at Whatcom. and which
VIII make stops at FaIrhaven. In addi-
ton to this the merchants and others are
now engaged In issuing a pamphlet de-
scribing the Mount Baker gold fields.
Leonard Fowler. who Is a newspaper man
known somewhat on the Sound. has been
placed in charge OF 1t. and IL is expected
that the edition OF 5000 copies will be
ready for distribution about January ].
The people there Mr.. Fowler says. are
more DESTROYS of pushing the Mount Baker
district than otherwise; thus, they say. re-
tanning all the capital of the visitors in the
state and thereby developing an import
ant industry Of Whatcom county
Mr.. and Mrs W. NJ. Gray. Of Bankfooit.
Northumberland. and E. Naylor OF Pud-
sa. Yorkshire. who are accompanied by
Alfred Crebbin OF Denver. are a party OF
English tourists who are visiting the coast
and are at the Rainier-Grand. Mr. Nay
Tor would not admit that they thought Of
going to Alaska but from his converse
ton IL may he inferred that they have
their eyes set In that direction. He saws
that the k1ondike excitement has aroused