The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-28
DEEPEST FRESH WATER LAKE.


Special Dispatch 20 the Post-Tntelligencer.
MOORE. Sept 25.-The corps q govern
Fnsat engineers that has been az work on
Lake chsiau for the past two months Is
now eiicamped az Railroad creek. some
tefty-five miles % the lake from Chelan.
ar. ". T. Crissold q Washington, D. &.
= IN charge % the party. and during
short interview with him he stated that
Re win Re unable 70 complete the work az
iftang uIatlng thfs fail Owing 70 the
roughneEs Of the country adjoining the
lake Il has taken longer than he autici-
pated, and IL has beer discovered that Dis
tances have beea heretofore considerably
oyerestluated. Per instance. Twenty-Five
Mile creek was 80 named because IL was
supposed e be that distance from CheIan,
bat u turns Out 70 be but eighteen miles.
Hitherto Lake Chelan has been described
as sixty-flve miles long. but the surveyors
are eonhdent THAI It VIII prove 10 be ten
miles shorter.
Dir. Ggiswoid expects 20 discontinue cp-
era iCuz here on October IS next bic has
orders 70 proceed 10 Nevada on govern
lnent York until May next. but expects to
return here b. June !, 1855. Several Of the
assistants now employed are Spokane
men. Taese will return home. but the
cEtsf members Of the corps viii accom-
pany Mr. Griswold- With him Is Mr. Bar
t@r. Of Canton. O.. nephew OF President
Mckinley.
Mr. ". G. Steel. weil-known contrib
uter 10 the San Francisco papers, and a
magazine writer Ct repute. has been en-
gagcd in sounding the lake. depth Of
$50 feet was found bat no bottom reach
I'd. Tne sounding IN progress is being con-
Quoted systematically, starting from near
Lakeside. and the bottom reached at reg
etar Intervals. Crater lake. Oregon. was
the last body OF water Mr Steel sounded,
an kssa
fresh water lake ia the United States un-
81 the present time. but Chslaa now far
surpasses II.
Preparations for the annual fruit fair to
be held at Lakeside, September - 20 q
are going on rapidly. and the finest exhibit
ever seen here viii be made The orchard
of /. a Navarro Is the finest here. and is
a sight worth seeing. Every tree is liter
ally loaded with fruit. ard supports are
necessary everywhere. many branches
having already given way. Apples ana
prunes make the finest showing and the
quality and size OF the fruit are only ex-
ceiied By their flavor T. a Wright has
apples weighing eighteen ounces each. and
me wei-kept orchards Of Capt johnson
md u. h. smith also attract much atten-
tieu.
4 recent strike Of alleged free gold
quartz Of great magnitude has lately caus-
ed quite stampede into the country back
q Safety harbor. thirty miles from Che
an. Some good specimens of ore were
brought out. showing gold. and an assay
gave Ns5 In gold. with a little silver II
was also said that body OF copper ore
seven feet In width was exposed. The writ
er hereof has just returned from the new
strike. after seeing the principal claim,
aud the Wild statements made by The find-
ers are wholly uuJustned by the present
showing They have a large ledge in
pofphyry dixie. and have run two small
open cuts, one above the other and forty
feet apart. and sunk shaft ten feet In
The lower cut Is a six-inch seam Of decoru-
posed quartz and iron hematite ore. and
an occasional piece showing gold Is found.
THIS seam Il probably quite rich. and the
hnders. Messrz Hurt and Robichand.
have taken IN a winters supplies and will
develop this claim. The copper ore lis
conspicuous by its absence. bat muchlof
the quarts and ledge matter Is stained a
bright blue, and blue aud green carbon
ates Of copper are found The prospect Is
a promising enc and worth developing hut
he men who went IN expected 20 see more
ere IN sight. Although only eleven claims
had been sfaked, ten pr0Spsctors went out
without making locations. but some men
IS h0 went 20 the scene later on took
pialms. The camp Is seven miles back
from the lake, and AZ considerable alti-
Jude.