The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-03
CAMP M'KINNRY.

Iris camp 10 on the summit OF the Cold
range. between the Kettle ana OkaHosan
rivers. at the heaSwaters OF Rock creek.
which flows into oae former stream and
~ fifty miles from Penaoton, where the
Okanogsn lake steamer connects with thu
wagon road. The country rock 10 granite.
cut BY dikes OF porphyry and sch!st and
the mineral Lodges lie in assures in these
rocks or in the contacts between them.
TIE ore carries q good proportion or its
gold free. the remainder being Ia sulour-
els. the free gold on the surface probably
being the source OF the placer deposits
along Rock creek, which were worked
thirty years ago. Recent prospecting has
shown up lodges OF pyritio ore carrying
some free go4d and Q good parcentags %
copper
The mine which has proved ths vaius
and permanence OF the ore OF this District
is the Carlooo and Amelia. whach has been
Incorporated by James Monaghan. George
B. McAulay and MIR. King. The ledge
cropped two feet wide, with good show
ing OF free gold. and In shaft which Is
now down 200 feet varies from ssght 10
eleven feet and Is growing richer IN sui
phurets. Drifts have been run at inter-
Nals OF about fifty feet. the one at the 400
foot level extending $50 feet In each direo-
ton A ten-sts mp mia has been in opera
don on the property since April. 1894. re-
cucing twenty tons OF ora daily, from
which $40 TO so a ton il saved in free
sold. and about I.5oo pounds Of concsn-
trates. worth $50 a ton, are produced
daily. The monthly production in about
$1,000 In bullion and 81, 500 IN concentrates.
and the total production 10 date has been
about SO. 900. from which handsome diyt-
dends have been paid The Eureka, about
SO yards west of the cartboo. shows q
large amount Of development done by
New York syndicate. shaft has been
sunk i53 feet. a drift run seventy five feet
from the l0ofoot level and about 800 tons
Of ere mined
Pioneer ne Camp.
The oldest mining property In the camp
10 the Victoria, which after q great many
vicissitudes. has ntly been purchased
by Victoria parties who are developing .t
under the direction OF =. B. Bash. The
original owners sank an inclined shaft 10
feet. from which they made mill tests OF
1000 and LOO pounds. which showed slsT
and sizes respectively. Two nnels have
been started. one OF which b In about
seventy and the other about lilo feet Ad-
Joining this IL the Old England, on which
The ledge 10 twenty-five feet wide, with a
large chute Of smelling ore on which an
incline shaft has been sunk eighty feet by
Henry Nicholson and Edward James. Tho
Fontenoy has an stghty-thrss-foot shaft,
showing elk feet OF galena ore assaying
which has been Incorporated In Victoria.
has seven-foot ledge. averaging $40 20
Si2 gold In q sixty -three-foot shaft The
Maple Leaf has q forty-foot shaft on a
ledge Of similar ore i've or six feet wide.
There are q number OF other locations on
extensions OF these Lodges and parallel
with them. on which oorrespondingly good
showings have been made. On enc OF
these 10 the Homsstaks, owned by Thomas
Elliot and Edward James. on which a
four-foot ledge averaging 81 gold has
been cross-cut at a depth OF 10 feet. The
Sailor has a strong vein opened for about
500 feet with q shaft from which assays
Bouncer has six feet Of ore sssayinx 50 TO
si3 showing in a sixty-foot shaft which
has very strong walls.
strong Pyrites Lodges
This district also has It's belt OF pyrttss
lodges. One OF these shows on the Dol
phin, owned by William Edwards ard G.
A. r. IAmbiy. and assays so 10 $40 on
the surface. William Younkin and James
Copeland last summer struck a fine body
Of copper pyrstes carrying SIS gold, silver
and copper on the surface. They located
the lie ROD and War Eagle upon II. and
had IS orc showing In twenty-foot
shaft. which they are extending to
depth OF 100 feet
on Anarchist mountain. eight mica
south OF Camp Mckinney. Ia a number OF
pyrites Lodges alternating with lodges OF
fres milling quartz. On one OF the former
Richard Sidisy has the Green Bird. with
three feet Of ore assaying si2 gold. while
on q ledge OF free milling ore thirty feet
vide No mas assays o< S. gold The Nina
Mia is on a great blowout OF iron pyrstas
100 feet wide asssying 50 gold on the sur
face
Rock Creek PTaoers.
The earliest mining In this district was
on she placers OF Rock creek. but ths at
ternpts 20 work them have been 30 ham
pered By the large number OF big boni4srs
that they have been abandoned or sold re-
peatedly They wsrs finally bought two
years ago By Messr-. Monaghan. King
and McAuiay. who srs preparing for ex-
4snsive slydraulse operations. The most
active work IN this direction. seven miles
t,p the creek has been carried on by
James Copeland ard William Younkiu.
who ere running a bedrock torlnes under