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

causes which have operated In the state
generally, but In the last two years there
has been revival and discoveries have
been extended along the several prongs
of the north fork. These have shown the
granite formation cut by the great lodges
at the head OF Miller river and Money
creek to extend across the summit to the
Snoqualm.e side OF the divide; In fact,
some of the Miller river lodges have been
traced through the summit and thus the
mineral belt has been proved TO be con-
tinuous in southerly direction. The
granite Is often cut by bikes of conglomer-
ate and slate. and the gangue in some OF
the lodges IS porphyry or tale.
On Old Mount ST.
The formation OF Mount 81, the bold
mountain promontory which terminates
the dividing ridge between the north and
middle forks, is granite, with bikes of con-
glomerate, and the ore in the lodges Is sui
phides carrying gold, silver and copper.
with zinc In the form OF black jack. On
this mountain is the Black Jack claim,
owned by company of which j. NJ W;es-
Ting, OF Seattle. and S. ID. Gustin and
George W. Tibbetts, OF North Bend, are
the principal stockholders. There are two
lodges, on one of which, eight feet wide.
tunnels have been driven 50 and 100 feet,
and from It a cross-cut has been driven to
the other ledge. showing fine copper ore IN
porphyry gangue. Five miles up the left
bank of the middle fork from North Bend
and one and half miles from the Seattle
& international railroad Is tho Laura
Lindsay. owned by S. d. Gustin and 9TH
ers. IL has four-foot ledge OF sulphide
ore IN soft tale gangie, in contact be-
tween granite and slate. A tunnel has
been driven $50 feet on the ledge showing
ore which assays $50 10 $40 In gold and sill
yer. On Taylor river, a tributary OF the
middle fork, IS the Lost Lode. owned by
Thomas Niles. 1t has a ledge OF great
width, cross-cut tunnel eighty feet long
having shown unineralized rock all the
way and not yet having struck the wall.
The ore carries gold. silver. lead. zinc and
molybdenite, generally associated with
hornblend.
The Chair Peak Claims.
On Chair peak. which Is reached by way
OF the Tuscahatcnie river a stream run
ming into the North Fork nine miles above
North Bend. Is a group OF fifteen claims
known as the Chair Peak group. They
are owned by a corporation composed OF
r. d. wilson. Richard Jeffs c. NJ. Sheafe.
Of Seattle, and Albert Kelley, of New
York. on the summit OF this mountain is
a large body OF iron ore averaging SIS per
pent magnetic iron: below this IS a body
OF ore carrying iron and copper
pyrites. below this again 81 a deposit
Of black. white and notified marble
These several deposits are exposed around
the sides Of the mountain.
on the North Fork.
One OF the princ.pai groups n the north
fork district Is the Fletcher Webster OF
nine ella ms. discovered by George Lindsay
and George Cole. and owned BY Andrew
Heinrich. Phiio- rutherford and others. on
the middle prong one ulsie above sfs
mouth. Is shows a large body or COPPER
pTrites, gray copper and IRON sulphldea.
on which TWO large open cuts have been
extended ~ tunnels % and 10 feet long.
On Illinois creek. which rams into The
maln north fork. 81 the Belle OF Tennessee
group 81 n.ne claims, owned By David
Rushing and George 4. Pratt. II has a
twenty-foot ledge IN witch IL an ore
chute forty ,e@t tong carrying suIphurcts
and galena and sssaylng So 50. OF which
SIS g. gold Two miles further up the rtv-
er are the HastoGon ard Silver Tip. owned
by J. ~. Sharp ard the estate % the late
John Miller. after whom Miller river ives
named. THE lez3ge - twelve feet wide and
has e twenty-lnch pay streak showing in
a Hfty-f0of shaft IVie ore IS gaIena and
copper and assays about to