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

shown % = rss-ard-one-ha.f-soot I.dre
OF the Silver Queen 81 . rfsv-eoot .,ura,
AID a T. AcConiae, q RosEyn- ard W z.
hsac. o. ssAtse, have shown four fset o.
sJlpnursts ASA ytDx ssz god OF the Cam
ossTs Dream Tie Perfume Creek Stamp
las and Milling Company nss er.cssd q
pros Deet.1s nst.l CT TWO ss9-ooune ssar-aux
% TIE bank u the cse-F.sa-a AZ -. rs<ss1ra
% FortErs creek % treat rns Gre OF tie
Aoant tain Cassf ard other nEn@s or that
creek
The Camp Creek Belt
Another belt % three mineral Iefres .x-
1enos a1ong ne side Of Mount Hawkins
81 the head % Camp creek. on a8me O.
~iaacn good amount 81 development kxs
@lsoHa good values. On the CEe- Fun Nc.
and No. Z. A. r. Eoyls and w r. KeEy
nave ar inclined shaft down Efsy feet
showing tEo 70 four feet 81 ore, which
improves a. Il goes down. ssssys svsrax-
Ing tse. while a sample across the bottom
showed s4s6 geld. On ne Hawk ledge q
tSirty-soot iacztne SHOWS &sxat 20 ten feet
Of ore ass2ying So 90 30 gosd and or the
talEd ledge r. j. Flint has run q cross-cut
showing forty feet o. ledge matter TIE
Ida Etmors. owned by D. g. Hawkins X
". Dunlap and James GrIevs shows
eighteen 10 tairty-six inches Of ore In q
sairty-zIx-foos tunnel ssszysng sIZ7 solc
and crcss-cat nAs been run 20 feat 20
tap g. The MauGs o.. Incorporates By
Hossyn and Seattle parties, has .lghtsen
tncnes Of free milling ere assayinK g74
golc, u silver. IN q tunnel 10 feet long
Work was continued TIL me hard frost
FORCED suspension By shutting OF the
water power. but IL has been resumed and
large pump has been put In TO drain
the mine.
The Great Copper Belt
The copper oek extends across Camp
creek from fhe base OF Mouai Hawkins
MssArs. Bcyls and Kelly having ten claims
o. t@o parallels lodges. one aftssn 70 TWEEN
" feet, tae other one 20 ayes feet wide
Ths ore carries from Is 70 50 per cent. cop
per IN pyrttes, caFbonates. gray copper
and glance. with about SO gold and sll-
yer, and both lodges have bsen eross-cRt
BY I've tunnels 70 20 20 feet long Otner
Claims on the same belt have been To-
Gated BY Messrs. Swain. Hatght, Gala
her and others. who have bonded them TO
Seattle parties ror development. Another
great copper deposit on the east fork os
the 1eanasay river is covered by the
Grsndyiew gSoup % four claims. owned
~ SonBeli. johnson 4 Co. Of cis-Elurn
They have driven ever 100 feet OF tunnel
across the main deposit and have three
men stfll a. work with good prospects.
On the Koppen lode Gus De Loux ard
Jack Hartman have what looks ike q
whole mountain OF ore carrying about IS
on the surface, bat improving IN a shaft
they are sinking. They are continuing
work ell winter.
sonae Pyrftes Lodges.
On the Howson gulch Thomas How
son and his fhrse sons have a large
group or q series OF pyrites lodges three
70 six feet wide and have sold an interest
IN the Morning 70 a company OF Seattle
men. for which a gang under the dlrsc-
ton OF J. K. Cain. OK this city. Is sinking
shaft.
A porphyry d.ks 100 feet vide cuts the
Tiage d.vis-ng. the lie Enm and Teana-
way valleys and = veined with quartz
lodges four 70 twenty feet wide carrying
nickel and cobalt The Keystone, owned
By Adoiph Elsner and John somers, has s.
tUenty-foot ledge with twenty-fouT inches
OF ore carrying 10 IS per cent. Gulcksii-
YER, s2.t0 TO SIS gold. while on tina Nickel
they have eight feet Of ore showing In a
twenty-slght-foot tunnel and carrying "a
to per cent quicksilver, q 10 81 gold. 4
number OF extensions have been located
on both lodges By various parties.
GsIens en- silver Dump.
A. the FOO, Of Goat mountain. on the
west bank Of the C1s- E!usn. curtis Homer
and Michssl McHugh have run a tunnel
eighteen inches OF cold salsna carrying
s69 silver and some gold. A larger ledge
near this was lately struck by David
Payne, Robert Babcock and Charles Rob-
erts. who got assays OF SIS gold. s. silver.
per can't. copper. Work Is In progress
on tho tunnel OF the Ruby and Brilliant
group by James Bel. A. ". cr.tz and r.
@. weise. and II shows i've to seven feet
OF suiphuret ora assaying SIS to go gold.
On Red mountain. further down the right
hank OF the river IL the old Thorp group,
owned By Edward Pruyn and j. b. David
son. on a ledge OF pyrites twelve feet wide.
on wh4oh a tunnel has bsen run z4o feat.
showing ore worth SIS upwards Ia
gold. silver and copper. The famous iron
claims OF the Pacific Investment Company
on ledge OF red hensatite and magnetic.
which assays $50 per cent. metallic iron,
VIII probably prove to be only the cappinR
OF pyrites lodges. a. was discovered 10 be
the case In thu Chicago group on Money
creek.
Traced To Ictcie River.
The mineral belt OF Mammoth and
Huckleberry mountains wss traced
through TO the Tcicis river last spring
where nfty TO sixty locations we're made
on Lodges cut by Jacks creek, which are
often ten feet wide and carry gold. silver
and nickel. One ledge crops ninety feet
wide on a claim OF John Biork ana A.
bert Van Epps. which sssaysd 81 20 So
gold. s74 silver and considerable nickel.
This ledge Is crosse ~ twenty-six feet on
ths Nevada claim. which. with the Excel
sier. has been bonded 20 ths Sesttle Gold
Mining and Development Company.
The Latest Discovery.
Ore Of the most important recent dis
covsries IN this district was made nv
Charles SPAWN and e half-5reed Indian
across the main summit from Waplis.
- a. - 80 49,. .
fifteen feet wide and shout 90 feet long
carrying IS silver ard g per cent copper.
A rush % prospectors followed. with IS
usual crop OF complaints Of clsia-fumping
and contests against grub-sfaksrs.
Ths Gle H.lam district has been regular
" organized ~ith A. p. Boyls "a recorder.
and re says that there has been more
activity IN the year 1855 than ever before.