The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-18

begun shipping ore and = expected to shays
a car load week this season.
A contract has been Isz BY the Cascade
Development Company for 500 feet Of tEE-
nel on the White Swan Ledge az Silver
ton
The true ledge has been struck on the
Trtune On Palmer mountain. ard the mill
has been started after a shutdown for
repairs.
The ledge In the s. r. B.. owned by the
Boundary Creek Milling ana Mining Com
pany. mas wi9ened 70 Four feet. carrying
copper pyrsteSt
A contract has been lei for 100 feet OF
tunnel on The P and T.. AZ Monte cristo.
Former work has shown kidneys OF ore Is
20 ~ inches thick
Montreal and Vancouver parties have
bonded the sunset n Deadwood camp.
Boundary creek ana have started tun-
The Elise mine on VIII Horse creek
British Columbia. wh3ch was formerly
owned by Joe Young. OF Seattle has 100
tons of $40 orc en- the dump
The people Of Bossbars are building a
new road mp the ARA from the Columbia
river 10 give an easier grade over TO
Pierre lake and Kettle river
John "A. Finch and others have bought
the Little Winnie. DeWinton and Gold
Nugget. on the north fork of Kettle river.
between the Pathfinder and volcanic.
TIE Iron Cap at KamlooEs. b. =. has
been sold 10 F. r. Carey and others. who
expect TO begin shipping ore this season
Surface ore assayed 81 and upwards.
A two-driA compressor has been installed
at the Car1Doo IN Camp Mckinney A six
foot ledge Of quartz similar TO the cariboo
has been struck in the Alnnehaha in that
camp.
Work has been started on the Silver
King, in Skyiark camp. Boundary creek.
which has a large leige OF pyritic ore and
a smaller one OF high grade gold and sill
yer ore.
A contract h TO be let for 5,-foos shaft
on the Crown Point IN Crown Point camp,
Boundary creek Work Is also 10 begin on
the Bertha King and Silver Cliff claims IL
the same camp.
The Living Mining Com
pany Is about TO develop the Big Four
group at S4iverton and has arranged for
a spur to be built from the Everett *
Monte Cr1sto railroad.
During the week ending May IL ieS,a
tons of cunts ntrates we're summed from
the Pride and Mystery mines at Monte
Cristo to the Everett shelter This was
the product OF i,oue tons of ore.
Within the last three weeks a number OF
discoveries OF suiphide ore have been anade
on Muldoon mountain. seven miles south
|. OF Bossburg, and the Big Bear is said 10
be already prepared TO ship ore.
government road Is being made from
Silverton 10 the Fisher Maiden. SLOGAN
crty will ship three car loads week. Tie
ore chute is continuous for 800 feet
Many locations are being recorded on
SLOGAN lake. principally on springer, Lem
on Carpenter. Ten-Alile. Four-Aile and
Wilson creeks. Gold In iron pyrites is
found west of SLOGAN lake and at its head.
The Silverton Miner suggests the driv-
ing OF tunnel from Silver gulch into the
Sultan basin, as II would cur the Fanny,
Lula. New York. Silver Shaft and Forty
FIVE lodges. and possibly a number OF other
lodges.
j. w. elise. manager of the Stiliagua-
mish a Sultan Mining Company. left last
night for the Little Chief mine. by way of
Silverton. 10 post final notices of the issue
of patents on the Little Chief and Phelps
glacier claims and miilsites.
The Big Bear Mining Company is build
ing a trail from Robe up Canyon creek to
the Big Bear group In SIlverton district a
distance Of five miles, and will complete
II this month. The crosscut tunnel will
then be completed across the ledge.
A New York syndicate has bought the
Peacock. Farm and other claims IN Seven
Devils country in Idaho. from ex-Goy-
Hauser, OF Montana, and Is preparing 10
build a road from Wfeser, ninety miles,
and has ordered furnaces for smelter.
The Hall mines smelter at Nelson. Il.
c., is shut down for repairs and new ca
bles are being stretched on the tra-nw ay.
The new calciniag AMI refining furnaces
are completed AMI the new blast furnace
nearly So Contr.cts are being ma ic for
custom ore. incI"cing large quantity
from the War F3gIe ar ROS-llr.s.