The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-21
NOTES FROM THE SLOGAN.


More Concentrations Going fn-Strike
ON the Noble Five.
Special Dispatch TO the Post-Intelligencer
SANDON. g. c.. July 2o-Two car loads
OF ore a day are being shipped from the
! Ruth, which Is slightly above the aver
age since shipments were begun last No
vember. The company is now preparing
to pu, In a concentration.
The SLOGAN Star Company has also Sc
lected site for concentration for the
MONDAY, its property near Cody. which
has tunnel in 200 feet in good concen-
trating ore II has also $50 tons of clean
ore on the dump.
Next to the site selected for this new
concentration. Dreyer and Hoffmeier of
Tacoma. have nearly completed a brew
cry with capacity of thfrty-fiye barrels
a day, and an fce-makng plant: and
Moore. of Tacoma. has just taken con-
tract to supply q local firm with leo coo
feet O. lumber TO he cut here and sawed
in the Cody mill.
The Noble Five is working sixty men
but Will have twenty or thirty more on az
soon as all the tunnels get dry enough for
stopping. The buckets are now carrying
down go pounds a minute. which keeps the
concentrator running at about $50 tons
day averaging Sa5 per ton net Two notable
strikes were made by the company last
week on two succeeding days The No
lost. except a very small vein. The tunnel
was continued for another loo feet with
out sign of an ore body, and then a four
loot vein or high grade concentrating ore
was struck. Superintendent Sherman said
70 your correspondent: IF this stays with
us it will be the biggest thing In the camp
as no such ore body has been struck go
feet from the surface" The other strike
was In cut on the hillside. being run for
prospecting purposes. On the Noble Five
claim solid body of ore fifteen inches
wide was met with that is 'as clean as a
whistle" and VIII run 10 ounces
The Wonderful is mine worth going TO
see, and IL is only two miles from this
city. IL is what the superintendent E T.
Field. calls the only salena placer i'm the
world" and in this respect and In others
IL is worthy OF its name. There are 5000
feet OF tunneling, the main tunnel being
In LOO feet and there is an upraise be
tween TWO OF the tunnels. But IL is not
from these that The eighteen men now en-
pioycT' are getting out shipping ore. From
the quantity Of Hoat found Mr. Field con-
ceiyed the idea OF bringing water to the
top OF the hill and washing off it's face
\ course Is simply made for the stream
and II daShes down II would not do 10
use hydraulics. AZ that Mr. Field thinks
would wash away the aoat. The water Is
simply used TO dlsutsErnte the rocks and
WASH ti tftC &f@hFk anu SOIL. ana the non
thcn break up the rocks and pick out
the houldcrs of galena and detached
masses Of ore broken off the veiu-a re-
markedly easy proposition The ledge
from which these chunks Of galena were
broken has been found and a tunnel haz
been started below g. Meanwhile MIR.
Field is working on his open eat and shin
ping from IT, He has already a gulley 10
feet wide and 10 feet deep tn his galena
placer mine. and tons Of se.cond-ciaSs ore
In sight The first shipment was made
nearly year ago, and since then about
-%b tons have been shipped The averae,
of the ore is III ounces silver and nearly
- per cent. lead and the total net value
OF the shipments Is about 81 $50 There
was talk Of 4 djvidenG last winter. but II
was decided TO continue development in
stead.
The Slocan Star. the next mine Ia the
Ruth which is ueSt to the Wonderful
IS employing 10 men in the mines ana
IN the concentration. and when the ledge is
struck in the Nc 5 tunnel the number
of men viii b., Increased 10 In This is
80 feet long and u is expected that the
ledge viii be struck al 1e@ feet The
ether four tunnels are being slopea. clear
from No. "a No, 4
In addition 10 these there are the great
PAINE mines the Reco. the Good@nough
and z number ~ other mines We'll known
thst there IS not space To describe. and
rarely anything new 10 he said about
them beyond paragraph en- dividend
day.
The concentration Of thu Idaho. A}eraa
and Cumberland At Three Forks has Mt
been running for SOME time. but when
Eour correspondent Was there men were
m rsqHgest 80 start Il ~ again. Although
these three companies are separate. the
same parties. - = large extent. 0wn
tire controlling interest and they have
been under tie same manage mens. The
concentration and the tramNay are also
separate companies ard they ara all IN
corporstssi. except tho Idaho. ] n Par
reU SAYS they have All been consolidated
unfer a new deal. hut George Hughes
ous - the ow ners u the Idaho told YOUR
correS pondent that 10 had rot heard ot
- officially stitl getting men FOR thu
concentration seems 20 sNaw there Is 4
strong probability OF the deal having
Dteo ceasgsmmsted
The Eikhorn, adjoining the Wonderful.
has started up having recently passed
into mrR hands. oG whom, fhe principal
is J " Stewart. 81 spokane
sam Slaughter. ex-city comptroller Of
Taeasrla WAS here gaSs seek stocking
s~sae Fn;n~s for the smelter company
14evhert Gregg. of the MALTA walla
r0iaR. : here making a trip through the
Sloan.
~ Diaway. az the Stevens house. "a
working for Ira Black at she leading no.
tel here.
Down al Three Forks eur friend Cap
Weaver is running ho;el called ,he
Miners Esxees nsv sna when ynur CORR
sponaeas eal.sa be lsass v9s u A.s