The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-04

Special Dispatch to the Post InteIligencer.
MONTE CRISTO. Wash. June The
record OF the Gold Hin mines at Monte
c-sste closed the last day of May with
a grand total OF $50 carloads OF gold
and silver ore sent down over the tram
way for concentration. The cars OF the
Everett and Monte Crtsto Railroad easily
carry thirty long tons. and as the haul is
down hill all the way to Everett little
or no restriction is placed upon the load
ers Three thousand 1--WE hundred car
loads, of twenty-five tons each. gives a
total OF s. HG short tons. or about $3.50
long tons shipped down since the big
tramways started up in 1894. This sub
stan,ial amount has been concentrated
into so carloads of probably about thirty
long tons each and sent to the Puget
Sound Reduction Company's smelling
works at Everett
With the completion of the present tun-
mel workings in the Mystery and Pride
of the Mountains mines, the force of
miners in the two properties and United
Concentration Company's works is to be
increased another 100 men.
Friday May d. was pay day for all the
Rockefeller Colby Hoyt mining and mill
ing eompanies and about SIS 90 was dis
bsrsed in Monte Crssto.
The Ell Dorado Mining Company has
put couple OF shifts of miners at work
on the Riackbird, one mile south of the
railroad station
On the Edison group. on Silver Creek.
Peter Chiodo, of Seattle. has two shifts
OF miners at work tunneling.
The grading of the new trackyard ad-
ditlon at Monte Cristo is nearly completed
and 500 steel rails and ]. 90 fish plates are
piled a; Hartford Junction ready for the
laying.
Down the valley below Sank lake, James
Bedal and James Lynch have struck
some fine gold and silver ore, which looks
so well and is so heavy that they do not
care for assays
Treasurer S. N Baird, Of the Del Campo
Mining Company, was In town early In
the week cruising out" a location for the
lower terminal of the tramway which will
be not far from the Monte Cristo Gold
and Copper Companys ground west of
the mouth of Sylvan creek. Del Campo
ores carry peacock copper.
Heavy material and high explosives for
the completion OF the Sullivan contract
IN the IS tunnel is steadily arriving and
the Rand rock drills will soon be started.
Work on the Golden Cord was resumed
today by Superintendent F. A Bass with
two shifts of miners. The large boarding
house on the north side of Aft. Wilmans
flashes with lights at night. and the tele-
phone rings as Of yore.
Some of the old time placer miners here
are planning a prospecting trip 10 try a
few pans of the gravel in the guiches
northeast of the Foggy mine of the Penn
Mining Company's claims Some excel
lent placer indications have been reported
there and Wenatchee Indian tradition
has 1t that pay dirt exists somewhere be-
tween the Foggy and Glory OF the Noun
tains mines and Indian pass Some rude
placer mining implements were also dis
covered there late last season by bear
hunters from upper Sank valley.
The modification of CleyeIand's forest
reserve order prepared by the conference
committee of congress. caused general re-
joicing here. 1t concerned the mining
companies claims but little in any event.
as some twenty five or thirty OF them are
patented properties, with unclo,ided titles.