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

The Cliff at RoSslanG has begun ship
ping A car load OF ore daily.
A s-foot ledge has been uncovered On The
Sawtooth n Camp Mckinney.
Henry Blaekwood, of Tacoma, has been
looking around the Silvertcn district.
Surveys are being made for tramway
on the Payne group, in the SLOGAN coun-
try.
The Free Silver group on Boulder creek.
near Salnlo. 3. G, has shown up gray cop
per.
The Hall mines srnelter is in bias. again.
treating War Eagle and ether customs
ores.
An average of twelve assays from the So
foot shaft on the Great Western. at Ross
land, Is So.
The Jumbo at Rossland has 50 fee. of
solid ore in its stunned, with over two feet
of tellurides.
Eight feet of solid ore has been struck
In the Nellie Bly,. near SalIno. B. G, show
ing free gold
A movement is on foot in Port Towns
end TO cut trail into the new district in
the Olympics.
An ore chute Ave feet wide. carrying
free gold. has been struck in the Fern, near
Nelson b. c.
eighteen inches OF galena. carrying $5l in
silver and lead.
A five-stamp mill is being taken TO the
Mountain Goat. on Canyon creek, At the
Skagits headwaters.
Native silver has been strlfck at a depth
OF 80 feet under iron camping on the Iron
King in Cedar canyon.
J. W. Fairchild OF Portland. has been
at Silverton. looking az the New Seattle.
In which he is interested.
The Joe Dandy Company at Fairview
has 30 men employed at various points on
dts group, sinking and tunneling-
The Adams Company has let a contrlct
for considerable work on its group on
Kruger mountain, British Columbia.
shaft * down SO feet on the Minnehaha,
Camp Mckinney. and is in ore nearly the
whole width. similar to the Cariboo
test shipment of two tons of ore has
been made from the Dollarocracy on the
Pend dOreille river to the Trail smelter.
f. O. Downing of Portland. Or. mem
Der OF the syndicate which proposes TO
erect a smelter in this city, is at the
Butler.
J. b. Dexter has struck six-foot ledge
carrying free gold on the Mammoth. on
Aeneas mountain. four miles south of
Loomis.
The installation of compressor plant at
the Carihoo. Camp Mckinney, has made
another boiler necessary and ii is being
shipped in.
Work Is said to be impending on the
Freddie Lee. one of the best pioneer prop
critics In SLOGAN formerly owned by James
+. Wardner.
lie Roi syndicate has made the final
payment of $500 on the Sullivan group,
Fort Steele district, and is sinking on fine
silver-ead ore.
Four converging streaks of ore in the
tunnel of the Silver Wave. near Roseberry.
SLOGAN district, assayed 7l46 ounces silver
and a trace of gold.
About - men are at work on Goat creek.
at the Methow's headwaters. The Bullion
has shown Is inches of gold and copper ore
at a depth of 35 feet.
The Golden Grown, Wellington camp
Boundary creek. has shown up feet 6
inches 10 feet OF sllphde ore. II is be-
ing developed by 16 men.
The machinery for the 2c-stsmp mill for
the Tinhorn at Fairview, IS. G.. has ar
rived Al Pentict0n. and Is being hauled 10
the camp, Is miles distant.
The tunnel of the Columbia & kootenai
at Rossand, IS in 60 feet, still in ore, and
has a depth of 40 feet AT the face Reg
ular shipments have begun.
The Red Top Mountain Mining Company
Is arranging 70 pool the, stock until ths
treasury stock is sold, and TIE mine. near
Boundary, Wash, developed.
The final payment OF $4,000 has been
made on the .irgo. In SLOGAN. by John A.
Whittier, Jack Thompson. William Lin
drom and Alexander Mcdonald
About twenty men are a work on claims
or Gold Hill, Pierce county, 10 which a
party OF ten men is surveying the state
road at the rate ~ mile day.
The water has been pumped out of the
le1-foot shsft on the Little Donald. at
high erade galena at the bottom.
With scraper W. r Russell has uncov-
cred two strong lodges on the Red Fox. *
miles north Of Spokane one carries gold
and copper, the other lead and silver.
The Srnugsler Company at Fairview. T,
c. has leased the StrGthyre mill and will
treat ore from a tunnel at depth of 10
seet on the ledge, which has eight feet az
ore.
l. X. Armstrong. Of Spokane editor OF
Mining. and secretary Of the Northwestern
Miners Association. has Just returned
from tour of the mines around Baker
CITY. Or.
From MAY / 10 81. 4f3 new mining ,oca-
tons We're recorded at Nelson. r. = one
location has been made on the mountain
directly across the kootcnai river from
that town.
4 sample from 4 crosScut In one OF :ha
Whisky Hill tunnel group OF ci1ir1s. near
LOOMS. i said 10 have assayed 8. 81 ounces
silve~. Sss2 gold. and this IS said 10 be an
| average Of the ledge.
Work on the ALIKE n RoSsland has been
/ suspended pending ans installation OF ma
chinery. The shaft IS down q feet with
! over five feet cf soitd ore, the la9t assay Of
! which was SO ~ gold.
! The Hercules on TIGER mountain. Occur
8 Alene. h~s four feet 81 ChlOri3e ore "a -
r3luE ~ 70 ~ ounces siiNer, - 10 g. per
VIII pack IL 10 the railroad.
surface work OF Inc Centre Star. az
! RoS@land, for a new shaft has uncovered
a solid body Of ore four or i've, fpat yri So
1 Frais Is believed 20 he the same body as sns
/ workings cat ~ feet below
! Development - now .srs,-easing - thu
! Deer ENsTk district. - miles north - Trail
/ 4. -. where the Blue Bird Is showing NJ
! ore carrying 10 20 lis ounces silver, Sl-
] gal3 and 70 per cent. copper.
4 tunnel one and one bird miles long =
I ht.iuE 8r4veu or tae Bunker IIli ara SUIT
! van. Co--'Ir Il Acme which ~1l give \
sie5s,h % 30 fe,,r below the OILS WORKING
Z an3 dispense with ne trasnNAv. The ore
/ boiv - - feet wide.
+ The croSscut on aha Rel Mountain a,
; H0ssland, - ta a. feet. and has ca, a
{ s~mall ledge one % two feet wide. and not
+ SET reached tae main ledge. Esxclorsrior
/ with the diamond 8riH shows r. good ora
( bsty in BE main ledge
( TIE s. Anthony shaft 81 FISH Lake 8.s-
/ t~7-t nF8c Cheney. shows a foar-Fo.ot l..4se
( carry tuE Slsek SdlpAuregs an1 Ss7r,e <res
/ Eo33 1+-s ssesu slate walls The latest -
says sloD So god. = oGnces silver ana
lEf0 :
Nlr8 has hsen received here that a ,s-A
sfrSe - gola-esarsng rock has been f7gsAe
/ cu Teku~h barber Those Interested ~
/ s@+taa& sHe matter qGirt ~ present hat
! aff-13t two different p&rtfrs nave i@ff w
/ CONVEX Tor tae scsue---New Wesirn .r<.er
Col eiaU.
Yw.r tac rev sowa On Quartz creek
a~ Use - gElcta river district q Ertt1sb 80
ta.ut8 1aS Sc E~oFf5' sAtlun u Esea ara sz
. NrowarE F7es'tsi}. some great Saowtnrss -
s,4sag8s.F IRE are aasng made Isl taat lis
+ t1-t ana Development Is IA progress On
{ Tuaar properties.
f'ro@p~c;oT< are working towards 80
s1Arrr 81 tsse nam As-tle river and "A -
( - u' .es up fresa Epek cceeA AMI - niles
-A~..aE5on. tire farthest lo--at}1n * a r.sl.4-
as ra1a les < 81 herman - MglNax 49,