The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-11
MINES OF SNOQUALM|E.

DNUQUALlllG.
| ars4niral i-7a ard supplies which assay
| - % 81 gold Another t1nrel has bean
driven twenty-five fee. on twenty-four-
fnch str.nge-. ard has ten incaes Of ore
81 ;he fare. asSayinr 81 gold Two cross
cuts have reeu started. bat have not yet
reached the ledge.
The Gfenhuek Group.
On the south side ~ the mountain,
about aeG f@a. above the valley. John y,
Greger ard his son. George r. Gregsr,
have ere Gl@nbuck group II SIX claims
an several Lodges and a number OF string
ers, AID are now actively developing them.
They first discovered 4 ledge about four
feet vide. on which d ffty-foot tunnel
showed in the face twelve inches u ors on
one nall and ten inches on the other,
though only ore inch showed in jte crop
pings Last spring they discovered
! tWeive-f0Ot ledge. which seems 10 unite
with rne Hrst towards the summit y third
. ledge four feet wide. SHOWS fourteen
inches 0f ore iu a ter-foot tunnel. an aver
age sample az which assayed So gold. sil
ser and lead principally slve- while
& 20 t1s,4 Tor all values Another ledge. six
fe.t wide is as yet undeyeloped. Below
tn. groupings q these several ieiges and
striugers. all ri which are in assures III
the granite a strfnger Was discovered
bout the middle Of june on which a TWEEN
ty-foof tunnel mas shown TWO streaks Of
ore. each about ten inches wide. The min
eral IL fine grained iron and copper sui
phides ia which galena occurs in spots
aud lu lunches stained purple with cop
per, The quartz has hornhlen9s mingled
with x in great abundance. both III streaks
and lunches. The owners Of this group
have done \ considerable amount Of work
az different points which might II con
cenfraied in one point. have shown up
good body of ore and might have traced
some OF the stringers to their junction in
some one main ledge.
Annie and other Properties.
Adjoining the Glenhuck group is the An
Die owned by r. Henderson. on which a
seventy-foot tunnel followed a streak of
suiphiae ore, and a seventy -iive-foot tun-
mel follows a streak OF ore in another
ledge which l. seven feet between walls
in q small shaft Several assays ayeya ged
81 gold. The Squat. owned by George A.
Burch and u. o. Fisher. and the Josie.
owned by II. r Clark, are on extensions
OF the Annie ledge
ON the northeast side OF the mountain
adjoining the Annie. the Milwaukee Min
ing Company represented by DR. o.
Fisher. has acquired nine claims on sew
efai Lodges and feeders and is now doing
some preliminary work on them. One
ledge IS about forty feet wide running In
a northeast and southwest course and car
ries four to five feet Of ore. in which
choIcopyrite and zinc blende contain most
Of the value. An assay recently showed
- cents gold. III ounces silver and 10 81
Per cent. copper tn an average sample.
a total value of 500. An open crosscut is
being made on this main ledge.
The Red PEAK and Cascade.
About six miles up the north side Of the
Mount = ridge. Fred Ellis and William
Kelly have the Red Peak on a forty-foot
ledge. In which a seventy-foot tunnel
shows six TO eighteen inches IF copper
sulphides on the hanging wall. carrying
about So gold. silver and copper while a
streak Of iron sulphides. eight TO twenty
four inches wide runs along the foot wall
! The same parties own the Cascade on a
@trlnger. four 10 six feet wide running In
10 this ledge. and have started tunnel
90 follow It in. as they could gain but lit
| tie depth I'm the other tunnel. This string
or carries about six inches Of iron and
| copper suiphi0cS and galena. assaying Ns
70 81 Two miles further along the same
slope OF the mountain Misses Ellis and
Nclly have the Mogul on a seyenteen-foot
ledge. in which q streak Of iron s,!lphides
is sometimes eighteen inches wide and at
others pinches down to almost nothing.
Hack Jack. Now Copper Bell
The Black Jack group Of three claims
sofne distance further along the south
slope Of this ridge near the sum
nit. was located in lN., by
n Gustn, u. II. Rushing and
John W. Guye and was shortly
attsrward acquired BY the Cascade Cold
Mining and Killing COMPANY. which
spent about s. II the attemnt TO de-
/ vclop IL under the direction OF Charles
blackburn. The first showing was an
outcrop Of six feet Of magnetic iron. with
0o walls visible but work was begun on
fwo striugers ~ decomposed quartz car
iHlnE arseuical iron. copper sGlphides
#Hd some blackjack or zinc hleude the
( walls being sycnite. Tunnel No was
l8N siNfx-ctEht feet on the eiEht-inch
strinecr. then turned Ia the left and
ran ~ riEht angles Tor sixty feet. cross
cutting three other strineers AMI tanujny
the tWo-to0t s'rinGcr. The tunnel again
turned ~ follow the latter. hut thiz liko
the smaller one. ran out as II was being
followed away from. instead II toward
tnr lodge Tunnel No. was then start
90 Huc"r tho 20 gnctlc iron cropping and
! Nas ri1 for tfty fcet on q fcur-foot
strtnc-r chem turned to I'd. lrfr ard con-
Vuaed FOR Sky feet again 20 tho rieht
fo~ twenty feot. This orc also raa out.
: aT tho etriuEcr was being followed away
( tNorf tne ledge. Work YES sueoev I'D
/ IN ISL 7"1. as the company failed 20 -
'"- Qs-r 'smrut work iD 1875. tha claims
We're re''.fted Inst year rs the Coop- =