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

unless it is so buried that ii has no out
crop visible. There is no granite. very lit
tie porphyry. and conspicuous absence OF
quartz in any form in that part of the
olymptcs, though 1t is present in the
northwestern part of the range toward
Cape Fiattery. and some fine free gold has
been taken from the streams i'm that part.
There is iron. lots OF il and In many forms
scattered all through the hills and copper
Is very common, yet nothing seems 10 be
very valua BILE.
OF course. one can not say for a pos
tive fact that there is no mineral of
marketable value in the Olympic noun
;ains. yet when you pack in there and
stay until the hills are an open book have
assays made on numerous rocks and work
as hard as prospector must work. it is
rather a damper TO look over a bunch of
those beautifully engraved assayer's GER
tncates and find that your pet ledge that
looked all right" only ran 81 10 in gold
and silver.
Romance. judgment. tales OF lost treas
ure. beautiful mountain range visions
OF railroads and the sound of stamps all
Jade away before the magic of the as
say furnace and you pack your kit for
new country when the assay runs a dollar
nineteen.
Stll the Olympic range is big country,
and men have walked over their own for
tanes longer ago than the present gem
Grafton remembers. so there may be min
eral there yet Just over the divide"
Don't you know how the gold fever gets
into the prospectors blood, the microba
OF wealth that haunts him. shows him
palaces and pleasures in every good
looking rock he finds away off there in
the loneliness and solitude OF those eter-
nal hills?
Don't YOU know how he risks his life
health. limbs, everything 10 get Just over
the divide" where he knows the mineral
can he chopped out with an ax?'
Don't YOU know how he is a king when
he sends his sample to the assayer and
how he hunts for q man who
has just caught the fever. and
who has advanced to the right
stage OF the disease TO put up a grub
stake and share with the prospectore
That little certificate of ASSAY that re-
turns "a dollar-nineteen' cuts big
swaih In these things. YOU know. and |
can say candidly that il drove three hardy
healthy prospectors down from the snow
line, along the elk tran that winds along
the bluffs high above the roaring cur
rent OF the Dosewaiilps down from the
finest scenery in the world. down to the
beach and on down into their pocket for
steamboat fare.
That little steamer. the link between the
wilderness OF rock, timber. snow and ice
and the civilization of the city where the
Indies were wearing white dresses ana
straw hats. and where tired traveller
could get square meal, was welcome
sight.
Taken as a whole the Olympic chain
may offer Inducements for the nroSpector
though there are many difficulties in the
way. chief among them being the lack of
means 10 transport supplies into the range
Tar enough and I'm quantities AS IL is now
one can pack Just about supplies enough
To take him into the range aid out again
leaving him nothing TO go on. aud he has
I" get out before he can DO anything of
practical value
Our party went in In Apysi and hv
doubling The trail took In supplies enough
20 last thirty days. and then worked olt
from camp in all directions ant. ws had
covered every foot OF space we were qhia
TO. We found veins lots OF them. bur
'hey were all too low grade 10 handle.
one man has been ia on the slope Of
Mount Constance for four years. and has
a showing Of diorite. shot with serDertsna
and capped lightly with iron. This rock
went s. - on the surface and ASSAYS about
81 At seven feet down. the value being ir
suphurets and the rock barren.
The values in ais the rock in the Dose
walilps country are in suiphurets ard ma
rock itself seems ~ carry nothing ar an
hasAii SCoria iron and other yal-srt.,
rock. would seem 10 indicate small ana
poe Se'y mineral deposits especially when
grBDite ard quartz are absent 81 ths;
pFospecsors could pat in their time 10 bet.
ter advantage IL Some % the other dis
'rictS 90 the state. Other places in tina
oESmqics may develop better things ht5f
they are even harder 90 access than .ba
Honsi canal side.
Pleasure parties. seeking recreation,
camping fishing, etc. can find last whst
they want or tie lower river, that IS any
whore 40 10 about nine miles from me
beach. as transportation - easy 20 tha
end OF the WAGON road and fishing IS
good on the lower river though the M
per stream j. better after the rise fYon,
tHe melting snow goes down
The PISS; winter has been very Mid ara
comparatively littie snow has fallen In
1ne waoie range
Settlers are scattered along about every
hslf mite up ~ the end OF the wagon
read ana ara ar accognmodatin- thrifty
lass or people. aud the cAuauins, fisher
nsAu VII have no difficulty 10 securing any
nj he farm products needed in csaop al a
reasonable hsitre- ". : pEILLxFs.
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