The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-01

TIE business men OF this city are DESTROYS
only rhzt ths actual situation shah ee
ErurAfuIIy represented. Taey aave ID dis
position 70 encourage an e considered
srzmpesa and DO not advise any nan %
70 20 the mountains now who = No. ex-
pe-ieace1 II prospecting and well prepared
70 endure the many dsscoEforrs r@cssssr-
fly incident 20 r1ugha2g !. n Ias n.sA ali
su5=s AZ this season o< the year
Many man who left here for the noun
tslns not more than 4 week ago snciud-
irg some &C the clty's most SUBSTANTIAL
and conservative business men. have al
ready returned. with their horizon %
mountain knowledge conzders bly, ws5ened,
ccuyincs6 that X IS not only irnpracttcaoie
brt unsafe 10 undertake an extended
prospecting trip far into the lofty wilder
ness this fail They fully believe. however.
that the mineral is Their. and that intelh-
gen. prospecting ard systematic develop
nneut work viii prove the new district %
be both rich and extensive /. K does 80
develop. It viii prove q great help. not
only 20 Whatcou county but 20 the whole
Sound country.
After all. the district Is not so new"
as many suppose. Jim flanagan, brother
OF the man after whom Hannegan pass
was named Is interested with others IN a
group OF Claims near the pass. upon which
-hey have~heen working 81 intervals for
several years. He has Just returned from
them Across the pass Watson and Pierce
Bros have, In the Copper Queen. what
they and many others believe 10 be 4
bonanza. and on this side Of the pass. near
the eighteen-nils post on the state tran.
Edward Fischer OF this city. and others
are developing claim called the Silver
Tip. which Old miners say IS big thing"
The ores from these claims are all refrac-
tory In slate and porphyry formations,
while the quartz OF the Bald mountain
discoveries. only q few miles away. is
free milling and quite different in char
acter.
The discoveries are not proper subject
for newspaper bonbast and horn-blowing-
The Post-Intelligencer has shown every
disposition TO ascertain the facts and pre-
sent them 10 their readers in such a man
ner as TO admit Of no misunderstanding.
That the report OF its special correspOnd-
ent. published yesterday. is appreciated
here is well shown by the following strong
editorial commentator published in this
mornings Reveille, the oldest and most
conservative paper in the county:
The report of the representative Of the
POst-lntslligencer yesterday IN that paper
on the Whatcom gold fields IS OF a very
conservative nature Il is that of a man
who feels a responsibility ana doesn't in
tend TO overestsnate In any particular. IL
verides what has been reported-that the
Lambert ledge is from two 10 three feet
wide and is a promising prospect OF free
milling. gold bearing quartz He also
saw well-mineralized specimens of refrac-
tory ores from other pros pectS. He also
saw many difficulties in the way of the
prospector and miner and found that a
sure test Of anything so far discovered
would come through development work
This very conservative and cautious report
"a more encouraging than a boom article.
II has the stamp OF careful inspection and
a weighing of facts For an initial report
on surface showingS in region where no
development work has been done the we'll
weighed statements show much that is
favorable 10 d hopeful outcome OF the new
fields"