The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-12
NACHIxERY WORKS At RossLAND.
DESPITE SHUT-DoWNs.
The Many Plants in Operation and
the Ore They Turn 0uf-The Rich
Golden Cache ON Cayoosh Creek
Mining Season Ha. Opened This
Year at Monte Cristo Fully Two
Months Earlier Than Ever Before
I'm That section-Aetivity shown
1T CotVifie.

reports tFuT. the tftf3ffE MINES are APT %
make everybody feel blue. 1t was so
lasy week. There was gloom and sunshine
interuingiea. as there always Is In a rim
ing camp The Deer Park shut down:
the lie Roi made great strike AT its SO
foot level OF free milling gold. the Nest
Egg built new hoist house and got in its
machinery and then stopped. bu, its neigh
Dor Sunset No. 9 Of the Canadian Sold
Fields made a rich strike; the Monte
Cristo closed down last week bat the
Jumbo struck rich vein. and will now
pat on q double shift: ard so IL goes. every
one Of these incidents having its effect
Upon the frame OF mind OF the specializing
public. The shut down that caused the
most talk was that Of the o. X mine. ard
the specul stions as 10 the reason for Il
were many and varied 1t is undoubtedly
quarrel inside the company and has no
real bearing. so far as can he learned,
upon the merit Of the property. II is SO
with the others. the reason either being
stock Jot hing one or shortness Of funds
from the faet that treasury stocks are rot
selling much recently.
But people who run away with the i.lea
that. because OF these temporary shut
downs and the consequent rumors soule-
thing must be- the matter with this camp.
can have 40 idea of the tremendous
amount OF development work now being
done here and the amount of capital in
vested. which II constantly increasing. 1t
would take TOO long 10 enumerate all the
smaller concerns that have put in plants
this spring, but take few of those well
known as an illustration.
lie Roi's Big Plant.
Beginning with the lie Roi which las
the largest plant in the kootenais. The
machinery IL has already up ccst sl15ei0.
three-drill and a forty drill with 500
horsepower boilers. The hoist engine Is
so horsepower and will lift through the
new incline shaft now down $40 feet 1HO
tons of ore per day. Working in the mine
are four station pumps. a sinker and thirty
slugSer drills. In addition. there are the
electric light plant the tramway, the
crusher, and so on. and there soon will
be smelter and concentrating works.
The lie Rol's shipments. although they
are sufficient to nay all expenses and a
dividend of s25o0 a month. are small
compared with what they could be at any
time. for the reason that the company con-
tinues its development work and piles Up
most Of it's ore until il can be treated
cheaper The same Is true of the War
Eagle. and at meeting of its directors
held last week in Toronto il was deter
mined 10 continue development and small
shipments only until such time as the
smelfer proposition Is decided. Then II
will be discovered what really great mine
the War Ea gle is II has now a twenty
drill compressor. 1to horsepower boiler
two hoists and eight siugger drills. and
other machinery. altogether figuring up
$4,000 without cost of erection and build
ings.
Machinery mt other Mines.
The Center Star has a five-drili com
pressor and an eighty horsepower boiler,
the Josie the same. each costing over
81 GO, The Kootenay-C Columbia has n
thirty drill compressor. two 100 horsepower
boilers and seven drills at work The
Iron Horse gets its power from the Koo-
tenay-coluuhia and has TWO slugger
drills sinking pump and fifteen-horSe-
power hoist The O. X has two sixty
horsepower boilers. an eighty-five-hor
power engine. four drill compressor. n
large ten stamp mill and four slugyers
This plant cost about $50. 01.
The Red Mountain has an eichty-horse-
power boiler. seven-driil compressor and
four suggers beside diamond drills The
Cliff has a flfty-horsepower boiler and a
seven-tlrili compressor. The Monte Girls
to lately added a new giant drin. the
largest In the camp. to its steam drill and
fifteen horsepower hoist. The Alberta
obtains It's power from the Columbia Koo-
fenay and has two drills az work In it's
3e9 foot tunnel This tunnel was TO he
used by the Monte Cristo and continued
another 40 feet.
The Commander has a first class plant
that cost over s. coo consisting Of forty
horsepower boiler. a four-drill comprss-
sor. hoist engines pump and two drills
The Crown Point has a sl50a plant with
Il seven-drili compressor. seven slugxers.
- md hsNRg he D..
started this spring a teu-drill compressor
with a oo-horsepower boiler. q twenty
horsepower hoist and three drills, cost
ing s. co The Palo Alto has ghirtv-
horsepower boiler q twenty horse power
hoist. pump and steam dri, The May
flower has "a ssn-horsepower boiler and
tcIr-horsepower hoist The Red Eagle and
tn" Blue Bird have each a thlrty-horse-
power heller ten-horsepower hoist and
two steam drills.
The Nest Egg has a four-drill compress
sor and other machinery estimated 10 have
cost s1ooo, and the Rosslsnd Homestake
q plant that cost about that figure The
CITY of Spokane has four-drill compress
sor. the Mauita the 81. Paul the Georgia
tAe White Rear. the Great Western. the
Hattie the Niekel Plate. the Coionna. the
Morning star the Deer Park the Lily
May. the Silver Bell all have steam ma
z thffEfE. NfRt tEtFG arr N1EEES. ms
large exper titure. added 10 wages paid in
shafts and tunnels. and the fact that new
plants are constantly being put in. prove
that confidence in the mines OF this camp
was never 50 stsadfast as 10 Is at present
shipping Mines.
o. the whole number ten are shipnjnr
or have shipped az some time and about
sixteen may be eiassesi rs ready "a shfa.
There would a. before observed. be more
ore shipped row bu; for the heavy freight
charges. Win the lie 8oi sm@lter near
- N1Fthpcrt and probably or the Ameri-
can siie. end the Crows Nest Pass TAN
road eomliiS IN 70 bring cheap coke. tie
War EagIt, the Center star and probably
some cthe-s. viii build smel,ers ~ their
owu The decision as 10 this railroad re-
Gently. THAI this section Is fo he begun 81
cuce ard completed as rapidly rs possible
has had a very cheering effect upon the
camp.
NnnS New Discoveries
Many YraspeetoFs aFe coming fu nex.
setting t3,4r supplies ana starting fer fnn
aais \ number % English experts ara
here aul are Sending cut exploring
parties f}e number OF exploration con-
sauscs has Also largely increased and
o~pectc;S are helrg Sent onf in ali d.
re,-szcns The favored SPOT changing as
= ported strike GENE in. \ easnle q
Vs. * ass Il Was ttae SIocsa country. then
st7 -y ao,s vas talking ~ Foyt steele ard
Lately There has heeu rUxA e u3sra&
,-s1tre~ auaae notably the - nson river
ana t'Arit3a creek TIE Silver Q1ges.z's
tAu1es r0 tas latter IS being te-e2 fr so4d
cr- TIES gcl5 i3ess struck last faH AT Ihe
sFaa waters ~ thss creek bias aee1g foar.s
ou e r. east az <ieean sake shoat fpa nils
south % S.tvtTto1- Sylvanlte yeas f8~r,.s
tae-e Eek tays sxo assayiug s. 80 n
eo.t THE government has AppgoprSz sd
s. sa toward Gai5aiu9 wagon ROAD ap
gH~ 3re-eis gr0Ezt ths Columbia 10 pFse