The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-04-27

Some of the prettiest ore ever discovered
this side of the Cascades has just been
found under the iron Gaping on the SKA
git river IL will De remembered thal a
few years ago there was great excitement
over the Skagit iron mines The IRON
mines did not ulateriaIize. put the so4o
and silver underneath has been round
David Kellogg returned sunday hlshl
with l5o pounds OF ore from the claims
owned by the Iron Falls Gold and Copper
Mining Company. OF which company he Is
president and manager and Eben smith
vice president. The companys proper
ties are located a mile from the SkaslI
river, six miles above Hamilton. the ter
minus of the railroad.
Mr. Kellogg was enthusiastically JoS1ui
over the prospect Of a fortune now WITHIN
his grasp after months OF hard labor. he
said yesterday;
After a good deal OF work / penetrated
the iron Gaping and found beneath vein
of quartz five feet eight inches across
from wall 10 wall, standing vertically ana
running into a steep mountain SIDE, gam
ing in lift about $50 feet underground 10
100 feet of tunnel. The ledge has oeen
traced over mile, until II ran under the
snow.
There is a waterfall 80 feet high so
close that the spray vets US as we work
ON the ledge. This waterfall would fur-
nish power enough TO run all the mills
in Seattle.
THE side wall is tale, four inches. as
saying "a in silver. the other side Is two
streaks OF iron rust. The ore readiiy
falls away from the walls, making IL easy
10 mine. We are now pushing IN tun-
mel six feet high and reaching from wall
TO wall, as it is easier 10 mine that way
than TO make a narrower tunnel Inc
ore the vein so far carries equally in white
iron all the way across. The assay on the
first blast runs s3.iS in gold, SIZE in silver.
The ore Is a blue quartz, heavily minera-
ICED with white iron.
1T is as promising a vein as can De
found in the Cascade mountains, estab-
fishing the fact that the district running
along the Skagit river is going to be one
OF the most prosperous mining sections on
the west side of the Cascades. A great
many camps are starting up, and oeieve
that before fall twenty camps Will be in
operation in that Immediate vicinity.
Our mines are 600 feet above the Skagit
river The transportation problem, which
confronts all miners, is so favorable that
we think there is nothing in the state that
equals IL. We are building sluice-way.
lined with iron, from the mine TO the river.
at very small cost. We can then turn IN
our water and after that every piece OF
rock that is dumped into the sluice-way
speedily finds its way to the bunkers on
the banks of the river From the bunk
ers steamboats, or scows can take 1t 10
the smeter at nominal cost. 1t is en-
tirely safe to say that 81 will cover all ex-
penses from the mine 10 the smelter after
the sluice is constructed.
Another thing, there is not day in
the year that work need be suspended on
account OF bad weather. More perfect
conditions for economical mining could
not well be imagined.
"As we open up the property we find
that the rock yields readily TO the drill,
and two miners can average two feet
day on the tunnel. The discovery OF this
quartz ledge under the iron Gaping es
tablishes the fact that all these iron
lodges over which there was so great an
excitement six or eight years ago, are
simply iron coverings to quartz Lodges.
No more important discovery has been
made in this state, and no district in the
state will prove Of greater Importance TO
the trade of Seattle. Prospectors are now
securing the country. going up in the
snow up 10 their waists. and the results
of their work and discoveries Will mean
much"