Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-21
NEWS Of MINES AND mining
METALS OF THE NORTHWEST.
Items From the Rich RigiOns of the Pa
cific Northwest. News Fson All the
Principle Mining Camps-Personals--
Mining Notes.

ward as mining state. With this prog
ress has come need Of legislation in be-
half of the mining industry. This need
is felt in the mining camps, where present
evils due to laws which work badly are
plainly apparent.
The question of how taxes shall be
levied upon mining corporations and up
on mines is one which is attracting most
attention, and will be the subject for
some earnest pleas for relief.
The regulation of assessment work and
the time in which it shall be done is an
other matter which mining men generally
think should be fixed so that claims will
not lie idle so long as at present. These
and other matters of less moment are top
les which are being discussed by men in
terested in mining, and the gentlemen
who have been elected to serve in the
legislature are being interviewed by min
ing men, who hope that this session will
give the necessary attention to the min
ing industry.
Dividend Payers.
The lie Roi leads the list, of course,
with $685. 900 paid. 1t is probably true
that the Payne mine in the SLOGAN has
paid more dividends than the lie Roi, but
it is owned by close corporation and no
statement of profits is ever given to the
public. The SLOGAN Star is credited with
the largest payments of any SLOGAN prop
erty, having paid 100000 up to March,
1897, which is given as the date of the
last. The Reco, at Sandon, is listed as
having paid $2E 500, the last payment
being 100000 in January, 1898. The
Whitewater mine is credited with pay
ments of $4,000 up to April, 1893, when
the last payment was made. The Idaho,
another SLOGAN property, mas paid 1884,
600 up to May, 1890. The Cariboo, the
mine which made several Spokane men
wealthy, is credited with $2s6,965. The
Last Chance and Rambler-C Cariboo, two
SLOGAN properties, have paid $4,000
apiece. The Hal Mines, Ltd, Of Nelson,
an English corporation, has paid 100000.
The Republic and Deer Tran No. 2 are
the only Washington mines on the list.
Fort Spokane Property.
News was received last week at the Of.
fee OF the Crystal Mining Company from
Superintendent Gray that he had six feet
of solid galena ore in the face of the drift
on the Crystal mine and that develop
ment indicates that the ore body will
widen to probably ten feet. This ore he
states is of the same quality and appear
anoe as that which assayed an average OF
$50 per ton upon his recent visit to this
city. This news is highly gratifying to
the stockholders in the company, as IL
makes the property an immediate pro
Queer. The Crystal is about mile from
Fort Spokane and wagon road connects
it with Davenport from which point ship
ments will be made. As the ore carries
valuable huxing qualities, the company
will be at no great expense for shipping.
II is the intention of the superintendent
to begin shipping after he has demonstra-
ted the length of the pay chute by drift
ing.
A Big Bond.
NJ. d. Griffin of Chelan, who is inter
] ested with his son Frank, has bonded
their property on Okanogan river, on the
Colville reservation, consisting OF three
claims, to NJ. L. Turner, of Seattle, repre-.
senting New York capitalists, for $780,
600. If the deal goes through, it will be
the biggest that Okanogan county has
thus for had. The first payment, now on
the road is to be 5000, and the pur'
chasers take hold at once and push de-
velopment In six months payment OF
$50, 900 will be due, and the balance,
SPAS, 900, at the expiration of year.
Scarcely any development work has been
done yet, the purchase being made almost
entirely upon the strength OF surface in
dications, which latter are most favora-
Bile. II goes to show that the mining
world has already considerable confidence
in Okanogan county mineral lodges.
i wyOming's Soda Lakes.
Wyoming is thought to have more
than 20 soda lakes of commercial impOr-
tance. These lakes are widely scattered
throughout the state and are invariably
found in depressions. Most Of these de-
pressions have no outlet; hence the opin-
ion of biologists that the soda came in
with the spring water and leached out,
the water evaporating, thus leaving in
some instances beds OF soda more than 90
feet in depth and hundreds of acres in
surface and dimension.
The surface of these lakes, through
the action OF the sun and air, has been
incrusted over with a powdered soda
closely resembling great patches of pure
snow. On examining them with a pick
one might well imagine that he were on
lake of ice upon which light snow had
fallen, for the soda beneath is a transpar-
ent crystal closely resembling ice.
| Rare Mineral.
| II will be Of interest to metallurgists
and biologists to know Of the occurrence
Of an exceedingly rare mineral that was
found near Florence, Ravalli county,
Montana, by Percy Train recently. 1t
occurs in small six-sided prisms, and up
on analyses proved to be PARASITE, car
Donate Of cerium, with general formula
(CaF) (CeF) Ce tCO3)3, with, in this case,
part Of the cerium replaced by didy-
mum and lanthanium. This "a its first
occurrence in the United States. as 1t
was first discovered in the United States
of Colombia, and has only been found
since In Greenland.
New Roads Near Libby.
From 90 to rs men have been constant
ly employed on the cutoff between the
! Snowshoe and Silver Gable roads near
Libby, and the work is fer enough ad-
vanced TO make It certain hat there viii
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