The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-21

ysarsL The gold taken out u III coarse.
valued ~ NAo TO sN per ounce. and mug
gets as large as N.0o have been .ouuA IS
nuggets being common and SIS nueess
frequent. There Is much fine gold In sthe
gravel bur NJ effort - made by white
men TO save II. this being left to- Abe
Chsnamen 81
The Gle Eium district hss ~ great eva
riety OF minerals a. any IN tho STATE. NV
ing free gold ard sulphursts IN the Aurora.
where four stamp miu has been ut york
Tor Two years. I'D oaa tiis 1ronco: COPPER
ana gold ore IN the Boyts claims and
osners in series Of copper lodges extend
ing west from the base OF Mount Hawk
ms; hcmatiie and magnetic iron covering
salphide ore: ealena and antimoniai silver,
as IN the King solomon. rood hes+r-
ming at development has been z-sie GA -
number OF claims. and two test stamp
mills have been erected
Mount Maker Draws Many.
Returning north to the boundary and
crossing the Cascade summit, we come
nrst to the Mount Baker dis,rsc, in ,se
ioity spur extending westward from the
main range A few discoveries OF sulphide
ore were followed In the summer ~ 1897
by that of a great ledge Of free milling ore
cropping for thousands - feet in length
on me side OF a high ridge This is the
iamosts-Post ledge, specimens rom which
nave given assays OF thousands Of dollars
In free gold. Recently another ledge has
been traced for several thousand feet by
Robert Floerman. who obtained assays OF
N,ioo. N,4ee and So 500 from three samples
aggregaung 100 pounds IN weight. This
as the scene OF the greatest activity in the
state. next 10 Republic. A road Is being
butt, large amounts OF capital are being
invested and a iea-stamp mill erected on
the Post-Lambert ledge. Placer gold &.
being mined on Baker river by means of
the Meyer amalgamator, surface DIRT car
fSing 81 cents to $3.50 per ton. ana some
having been struck wh.eh carried so.
South or the Noun; Baker district on
the divide Is the Slate creek district,
where small amount OF development has
been done on several free gold properties
surface specimens from which gave high
assays A tive-stamp mill was running
last season on the Mountain Goa. and a
Ien-s'amp mill viii this season be erected
on the Eureka Thunder creek. .ear BY,
has some rich but undeveloped bodies Of
salenA and other silver ores. An extern
sive hydraulic plant is being erected on
42@ acres OF placer ground At the mouth of
Ruby creek and a smaller plant OF tho
same kind ~ working on Canyon creek, a
tributary Of Ruby. and took out s., 900 in a
month in 1887. n {
A belt OF Lodges carrying gold copper
ore crops on the mountains north and
south Of the lower Skagit. near Hamilton.
ana development had begun tn 1897 with
gratifying results. but the district ID now
inactive. .@s
On the mountains in which. the Etilla-
guamish north fork heads. called the
White Horse district, IA great series Of
lodges carrying gold-copper ore with some
silver and galena remains practically I'M
developed, the ore being unusually high
in copper. and there are two wide lodges
OF cinnabar rich in quicksilver on the sur
face.
Silverton and Monte CristO.
The south fork of the Stillasuamish
flows through one Of the most thoroughly
prospec.ed districts IN the Casca aes
named after the town OF Silverton The
ores are generally iron and copper sui
phtde and white iron. with occasional ga
lena and gray copper. and are low grade,
but are In large bodies. which can be
tapped at great depth by tunneliug. The
most notable are the Helena, on which
several hundred feet OF tunnel has been
driven and on which work has been re-
sumed. preliminary TO examination by an
intending buyer. The Grizzly. Anacortes
Airing on. bonanza Queen. Perry Creek
and Big Bear have similar ore ana have
begun development. while south Of the
town are the Hoodoo. Cleveland. Inde-
pendent. EEl!pse, on most OF which work
has been resumed this spring. The Hoo
doc has good concentrating copper ore.
the Independent has shown up large bodies
OF concentrating ore by several hundred
feet of tunnels, which araebeing driven
ahead with power drills
On the Sultan side of the ridge over
looking Silverton is the As" one OF the
most thoroughly developed mines in the
Cascades In which a large body OF ore has
been tapped at depth OF 30 feet and
exposed for 800 feet in length. One-thlrd
OF the ore averages $40 ard the reual1ds-
$50 less, the latter being fitted for concern
tratlon. There was 1000 tons Of ore ready
for shipment when the cable tnamway
over the ridge to Slvertog was ts,snp.ei al
last November Shipments would have
begun within "a few days. but a great tio1i
wrecked the Everett and Monte Cristo
railroad The AZ company has Sire
made a survey for "A new road 10 run up
the Pilchuck and Sultan rivers 20 the
mine, has organized the Sultan Valley
Railway Company and expects 20 build
no rad .hts summer. Meanwhile deyes-