The Virginia enterprise., 1898-09-16

men for SIC, 900. The Aces, in the same
district, has tunnel in eighty feet.
striking gray eopper ore assaying $lOO
per ton. The vein is from three to four
feet wide, and is very promising.
Some twenty small sternwheel
st, Michael D. asSthey have mo licensed
captsins or engineersS Owners Of these
bouts thought there would be no inspecs
tors atSSt. FM ichael s. cons seQnently they
did not arrange for licensed captains
and engineers. The inspectors were
| very much in evidence when starting
time came, however andan0t Il boat was
allowed to leave without licensed Of
6cials. ..-.s 8 =. l.ss:szs.$5
s Cripple Greek reports the encounter
of a big ore chute in the great Portland
| mine. The dimensions Of the ore body
exposed in the drift at the SOO-foot level
are 500 feet long, and in places 40 feet
wide. Not a pound of this ore is sorted
for waste. 1t is broken with machine
drills, and shipped to the mills just as it
comes from the mine. at the rate of 1875
tons daily. -Four feet of the chute ia
much richer than the rest, and is shipped
senarately. 1t runs au average of $500
to $1,000 to the ton in carload lots. !: f.. ( :
Great interest is being aroused in the
gold discoveries in Thunder mountain in
Middle fork of the Salmon, Idaho. There
seems to be ledge of porphyry some
200 feet wide that carries better than $40
per ton in gold. The rock is very soft
and slacks on exposure to the mir Il few
minutes. 1t is sluiced after undergoing
the Stacking process. The Caswell broth
ers, who made the discovery three or
four years ago, recently brought in ten
and one-half pounds of gold they had
taken out in this way in a short time.
A dispatch from Seattle, WASH, says:
The arrival of two gold-laden miners at
Lake Bennett on August l started
stampede to the newest Klondike of the
Northwest. A small creek flowing into
Taku arm, branch of Tagish lake, was
located by some lucky prospectors nearly
month ago.. and gold was found of re-
markable richness. One of the men
claimed to have taken out $10O per day
pans running from 50 to Sc are common.
The new strike is within sixty miles of
Bennett. ...,5s-
Within a quarter of mile Of the
steamer landing at Ketchikan, Alaska,
George Bauders of Seattle made an inn
portant discovery of free milling gold GRE
last week, the. ledge being over 200 feet
wide and highly mineralized throughout.
The ore gives an average assay of 81 per
ton. There is large water power avail
able on the property to run mill Of 700
stamps the year round. Discoveries of
this character are now of almost daily
occurrence in southeastern Alaska, and
they are going to be sources of great
value to the territory.
-One hundred passengers, with over
S5OO,OO in gold dust and the balance of
$1.0OO,0O0 in drafts, checks and bills,
have reached Victoria, B. c., on the
Michael's. Louis Langlow, his brother,
Jens Langlow.s and L. P. Avig of Ia
coma brought down several large boxes
containing not less than $2OO.OOO. This
they took out of claims on Ell Dorado and
Bonanza creeks. Andrew Olsen and J.
kinston, also claimowners, brought
100000 in dust and drafts, realized
from the sale of various properties.
-Fourteen men fresh from Dawson
They say the summer diggings are now
being worked to good advantage through
out the camp, and every week the clean
ups made by workers add to the golden
store of wealth gathered in the cabins of
the miners, the vaults of the trading CON-
panies, and the banks of Dawson. Sew
eral days before they left Dawson a
cleanup was made on Dick Lewis frac
tional claim on Bonanza creek, at the
mouth of Skookum gulch. -Four men,
shoveling into sluice boxes, cleaned up
over $4,000 in four hours. This is on
ly one of the claims that is being worked
this summer. '.- ,.,.
I While the outlook in the silver pro-
ducing sections of the camp is most ia
vorable, and several silver mines that
have lain idle for some time will be on
the shipping list again at an early day.
the fact must not be overlooked that, in
addition to the gold-belt producers of the
district, that have so materially assisted
in keeping things going in Leadvillez dur
ing the past few years, new gold discov-
cries have been made within the pa st few
weeks that but again confirm the state
ments repeatedly made that Leadyille will
see the day when her gold product sfarsex-
cceds. that of any other district liz the
Western country. = So says the ECOf1fadO
Springs Gazette. ;ss1>715E=ss5