The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-06
San Francisco Money to Develop
Slate Creek.
WHERE THE LEooEs GO DOWN.
Palmer Mountain Tunnel Has Set
tied the Skeptscs Beyond all Ca
villa Mating Plant 10 Be Erect
ed On Trout Creek-Nearly .
Thousand stnmps VIII soon BE
Dropping ON Douglas Asiano'

Another good Investment Of outside eapi-
tai mas been made In Washington mining
property, Slate creek being tne fortunate
district this time. TIE Eureka group or
seven c,alns has been bonden oy the
Eureka Mining Company 10 e w. iozss,
Of San Francisco, who had made per-
eonal examination OF the underground
workings. Supplies are now being sent In
and small force vii! be employed all win
ter and wll be largely augmented In the
spring.
The Eureka was located IN 1898 and the
other Gains are extensions on a ledge
which runs along the slope Of Slate MIL
one Of the highest points OF spur OK the
Cascade range which forms the divide be-
tween Slate creek tributary OF ne Ska
git ard the source OF the Similkameen,
the main tributary OF the Okanogan river.
The Eureka ledge was covered when found
with two feet Of earth and two 10 six tee'
Of hard cement composed Of clay ana oxide
Of iron. This dirt was stripped OF on tne
Eureka claim and the cement. being wash
ed through primitive cradle. yielded good
wages. In this manner the ledge was eN-
posed for length Of forty feet ana SHOWN
10 be thirty feet wide the quartz being
much decomposed and mixed win oxide OF
from. but all containing free gold Ihe
ledge runs nearly north and south and dips
about 20 degrees east. a shaft has been
sunk about si&ty-aYe feet and at depth
OF fifty-four fee, erosscut was made 10
both walls. showing the ledge to be thirty
feet wide Of solid quartz, all carrying free
gold Oxidation had extended TO depth OF
about twenty-five feet where the quartz
became hard and white, appropriated with
nne iron pyrites. carrying free gold, a.
several tests showed II 20 amaigamate 10
% per cent. OF the assay value. cross
cut tunnel has been run go feet TO tap the
ledge below the shaft, with which conneS-
ton Will be made by an upraise OF Shay
feet. The mountain Is so steep that the
ledge can be opened to "a depth or i,iU
leet by means OF comparatively short tun-
n~is. The ore will average fully slo ton
in god. some being MUCH richer and some
Mr. Tozer IL one OF the Oldest mining
men In the country. having been engaged
In the business since boyhoo1t lie mas
mined In nearly every state where mn.
means to carry through his new venture.
His opinion OF the district naturally has
weight, especially as he has backed It up
hotel, hs said TO a Post-luteiigencer rep
Sesentatiye:
There are good Indications and the dis
future, and though the workings ara a.to-
gether Of a superficial character. the ores
ere good and OK such character that they
will probh bly, he continuous. ! saw the dis
trict a. very unfayorahie season, for II
WAS covered with snow. not very deep,
but sufficient to hide It from observation.
except NNustEFpuTl. tuuEfNE iIUfn the
little I could see where openings had been
made. have great faith In the future OF
the district. The ores are not Of different
character from those that ! have seen
elsewhere. A great proportion of the value
oeei1M TO he contained in The suiphurets,
but from the tests | have made. ! believe
they are afnenab,e 10 treatment by either
chtorinaiion or cyanide. ! shall know mere
about that when | ge, the results of tests
] am having made in San Francisco on
eome samples have sent down. II the ore
elbows persistence In depth and length
along the ledge. expect 10 put on hoist
ing plant In the spring. also Mill.
which Will not ba any coffee mill. either.
THE district is OF course. remote and
requires a very considerable expenditure
TO make roads, In order that may he
able 10 get In machinery 10 carry on very
extensive mining or milling operations. A
good wagon road can be made into IL over
any one Of two or three different routes,
! have faith that. when futher develop
ment has shown tho merit and lpersisteney
Of the ore bodies. nni.ed effort on the part
OF the mine owners VIII build "A road.
whether assisted by the state or other
WISE