The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-01
MILL BEGIN DEVELOPMENT.
wHaTCOM MINES TO BE OPENED
NEXT SPRING.
A stamp Mill to 60 Into the Mount
Baker District and Improved Hy-
draulic Machinery Into the Placer

Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer
NEW WHATCOM. Dec. 3L-The devel.
opmens work next summer on quartz min
ing properties already located in the Mt
Baker region in this county and on the
p!acers just the ether side OF the range
thirty miles further east, will be carried
out on an extensive scale by several COM
I panies that are backed by large capital
F, and mining experience and by a large
number Of men and companies OF smaller
. means. The first quartz discovery was
made n the early fail and the area pros
pected over till winter set in was only
q few square miles, not over twenty-five.
yet the sh0wings were so promising that
inquiries have come from South Africa
and Europe, and experts representing de-
yelopment companies all over the coun-
try have visited the gold fields. Several
sales OF properties have been made to the
present time.
Henry Stanislawski was the representa-
tive of a Portland syndicate that bought
the ledge that first made the region
famous; the Lambert ledge. The COM
pany have made no secret OF the fact that
they intend 10 begin operations on a very
large scale as soon as the snow is out of
the way in the spring.
They bought the property after a very
careful inspection. An expert made two
trips 10 the mine TO furnish a report his
last one being of many weeks duration,
end Mr.. Stanislawski Is authority for the
statement that his company would make
a road of their own from Loops Ferry IL
enc wee not provided and that they
would have a stamp mill on the ground
at work at the earliest possible moment
after the snow began TO leave the hills
A ten-stamp mill viii be put on this prop
erty to do the company work and proba-
bly, ten extra stamps will be added for
customs work. The plans contemplate dy-
namo power a the beginning OF Swamp
creek and an aerial cable OF two miles in
length and other adequate machinery
The ore is free milling. The gold Is seen
In all the samples brought down and the
little nuggets can be easily picked from
the samples of quartz Clipped from the
broad vein. 1t is estimated that a stamp
mill under ordinary conditions will make
money working ten-dollar-a-ton ore and
this ore assays from 800 per ton up to an
amount that reaches the limit of belief.
and the ledge is a mile and three-quarters
long on their claims. This data gives the
reason, as given by the representative Of
the company. why they are beginning the
campaign at such large expense. Imme-
diately adjoining these claims is the prom
erty OF l.. +. White & Co., bankers of
this city. The claims were located by
Birdwell and surface assays run into the
thousands. Development work on a large
scale will be begun early in the year on
the same lines as on the Lambert ledge.
Farther down the Quartz Mountain
Mining & Milling Company have a force
of men at work this winter on the Copper
King. This is a locally organized COM
pany, with Edward Fischer, agent Of the
Bellingham Bay Land Company as presi-
dent They have a vein that is gradually
widening they go down and as the ore
is easy of access from the road to SUI
mas. they can make a profit from a very
low grade. their shipping expenses being
very light. They are only working a
small force, but will push the develop
meut next summer with energy.
Barber. Hoag and Thomas, of Blaine.
have run sixty-one feet of tunnel alto
gether on their claims near the twenty
mile post. They are working with much
less capital than the companies named
previously. but their assays show returns
that vary from s65 per ton 10 away up in
the thousands. The company is in better
shape to do work next summer than here
tofore
-. Dawn Egan and ". Fl. Lawsons. OF
this city; Foster and Johnson, OF Sumas;
j. II. Bloedel Of the Blue Canyon Coal
Company: Stenger and Odell Hatton Post
Various and Connolly. OF Fairhaven. are
preparing 10 develop their claims in the
spring.
There are so claims located on a strip Of
country with radius of about five miles,
all that has been prospected. On about
twenty-five of these are good surface show
iugs. and several Of them are bonded 10
representatives Of outside capital.
The placer claims thirty miles east OF
the quartz region. are attracting as much
attention although up 10 the present time
work a hegr nv hand stficfr1p
without any modern machinery. The diff
1cuity IN getting over the almost impas-
sable trail 10 the claims is the reason Of
the lack OF knowledge and development.
Those discovered arc in the creeks running
into the Skagit river. in Whatcom county.
r. Arnson. ]. ". I4andquist and 5.
Swanson. OF Minne3 polls, are part Of R
company who bought two-thrds interest
in sixteen claims at the mouth Of Ruby
creek for 81 ~1 late this fall after an in
snection by Mr.. Aronson himself OF several
months Several experts who visited the
property agreed that the claims were Of I'M
menso proportions. the estimates agreeing
that there were 1S.co1v0 cubic Yards OF
gravel worth - cents per yard The crude
hand slucng had paid Well but the new
company has made arrangements to put in
improved machinery lifted TO cope with
the situation. Two seVea-inch nydrau}ic
giants viii he taken in over the STOW and
nearly mile OF ls-InCh steel plu!ES ana the
machinery for a saWiiili. The fumes will
require nal; = million feet Of lumber Il
wil. be late III the tall before TIE preIiml-
nary work viii be jioae. bat the develop
ment can ne carried on through the win
Ter. and taa owners confidently say they
hsVe 4 placer proposition or enormous
proportions,
Ruby creek has about 81 claims. ana
Canyon creek tha ctler streams in the
vicinity have 0vsa @.3@b:y prospected ana.
VITA the cTa3e.t Methods. show good re-
suits. 4 Seattle company has a shaft
sunk af;y fevt on t.le Mp and Tuck claims.
their idea being 20 get through the false
bedrock Down 70 the ancient bed OF the
stream. where X IS claimed the real riches
are. ThlS g. the method 10 be adopted
next summer, although surface ShaNiuG-
have palI We'll In enc place on Canyon
creek a company Of seventeen men having
taken o0t IN the last year ~ hand sIulc-
Jag m average Of 3 per day per man
The roads 70 the quartz mines viii ae
good next summer. ard railroad route
IS already surveyed and more than one
townsirv lad out- Ore shipments Hiu he
Ne-y easy aud access 10 me mines SIM
Pie matter The route 20 the placer
mines = ny wsy Of Marble Mount IN
Ska2lt county. ard rranEeEneuts are be-
ina made 10 make TIE tairiy miles o. trail
iass4hie for FIRE 1hting.
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