Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12
REPORTS FROM THE.MNES
STRIKE ON THE NORTH FORK
The Purchasers Of the Hope Mine at
Basin, Mont.-British Columbia
Properties Bonded-Onyx Mines In
stevens County, Wash.-In the
Swnuk District.

What in one sense is the most import
ant strike ever made on the North Fork
has Just been made on the Jackson, a
claim six miles above Murray, Idaho,
owned by Charles Marley and Charles Til
den. The lead is ID feet wide and carries
ere from wall to wall. Five feet of this is
almost pure galena, the balance being
good concentrating ore. 1t has long been
known that there is silver-lead belt
crossing the country towards the head OF
Prichard creek, but nothing near equal TO
this has ever been found there before, and
probably nothing has ben uncovered IN
the Couer d'Alenes to exceed it. No as
SAYS have been reported from it, but old
miners attending court Mt Murray are a
unit in pronouncing it similar to the ore
from the Standard on Canyon creek. All
the way from the neighborhood of Raver
over to the Mountain house there have
been discoveries of galena, and there are
not wanting men who predict that the
day is coming when the North Fork will
not only be great gold producer, but will
run the South Fork a close race for SUI
premacy as silver-lead producer What
has held development work back i'll this
district has been the lack of transporta-
ton, it being evident that claim must
be abnormally rich in order to pay for
working under the present conditions,
while nothing but concerted development
work or the discovery of something alb
normally great would ever bring improved
transportation facilities.
The Hope Mine.
The recently organized company which
purchased the Hope mine at Basin, Mont,
the other day has just let the contract for
sinking the shaft 200 feet. There will be
no delay in sinking, for the contractor
must employ three shifts and will use a
Burley drill in the work. The company
has ordered new machinery for the Hope
mill, which will be practically remodeled,
as new process is to be introduced. The
new machinery is expected to be on the
ground and set up within 40 days, The
new Hope company purchased the mine
from the receiver of the First National
bank, who bought it for his trust last
January upon foreclosing lien held
against the property by the bank. The
sale, which was made upon the authority
of the courts, was made on condition that
nj, J., Hewett, the general manager of the
company, should pay to the receiver 1884,
900 of receivers certificates against the
bank and give his note for $4,000. Upon
the Payment of the note and after compli-
ancef with other conditions of the agree
ment, one of which requires the company
to sink the shaft down 200 feet within a
year from March Is next, the title will
pass into the hands of the company abso-
lutely.
Several Properties Bonded.
: G. q d. aMackay of Trail, b. c., who is
understood to represent the Anglo-Colum-
bian Company of London, is at Boundary
Creek examining the several properties
which his engineer, r. w. Macfarlane, has
secured for him under bond. These are
the Ruby, in Smiths camp; the c. o. ID.
group, in Long Lake camp; the Snowshoe,
in. Greenwood camp, and the Republic
group, in Smiths camp. The amount of
the Snowshoe bond is $4,000, payable in
four instalments, covering period of one
wear. Work is being pushed on the claim
in order to test as far as possible the
value of the property before the first pay
8 Ihent falls due. The bond on the Repub
lie is for $4,000 of which $4,000 has al
ready been paid, and the balance is in
three instruments, extending over period
81 Is months. The bond calls for at least
$1,000 worth of development work. II
Huge Onyx Blocks.
/ The development of the immense depos
PTS Of onyx and marble in Stevens county
is. being watched by mining men with
ssore than passing interest, Deposits of
snyx have been opened in the northwest
hafere, but the product has not proved of
.eonLpercial value in some cases, owing to
the TACT that it could not be extricated
excepuin fragmentary state. The lodges
near Valley station, in Stevens county,
are said TO be of such character that im-
nense blocks of the material lie at the
foot OF The cliff broken off by the action
"of the elements The most important prob
lem that colfronted the people who were
developing thu quarries, after the question
: OF market had been settled, was wheth-
er the stuff could be quarried in blocks
large enough to be of use for heavy orna-
inental work withoub piecing and patch
ing. Secretary Nortyke. of the United
States Marble Compan. has returned to
a spokane from visit to theaualries with
the news that the experiment .as., been
q tried aud the result exceeded expeetat.J.>>,
Moiiie Hughes Group.
New Denver, 49, G., reports that another
deal has been contaminated on the Mollie
Hughes group This property was bought
three weeks ago by local men for S25OO