The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-04
MEN RAILROAD 70 Be BUILT.
From Sultan Basin District TO
Tidewater.
COMPANY ORGANIZED HERE.
The Forty-Five Mining Company.
Tired of Being Dependent GA East
~rn Capital. VIII B1iid Its Own
Road TO Tap Many Rich Nia~s and
CounfFy-Work to Begin shorty

TIE Sultan basI- Mining district. n S-o-
honish eogzFy- and ere az -Ea richest n
ne Cascades. IS az asst 70 D. connected
with IL outside world ay bands % steel
The Sultan Valley Railway Company was
organized in this city yesterday FOR the
purpose O. building road from tide water
al Porr Gardner bay % re head O. ice
basin Of The SuItan river.
TIE Forty-FEve Consolidated Mining
Company. owning the rteA Forty-FSve
group. Is directly back CT IRE new railroad
company. xhile the English hackers Of ths
Sultan ard SsIlIas Isasalsl Mining Company
wiu see that the proposition g0@s through
Wor& MI be commenced very shortly On
the portion Of the road between Sultan
city. on ire Great Northern. ard Ia head
Of she basin. Surveys FOR this part q the
route were made several years a 90 By Az
other company. but VIII probably be used
By raa Sultan Valley company, unless an
other route 20 tide water IS decided o.
TIE Sultan district was the first 20 De
organized IN the Cascades Placer mining
was arst commenced some tAirty years
ago and Is still continued on The bars o.
the lower river. OF late years the yaiu-
able quartz lodges. carrying an enormous
percentages Of copper. with gold. silver.
nickel and cobalt, have a,tracte! the most
attention ard d number OF very valuable
mines have been opened Up. Development
has been sadly hampereI AMI shIppl1s
made practically impossible On account q
the distance from railroads TIE Great
Northern vas twenty-three niles down
the valley and ii was almost as hard 20
reach the Everett * Monte Cristo rall~oa3
a: S.iverton. although only few niles
away, on account OF the height q the
ridge that had 70 b. crossed TIE Sultan
and S,illa gaanfsa Company 4 few years
ago started IN 70 build railroad on their
OWE account from Sultan TO the foot o.
Little Chief mountain and went 50 FAR as
70 complete the preliminary surveys
Than the Forty-fve company Developed its
properties, and TO get az outlet FOR ils ore
cut a trail over the high ridge that sepa-
rates the Sultan basin from the stgIlaxga-
nlissa. Tae company spent some s-701
building a wire-rcpe tranway and was
beginning 70 ship ore when the floods
washed cut the Everett & Monte Cristo
railroad and cut of communication with
the snaelter
The Forty-Five. with 100 tons ot rich
ore on tie dump. could not afford 20 wait
On the Eastern capital controlling tie
Everett & Mcnte Crisio road As resuI,
the Sultan Valley Company was incorpor-
ated TIE capital stock OF the new com
pany IS s.. eo0oo and the incorporarors
ara Nathan B. jones, & weI,-kaown sao-
hoEaish county mining man who for some
tine has been IL charge CT the operations
OF the Forty-FIvs group Fred Hizcklav.
Frank 5. Griffith ard W z. Brown The
road Is to be a standard gauge and whe1
completed Will run from Everett 10 4
point within a nile and a half from the
FQTty-Flve E7tue, which IS on Williamson
creek CT the north fork % the Sultan
G n. Jenner attorney for the company,
and d heavy stockheIaer in the Forty
Five. was seen b. d -InteiIigeucsr
reporter last night and said:
AZ this tlrne can tell you very little
more tpsfIE me plans OF TIE sultan a.
leg company than were outlined by the
articles o. incorporation. The direct cause
OF the road being baist Is 70 give tha
Forry-fve an outlet - the snelter and
Incidentally hundreds of other va8uahie
mines. can say nothing about the sur
NeEs at the present time. nor can I give
yea details cf ne route the Rad IL 10 fol-
low Prominent Snoh0-niSh county mining
for some time. and the road vii surely 70
thropEH We have been promised a iargs
daily shipment from the Little Chief
mines 81 re- English capitalists Sto con-
troll them. and the FgTtw-t3*s * IN posi-
ton 20 snip a large tonnage daily bv run
ring trdmway for 4 short distance down
tNe mountain.
The company owning the LEstl= chief
has spent thousands q dollars developing
0re q the largest ore bodies yet ahscov-
cred IN the state and can ship immense
quantities OF ore II has 9.a.-horse power
II Copper creek. which has fail % 100
EesE Just below Copper lake. Nearly 10
feet q tpnneiing ard ! zfsi feet % diamond
6Fili holes have hsen driven or the prop
erty, which. IN fact. e described ~ a elf
q chalconyrtte- Development work on
ere f'orty-ttve group CONNIE mead II 1ss.
ard has been continued steadily ever
since There are now ESQ tons ~ ore en-
the dump. ard the mine - IN position -
= ~ cnt IS mueh as can b@ sent out To
tap Ire proposed road a tramway would
have - - buiit dowu ire mountain a dss-
varce of perhaps n mile ard a half
Besides carrying The traffic of theze
large minfs The sultan VALLEY road Will
enable ne mines in the MlGdle sultan
Elk Basin and the Olney creek district 20
ship their ore. 4 va!ua biz body % timber
In the basin wil also Be orered up.
Another route ihat : said 70 - under
consideration by tia company is 90 ran
Up Psich2ck creek AMI get into tha basin
by crossing a 4ow divide. This route Is
q shorter one 20 tide water and Ragld
open uo a much larger belt % timber than
mo route down ths sultan river - re
G-eat northern Thls route was agured
20 some time ago as a feeder for tire
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