The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-21
Same of the Best Districts West
of the Cascades.
TO BE WORKED ALL WINTER
uete Creek Attracts Attention as
= Gold Proposition. and Trout
Greek. Miller River and Trouble
anne Districts for Their Gold and
Cepper-iron Mines ON the skaEtt
farming TO Copper Propositions.

All reports coming in from the Mining
6ssst1cts saox as unusual amount OF aci.y-
O. In ali Tie mining e-stTlcss % the stale.
>zxez4al4F ~ f0p@e West Of TIE Gasca l. :
xsners ~. ~ busy .nat they are not ever.
law Of So5s - coine IL Tor the holiday
sas1.. AID t1e Indications are that Work
n a. sAe districts @.u De steadily kept I'D
All w.nteg Aauy 81 tAese districts. w1a.cn
= fex MONTHS $50 were unknown, are .ow
rzy.tiy coming 70 tne front
TIE cgyper aA4 gold districts that Will
at,rscs Tie most attention are the Trout
erek lie Miller river and the Trouble
syr.a while tbs purely gold district tnat
III. ailfaet tBe most attention taiz year IL
the Slate creeK Ola the summit Of the Cas-
ezdss L lies s9utn Of the Cascades and
xszs ~ iae ActhoH and Caelan dlslri.ss
al IL already giving great prurnl-e There
are "a EIInhsE o. mines there that are Look
isg wesi, alse t,e.ns free gold district ana
aute accessible. much Is expected OF L.
One u the promising gold mines In that
Gx,r.ct Is tae Eureka. which Is bonded 10
scus san Francisco mining people for 500. =
o. The Mammoth is another weil-devsi-
esed gold property. and the owners are
sasn. u putting in d min during the COM
sag Ysar-
TIE s.Igert0n district, on the Monte cristo
, rad which was prominent before the Moa-
b Cfas.o ro}la Ma washed out, Is promising
e ~ copper propextles There are some
VERY afss copper lodges there, and con-
saera5le development work had to be done
o. taeEn bGt lae miners went To extremes
70 ihsir prices and put mining figures On
mere prospects, Tux. result beng that they
sari the district very materially. Ii is bound
% come 10 the front again, however. for
tie rtxason that the mineral lodges are
there and Il l. only a question OF capital.
labos s1ud the application OF common sense
TAe Forty -ivs group OF mines. III the Z =
YsT1on districts. Is one OF the best develop
u II the state That mine Is known -
have paid from the grass roots" The
o~nsFs nave neycT stopped work on i, not
sst4standiux tins fact that they have 10
Use PACK train 10 get out their ores. TaStr
~ect ores are high grade and they have
seseEal jnoG4and tons on the dumps. Man
Aver Brown. VI that mine. says that they
are 81! working on the road from the
gaLruAd H. AID VII soon be able To haul
machinery In and ore oat. Last month they
average i0z men per day on their pay ro.l.
Whsn they can again ship ore The COM
pany expects that Jha mine Will pay run
Rng eXs-snses. even at this SOW manner
81 81. pmonJ. and when the Everett & Monte
EFsslo ge5s 10 running. great results may
b. expected from the Forty five.
Tier IS some work being done on the
iron mines along the .5kagit, some ~ them
having changed from iron 10 copper,
ghe.i OF course has enhanced their value.
The iron appears 10 have been merely
sasglag 90 the copper ledge A number OF
Asss are being worked and VIII oe all
iass winter.