Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-09
Reports FROM THE MINES
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
Swauk District.

swauk District.
What in one sense is the most import
ant strike ever made on the North Fork
has just been made on the Jackson. u
claim six miles above Murray, Idaho,
owned by Charles Manley and Charles Til.
den. The lead is IA feet wide and carries
ore 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 silverlead 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 dAlenes TO exceed it. No as
says have been reported from it, but old
miners attending court ut 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 a silver-lead producer. What
has held development work back in this
district has been the lack of transporta-
tion, 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, NJ mt.
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
Hurley drill in the work. The company
has ordered new machinery for the Hope
mill, which will be practically remcdeled,
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. l.. Hewett, the general manager OF the
company, should pay to the receiver S3i,.
600 OF receivers certificates against the
bank and give his note for $4,000. Upon
the payment Of the note and after compl.
ance with other conditions of the agree.
ment, one of which requires the company
year from March Is next, the title will
pass into the hands of the company abso.
lutely.
Several Properties bonded.
G. d. Mackay Of Trail, y. 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. d.
group, in Long Lake camp; the Snowshoe,
in Greenwood camp, and the Republic
group, in Smiths camp. The amount of
the Snowshoe bond is $G5,00O, payable in
four instalments, covering a period Of one
year. Work is being pushed on the claim
in order to test as far as possible the
value Of the property before the first pay.
ment falls due. The bond on the Repub-
lie il for $4,000, of which $4,000 has al.
ready been paid, and the balance il in
three instalments, extending over a period
Of Is months The bond calls for at least
$4,000 worth of development work.
Huge Onyx Blocks.
The development of the immense depOs.
its Of onyx and marble in Stevens county
is being watched by mining men with
more than passing interest. Deposits Of
onyx have been opened in the northwest
before, but the product has not proved Of
commercial value in some cases, owing TO
the fact that it could not be extricated
except in fragmentary state. The lodges
near Valley station, in Stevens county,
are said to be ofssuch a character that i'm
mense 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 confronted the people who were
developing the quarries, after the question
of a market had been settled, was wheth-
er the stuff could be quarried in blocks
large enough to be of use for heavy Orna-
mental work without piecing and patch
ing Secretary Nordyke, of the United
States Marble Company, has returned to
Spokane from a visit TO the quarries with
the news that the experiment has been
tried and the result exceeded expectations.
MoIIie Hughes Group.
New Denver, b. C., reports that another
deal has been consummated on the Mollie
Hughes group. This property was bought
three weeks ago by local men for $25OO. |
II has been held for three years by George
and Felix Hughes, who did a great deal of
work on il. but were unable to sell at a
figure suitable to them. At last, thor
oughly discouraged, George Hughes, who
had secured control of the entire prop.
erty, sold the group at the small figure
named. The late purchasers put men TO
work at once, and results were 80 good
that capital was at once interested, and
on February 20 the group was sold to the
English syndicate operating in that sec.
tion for $4,000. The terms of the agree
ment are 10 per cent down, the balance in
one year. 1t 10 understood 80 or 40 men
will be put to work on the property IS
soon as arrangements EN- be made.
The TriIby Group.