Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-02-26
ALL AROUND THE CAMPS
MINES OF THE NORTHWEST
Mineral Claim in the Namioops Dis
trIct Affords IN Interesting study
-DeveIOpment Work ia Park
County. MOntana-A Strike by
Two Travellers In Idaho.

The Erin mineral claim, situate on the
north side Of the Iron Mask and Copper
( Queen mineral claims, about five miles
southwest of Kamloops, B. c., and owned
/ by Messrs. Beattie, Buxton and Blair, and
on which development work has been go
ing on for some months past, is said to be
proving itself one of the best properties in
the camp On New Years eve an immense
body of ore was struck in a crosscut made
! from the shaft at a depth of 40 feet. The
vein of solid ore is about seven feet wide
and gives an assay from $40 in gold to 30
! per cent copper, as we'll as a proportion OF
! silver Other assays made run in value
from $26 to S62 per ton. At Coal Hill the
Pothook 7Xl2 shaft is being energetically
sunk by force of six men, making an av-
era9e of about one foot each day of 10
hours The shaft has reached depth OF
40 feet, all in much shattered and decom-
posed rock with the assures filled and sep
alated by thin plates of native copper,
and, as yet, impregnated but sparsely with
! rich copper glance One corner, the south
west, is sight worth seeing, being plas
tered with bright native metal. AltOgeth-
er this claim is most interesting study.
Just how the native metal came to be de-
posted in such profusion throughout this
great mass is a conundrum not yet solved.
There is not much if any, doubt, that it
is IL product of alteration, and it is not
/ likely to prove normal constituent of
the dyke, even it, as seems probable, the
r l., 10, L., All
parently comes from the teaching of the
gray ore OF glance. The rock itself is
either serpentine or a mixture of that rock
with clorite, and this alternates with
conglomerate of many parts. About 81 in
gold adds to the value and the plates of
native copper are gradually becoming
thicker as the work Of sinking progresses.
Struck 1t Rich.
Michael Gucrtin and his son, Alcide,
who left Fort Saskatchewan in May last,
with man named Irish, to travel to Ida
no by team are said to have struck it rich
in that state through an accidental discov
cry OF rich quartz claim. The story
reads like fiction. The party was travel
ing over a high range of mountains near
Boise City. when one of their horses be-
came exhausted and they were compelled
to CAMP 5amAe night on the mountain top.
1Gkthc pa .irisA v wandered va little
distance troy the camp and CHANGED to
pick mp some fragments of peculiar look
ing rock, which he showed to his compan-
ions. They examined it, and, actuated
principally by curiosity, took a bag and
loI - ut la b,,I-o,, ,,olyr I,,
reaching Boise City they had the rock as
saved and the assayer pronounced it gold
quartz worth $50 to the ton. On the news
becoming known throughout the town,
great excitement was aroused and Irish
was offered $l2,0 900 for his one-third share,
which he accepted and departed for Port
land. The claim was duly surveyed and
/ staked and active operations will com
mence when the snow goes. The Messrs.
! Guertin and their new partner, named
/ Carson. have been offered $4,000 for the
claim, but refused the offer
Well Equipped Party.
SiXty-seven men, comprising the Alas
kan-Klondike Cooperative Expedition,
have arrived at Tacoma over the Northern
Pacific. The party comes mainly from
New York and Philadelphia and will leave
Tacoma for Alaska with one of the most
complete outfits ever taken into that
country. They will carry complete com
plement of the most approved machin-
cry, two steam launches. sawmill and
an assaying and refining plant. Fifty
horses have been purchased in Tacoma for
draft purposes. Three mechanical engin-
GERS. two mining engineers. one assayo1
and refiner, two chemists, two physics a.
and one dentist are included in the pan .
They will carry an outfit sufficient to la
! them l5 months.
To Control the I<iOndiLe.
Joseph Ladue. recently from the north.
ern gold fields. says: THE North Ameri-
can Transportation and Trading Company
is the only one now buying claims i'll the
Klondike. | understand rat they are
acting as agents for the Rothschilds. |
met Mr. Cudahy on the train from Chi
caoo TO San Francisco and he told me that
they had just received 100000 in drafts
which had been given in payment of
claims there. He said the company was
acting as agent in purchasing, and | learn
! that the Rothschilds are preparing to
spend 50 100000 for the purchase of mines.
/ 1t looks little as though the great Eng
lish banking house was making stipend
Gus efforts to control all the claims ON the
Klondike.'
Control the Stem Winder.
\ mining man from Fairview camp, b.
! C. bTinUS the news that Mack pnzip Il