The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-30
\ OPEN A COPPER NINE.
Machinery Placed On Great
Lodges OF Trout Creek.
GREAT CLIFFS OF SOLID ORE.
neve10pIacnf 10 Continue all vim
ter-RosIyn's Citizens Ask seat
tlr's Aid In Making q road to
Ledge-AiI Ready Cor q Good
winters Work ON Troublesome
Creek Notes of the Afnes.


Creek Notes OF the Mines.
The great body Of go.a-copper ore al the
head al Trout creek n the ilaex RANGE
sh.eh has lung hean recognized as one o.
re- creates mineral daposlts IN tie Cas-
esae n4ouu;a!ns, IS al last 10. be tnoE-
aagaiG Developed. ri l. Downs. Who
~ yxa4esUg Sfg4 s3aEEs1sr A3ip2Y {s5ooq
fas property acIDz years ago. has 10"
handee TIE o'ilcF lsAll from Co. Benjamin
r. Tosnserd aBa las gone on the ground
nrenafed 20 begin ss9FA ard continue II
III thfough she winter. he has taken n
ga air compressor aGd drills. large sup
SIS CT toes ana provisions and ID having
fhen 10 bod ia from index station.
dlssance o. nlne miles
TITS properly consists az twslty-six
claims % which tins main group Is on
xrea circg.or naslq terminating on the
stshf IN guartzlte peak OF the left In
Heseqgarters PEEK. Be.oN kbs lower rim
~ ire nain basin the mountain has pre-
elptous sope. spl.t wide open in the MD
de by Copper gulcsl. tae sides of a8irH are
smceih cliffs hundreds % feet nigh Near
The head. 10 forks 81 eaca s.ts OF pro-
testlns edge Of i3ck and through Il At
this p9n; twin fails pour down on the Cop
De. io4e IL tae gD.ea below. Uniting there
And pouring through iae caves in a SHOW
drift 20 make flfia cap from the mouth
OF he gulch into the green otIehy meadows
which cover the loser slope To she lsfi 81
Copper RUlcn is Back ml;n's fall, pouring
4 ,houssBd fesl over the face OF a bare.
dull red EXT. Running AZ an acute arg e
.ato Copper Euich from the right Is Cap
Der gulch rs comparison a slight dspre-
snn which terminates IN tue edge % the
elf Sill further 70 the right Is Devils
rnich cleav.Ag the face ~ the mountain
sheer from Is summit. with bed ana Va IS
20 sisep that no mae has ever entered il.
To The right OF this. under the shoulder
O. Headquarters peak. Is Lost Treasure
suieh. down which a cascade leaps In
gauous courze Of 1900 feet hidden a.
times behind az oFerhang.nE elf. quartz
lie peak Is the bold font Of a lofty ridge,
the further side II which Is scored by
Hewett gulcs, from the depression under
Gums peak down 10 the valley
Into Lefty Peaks.
The Claims cover This basin, which =
ribbed with lodges OF copper ore. carry
irg gold and little silver. Taese iedges
He IN what is called a geologic foid
formed By the tarusiing OF a beit Of diJ-
rite through q metamofpAic sed.msntaty
formation consisting OF schlsts, safe rock
and quartzte. The dIorite has thrown
back these older rocks and shot upward
Into the lofty peaks IN which Ire mineral
Is found The fold extends from Noun
Index en- the south and follows the same
course Is Trout creek. Running diagOn-
ally across the valley below the basin. IN
esuGlng Merchants peak and showing a
the base Of headquarters - ak IS ~. he
OF sedimentary rock IN which the fold oc-
ours. In the gchist1sv formation is
series of lodges running n0gta and south
and tn the diorlte occur a series ~ east
and west lodges, which are IN tr.e assures
The ,.o principal groups 81 CLAIMS are un
The contact where the Copper and Biewe;f
ny. trflfff fv fsf sss
ere rich III ehaicopyfite and carry CAD
ard silver.
TIE Copper !ss.ges Is about 100 feet wide
crossing Copper RUlch Rear It's head. and
toe north end Of ltIe ore body occurs along
the contact. II uutCrQps In the gn.ch.
where the twin tails unite apon H. and On
six feet @ide at point SH1 feet above the
bed cf the guich, ~ne;r 81 assays over ~
per cent copper. Adjoining 5hiz r.ch body
large body ot lower grade ore. on
the other side of tsiu gulcn r. a cliff Of ore
over 80 feet high, and IN The bed and -
the slide at the faot of the ga eh are boul-
ders OF Chalropy riFe s. hich have been
broken from the ore body and which alone
ate worth many thousand dollars Great
masses OF ore break OF every spring and
add hundreds OF tons 50 this side la tne
valley. This ore hoe3y has assayei from
10 TO ia per cent copper. running up tie
Capper guich from us mouth * another
BODY OF Chaicupy rife ore cf underlined
WIDTH, or Mhlcb - the Capper clam, aud
The hidden Treasure is Oh spur twsINs
feet wide, running iaio tae CappeF az ~.
acute auE e. Running across the ile Wett
ge-en on Cuartzits peak. and showing up
OF each site aad IN the bottom, is fae
blewott ledge. ST least f{tcvn feet " iac
which II probably oa the same contact
with the Copper. This ore Is al ehalco-
Bfltc. very Fich n copper ana carrying
gnlf and siiVef, The Lost Treasure j. an
sast and west hedge ia true fiseure In taa
diogite running ~ the guien Banned after
II ah4 ~ ten 60 twelve feet . Sc. carry