The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-11
NIL HOPE FOR A RAILWAY.
AvERT0y AND MONTE CRISTO
MINERS UNDIsC0URAGED.
.~d Other Indications of Re build-
s.x give Them Hope Andrew
yackson Talks Upon the Situation

.,sr,g jackson. ex chief c. the Seattle
80 .0.cs, fet4-nsd yes,erday from the
k~.ytu ni..-ag district. waess re has been
~n~x.ns fg I'VE months 80 gec Aanlca.
1900 or c.e celebrated tranHzy from
~ q consolidated .sine &c S.iyerton
ssar,ns .ssro matters ina; have come un-
n. bis sctls ard reports ;hat have reaGh-
~ rim ne THINKS tnat an eTort w1ii %
-as s.,oae o. later to connect tie Silver
- ana Mot. Critic mining districts with
- outer satid BY railroad.
4 have zen tod. said Nj Jackson.
-rha; tsers = a s.Yvey.ng party at work
-snr..ny a iae through indian pass IL The
se,.rsx.s OF The Northern Pacific railway
prso3aily ikn0N HOt9Iigg about the affair
Tfe.e < ala. a surveying party cut for the
rvsrsst & lone CE1sto railroad running
.srysys OF D.F. SIDES o: The canyon. or old
n.s O, that on pagys road. I canrog pre-
I'D 10 say which saea Is the better. but
are or the Cher should have gsen selected
d TIE first lace,
Eat eissrtn the Everett Il Monte Crista
psop.s are ososAns the sa.iagnamisn. they
srs also collecting the rails % tue old road
.nf quilting E@r7 o1t Of danger from an
cshsr rusa water down the canyon. Ali
taeAe things Indicate that tnc Everett. Il
n8,s CristGoa5 mas not given up ,he IDEA
o. ,apl4ag ~ Sllyert3u and Moule Cr!sto
n,r.nx diStr:ts These districts are in
deotysaoly rih In minerals There Is A
vast amogntJs low grade ore and a large
aufalut tlAt Az o. spoken OF BY d ccUSaF-
yA,Iye mar a being rich.
'IAst Sasusay The rails on the abandoned
rvsd al Kobs ~eTe taken Up. This neces-
ssts,ai the cis3ng down Of the shlnsla mil.
TIE Mci o. tese rails being taken I'D does
ID, Indicate thai the Everett Monte
Cristo has gfen up all idea OF rebuilding
because the, were Oh the tine that mas
bear saan00sG II Il certain that the next
railroad ,n.oiaat district will not be run
OF the old sTvey"
Mr. Juekso built the Az tranway. II
y ;mo and ,aif miles long and can handle
six tons OF CO an hour. II commences at
The mine a.ends 500 feet then Passes
ever a mouIa.a az Marble pass and DE-
sends ? 100 fef 10 Silver on. where tie ore
used to be loded on CATS for shipment. The
eabs Itself ! five miles long This tram
Nas IL the ingast one in this state When
al .ae Gre trrying buckets have been at
.ached to to cable Il Viii be complete
Before III great flood swept through the
csnyon o. he St}llagudm.sr. taar!n. huge
rocks fr0r their beds and carrying away
the ra.iroA bed and ali the rramway was
Started urand operated a snort time NJ
Jacksons present trip vas 10 investigate
the ex.er Of damage done BY the Hood and
10 put IGN working order
1T IL working order now" said MT
Jackson and when we get all the buckets
IN plact I; can easily deliver six tong an
hour. ne hood did not affect the aume
ss som thought While the river changed
IT, cotse. fortunately II did not affec. the
kvel source Of waller supply.
''Th.miners still. have faith in the event
sai obstruction Of lew railroad. and con-
sider9le development; work & being done
Silyeon - now bu; ghost OF its former
sell. A year ago the town was a busy.
raslng mining camp. with 3lsl or 400 resi-
dem Nov there are only five families in
the ewn. All the dogs have dLsappear red but
mUcai cats stu prowi around % nights"