The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-20

Special Dispatch to the Post-Inteliigencer.
LOOMS. Nov. ls.-whisky hill. which Is
properly the southeast slope OF Palmer
mountain. In the early SOS, was the scene
of much activity, but in panic days became
almost deserted. An Everett syndicate.
headed by Judge john c. Denny, recently
obtained possession of nine claims on tue
extreme southwest slope OF the hill. ana
has Incorporated a company TO develop
them under the name of the Marietta Min
ing Company With Judge Denny and II.
j. Mayo. the Post-Intelligencer correspond
ent yesterday paid a visit to the property.
There are five weli-detined parallel
veins easily traceahle for 500 feet IN
length. Outside of an S5-foot shaft on the
first one 10 the west only assessment work
has been done on any of them. The smart
has followed a vein which carries an aN-
erage of i2 inches of steel galena. assayins
100 ounces of silver and AZ per cent. lead.
About $50 feet east of this Is vein No 2,
on which the surface showings arc SINH
lar to the first one, while $50 feet farther
east from No. is another strong vein,
which shows most of the values in gold.
About the same distance from Nc. Is
another showing of lead and silver val
ues, while the fifth parallel vein is 800 feet
from No. 4. and runs through the Last
Chance locations. 1t has a 15-foot shaft.
in the bottom Of which is about % inches
OF ore that assays all the way from $50 to
$50 in gold.
All of these five veins have the appear
ance of being strong and well mineraiized
where they have been opened by some
years of assessment work. They are run
ming southwest and northeast, cutting the
formation Judge Denny and Mr.. Mayo
visited the property for the purpose OF de-
terminng how to best develop It. They
have decided that to fully prove both the
veins carrying galena and those carrying
gold II will be necessary 10 expend at least
$4,000. The claims are IL miles from the
Palmer mountain tunnel, which viii have
$500 horsepower to rent. and the ore taken
from them can be sent to steamboat land
ing for about S. per ton.
Another Okanogan Producer.
The Black Bear will begin hoisting ore
tomorrow. The property is now equipped
with a 8 horsepower gasoline hoist and
a 10-stamp mill. upon which repairs are
nearly completed, and for which nume
two and one-half miles in length has Just
been rebuilt to bring the water for power.
The mine has Is0-foot shaft on the main
vein. the center one OF three running par
aliel. with levels projected every 50 feet.
The shaft will be continued 20 $50 feet.
and drifts run both ways to the parallel
veins. Ore will be mined from the east
ana west GriIts OK the l5u-loot ieVei, potn
having a fun face, as we'll as the roof
and floor, both being all in ore. Stopping
will also be started in both drifts. The
mill Will start on December /. and tie first
cleanup is planned for the 10Th.
The owners Of the C.. N. D., an extension
of the Black Bear, owned by Napoleon
Sabourin and others. started yesterday the
sinking of a 1oo-foot shaft to follow the
ore on the vein.
On the King Solomon. the first quartz To-
cation ever made in what IS now Okanogan
county. work was started Monday last
Sinking will be done from the bottom of
the incline, now down l2o feet. on the ledge.
This property stands TO make Mount Eli
meham and the Similkaman valley a rep
utation for big shipper OF high-grade
silver lead ore.