The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-31
Preparations Making Tor Develop
ments on a Large Scale.
CHOICE NUGGETS or FAD.
jim, Harvey of the Clark Syndicate
Tells Hbaf Ia tssipx On at Davis
Camp--He Thinks the south Half
of the Reservation Has Good
Mines, bat That They Can BE
Found Only by Jadteioaa Outlay.

Special Dispatch TO tha t-fntelligencer.
KELLER. Wash. Oct. s0,~-There "a Gn-
usual activity in development work on
the mining claims OF this vicinity and on
many OF them there are preparations
made for extensive and permanent i'm
provsrnents. Ia the lconocIast tunnel the
contractors are pushing tbs work as fast
as practicable. II is a copper gold prop
osition. The ledge has been located near
the apex 81 the hili and good paying ore
wac thrown out OF cut there within a
few fset of the surface II is toward
this ledge that the tIiDne! - directed II
should tap the ore between nifty aud
sixty feet below The surface
Tunneiing Through mineral.
The whole progress 81 the tunnel has
been through highly mineraiized quartz
Here and there strtuGera OF rich sui
phIde OF copper have been cut The whole
dump looks like "A pile ~ shipping ore.
On this claim preparations for continued
and permanent 3~fk are quite extensive
Cars and the necessary fracSage are rX~
pected it, few days. 70 II a good wagon
road has been opened aud soon the ship
nent Of ore wiI begin The company
recently organized a. Spokane and which
owns also The Humboldt. Auburn, ORC
and QUO Nadis claims has pat i force If
men a. work on the Humboldt 10 deter
with a view o. opening az extensive tun-
mel and beginning the shipmen, of orc.
This Is q siiyer-iead proposition. and the
writer has. with pick and shovel. IN
covered within TWO feet of the surface
chunks Of the pure metal weighing not
loss than twenty five pounds. Frepara-
lions are made for the de, eIopmant II
many other mines OF this locality. and
there viii ba lively times during the com
10. f,sta s., 10 l. .-tfs
work and Prospect. ut Davis Camp.
james t. Harvey. Il member Of the
CLARK syndicate and superintendent 81
the Jim blaine a. Republic visited the
Davis camp on the south half Of the
reservation. a few ia%s ago We ara
making good progress Ia developing one
az our properties owned by the Harvest
silver lead Company" he said ~, 9 are
sinking a shaft that ia now about sixty
feet deep. In this Is three feet II ore
that Carries twenty nfc ounces 81 silver
per ton nn1 ter per cent lead. TIL prop
"fty s. improving constantly The com
pany he preparing foe winter \ con
tract has been let 70 erect nfse quarters
for the empies cs They wills no ample
Ia accommodate twelve men This VIII
be the force employed during the win
Ter months w shat keep right along
with development work unit! have
satisfied ourselves that ". have mine
or otherv Zee The outlook for tho Har-
vest 80 turn into 3 big property + good.
Have Faith in the Property.
I'VE have run "a 2Sa-foos cross tunnel
on the Park & Central We dia not ex-
pect 90 cut the ledge In less ti,nu 3io
feet. hat L Is possible Thar we shall en-
counter II much sooner. as we have Just
encountered Hrrue 4fFi1gara 81 ore that
ASSN from 81 50 - 9~v cent lead