The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-23
IN THE NORTHWEST CAMPS.
Bbief Record of Discoveries, Devei-
opments, Dividends and sales.
L. Rni stock alllmned on the London

Bkief Record OF Discoveries, Devel-
opments, dividends ana Sales.
LIE Roi stock slumped on the London
market from ssl.ls to $3.50 in week.
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ID Dp sasn oS Ssct . bpsfy s T posnd
OF zinc ore. which Melted $06iA
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A strike Of two feet OF high-grade galena
ore Ii reported from tho Tom Moore. near
the Antoine, IN McGuisan pasin' S'ocan'
=. Martin. superintendent Of the city
OF Paris and Lincoln mines, In Central
body at the soo-foot level. on that prop
ertv.
The four principal claims Of the sixteen
seven miles from Ketchum, Idaho, has
oseP ses t. H ss p sretS e sS q which
$1,000 is already bald
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The drift from the crosscut on the Ben
Hur, Republic, has proceeded sixty Feet,
and the vein shows four ana one-nail feet
III tire " distance. The ore Is clean and re-
sembles the Republic mineral.
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d. C. Jackling. the cyanide expert who
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of the Republic mine that he can treat the
Republic ore at one-third the present cost
and can save IS per. cent. Of the values.
The average saving in the small mill mas
been about IS per cent.
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News has been received of an important
mining discovery on Deer creek, tribu-
tary Of the Salmon river, at a point about
is rich in gold and copper and much of it
carries free gold. The original discovery.
which is from fifteen to twenty feet wide.
t naS 81 the rse eleven en Claims ocaed
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Percy F. Godenrath, we'll known through
the mining camps OF the Northwest as the
travelling correspondent OF the Spokesman
Review, has severed his connection with
that paper. and is now the mining editor Of
the boundary Creek Times. OF Greenwood.
B. c.. In connection with his other du-
ent in the Boundary Creek district for
some of the leading mining papers Of the
West and Of London, England.
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James Dale, one of the owners Of the
Carmi, on the West Fork of the Kettle
river, has received the first payment OF
$4,000 from the Bunker Hin and Sullivan
Milling and Mining Company. Occur
six men at work all summer, prospecting
the claim. 1t is understood that Messrs.
Dale and James Kerr have bonded the
co., to the same company. The Butcher.
Boy is on the same lead.
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The Valley group of claims, three in
number and six miles north of Republic.
has passed into the hands of the mining
and brokerage firm of McCuaig, Rykart &
Co., OF Montreal, Canada. The property
carries strong vein, fully six feet wide,
and has been opened on the surface for 600
feet along its course, by shafts and num-
Der Of open cuts. The main shaft is down
twenty feet. The ore Is of the same gen.
eral peculiar character as the Republic.
Samples run from few dollars up to SIS
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Last summer a new mining district was
discovered at Miller mountain about forty
miles northeast Of Boise. A bunch Of
claims was bonded to Eastern people. and
a tunnel has since been run on two of
them, the Magnolia and Joe Jefferson.
This tunnel has cut the lodges and very
rich ore has been found, The parties in
terested are reticent about the matter,
but 1t Is known that there Is a streak of
some fourteen inches in one of the prop
critics that runs over 5000, while there Is
a very large body of ore that is Of good
average. These lodges are from thirty to
eighty feet wide.