The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-28
INTERESTED IN OUR MINES
NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS DEVOTE
MUCH SPACE TO THEN.
". {. Whftney'a Monument to a FaS-
Ortte HOrse-Farmer seattleitfs
Who Are Seen on the streets of
New iork-In Theatrical Circles.

Special Dispatch to the Post-inteiligencer.
NEW YORK. oct @7-There j. an i'm
nenSe amount Of interest being displayed
throughout the East in the great mines OF
me Northwest Mining men who come
out OF the West nave but ntt.s trouble in
getting hearing and there has been a
special drive in mining stories in the
newspapers. r. \. OFarrsn and Barba-
rtan Brown. who are here. have been fur
nishing some very interesting material 10
he papers. and now {. l.. Rand has
taken a hand. Thuxwise does Rand tell
me wonderful story of the great Republic
mine 10 the New York Tribune.
Grover Cleveland. then president Of the
nited States. by proclamation. opened
Tor occupation the Colvil!e Indian reser-
walton on February -. 1886 Among those
who entered were TWO prospectors. Tom
my Ryan. formerly Of Brooklyn, and
PM Creasor. a French-Canadian. Short
observation they located the Republic
mine Creasor and Ryan were. In the
slang Of the day, on their uppers. for
hey were prespecting on a grub stake
Robbins and Jim Clark. Of Spokane.
When men are grub staked. the men who
DO the stalking share In the ana. General
~. find being made each party receives
putting up the money and the others the
work Clarke and Robbins interests In
sn ,e. Fssoo has saa hs up !! he S nn
itself was recently sold outright to some
Montreal and Toronto people for upward
Of 900, and within the last weeek an
600 feet The mine is capitalized a. s.
5sp. ep in s. shares When the discovery
was reported In Spokane the stock at
once jumped 10 81 Is a share. which makes
the present selling price of the mine about
Si5D. 900 The mine has exceedingly rtch
ore. Some of Its has run as high as $50
10 the ton. and there Is i'fteen-foot vein
or reef in the mine that will run $50
ton. The Republic has already made for
tunes for lis former owners. and Il seems
likely TO repeat this pleasing perform
1ucs for the benefit Of those at present in
control Of the mine.
William c Whitney once secretary Of
the navy and father OF the rev navy ana
row several times a millionaire. Is sin
cere lover Of horses Last spring his stable
a his country home at Westhury. Long
Island was burned and in IL persisted his
favorite carriage horse. The animal was
great pc; ana was particularly attached 10
Whttney himself. They were great play
fellows and It il related that Whitney wep;
when he heard OF the death ~ the horse.
Now To testify TO the high regard which h.
had for the animal he has ordered the
erection of handsome monument 10 the
memory Of the dead animal on the spot
where he was burned 10 death. The monu
ment VIII cost 5000. The principal piece
of stone for the monument was bought in
Europe by Whitney when he was abroad
last summer. Instances of great friendships
between men ana horses and men and dogs
are very common. hut this Will probably b
The first monument ever erected In this
country 20 the memory of a hcrso The
incident Is almost pathetic for 1t brings up
memories # the burial 81 the family dog
back In the Xii days
uarr, White "a n Mine rromoser.
Harry White once mayor ~ Seattle and
non mining promoter with headquarters in
London and New York dropped in from
the former city few days ago ana left
FOR the Northwest a. once He ia going -
Spokane. R9Sslsud. seattle. and San Fran
cisco He SAYS the outlook for Northwestern
mining properties was never better and
that tn, f!nanciers Of London are ready at
any time 70 furnish money for good propo>
sitions He saws that London is the place
for a man with feasible legitimate
scheme for /: IS the money center IF the
word White Is - return - New York a
month from now and viii then make snoth-
er "trip t. London.