The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-01
Taking Supplies Up to the CIsS
patra Tor the Win:4i.
STEADY SHIPMENTS CERTAIN.
Five Years 10 the Life Of tho New
Hoistinx Plant To He Installed NJ
Dnee-Abondance of Marketable
Ore said to lie In sixht-Iwenty-
six Hundred Feet of Work.

T r. Townsley, representing Mitchell.
Lewis & sstavsr. !sft for the c.. 3patT2 Zine
las night after having purchased sores
foT work under the recently drawn ease.
II @as rumored that Patsy Clark. Of Spo-
kane. hal taken the lease. but tie r1Isser
lacks confirmation. James 7. Blackstone,
president Of tns Cleopatra and Andrew
blackstone went Up ~ the mine Monday.
II l. Understood ihsl line wI be lost
In starting tne shipment OF ore u Evcre {
Iae life o. tns lease Is flge years. Endss
Its Terms a compressor and hoistiag plant
VIII be Installed once. IL is agreed to
run lever tunnel a length o. so feet.
81 which distance 1t IL est mated this ledzs
will be tapped This will be ~ feet los
the present workings. and 10 feet beiow
the groupings. One-haf of the ne; profits.
It is stated. vii 70 TO The Cleopatra COM
pany. Everyone concerned Ia the ltase IA
confident the mine viii pay from the dUs-
set
The Cleopatra is "a slver-Iead proposition.
Though In one shoot caaiCopyrite and orc
Of antimonial character giving values
a. nigh $50 ounces OF silver. are found.
work Was begun In cro.scut Tune.
When ia iS3 feet sirinSer was me; and
followed OBVIOUSLY 10 tho main lead. dis-
lance Of BID feet. Here struck an ore
body averaging seven feet In width. A
,rosscut run sixty feet at this point tapped
another ledge carrying high grade ore Ia
shoot varying from eighteen inches 10
three feet In width.
This shoot lasted 90 feet At the WIS,
end of e. near where IL had pincned cut.
IA winxe forty-two feet shows up ore 10 that
Qcpih.
After this work had been done they came
out to the surface and 2ss feet above the
first tunnel began another opening which
was driven untii the ore shoe, des cr.bsd
IN the lower Workings. was found. car
load shipment from the ore body In this
upper tunnel ran $1,000 20 the ton. In tie
upper tunnel a Wine was sunk thtrty-two
feet, ana from the bottom a drift twenty
feet remained in this same character OF
ore. Thea an uprise WAS made from II.
lower IA mel through ore more than 30
feet ana connecting with the upper tunn1L
Drifting was continued In the lower
workings and some 90 feet beyond he
f..ll farther on Il thiri This tunnel will
he pushed on to tho Cataract ledge, a
parallel - the Cleopatra. A shaft on
cropping ore shoot. DOWN some thirty feet
shows body 81 So ore from eight 20
twenty inches in width The work on IN q
mine the earliest OF which ia comparative
- paIueiese, cNctFds &tta feet, aud rha
expert estimates aCcredit the property vi;h
an exposure % 100 feet Of ore averaging
nvc feet In width.
tramway with which the mine has
been equipped takes rise OF 400 feet
s@a lis capacity OF delivery AZ the wagon
road 10 six tons All hour, From this point.
II the railroad spur ~ the Great Nor hern
which IL - he provided. the haul will 10
about seven miles AZ the Cleopatra Is a
King county mine the results Of the nper-
atoms and shipments under ;he lease III
be awaited with great interest.