The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1899-04-12
SYNDICATE GOLD
MINING COMPANY
Concerning the Wonders Of IddhO'S
Famous Gold Belt
John H. Garrett, Secretary of the Com
pany, in The DaIIes and Will Give
Information Concerning 1t, and
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Mr.. John H. Garrett arrived last even
ing from Portland, and is registered at
the Umstilla House.
Mr.. Garrett is secretary of the
Syndicate Gold Mining Company of
Spokane, Wash. This company owns
ten full claims in the center of Idaho's
famous gold belt.
These claims are located on Burnt
Greek near the North Fork of Clear
water River, Shoshone county.
The property is developed to the ex
tent of six hundred feet of tunnel,
shafts, etc.
A ten stamp mill will be erected inn
mediately, and nothing will be spared
to make this property dividend payer
at the earliest possible moment. The
company is composed of some of the
most prominent citizens of the North
west. Among them being DIR. N. Fred
Essig, president Big Bend National
Bank, Spokane, Wash; G. G. May,
cashier Big Bend National Bank, Daven-
port, WASH; DIR. F. H. Luce, Ex-Lieut.-
Governor of Washington, Davenport,
Wash; w. B. Lottman, cashier of
Fidelity National Bank, Spokane; Jno.
w. Graham, of Jno. w. Ora ham & Co.,
wholesale stationers, Spokane; A. B.
Stewart, of Stewart & Holmes, wholesale
druggists, Seattle; D. S. Johnston.
wholesale and retail pianos and organs,
Tacoma; G. G. Smallhouse, president
Warren Deposit Bank, Bowling Green,
KY. Judging from the personal OF these
gentleman, we would conclude that the
proposition was No. 1.
There are numerous placer mines in
the immediate neigh borhood of this COM
pany's property, one being within one
half mile which yielded more than
$4,000 in the year of '9S. Quoting the
Spokesman Review of March Goth, they
say:
Captain ]. w. Heisner has returned
from trip to the Burnt Greek mining
district of Central Idaho, where he went
to inspect the claims which have been
recently incorporated in the Syndicate
Gold Mining Company of this city. He
is enthusiastic over the property and
over the prospects for not only making
a mine of that group, but for the develop
ment of great mining properties in that
district which has been much neglected.
"The claims went to see," said the
captain last evening, "are in the min.
eral belt of which the Buffalo Hump
and the Pierce City mines are parts
The Syndicate group is about forty
miles north and little west of the
Buffalo Hump. The claims are on the
divide, and standing upon them we can
see Moscow mountain to one side and
the Hump itself almost due south, with
Pierce City lying between us and the
Hump. We are at an elevation of 7OOC
feet.
COULD NOT BELIEVE IT.
''I scarcely credited the statements
made to me by the men who owned
this group of claims. They seemed far
too big to. be accurate, but can say tc
you now that the property presents
itself to me as quite the biggest thing
I have ever seen in many years of ex-
perience in the mining camps of the
west. There is a ledge averaging be.
tween eight and ten feet wide and
opened by shafts, cuts and tunnels fol
adistance of 800 feet. 1 have had five
average assays made of the ore in the
various workings and the average o.
them all is $sS. .7S, the lowest being $2.Ot
and the highest 1878 So. The richest
ore came from shaft sunk in about the
center of the ledge as far as 1t has been
opened up. The ore is white quartz
which pans well, but is of a concentrat-
ing character mostly. A large part oi
the vein is discolored with copper stain
but we have had no tests made fol