The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-20
alPNENT OF CLAIMS.


Dpeciai Correspondencs.)
Wash. March 1Ss-On the
- Ann claim In the Copper mountain
Ezz;51ue on which the shaft Il now down
~ twenty feet. Superintendent Hsnek-
2 81 me last night that the Ledge has
Eiialsd to about seven feet.
HSSkn steam hoist plant for the Bodie.
21neua In transmission on account Os
81 rpeds. viii probably arrive today and
r. wpmpfiy Installed.
81 + reported this morning that the
91lnv. near the Paio Alto. has uncovered
$3.50 supposed to carry the Botie lead
- Gan Juan IL sinking . shaft, now
- aoouf thirty feet. showing two feet
q the ledge. the usual porphyry quartz.
H1fh values ranging from g to 81
g ~ The adverse legal claims against the
n11on Harvest are now absolutely set
u In favor Of that property.
IN = currently reported here that the
6eenee group. supposed to carry tns
- lead A. the Golden Harvest and
- Drop, has been purchased by Pa
80 men. prominent among them being
III r. Chalenor. Of PAlouse City.
nonn1alA Lien aaA Other Claims.
Ne Mountain Lion continues to look
80 md the new compressed air plant
II aeW In place. Superintendent Brown
80 ne that he expects TO set the drills
II vofk In day or two. The plant con-
90 n . l4-drItl compressor Of the Rand
NJ. with an eighty horse power Coriiss
61r6ne The boiler alone weighs D.Go
nnds. and II was no easy task 10 bring
M from Marcus over the fast softening
sso6. II was 10 have been delivered in
rA tfx~r a. al - %<x>
1maGea against the manufacturers.
h Noble Three Ii down thirty-seyen
~ with its shaft and has drifted forty
~ On bedrock and crosscut the ledge.
utn5e has been sunk fifteen feet. and
~ II progressing back 10 the original
ln1ft. which will be carried further down
- crosscuf made to the ledge The
11ps shows about eight feet OF qu4xtx
NJ San Juan In sinking shaft thirty
~ on the two feet OF the ledge which
lA6ws a porphyry quarts with values
.naging from 8 TO ga
Tho Nevada II twenty feet In with Its
11spel. and q stratum Of ore Is showing
ancut eight inches In width and widen.
~ Superintendent DOMAIN says that at
- feet in with the tunnel he expects TO
IT 10 feet deep on the ledge
Detags ~ Good Lick People.
34IAe same remarkable assays continue to
B4ew up from the Good Luck CONSOLIDATE
81 and that claim II the talk OF the
I'm. Specimens taken broadcast from
- dump last evening show from as
ms by Moore. OF this city. values as
1dows. Specimen No. l. 52t2: specimen
10 :. ~. These ASSAYS show practically
- same values as thos. reported tn my
Mt letter, viz. an average from the ore
. the dump of $50 In gold 10 the ton.
For shaft that IL down only fifty feet
taess values are regarded as nothing
mort Of marvellous. and the only question
missed here In camp IS as tn their gen.
Eiasness. On this score there can be
10 question that the specimens assayed
Here taken from the ore dump. Al the
'aine time there IL also no question that
Or the last two days nobody has been
ldmittsd TO the Coed Luck shaft
Up 10 the time the shaft had reached
II depth Of fifty feet nothing had oe-
urred or been reported in the develop
vent OF the Good Luck to differentiase /,
kom fifty other properties now operating
Republic camp. The shaft was going
ocwn partly on the ledge. Suddenly the
amor began 10 spread that In cross
sstfing the ledge remarkable values had
zen obtained. On Sunday the supsrin-
)ehdenf AZ the mine asked newspaper
TO visit the claim and
IKE assays for themselves AT least one
DO went found when he reached the
nee that the windiass In the shaft Was
ooaen. and he was compelled 10 con
mt himself with samples from the
ezMp. These. as already reported In the
showed the remarka bic
anys Of $50 a. an average value Then
spddeniy the authorities Of the Good Luck
,. 49,
e1hed man on the ore dump with I'm
truetions 10 admit no one To the shaft.
MINK superintendent and newspaper re-
lesters who visited the claim In the hope
4 being allowed &c descend the shaft and
iakA samples directly from the ledge for
&smseises. were alike treated with an
etoiate refusal
An Unanswered Query
he query has naturally arisen here: II
- Good Luck people wished to main
Mn secrecy and corral their own stock.
w did they give out their values trss
= oil 10 newspaper correspondents 80 as
attain thereby the widest possible pub
Any: and why, afterward did they alb
efutety refuse To admit any one 10 tfse
at SO that samples might be taken
eectly from the ledger
Despite this paradox. the news OF the
oeayx circulated, o. course, IN audis'ia
seaspers through the camp, has eansei
asAi Of excitement here. and will have
= sheet ca the stock market In Spokane
p>cuiiar feature OF the latter Is thar
IN the stock was placed there IL was
MA up mainly In small blocks.
eersral men left here last uish, aai the
az before fer Spokane. chiefly with the
seerf II sporting and hsiyisg up these s:rsali
lcks or Good Luck stock.
- eocs without saying that the siaaa
seck may be all that Is claimed TOP II
: save merely endeaveress - state the
seeuaassHnces attending these remarkable
Ays fairly and impartialsy
Nerk started yesterday ON the I'D
~ssds claim. the uershernuost 81 the
alsnaeer group. and owned nv Reindeer
Pa A shaft will I've sunk thirty feet
= tae vein cresseut.
Ht.REERT 4. BRYCE