The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-28
INDEX MINING DISTRICT.
CAMP WHICH HOPES SOME DAY TO
RIVAL BuTTE.
Large Number Of Good Copper
Properties In . More or Less Al.
vanced state Of Developments
The Town II nuiidinx Up Rapidly

Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
INDEX, July e7.--The future Of this town
Is now assured: II will be big camp. The
amount OF work now being done on mines
and prospects adjacent is both gratifying
and surprising. and the result will hs an
athsr Butte within two hours ride Of Seat
tie. There Is no boom about such an as
sertion; but the facts already demonstrated
go to make II an advisable statement. 1t
is asserted frequently on The outside that
there are no mines AT Index. and no ss-
peclalIy good prospects" The fact Ia. ev-
cry competent mining man who has visited
the properties near here. and more than a
score have done so within the past two
months. has gone away enthusiastic. and
the result OF their reports has been the In
vestment OF a great deal OF capital by the
best known mining men of the West. IL
is a copper camp par excellence. and de-
posits have great depth. with abnormally
large deposits of rich ore-~this much In
proven. The question has been money TO
work the properties. and transportation for
the product-hoth are now practically avail
able. The past two months have seen more
Of actual advance tthat is. Improvement
visible to the casual cflookerp than any
two years previous There ls. however. no
especial stir. no notoriety, but II has ali
been done without the outside world know
Ing anything OF IL. During the past sixty
days the following has ben done at Index:
some "f the improvements.
Sunset Railway ana Power Company has
installed a sawmlli plant and is now cut.
ting timber daily, using logs taken from
the townssis, with orders ahead for sew
erai months. TIL! the sswusll wss started.
.ndeed there was little In the way OF
building attempted or accomplished,
A. u. Gum. 'the father of Index and
on whose homestead the townsfte is Io-
Gated. is jus, finishing an elegant resi-
dence Of eleven rooms, hard finished
throughout. the incest residence Ia the
place.
Harry Ifobeek Is completing two-story
store building. some o1xso. which will be
used saloon.
r.. G. Van yeehtin has completed
swo-stoFy store. which IN already rent
ed 10 Seattle parties. who wilt put ia
general stock Of merchandise
John A. soderberg has put on n 3axw
two-storg addition 90 his store building
Bssse.i 4 Howard have leased the old
Ifsdex hotel. made many additions and
improvements. and are about adding a
saloon
Il Alvin Weiss. cottage
]. 4. soasrterg, two cottages
r, gaindon. barber shop and bath house
r Satndan residence.
g. ~ Bush. ffse-room cottage.
r wiisst, "a now erecting a twenty
two reoan hotel and restaurant
Morris Forearm. cottage.
J. ~ Drumm restaurant.
q. Johnson. restaurant
Mrs. Hastings, lodging house.
Joha Taggars. lodging house.
Mrs. Rosa, restaurant.
Mrs. Foster bakery.
John Donaldson. cottage and houses for
men h. employs ia logging of townssf.
THE old business rnen and the nex are
sotFx wefi. While the demand Tor resi-
sfenc.s IL eesnEd the supply. within an
aiher sixty days uvre than a dozen
homes aiff be erected and occupied In
borne is mind that seofes az r~ofsse have
yus 8p ,sass ara ara iiysng eaxtiy IN them.
Frank A. rgnfsus ~ Seattle, ts among
these iztser. Hs Ia here "groagecsinx.~
With IRE means ss stalk busfnesx' with
th4 rsea who may desire 20 sell proper.
ssas. :haugn es shesa there are very se~.
and these pTaee the prospects say ap in
lse air. ora every sszlna men naay De seen