The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-08-02
TOWERING BLUFFS OF MARBLE.

An Enormous Deposit of Valuable
 Stone in the Pacific Northwest
 Seattle, July 5.-News of another great deposit of marble in Stevens county has reached this city Last week party of half dozen men prom inent ly interested in the marble trade pair a visit to this latest discovery, which is in the extreme northwestern corner of the county, on Kettle River opposite Baulne's ranch, and within half mile of the international boundary l line In the party of visitors were | Charles s. Nims, of Harbor Beach, Mich, MT. Mitchell of Spokane, T. H. Greenway of Valley Wash; who the, respectively, president, general mana ger and superintendent of the United 1 States Marble company, of Valley. Accompanying them were Charles Ad- ans, a marble expert from St. Paul; T. l R. Tate, engineer of the United States 1 Marble company, and ex-County Treas- urer George Mudgett of this city. MT. l Mitchell is the only one in the party who has returned to the city, the oth- CTS having remained for a time in northern camps.
 T stood upon the summit of a bluff of solid green marble five hundred feet high, and for fifteen hundred feet to the | rear and the same distance on either side the entire mass was one solid body of splendid green" Thus MT. Mitchell described the property yesterday. We had men with us who have made mar ble quarries a study, and 1t was their unanimous verdict that this deposit of green is by far the largest ever dlscov- cred,
 "The property comprises the summit of high ridge. sloping on one side to Deep Creek and on the other to Kettle River Three of the surveys of the Ket- tie River railway cross the lines of the group, and a survey for an electric line to connect the Spokane Falls and north ern with the boundary country.
 "There Is body of marble covering eighty acres, without an ounce of cap rock covering it. The ridge is divided into several holb backs, so that dozen quarries can be opened without inter-
 Probably on the west coast. You see, in the interior the giant natives of Lower Patagonia live entirely by hunt ing-the guanaco, wild form of llama, is their chief quarry. This they find in whole herds, which they kill wholesale with bolas-leathern thongs with iron balls. Now the chances are that in such a country slow running beast like the sloth would be tracked and killed at once. And then, again, our chances will be increased by the fact that the west coast is unexplored."
 'It will be rather difficult to tackle an animal thirty feet high" I remarked.
 No; the mylodon is an animal with no powers of defence except it's claws. It is one of the few representatives of the creatures that survived the post glacial period. though nowadays you still find the reindeer. musk OK and the saiga of Russia. We shall land at San ta Cruz, and then go five hundred miles across country, carrying our collapsible boat with us and accompanied by na- tives and, l hope, an escort provided by the Argentine government, which is greatly interested in our scheme and has promised us all the help in it's pow lakes, which we shall traverse in our boat until we come to the great unex- plored glacier. Here, I trust, we shall come across the traces of our friend. If not there we shall go south and search for him in the lonely regions surround ing Last Hope Inlet. The country is, of course, practically antractic, and so I