The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-30

Special Dispatch to the observation-disclosures.
GREENWOOD, Il. c., Jan. 29.-The
work of timbering the main shaft Of the
Sunset Is now down depth OF 1z6 feet.
At the 100-foot (adiD level the crosscut
to the ore body Is in ITO feet. Quite
force of men Is employed on the surface
in getting everything into shape for the
arrival of the new machinery plant. The
S0-horse-power boilers have been set up
and bricked In. Work will start at once
on the buildings and 10000 feet Of timber
has been contracted for to be delivered
this week. Superintendent Johns had also
the foresight some months back to order
large supply OF steel, iron piping. ETC..
which is at the mine, thereby saving to
this company considerable amount, as
the material has advanced since the order
was placed
Work will start today on the sinking
Of the shaft on the Crown Silver claim.
adjoining the Sunset, and lying to the
west of the Mother Lode. The claim Is
owned by the same company as the sun
set, the Montreal Boundary Creek Mining
Company. The shaft was started before
he aep IT s.een se an When
chinery plant arrives air drills and
small hoist will be Installed.
pletion mo Of the air Connection between the
old workings and the No. level has
given a chance for the miners to be put
to work in other places. At the 20O-foot
level two crosscuts are being run. east
and west. They are in an equal distance
of seventeen feet today. At the 30o.foot
been started in the ore body. These
drifts are in a similar distance Of seven
teen feet. The force is to be. materially
increased and within thirty days 1t Will
Northwest and adjoining the Mother
Lode is the st. Eugene fraction. owned
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having the property prospected by
shaft, which was down twelve feet, all
timbered. Next to this fraction is the
pany. owns the property and proposes ex.
plotting its big ore body by a 10o-foot
shaft The shaft aft has reached reached depth
copper ore The company has completed
frame shaft house and blacksmithing
shop.
In the south end of Deadwood camp is
all been installed, and today, for the first
time drills were put in use. The main
shaft has reached a depth of 100 feet. 1t
of work. At the 100-foot level a station.
10xl0 feet in size, is now being cut out,
preparatory to, prosecuting, to the, ore
continued to an indefinite depth.
Six men are working on the All There.
The shaft was down today fifty-ffve feet
when a small hosting plant will be in
stalled. At the ffty-foot level crosscut
of forty-fiv T, feet yas run through ugh the
the name of a company being formed here
to acquire the All There and the sydney
johnson claims.
The machinery has been taken off the
cars at the temporary siding on the Dead
wood camp spur for the Greyhound mine,
property. The Greyhound is owned by
Spokane parties and is to be thoroughly
exploited The owners have built COM
Portable bunk and boarding house.
Word reached here tonight from Sum-
NIT camp of a most important strike on
the b. C. mine. For some time crosscut-
ting has been in progress from the shaft
on the 250-foot level to the ore body. The
crosscut had been run distance of fifty
three feet when the ore was encountered.
This strike adds a valuation of fully
100000 to the worth of the mine. The
main shaft has been sunk to a vertical
depth of $50 feet. At the 150-foot level the
crosscut encountered an immense body
of gold-copper ore, and when 1t was OPEN
ed UP 1t was conservatively said that
there were 10000 tons of ore in sight. This
ore will average fully $40 to the ton. Ore
shipments have started to the Trail smell
ter and will from now on be regular. The
mine will ship three cars each alternate
day.
Crosscutting has started in two opposite
directions from the bottom of the 100-foot
shaft sunk on the side lines of the Nor.
folk and New York claims in Central
camp Each claim has vein that lies
parallel, to each other; The claims are
London and British Columbia Gold Fields.
The company is well backed financially
and also owns the Ymir mine in the Nell
son district and the Whitewater mine in
Among the recent properties to be
placed on the shipping list are the Win
nipeg and the Brandon & Golden Crown
mines in Wellington camp. The railway
spur from Ehoit to wellington camp
when !. completed will pass over the Bran;
to the Winnipeg mine. In the meantime
both mines have to haul their ore to
the spd distances IF little oner
mile. No returns have as yet been re-
ceived here of the 100-ton shipment made
smelter. Neither have the returns of the
shipment to the same smeiter of the Last
Chance mine turned up. The Cariboo
mine is sending down concentrates from
Camp Mckinney for shipment to the
Hall Mines smelter from this point. About
car load a week is the average.
tendent L. l.. PATRICK. o. the Poland
China mine, in the Myers creek camp,
informed your correspondent that the sur
property had disclosed the quartz for a
width of sixty-five feet between a por-
phyry on the north side and a slate for
being started 200 feet further up the hin
from the old workings, and Is being sunk
on the hanging wall side of the vein.
The Poland China is under bond to. Geo.
b. Mechem and his Montreal associates
At a meeting of the board of directors
of the Brandon & Golden Crown Mining
Company held in this city the following
out-of.town gentlemen were present, and
while here paid a visit to the mine: Pres
ident. Hon. T. Mayne DAILY. O. c., of
land; manager. Andrew Kelly, of Bran
don; W. A. Macdonald. Q. c., of Nelson.
and w. A. Fuller. of Spokane. 1t speaks
we'll for the ~
when the members of the board will give
up so much OF their time to come long
distances to attend board meeting. The
mine is developed to a depth of 800 feet
by shaft which levels at 100, $50 and 400