The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-17
NEWS AND GOSSIP Of THE MINING WORLD

ing business. The company was organized
N Butte. Mont, with a capital stock OF
$4,000 The Idaho hes to the east OF the
Center Star. south Of the Virsinia, and TO
the west OF the Iron Horse.
On the SLOGAN Smuggler group, under
bond TO the Warner Miller people. both
tunnels are in ore, there being eighteen
are employed.
The Mountain Chief. near New Denver.
n. c.. is under examination by the Can
adam Goldhelds Company. with a view 10
buying it. The mine has already shipped
$4,000 worth Of ore.
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Charles H. Doughion. OF Spokane has
transferred the Trout. Michigan, Lorna
Doone. Blue Bird and Randolph claims %
the Montana Mining Company for $500. The
properties are located near Deer Park.
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Upwards Of 5000 has been spent In
DEVELOPMENT on the Rob Roy group in the
Lardeau, since last July, by the Scottish
Canadian Mining and Developing Com
pany. 1t will be a shipper this season.
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Messrs Brockman and STAGE, two British
capitalists of means, have purchased the
Monitor group al Three Forks. in tho Slo-
cen. The figure paid Is understood to be
$4,000. The same parties own the adjacent
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Seven TO eight feet day is being made
in prosecuting the ore body Of the Mother
Lode. Deadwood. Il. c.. at the ao-foot
width OF the drift opened by the cross-cut
is roughly 40 feet.
On the Crackshot group in the Larieau,
the lead is from six TO twelve feet wide
and traceable the entire length of .he two
claims. Assays have been obtained as high
as 500 ounces silver, per cent. copper, sl2
in gold, and 20 per cent lead
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The Ketchikan mining district was form
ed July Is, 1899. and ex-Ciov. a L. swine
ford elected recorder. Since then the rec
ords show All quartz and four placer claims
located and many claims were also located
at Wrangel until lately, because ketchikar
was formerly in that district.
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big strike has been made at the Balti-
more a mile northwest of Chesaw At a
depth Of fifty feet, the ledge widened out
TO five feet, two feet OF which shows free
gold, and assays ran H.iT526 across the
two feet, while the average on the whole
i've feet Ia $3.50. superintendent Elliot
win put on a big force OF men and fully
test the extent Of the ore body
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Parties Interested in the Pontifex group
of mines on Huckleberry mountain have
known for some time that the work which
has been steadily prosecuted all winter on
the claim known as the Phoenix has been
In great body OF rich ore says the Cas-
cade Record. Assays recently made show
that the average values run up TO some
thing over $50 per ton
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The Toronto Globe. OF recent date, says:
Three weeks ago certain shareholders in
the War Eagle mine dispatched an expert
in mining matters to British Columbia to
inquire into the facts surrounding the clos
ing down OF operations. This gentleman
has returned East. and has rendered a re-
port, In which he exonerates Messrs Good
erham and Blackstock, to whom his mis-
sion was unknown, from any suspicion OF
inadequate Judgment He says that the
condition OF the labor market had a great
deal TO do with the cessation of work,
and prophesies that II Will not be long be-
fore operations are resumed"