The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-22
IN THE NORTHWEST CAMPS.
Record OF Discoveries, Develop
ments, Dividends and Sales.

Record of Discoveries, Develop
ments, Dividends and Sales.
The Yellowstone mine at Salmo. B. c..
which is erecting twenty-stamp mill, has
boon hoated into an incorporation known
ization of 100000.
The Center Star, at Rossland, is soon to
be equipped with an entirely new plant OF
machinery. operated by steam power, one
feature of which will be new plant for
ore sorting. designed on different lines
from any now in use In the camp
x x K
A second ledge has been struck in
trude at Rossland. Ore was encountered
when the cross-cut, which runs west at q
point fifty or sixty feet south OF the shaft,
had only gone two feet from the drift, and
has continued for the two succeeding feet.
x x x
1t is expected that the lead furnace at
the Trail smelter will start this week. The
lead roasters have been running n st ea nrs
has been handled, 1t is expected that be-
fore the present stock is exhausted the new
shipments will have commenced arriv-
ing.
The Queen Of the West group at Flor
ence was today sold by John Wells. G. I.
Cone and Evan EVANS to Eastern people
patented mine in the district. and is de-
veloped by two vertical shafts which have
four and six feet wide lodges, netting from
81 to SIS per ton Y Y s 6
III the Goldsmith Copper company's
property, Howe sound. 1t Is estimated
there Is an ore shoot about 500 feet long,
200 feet wide, and demonstrated by the
be at least 200 feet deep. 1t will average
2 per cent. copper, of which can be con-
centrated five tons into one.
K x x
The ore shipped over the Kaslo & 3 s 1cS a.,
railway for the year 1899 was 25,7O0,2N
pounds. which shows decrease of 49,
COZ, 291 from that Of 1885, The decrease Is
accounted for by the effect which. the
mines For the first five months the ship
ments were equally as good and for some
months better than in 1898. but since May
the output has been very small me ex-
10 has also fallen in value to 14NA6S.
x x x
The best bodies of ore found in the War
Eagle mine are on the 75O-foot level on
which drifts are being run east and west
from the shaft. 1t Is shipping grade for
a solid width of twenty feet and IS better
than in any of the upper levels. On the
foot level also drifts are running west
along the ledge from the shaft and have
shown two parallel paystreaks, one on each
wall. That on the foot wall is thirty-five
feet wide, while the hanging wall streak
drift. not having been crosscut towards
the foot wall.
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The st. Mary Gold Mining & Milling
Company has been organized at Rossland.
The following directors were elected: w.
b. Townsend, j. e. Saucier, e. N. Out
mette, Mr.. Craig. r. w. Armstrong and
Mr.. Pumpelly, of Cranbrook. The direc-
tors in turn elected the following officers:
President. e. N Ouimette; vice president,
w. B. Townsend; secretary-treasurer, Mr..
Craig. The capital stock Of the company
is 500 900, divided into 100000 shares of
Is cents each: The property Of the COM
pany consists of three claims on the st.
Mary river in East Kootenay.
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A strike Of Importance has been made
in the Old Abe claim on Bull river, East
Kootenay. A cross-cut tunnel of seventy
five feet to catch the lead Is being driven.
After passing through the foot wall, ore
was encountered passing through six feet
of what was thought to be the hanging
wall. A shot disclosed the fact that this
was pyrrhotite ore, and its width has not
yet been determined. The first ore en-
countered was galena, then copper sui
phides, and then the pyrrhotite. In the top
OF the tunnel the ore is mixed with con-
siderable waste, but the floor is solid pay
ore.