The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-12
Work to Be Resumed at Once on
the Morrison.
HOIST FOR CROWN SILVER.
Greyhound Shaft Is Now in Fifty-Six
Feet-Sub-Reco Offices mt
Westbridge and yernon-water-
loo Mill at Camp Mckinney Re-
sumes Ore Crushing-Rumorcd
Consolidation of Three Mines.

Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
GREENWOOD, b. c., May l0.-A tele-
phone message from Spokane received
here contained the information that work
would be resumed about Friday of this
week on the Morrison mine. in Deadwood
camp Fred Oliver manager of the COM
pany, Is expected here at once TO make
the necessary arrangements.
On the Crown Silver, in the same camp,
the hosting plant has arrived and is be-
ing installed Connections will be made
with the Sunset compressor plant for the
air supply necessary to run the machin-
cry.
On the Greyhound. which was recently
started up. the shaft has reached a depth
of ffty-six feet At the fifty-foot level
a crosscut through the ore body in an
easterly direction has been run for dis
lance Of fourteen feet.
Provincial officer w. G. McMynn in
forms the correspondent of the PoSt-ln-
telligencer that the government will at
once open sub-recorders' offices at West
bridge at the mouth of the west fork OF
the Kettle river. and at Vernon, for the
country drained by the Upper Kettle river
and its branches. j. C. Harrison will be
the deputy recorder at Westbridge and
Mining Recorder j. c. Tunstall Will look
after the work at Vernon. These two Of
fees viii be of great convenience to pros
pectors and those having claims in that
section Of the district
The most important news from Camp
Mckinney is the resumption of ore crush
Ing by the Waterloo mill. The mine Is
said to have fully 800 tons of rich ore in
the Slopes for the mill. The news has had
decided effect on Waterloo shares. as
orders from outsiders at the camp have
been coming in freely.
on the Mammoth, in the same camp. the
winze being sunk from the tunnel level
is down twenty-five feet. IL was sunk
on what was evidently the comb of the
ore chute, and is in extremely rich ore.
Recent assays are between SIS and $40 to
the ton. The property is owned by a Spo-
kane company and the development has
been continuous.
There is a rumor in Camp Mckinney
that the Toronto ends of the Sailor. KAN
loops and Minnehaha companies are about
to consolidate. All three properties have
been closed down in the meantime.
On the Gold. Drop mine, near Phoenix.
the total development up to May 1 was
nearly 1900 feet. The No. tunnel which
is in 400 feet, has $50 feet of drifts and
crosscuts and raise of 100 feet. The No.
tunnel is in 40 feet. with 100 feet OF drift
ing and prosecuting, and the No. 3 tunnel
is in $50 feet with an 20 foot raise.
At the Mother Lode mine the force OF
recent date has been increased. Good pro-
gress is being made in driving the lower
eco foot tunnel The smelling plant OF the
British Columbia Copper Company will be
ready for ore in the early fall. BY that
time the mine will be in a position 10
maintain an output of 800 tons per day
partment of the company, has gone to
Europe. Frederick keffer general mana
ger, who has been Ill at his residence for
some days, Is now out again.