The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-18
Recent Freezing Of the Roads
Facilitates Transportation.
NEARLY 10 LOADS ARRIVED.
within Thirty Days the Large Plants
81 the Mountain Lion and Repub-
lic Reduction Company should
ne ON the Ground-In Fifty Feet
OF development the Quilp Ledge
Has widened TWENTY-FIVE Feet.

Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
REPUBLIC. Jan. f.-More machinery
for the mines has arrived IN camp the past
week than ever in its history. The roads
have been frozen solid, and considerable
snow has fallen. enabling the teaming to
nrogress much more expeditiously. MOST OF
Il q coming BY the Kettle Falls road,
which Ia proving good freight ROAD as
well as passenger. Workmen are employ
ed on the last ten miles of this road I'M
ishinr up q contract to put 1t in good
shape. It Is improving every day, and as
soon as turn-outs for passing teams are
provided every few miles It will be the
best road leading to Republic. Between
sixty and seventy loads of machinery nave
arrived the past few days, mostly for the
Mountain Lion, though considerable was
Tor the Princess Maud, Republic Reduction
works, Tom Thumb. Bodie and other prom
inent properties Many carloads are still
awaiting shipment at Grand Forks but
should the roads continue as at present
for another thirty days, the Mountain
Lion and Republic Reduction Works Com
panies will have received all their plants.
In another week Superintendent Wyatt, OF
the Mountain Lion, calculates to begin the
brick and stone foundations for the three
immense boilers and engines. Brick nues
are now being erected.
The shaft on the Lake View h down
about sixty feet. At this depth they have
four feet in width, and to contain two
feet Of ore, from which favorable ASSAYS
are obtained. This claim has been idle
for some time, but 1t now looks as though
the development win be continued per-
manently. The property Is situated near
town, and in q very favorable locality.
For long time It has been thought by
the best informed mining men that the
OuiIp mine carried one of the largest, II
not the very largest, body of ore OF any
mine In the Republic district, and since
the new management has taken charge OF
the property and endeavored to reach
depth. every shot IL proving the assump-
ton.
sixty-F0Ot Ledge I'm the Quilp.
The winse sunk from the tunnel is down
nifty feet. and new the ledge is shown to
be sixty feet wide, by a crosscut. The body
OF vein matter here, as well as any part OF
the workings. is a great sight. and when
It comes to shipping ore the Quilp VIII
lead the San Poll merry race for the
record of producing large quantities as
win qualities. 1t is only question as
to which of these two promising properties
secures the necessary machinery for rapid
extraction or production first, to make the
best record in the amount shipped to the
custom mill. Both properties will be sup
piled with compressor plants In the next
few months, but it is possible the Quilp
will be obliged to use a pump also, an
adjunct not necessary for the San Poll. as
the workings here are dry and less trou-
BILE from water is experienced than in any
large mine in the camp. The width of the
vein in the Quilp has increased in the fifty
feet sunk in the winz, from thirty-five feet
to tho present showing.
Superintendent Downing, OF the Tom
Thumb, was In town yesterday, and re-
ports the mine In better shape than ever
before. The nine feet Of ore now in sight
has been opened up over 100 feet, and gives
an average assay Of $25 per ton. Work has
begun on new double compartment
shaft east Of the present shaft, the inten-
ton being to sink 800 feet. at which point
q crosscut will be cut toward the vein.
The shaft will be continued to the 40O-foot
level, where the calculation Is that the
vein will be cut on an easterly dip.
This shaft will be the main working shaft
for the mine. A steam hoist has been or
dered In connection with a steam pump.
and ought to arrive any day for erection.
After this shaft is sunk and the vein en-
countered. it is understood a compressor
with six drills will be put in operation.