The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-11

Line Completed to Outside Points.
Special Dispatch to the Post-1nteiiigencer
LOOMS, Oct. io.-september almost
proved a cord-breaker in a mining way
for the Palmer mountain district. The
Palmer mountain tunnel increased its
length to 800 feet, and quite an amount
OF drifting was done upon the vein which
the tunnel has crossed. with the most
satisfactory results OF any time In the
past year Ore showing free and visible
gold and assaytng up to more than 800
was taken from veins a. z and g. all
during the month. and the company Is
now preparing TO do considerable more
drifting during the fall and winter than
has ever been done before. During the
past year the company has added some
400 acres OF mineral bearing ground to
the 1000 acres owned at the first OF the
year. During September much work was
done upon this added ground. which re-
suited In showing several veins OF good
width carrying high surface values of
free milling ore. They now have a great
deal OF ore which could be shipped out
by wagon to Brewster. then by boat and
rail- to Everett or Tacoma. that would
pay a handsome profit However. this
would be sacrificing a larh~ part OF their
profits Which they are prepared financially
to prevent They win hold their ore at
the mine until such time as they have
proper machinery installed for treating II.
At the Bull Frog splendid progress was
made In drifting on the Phantom ledge
The mine In not yet sufficiently opened up
to permit OF employing large force. but
as many men are employed as can be
worked with economy. and this will con-
tinue during the fan and winter. This
work II putting the mine In the best OF
shape.
At tho Puritan mines. on Gold hill. the
building Of a mile OF fume and mine
buildings for winter quarters at the base
OF the mountain on Toat's Couiee creek.
the installing OF the compressor plant
and other surface work necessary TO
permit the work to continue through the
winter months has been the order They
hope to- start the compressor on the long
tunnel to be 5000 feet In length and
which will gain 2soo In depth under the
present workings within month. They
win also while running this tunnel pros
rect each way from II with diamond drills
several hundred feet Cor naral'ei veins
The Hoosier Mining Milling and Devel-
nnrrent Company. recently organized nv
Indianapolis capitalists. was busy dur
ing the month with preliminary work
r-eraratory to starting a sno-,oot tunnel
- be run on the principal ledge ~ the
rround. This insures a good force Of men
during the next six months.
The extra machinery for enlargtng the
Golden Zone mill r. now upon the ground.
and the MANAGERS EXPECT 10 have the mill
running bv the frst of December at
fsrthest with a hundred tons capacity.
The management has also done large
amount OF Prospecting upon 90 acres or
more ~ misunderstanding ground. with
view OF gaining more knowledge of its re-
sources. A good force was also employed
In the slopes. and much new ground was
enened up IN tunnels I, and & II IL said
that the management II now considering
tho purchase ~ three-drfll compressor,
20 he sNtnped in and in operation by the
irs, Of January. with which n run their
No, and lower or working tunnel
thousand feet, which VIII he connected
with the upper workings every hundred
feet.
AZ the Nest Egg grour owned BY p s
Harris and others wors has been re-
the main vein II will be continued until
the vein II reached This property al
Joins the tunnel group, and no property
on Palmer mountain has better surface
shawirrs than tho Nest Egg. The tun-
mel will cut the ledge at about 90 feet
depth II. as the owners confidently ex-
pect, the quantity and value OF ore holds
as on the surface. II will make Il
valuable property
The petroit-w windsor. sin miles south ~
isoomis, now owned by Seattle parties
and being operated by the Qnicksfen COM
nauy, has resumed operations. and Il -
<aid will continue tho ssrre until several
hundred feet depth has been gained IN
sinking = shaf, which 4 following the
vein, UP 70 this time but little depth
hna been gained.
been ~ the most satisfactory nature. The
tunnel Is now IN ahou, 80 feet follow
lng the Utica vein. the last 100 feet hav-
tpr h~en driven all in ore with neither
wall In sight THIS ore. Il s. given out.
80 generally running about = IN gold
and The balance tn coprcr. TIE tunnel
viii ~ continued for a cnunie ~ hundred
seei more. or antn & reaches point fl-
the wqFkrnen having been driven out ~
this a.aft by water AT thls point the
vein viii be crosacut and apcu shs re-
salt ~ this work win denspi whether
tard ana the property taken over n =.
sRd sEle'o has already been paid upon
shts bond
A. the O s work progressed as usua,
IN the erosscpt tunnel Several small
rfrtngrrs or veins we're crossed contain
ins, |, = saia. very hsgh-grads orr u e
afsn said that the formation IN which the
tannel = nov being run IL % very
enrnura gtuE nature
The gtx rsxies. on fS,tie Mount Char
seea. Is proving stsa, snrPriss g az.
Is stnekAeisers. n she manner n which
the property a a0~ opening an u =
stated TIA; a contract Tor M fees ~
work has iusf been let On the Eagle No.
5 witch viii continue the sinking ~ the
shAgt naw down "a seef, as vel a.
rttnriuE A drift from the ssNfeot level
NJ work was done at he L.asevfeW
sprfnx thN month Is sneas ~. Aut a =
Sais that n viii ~ resumed N shhrt
tlys@ ard that a car ~ ore VII saou he
shiup~t Il; il also reported that tenders
arr now asked for the running ~ a sas-
soot tunnel on the King solomon xrewa
Thls property ncs Nhau; hair mHe east
OF the Iakeview.
Srskane parsIes have been rndeAvnrlrg
80 make a deal far he COPPER Wcrid and
n Il saii have been willing TO pay a iio-
srAt nrgee fer the property and also that
they would cx9erd Ecopo IN developing
fng same However up 60 this tine ali
rarctIaflon< have failed the owners
standing FOR a price that the prospective
hslxerx think too high.