The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-30
IN THE NORTHWEST CAMPS.
Record Of Discoveries. Development
and shipments Of Ore.

Record Of Discoveries, Developments
and shipments Of Ore.
The Sandon ore shipments for the week
ending April 20 were as follows: Payne.
sixty tons; Last Chance. forty tons.
The big whitewater mine has begun to
ship again. 1t sent sixty-six tons to the
Kaslo sampler last week. The April ore
shipments on the 18th inst. total 1856 tons.
Ferry county has won it's suit In the
Mountain Lion tax case. The assessment
against the property was 1920, wnich the
company tried unsuccessfully to get re-
duced to $500. 10
Some very pretty quartz IL being taker
from the crosscut on the Nova, clain
near the Mountain Lion. 1t Is beiiveG tht
vein is nearby. The quartz carries fairly
good values, running from 81 to 81.
The Knob Hill. In Republic district. Is to
have a temporary auxiliary air compressor
plant Of seven-drill capacity, which will be
used until the proposed forty-drill plant Is
installed. some time late In the year.
The following are the mill returns from
the Athabasca mine, Ymir. II. c.. for
March: Period of run. thirty days. seven
hours: tons crushed. 4i6; value OF bullion
recovered, ss.20l.30; value OF concentrates
1,472S0 values recovered, total, &i0.6t7.10.
value recovered per ton crushed, $260e
Adjoining the London Consolidated, on
Canyon creek. II. c.. are properties OF the
Richelieu Mining Company. These prop
critics carry the same ledge as the London
Consolidated About 1000 feet OF work
has been done. The ledge, which Is twenty
inches wide and OF high grade ore, Is be
ing drifted on.
In the Review. near Chelan. vein Of
rich ere lies between the two walls as well
N bc ar A n
foot tunnel follows this vein the entire
distance. From this tunnel a Wine las
been sunk G feet and a drift run on the
vein parallel with the tunnel The values
are remarkably high, the latest secured
being se744s In gold from the lower level
and s24l.17 from the upper level
In the Mammoth. Camp Mckinney. the
winze from the adit tunnel is down depth
of seventeen feet. II Is being sunk IN a
pay streak which measures thirty two
inches in width. The vein at this point
stand perpendicular and on each side Of
the walls. has pay streak OF galena, car
rying considerable gold, and throughout
the vein filling CT quartz there is plenty
OF sulphurets. The tunnel was run In a
distance OF fIfty-6ve feet on the ledge.
when II was stopped and orders came from
Spokane TO sink a Wine on the ore shoot.
This Is now being done and the present
1tFth lFtlA AHr TbiAast ~ risNy ATNA#
The Sunset. In the Slmlikameen. is gain
ing depth rapidly. President Brown is
making a few changes In the working OF
the properly. fan has been ordered and
will be put in as soon as possible to secure
air at the bottom Of the shaft. Two shifts
win continue sinking, and az sdon as the
DO foot level is reached a crosscut viii be
run to the eastern boundary of the claim.
A recent assay taken from a careful sam-
ping OF the bottom 81 the shaft shows
per cent. copper. The most notable fea-
ture In the development OF the mine has
been the regularity OF the values as depth
IL attained
The property Of the London Consolidated
Gold Fields Exploration and Mining Com
pany. owning the Silver Hiil. Norfolk. 9sm-
coe. Green Crown. s. 4 ~. and Roy srar-
ton. situated on Canyon creek. "A tributary
Of Crawford creek. twelve miles east 81
Pilot bay. n. c.. has been developed by
about 800 feet OF tunnels, drifts and cross.
cuts, In enc OF the tunnels at a point
800 feet from Its mouth. shoot OF ore mas
been found which has been dFifted ca for
q distance OF hfty feet. and the end Ia not
in sight. The shoot II one and one ha.f
feet in width. The ore Is gray copper.
and the management. while !. has not se-
cured assays. ts confident that IL Will run
considerably over 1910 70 the ton