Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-01-20

above the Van Andra mine, about one
mile The owners are jubilant over
the outlook.
Republic.
Republic longs for snow.
San Juan needs machinery.
The Quilp crosscut is still being run
for the foot wall.
There is no change of conditions at
the Tom Thumb mine.
The boiler for the Princess Maud
compressor has arrived.
A company has been formed to take
over the Hercules claim
The only work being done on the
Black Tail is in the Wine.
Lone Pine grows wider and the ledge
improves as the drift progresses.
The Lone Pine holds to an average of
six feet in width. The average values
have improved some in the west drift
Barbee & Co. have taken a contract
TO sink sixty-fO0t shaft ON the Hercu-
les.
The Wine at the Black Tail is down
" feet and the bottom is five feet in
width of $12 quartz.
Contractor Dexter states that the
ledge has not yet been cut by the big
tunnel on the George Reed
The Chico shaft was sunk to a depth
of 1876 feet and crossut was run for
the ledge. This was encountered "A IT
from the shaft.
The Columbia is making a fine show
ing. There is two feet of fine looking
steel galena. The average value of the
assays is $62.42.
The large stringer that has been fol-
lowed for the past 100 feet in the Cop
per Mountain tunnel grows wider and
richer constantly.
The Rebate has six feet of ore in the
drift that is being driven along the
ledge from near the south end line of
&he claim toward the Tom Thumb.
The ore body in the south drift of the
San Poll is about six feet in width and
che high values that were encountered
in the ledge some time ago continue.
Chas. f. Porter. Superintendent of
The Little Four and Golden Lion Con-
-solidated claims, reports that work is
going steadily forward in the east drift
from the S0-foot level.
The Gopher Mining Company having
purchased the steam hoist of the Bodie
Company, it is being removed and will
probably be in full operation on the Go
2her within ten days. The Gopher
shaft is 125 feet in depth
Galena of high value from the Davis
camp on the South half. A surface
crosscut shows a 12-foot ledge carrying
ore that is said to assay about $50 in
silver lead and gold, Claim is COM
bination No. 2, adjoining the Park and
Central
The Republic Reduction Company
which is erecting a custom mill about
i0Go feet south of the old mill of the Re
public Consolidated Company, has a
small army Of men working. 1t is
claimed that every good carpenter who
applies for job. is given work.
Quilp's great ledge shows sixty feet
of ore from wall to wall 1t is the wild
Est vein Yet opened in Republic. The
ore is claimed to be full of paying value
across the full width. Deep develop
ment again proved necessary in Repub,
Sic
Major R. G. e. Leckie states that the
permanent working shaft on the Quilp
mine will go down from the top of the
Mill. The compressor plant to be used
Tor prospecting purposes will be placed
IN the gulch, near the mouth of the tun,
mel The usual prospecting work is
going on and nothing new is reported
Mr.. Jackling's coming to Republic
camp from Mercur, Utah. is of utmost
Importance, not only to the Republic
Company itself. but to every person in
terested in mining in that camp. He
has assured the directors OF the Repub
Tic mine that he can reduce the cost OF
reduction of the ores of that mine sc
per cent, and that he can save 50 pei
cent Of its values. This is a big prom