The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-04
A Cleanup of $4,000 for May
at Cariboo Mill.
WATERLOO is COMING AHEAD.
Fault Encountered I'm the East Drift,
but the Vein II Recovered-Fine
Appearing Quartz Found in the
Mammoth, on Douglas Mountain
Fraction Causes = Btg Rush.

Special Dispatch to the Post-1ntelligencer.
GREENWOOD, II. c., June 3.--For the
month ending May Is the cleanup OF the
twenty stamps at the Cariboo mill
amounted to l.44s ounces, or a little over
$1,000 in gold bullion. The Post-Inteiii-
gencer correspondent was recently in
Camp Mckinney at the time George p.
McAuley. general manager Of the Caribou
Mckinney Mining and Milling Company.
was paying one of his periodical visits Of
Inspection to the property He saw the
two yellow gold-bricks that were the re-
suit OF the mill run between April Is and
May II and was told that there was plenty
OF ore In sight In tho mine TO warrant
such a monthly output for q long time TO
come. Added 10 the gold saved on tho
plates is to be reckoned the concentrates,
these run. on an average about 81 800 per
month and are shipped to Trail for Snelter
treatment.
The present work in the mine consists
OF stopping and drifting ON the second
level I'm an easteriy direction, and on the
third and fourth levels both east and
west. The lowest level IL at depth OF
$50 feet and on this fourth level over 900
feet OF drifting has been done On the
three last levels the drifts have entered
the okanoyan claim, 10 the east OF the
Cariboo the drifts on the second and third
level being in 40 feet respectively, while
on the fourth 1t 10 only In sixty feet, 40
II Ia safe TO say that the Okanogan claim.
presumed to carry some OF the richest
quartz Is virgin ground. The pay roll OF
the company has on " an average OF M
ty-five names The mill IL OF 0-stannp
capacity with three COMMENTATORS. and a
ten-drfll Rand compressor supplies power
for the drills. j. T.. Keane, who for the
past two years has been superintendent OF
the mine, resigns the end OF the month,
and Peter Cunningham, a former super
fntendent, takes his place. Mr. kcane
goes TO Wardner, Idaho, where he has Sc
hong tunnel which viii require his person
al attention for the next two years II Ia
said that during General Manager McAu-
ley's absence In Scotland this summer Mr.
Keane will be acting manager.
Waterloo.
Next to the Cariboo mine, and rapidly
coming into prominence as a producer OF
rich quartz, IL the Waterloo. " lies east
OF the Wharton wsi4ch ahjoius the Okano-
gan claim OF the Carib0o group. Tom
Graham, one of the original owners, II
superintendent of the company, and great
credit II due him for the economical man
ner In which tho mine and mill is being
run. Development is now being prosecute
cd I'm the east drift at the sixty-five foot
level. In distance OF fifty-slx feet the
vein faulted. but a telephone message from
camp says that X has been recovered in
running short crosscut to the south ana
that the face of the drift has fifteen
inches OF a splendid grade OF quartz, In
the west drift ON this level 265 feet Of
work had been done. but at the time OF
the vis!t of the writer to the mine stop
ing had been started from a point in le5
feet and for a distance OF thirty-nve feot
from this point the slopes were run up
TO a height OF sixty feet from the floor
OF the level, BEYOND the thrty-hve feet
mostly blocked ont is another extremely
rfch piece of stopping ground The vein
wall average between four and Ave feet
This stopping 10 the surface In effecting a
double purpose. Not only + the ore be-
ing taken down for the mill, but an ex-
cayaiion In being made that Will In a short
time be used for the main working shaft
on the mine. In a distance OF la6 feet
on this level, where stopping first started.
~ IL being carried clear mp to the surface
and when this is finished the excavation
Will be dressed up Cor n new shaft which
VIII be continued on down from the six
ty-five-foot level by sinking the shaft
q this point y win effect a big saving in
thu cost OF mining first by reason OF il
being sunk In dry ground, second that
tase collar OF tho shaft will be sufficiently
hiEh 10 allow the construction OF ore-bins
Instead OF AZ at tho present time being
forced to take the ore directly from the
mime To the mill thirdly. tho shaft will
he sunk Immediately IN the center OF 4
Known rich pay shoot and fourth tho ma
to plenty OF pure water
The Waterloo until Ia OF a five-starup
capacity ana Is supplemented with
Johnston cnncentrator. About eight 10
nine tons q day are run through 4. II
has thoroughly demonstrated the orc 10
be freo~millng. The mill was first put
into opemtion last November and ran
steadily until the end OF january when
the water froze up. Tho gold saved for
taat period amounted to $500 II again
started up on May and ths first clean~up
VIII be on June !, The ore averages SIS
Per tor, OF which SIC IS saved % he
plates rThc completion ~ The new shas,
vii necessttate more powerful hoielng
mach inery. as tho present plant "a et~aa -.