The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-09
BIG WORK on THE VEAE.
One Of the Largest Mining Com
binations on Palmer Mt.
TWENTY six GOLD CLAIMS.
~ he Developed on Large Scale
with Tunnels and shafts-Reaults
Of Three Years Of Exploration ana
tAe Expenditure Of Two Hundred
Thousand Dollars on the original
Tannel Enterprise IN the state.

Special Dispatch to the Post-Intellisencer
LOOMS. Jan. S.--One Of the most Inn
portant deals that has taken place IN the
Palmer mountain district during the past
year was the consolidation and capitalixa-
tion Of the Wehe properties at Wehesville.
on the southeast slope Of Palmer mount
ain. A. NJ. Wehe and his two brothers
made these twenty-six locations some ten
years ago and by economy and hard WORK
succeeded in keeping up their assessment
work each year. although 1t required great
labor and good financiering TO accomplish
It. Had not A. M. Wehe made careful
study OF the formation and the ores and
convinced himself Of the value Of the To-
cations, the brothers would not now be
enjoying the fruits Of q well-earned COM
potency through the transfer OF controls
linz interest In them to three Fargo gen.
tiemen--Messrs. Turner, Preston and
Hughes-for snug sum Of money.
These men In turn interasted other
North Dakota and Cincinnati, O., cap
ital, with the result that the twenty-six
locations. which take up 1900 feet upon
one vein and 1900 upon q parallel one.
were merged into company under the
name or the Wehe Consolidated Mining
and Milling Company. and at : meeting
held recently the following named gentle
Wehesville; William Won Steinwehr, Gin
cinnati, o.; Charles r. Hofer, Cincinnati.
o.: FRANC Crane. Cummings N. D.; w.
A. Mccain, Blanchard. n. D.; c. w. Pres
ton, Blanchard, N. D.: H. r Turner, Far
60. N. D. The oaiicers elected we're: A. "a.
wehe, president. G. w. Preston, vice
president. and n. r. Turner. secretary.
e. G. Brown was appointed resident agent
ana manager at Wehesville.
The forming OF this company and the
transfer OF the property to it involved the
sum Of 100000, and put a SUFFICIENT fund
IN the treasury for carrying out the plan
OF development recommended by prac-
ticsl mining engineer smployed for I'll, that !
ii 5Oo-foot vertical shaft on the Wehe
feet; the running Of a SIS foot tunnel on
foot tunnel on the Buckeye location, all Of
which are now under contract and being
prosecuted. the purchase Of power hoist.
stalled, and the erection Of mine buildings.
spring. While a good percentage Of cop
predominates, and great many assay
tests give an average of 80 In gold per
ton, besides good percentage Of copper
The property Is ten miles from steam
which the Columbia q Okanogan Steamer
months OF the present year. The treat
yet undetermined. The whole property. Is
year. and 10 now being managed by a very
competent business man. who will COM
bine economy with up-to-date mining
I Wehe Consolidated will be numbered with
the dividend payers during thex Nlatter
months Of this year.
The Palmer mountain tunnel being the
most important and largest mining under
taking In Northern OkaRogan. is con-
stantly source of interest to those en-
state OF washington 1t has now reach
ed 200 feet in length, crossing sixteen
parallel veins, and the working force are
years year, Of hard work and an expenditure
of more than 100000 in money to bring
this proposition from the prospect stage
The tunnel company is preparing, in
addition to pushing the main TUNNEL and
testing each vein cut with drifts, to har-
er their s horse water both
venience of their neighbors They are
advised by their consulting engineers THAI
i've pes S snn be pso snd
has added largely to the mine buildings,
among which is a machine shop for re-
pairing and making many articles need
ed each day In a large mine. while his
assay office and laboratory is not sur
passed in the state. Were 1t desirable
10 enter the transportation Held the tun-
mel company could build and equip an
electric. railway from Loomis to Nc
Laughlin's rapids on the OKanogan river,
to which points boats in a season like the
past can run at least eleven months in
drgss sar IL the tolamoia seS Kan cae
river. steamboat line. who has been
watching. the channel improvements made
by the United States government
The capital to build and equip the cleo
trio road has beon rendered the COM
pany II they will undertake it's construc-
ton. but as stated by Mr. May, the COM
portation field unless Its becomes neces-
sary.. This is hardly probable, as the
Great Northern Company has party
checking up a. survey from Wenatchee
and another making survey from Brew
ster up the Okanogan and through Loom
Is to the international line.
In February last the Bull Frog Mining
and Milling Company came into possession
OF the. Wyandotte property, consisting OF
some half dozen claims on Little Mount
Chapacca and a cyanide plant fully equip
ped. In June the. company emerged from
many annoying difficulties and was taken
In hand by G. G. May. 1t was then reor-
Eanized with Adelbert Hart as manager
The new company was Joined by Chicago
and New York capitalists who contributed
20 the treasury the funds needed.
Since the reorganization Mr. Hart has
been busy getting the property into work.
ing shape
Twenty tons of average ore cyanided last
fall gave return of $3.50 gold per ton
with SIPS in the solution. The sample
value of this ore was 1880 by which il
will be seen that the ore readily yields to
cyanide treatment. Many of the improve
mcnts intended have been started for ex-
ample, that Of removing the mill to a