The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-13

Special Dispatch 70 the Post-Intelligencer.
LOOMS, March G.-The cutting Of a
thfrty-foot vein Of ore In the Palmer
Mountain tunnel; the taking over OF the
Utica and ORC Elmo property, on Utica
mountain, for $4,000 by Pittsburg,. Pa,
parties; the south drift from the Black
Bear shaft on the zJ0-foot level cutting
No. vein IN forty-seven feet. with two
and one half feet Of high grade ore, and
the almost certain demonstration that the
Bull Frog vein Is over sixty feet In width
at 100 feet In depth. and well mineraiized
clear across. are the most important hap
penings In a mining Wy for the first six
days OF March in the Palmer Mountain
district.
To be more explicit on the 9th OF Feb
ruary the Palmer Mountain tunnel, Mt 2Sis
feet IN length and go feet vertical depth,
cut the foot wall OF the expert vein. which
on the surface Is exceptionally strong and
we'll defined, cropping from six 10 eigh.
feet In width and thoroughly mineralIzed.
though the values are not high. Yester-
day the hanging wall was reached In the
tunnel. and the vein measures thirty feet
between walls. The assays have run f6.S2,
SDss, Ni.s2. ti2 20 and s3LH In gold. These
are samples carefully selected from day
to day. while some running very high
have been had. while the values do not
carry az high as In several other veins.
the uniformity with which the whole vein
n minerallxed makes II one Of the most
important veins crossed.
All drifts in the tunnel are also looking
well particularly In the twelfth and hf-
teen,h. where high grade ore Is being en-
tountered IN large quantities
The requirement OF the Utica ORC Elmo
properly by Pittsburg parties is the third
large deal that has been financed I'm that
famous Pennsylvania city during the past
year Some two months ago ID. q. Chill
son, who was prominent In the Gold Hin
deal, secured a bond on this property for
$4,000. and has put in the past month In
rfitshurg. He returned yesterday He
stated that the bond viii be taken up. and
started with twenty men and several wag-
on-loads OF supplies for the mine. Deyel-
opments viii include the sinking of two
l0o-foot shafts on the Utica. and cross
cutting from granite To granite. ninety
two feet across this phenomenally wide
vein. The tunnel on the orc Elmo will be
ron TO the Utica shaft. connecting the two
workings. Surveys will also be made for
working tunnel 10 gain loo feet depth
Sao,0o0 viii be expended to carry out tho
present plans.
The Black Bear miners have been drift.
Ing for the past month from the bottom af
the vertical shaft 80 feet in depth both
north and south. TO tap veins No. 1 and
No. . respectively Yesterday they reach.
ell No. 2 vein. and cut two and ope-haif
feet Of very high grade ore. Today they
report getting No. !, with a fifty foot drift
but at this writing the width and extent
Of the ore II unknown. The mill starts
soon ave stamps. and lftcen more as soon
as they can be Installed. IL IL certain.
from careful estimates. that the Bear,
Golden Zone and ekanosan Free Gold will
clean up 10000 at the end Of March. and
as soon as the extra machinery Is added
viii more than double this output monthly.
The past months development at the
Bull Frog has fully demonstrated that
the various ore bodies passed through In
the last elghty-nve feet OF the drift from
the bottom OF the ia-foot shaft are all
a part OF one immense vein at least sixty
feet between walls. The average value OF
this ore Is said to be by mill run $3.50 in
gold
The positive assurance now that the dis
trct il 10 have rail connection with the
Great Northern from Menatchee Is stimu-
latins a large amount OF work on such
properties aa the Marietta. Lake View,
chapaecR Gold Silver. King solomon and
Roanoke. all af which carry more or less
lead and all high silver values. For in
ssanseY Iha AaIlstta carries 40 per cent. Of
lead and 10 ounces silver. and already has
a as-tnch vein opened for elghty-nve feet
ia depsh, The management Is now mining
a eross.cnt tunnel 10 tap the ledge unaes
the eighty Ave foot shaft.