The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-03
BOUNDARYCOPP[R BONANZA
Detailed Description Of the Sum
Get Mine at Deadwood.
MONTREAL CAPITAL At WORK.
Opening .Up Immense bodies OF Orc
That Runs $40 In Gold and Cop
per to the Ton-Exceptional Adj
vantages for Making Shipment
Putting In Hoisting Works
Of 500 Tons Daily Capacity.


Dpeciai Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
GREENWOOD, b. c., Jan. 2.-The Sun
set mine in Deadwood camp will be in
position to ship ore to the Greenwood
smelter BY June next. The development
Of the property IL yet being carried on by
hand as the machinery, long since order
"a has only recently been shipped 1t
WIN he some weeks before Its arrival and
installation Everything Is in readiness
10 put In place this new plant wncn 70
the largest YET purchased 70 usvs'op
boundary creek prope.y' 80 ~ .as,a, e
nave All peen iaio anu tno n a,,
already on nand 20 mouse IN the macnin-
srXs ~ soon - can pe"au'eo " '"e
MlNAofv bnn 49,.
ins company Win Supefin.enoen. IeI.s
Jones. the correspondent OF sno
tehlgencer mas eAam'heu s'ie Su. - .s.
Nj. Johns mas only mao cna,ke :. mo sne
work since september ! ano Wa, no . as
months Is OF decidedly substantial ma
ture. and for the permanent working OF
the nine on a mosts economical scale.
Previous % MT. Jonns .aAns ena. .sas,
sunset nad peen uevelopsu ~ Sna ,oc
sunk to depth of lSs feet; tunnel 4so
a ma 10o-foot level: four crosscuts run
s.a,,, ,his tvrrsi argraratine 17B feet OF
work Work ana ! Wine sunk from the tunnel
level, ninety feet from its mouth, 70
depth Of sixty feet. This work was mere
" exploratory and was done at time
ca,nr rsrs rasilv l,ttIe understood. and
camp wsIe ley 'i,..s ~ 800 ,rar-
20 say the leass, the ieuse. OF more nor s prop
erly speaking the ore BODY, on the sunset
was by no means the easiest problem MIR.
Johns predecessors had to solve. This
work was all done before the present
company acuuTeu ehe ie'
Organisation of the Company.
Early Last summer ono Of the most sue
cessfui Of MINING company foatations
took place in the city Of Montreal There
was formed the Montreal Boundary Creek
Mining Company, Limited, with a capt.
talization Of $2O0O,OO0 This company ac-
quired the Sunset, Crown Silver and the
g. o. ID. claims and the Florence frac-
ton. the group now known as the Sunset
mine. AZ the neao OF tne company ID tne
Hon. Senator A. w Ogilvie ana associ-
are: Hon. Senator Turner, of Quebec; T.
/, w. Horn, OF Toronto; ". Barclay Stepn,
ems, OF toronto, ana ". T. ~, hogs anu
represent some Of canada.s biggest finan-
cial men. The company started on amply
supplied with funds to purchase the nee
csSary machinery anu pidcS the nline oII
q dividend-paying basis When work was
started the company optaineo tne services
OF Henry JOINS. VINO was tnen foreman
of the Adjoining NINE the Mother Looe'
Inc work accompnsneo since SeptemDer
includes the charging ana 1od re eI1 s
OF the smart down 70 tne lW-ioot level.
The SMART Is now q doupie COMPARTMENT:
eacn compartment pelns !our ana 1 Az
feet by I'VE IN the clear; Al the lVU,
1901 IeveI crosscut mas peeh startea IN
q northeasterly direction to the ore oody;
Inis Work Is IN ssvehty rect anu VIII
propaply REQUIRE Iuny IVY ieeS peIore the
ore pody Is encountered. me sna5t Is
also pe1ns eniaIsed anl re'i ~ u uoMI
70 the 2OO-foot level. wnere 1t Is proposed
TO run similar crosscut.
Ten-DOllar Ore In Abundance.
The shaft was sunk on the ore BODY.
when alppea on. a. aep N o. seventy
ieet from me SURFACE, ana .he snaa. was
continued down through the footwall.
The crosscut at the 100-foot level Is ex-
pected to encounter this wall In dis
said to average $40 to the ton and when 1t
is taken into consideration that the vein
measures on the surface at least seventy
feet in width one can readily grasp the
enormous tonnage that can be taken out.
anroStNnay;n I'm ore Win smalter now
being built within three miles OF the
mine and the branch line of railroad con-
Meeting the mine. with the smelter being
situated barely fifty feet below the mouth
Of the smart. , ~, ,. .,o.oa 4,
GUIDES the puiio;ng OF vertlcai gaiiows
frame wnicn Is Iorty-seven rect IN helght
from the collar OF the smart. IL is an ex,
ceptlcnaliy me piece OF WoTk, aeslsned
by superintendent johns, ana empooles
new idea In the construction of such
frames. Inc oid style OF frames, exten-.
sively used In this section, stand vertical
~ resuiths N cosn1s,ueranie Vibrations