The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-14

The owners of the Mother Lode, mine
In the Boundary have ordered IN InEer-
soll-Serseant afr compressor. boilers and
drilling plant Of larger capacity than any
In use I'm the district. The Mother Lode
already has two 60-horse power boilers; a
IddRerwood hosting engine with 30-inch
driver: a l0>drill gersoll-Sergeant air
compressor. and other machinery to-
gether with a full complement OF Access
sortes. To this plant II was decided to
add that ordered as above. including two
horizontal return tubular boilers. each 100
horse power: cross compound Coriiss
condensing air compressor. to have a ca
pacity of thirty to forty drills; ten ma
chine drills, two iron safety platform
cages. six steel ore cars and other ma
chinery and plant to a total value. de-
livered. of about 500 600. A contract has
been entered into for one pair OF 20x42
Corliss dlrect-acting hosting engines,
with drums 72xS0 inches: two 60 inches by
16 feet standard tubular boilers. each so
horse power with fittings. and six steel
dump cars, this plant TO cost about ST.
600. The estimate made early in the cur
rent year of the cost ~ the new plant
and installing and housing Il was from
800 TO $4,000. according 10 the Green
wood Times the mine plant and machiH-
cry account exclusive of that contracted
for as above) on June l. stood at s3i O00
and the mine buildings. etc. at si2. 800:
actual mine development work to same
date had cost $1,000; purchase Of several
claims adjoining the Mother Lode. sol 900:
and all other expenditures by the com
pany had totaled about sia.seo These
several items give an aggregate cash out
lay Of fl1.ooo by the British Columbia
Copper Company. To this must he added
the initial cost Of the Mother Lode claim
and the work done on 1t by the Boundary
Mines Company. which was merged early
In 1898 into the British Columbia Copper
Company, together about SOS. 0d1 The cost
OF the Mother Lode group and all plant,
machinery, development work manage
approximately $500, 900 Before the end of
the current year, the new plant being
meanwhile installed. and development
ton. the total outlay In connection with
the purchase, equipment and a~-nionment
or the Mother Lode group. and the in
corporation and management OF the com
pany, will have reached n total Of not
less than s3oo,eno The expenditure on the
compsny'a smelter. the accounts of which
are kept separate from those ~ the mine.
had by June ] reached a total OF so o00.
while n further expenditure of $50 0nn 20
$4,000 will. u Is estimated. be required TO
complete and fully equip this establish
ment and this additional outlay has al
ready been provided for. Summarizing
the foregoing details. the following posi-.
ton IL arrived at; The total actual OUTLAY
on the Mother Lode group to June had
been sano.ooo and on the smelter $1,000;
total tcTo 0oo. The further outlay the corn
pany Is already committed 10 for the FUN
er equipment Of the mine and It's contin-
ued development to the end Of 1900 Is ap-
proximately 500, 900, and to complete and
equip the smeiter RIO oon. Thus the aggre-
gate outlay win by the end Of the current.
year have reached At least sla0 40.
Work was commenced on the Mother
Lode In September. 1896 under the man
agement of Frederic Refer NJ F. who
first closely watched the development NJ
the property through its preliminary
eighteen months Of careful prospecting
and has since directed tho opening up 81
the mine. The number ~ feet OF work
done In underground development exceeds
800 At the No-fooi level one shoot Of ore
has been ~ payable grade, proved n he
from eighty 20 ninety feet wide along n
distance Of nj least 40 feet with good
Indications that further exploration will
ahow II 20 continue on It's course beyond
the cross-cute already run. The limited
amount ~ work ne vet Zone ~ Tho shn-
foot level has disclosed the existence az
that greater depth of an ls-inch vein ~
consiierab" higher grade ore than TIM,
met with AT the 2Ha hut So li,tle work
has as vet been done at the lower level
the opening M 0f this having only lately
been commenced that the workings arc
mot yet anywhere near where the main
body ~ ore NAV ne ~ Oacted - ~ found
Tho result ~ the work dome 20 date has
been 80 provo that 50 far the ore has
lived down and too. has Increased In
value with fanfh