The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-27

Special Dispatch to the Post Intelligencer
ROSSLAND. b. c.. July 26-The next
mine to enter the list OF shippers ac-
cording to the present outlook. is the
Center Star. The installation of the new
forty-drili compressor Is making rapid
progress and with all due allowance for
delays In testing and putting II In run
ming order should be delivering air to the
mine by the middle OF August. This win
enable the company 10 put large force
OF miners at work In the Slopes and begin
shipping on considerable scale. Since
shipments were suspended In February
attention has been devoted exclusively
to development. and this work is In pro-
gress on all four levels. on which vast
ore bodies have been opened. The sink
ing of the shaft has also made much
progress below the 50o-foot. or fourth.
level. The bodies OF ore in this mine are
fully equal In size to those of the lie Roi.
and their values are said TO run much
higher In fact. some who are familiar
with both mines say that. with the same
amount OF development, the Center Star
viii far excel the lie Roi
The Center Star compressor win also
furnish air to run the drills In the War
Eagle which is also owned by the Gooder
ham, Blackstock syndicate. The develop
ment OF this mine from the fifth level
downward has also made good progress.
Slopes have been opened on the fifth and
sixth levels, and ore is now being stopped
and stored there. On the sixth a cross
cut is being made to catch the vein again,
the drift having passed through a large
dixie, which cut II and caused some dis
turbance In the formation. The north
crosscut on the seventh level has just
reached the vein and Is in heavy sulphide
ore. Stopping could be resumed in the War
Eagle as soon as the compressor is ready
to furnish air. but will have to be de-
layed until the ore bins and covered
tramway, which were burned two months
ago, have been rebuilt. The plans for
these are not quite complete, but con-
struction will begin within two weeks.
The shipments from the lie Rof last
week fell considerably below the normal
figure, owing to the miners holiday on
Monday and TO a shortage OF ore cars.
but they ran up to 3645 tons. of which
widening ana timberins OF the combina-
ton has been completed from the Black
Bear tunnel 10 the s0o-foot level and sink
As upraisins viii be prosecuted simultan-
eously from the gn0-foot level II is expect
ed that this 100 feet will be completed in
six weeks. Sinking will then be continued
without interruption from the soo-foot
level
In the Josie shaft of the lie Roi No. 2
property station Is being cut At the
of sinking and the widening OF the shaft
from two to three compartments. The
electric hoist at the No. / shaft OF the
same company IL ready to run and will
facilitate operation. as II has two cages
instead OF one as formerly.
The grading of the railroad spurs to the
lie Roi No. and No. mines IL COM
pleted and track-laying Is in progress.
The lie Roi has had an Irritating ex-
perience of the delays incident to order
ing machinery from a distance. Over
three months ago the hywheel OF its new
forty-drill compressor arrived As II Is
the last piece OF the machine to be set
up and the hub did not At. II was not
unioaded and the manufacturers were re-
ques;ed TO have the hub sent hack and
new one made. They allowed II 20 remain
on the car for six weeks without return
ing the useless hub. In the meantime
the rest OF the machine had arrived and
was all IN place ready for the fywheel
over three weeks ago The latter could
not be placed without that hub. which
was finally sent by express and arrived
on July ~ Then II was found 20 be de-
fec,ive. but II IL hoped that by some
tlnkering u can Be made TO NJ, and that
IN week the machine viii be runniug.
Put II g. dangerous to mention the word
hub within shooting distance OF Cen
erni Manager Macdonald. Some concep-
tion OF the serious effect Of these delays
can be formed when Il Ia stated that the
operation OF forty power drills In a pro-
aucinx mine means the employment OF
80 men at ieast~-quite an addition 60 the
payroll OF a town like Rosslnnd.