The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-25

MINES AND LINING.

OtI SHAREHOLDERS IOf the mere COST
of the patent work L had placed
Thomas, of Grand Forks, B. C.,
complete survey of the whole
site of Smelter City, on. both sides
of the river, togeth n with the
piats of the town, ana complete
survey, with specifications for
the Improvement of the water To-
cation and the foundations Of the
smelter, upon. which we viii let a
contract in the course Of a couple
of days. 1t is impossible to ex-
press, In brief telegram, the
magnificent. ard great value of
more than all the properties we
hitherto possessed in this
part of the country. This
VIII cost our shareholders
nothing beyond the patent
vantageousiy secured comprise i
part OF the comprehensive plan,
which, Wher carried out this year.
Will place our enterprises here In
the front rank and far ahead of
mining undertakings in the Boun-
larry country.
could not help feel, as l was
iriven from point to point, or as
climbed the mountain sides on
= 'uAooy dHO LOudy, reviewing our
possessions here, and contempIat-
ing our prospects for the future.
now completely ashamed of them
selves our Eastern cities would
feel If they could be here
with me and view these
things. All I can say about those
VINO are maligning US in Minneapo-
US ana elsewhere IS that i am
heartily ashamed of them; and the
lime will come, If they nave any
shame in them, that they will feel
the same way toward themselves.
II they could work as hard as
nave the last two days, one thing
Is certain: They would be tired
enough to shut up.
When l was in this country near
~ g. year ago l found the people
afraid of the "A. MI. Co., ana
looking upon 1t with suspicion To-
from Grand Forks, B. c., 10 Re-
public, Wash, throughout the en-
tire. Kettle Valley, is speaking the
praises of cur enterprisinge efforts
IN the loudeSt tones, and / am ev-
erywhere received with expressions
OF the most enthusiastic welcome.
your company is doing grand
work is an expression that
heard at least a hundred times In
To-day l have had three de.ega-
tfons from Republic, one desiring
us to contract for the smelling Of
their ores as soon as our smelter
Is ready; another offering to begin
the publication of strong weekly
newspaper at Curlew for a small
monthly subsidy from our COM
pany; another wishing to secu
the contract for building the wood
work and putting the ironwork in
place for our new smelters When
go to Grand Forks on TUESDAY
to meet Mr.. Kemp I shall meet a
large number of the leading mine
owners of the Boundary section of
British Columbia, who are to well
come me and to offer properties.
either on lease or under bond. or
on shares. In fact, our company
can have all the properties it
wants ON almost any reasonable
terms We choose to dictate, for
these people believe that we are on
the road to success, and that we
know how to succeed with what
We have undertaken. Our pay roll
here for the present month is over
$4,000. and our new offices at Cur
Lew are filled from morning until
late at might with men transacting
business with our company. The
at our Offices in MINNEAPOLIS
Further Developments at the Ket-
tle-Curlew mines demonstrates
that my theories were correct, that
the second or 125 foot drift was on
top of the ledge instead of below
1T, and that the miners were work.
ing away from it Instead Of to-
wards It, This came about be-
cause where the Tornado shaft is
GiJ11l{ ic 20 sYlf i,a
When the crosS-cut was made to-
ward the ore it was made through
break. and when they turned to
the right to drift to catch the ledge
they were going with It instead of
across it. When we began the new
WINE Saturday. before referred to.
where we struck rich ore. we at
the same time turned in the lower
drift toward a point almost d.
rectly under the winze. and at
o'clock this afternoon the miners
round themselves breaking through
the hanging wall 125 feet below the
surface and will undoubtedly have
the ledge aeain at that depth by
tomorrow afternoon.
These developments and discov-
cries give us III the Kettle-CurleW
mines more ore than we can raise
to the surface in 500 years. The
Il
by the assays herewith subdated.
Complete reports from the en-
gineers in veriffcation Of these dis
patches will be included in nv full
report to be issued about Nav s
from Minneapolis. We struck rich
ore this morning in the open cut
which was begun Sunday morning
at the junction of the two lodges
near the border line between the
Tornado and keystone claim, AID
the work thus far done shows that
we are on the main.ledge where it
Joins the smaller ledge, and uuon
the latter all previous work has
been done. The main ledge is about
fifty feet wide as near as I can
now tell. The ore is much darker
and carries more copper. 1t will
In copper. gold and silver. with
copper predominating I have sent
samples of this ore to the assayer.
and will include the result in my
bulletin on Thursday, the 18th.
Upon the advice Of the engineer
I let d contract today on my new
discovery on the -Curlew
mines for sinking thirty feet on the
main ledge and prosecuting fifty
feet on the entire ledge, which will
give us eighty feet. The work is to
of $1,000 so you must send along
your money quick. 1 am making
contracts at the rate of $1,000 a
day Let the money roll in.
This settles the whole question of
the value of the Kettle-Curlew
mines. They are the richest and
most nexhaustible of any mines
within 800 miles of this point, and
this will be fully demonstrated as
fho work nrOCpp0S
Upon the reports Of the engineer
with me. we are continuing the
work and increasing the forces on
the "Minneapolis" group and the
Chapel claim recently bought. We
will examine the Violet tomorrow
or next day. I have thrown up
some claims, and in disseminating
work on them / do not wish to be
understood as condemning them.
They are fairly good properties,
but under the circumstances l
would be failing in my duty, which
is plain, not to concentrate all our
energies and capital on these very
rich and ineXhausttble properties,
where we are no longer in doubt
as to values.
/ received the assays of the ore
samples taken from the new Wine
in the upper drift of the Kettle
Curley mines today at 4 o'clock.
The Indian had run his horse ten
miles from Nelson in forty minutes
to catch this wire. The ASSAYS NVerc
made by j. G. Stutz, of Nelson.
The four assays show an average
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