The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-08-03
FIND NEW MINERAL.
Two OkanogaD Wen strike IL Rich
Anthony Proves 20 DeVaIuable


Two Okanogan Wen Strike IL Rich .
Anthony Proves 20 beVaIuable
Billy Ingham who for thirteen years
carried a mail sack for Uncle Sam in
Seattle is accdently rich. He woke up |
one morning to find that what he had
decided was a swindle as a farming
proposition, was an antimony mine
worth hundreds of thousands If not
millions.
With a record of disappointments and
hard luck that would discourage even
the worst of pessimists, Ingham has
finally landed on easy street with the
best mineral proposition that has
proven out in Okanogan county's min
ing history He has anthony almost
in pure form and his first shipment OF
twenty tons has netted him after pay
ing twenty dollars a ton for freight by
river and rail over $4,000. There is
plenty of the ore-loads OF it, The
dump. which was not considered OF any
value by the finder has recently been
assayed and runs 81 per cent antlmony
When Ingham first came to Okla
hogan county, hedecided to be ranch
err He did not know anything about
ranching, but be had been through
saddening experience in Seattle with
patent beer faucet that had promised
riches but had ended in froth. The
simple life appealed to Inghum and he
purchased a REIMBURSEMENT on cayuse
mountain near white stone. 1t was
tine farm for rocks but nothing else
would grow, and Ingham decided
one season of farming that he had mis-
taken his vocation.
One day he was out repairing the
fences that the cattle had destroyed,
and IN a fit of rage at the numerous
rocks that blocked his post hole work
he smote one with his hammer. The
rock fell apart and showed a streak OF
silvery looking metal running it. In.
CHAM believed he had found silver and
hurried with his sample to Loomis,
where his story and his ore were re-
ceiyed by the miners of the camp with
hilarity.
Ingham was not to be discouraged an
had an assaymade OF some of his rock
by Seattle assayer who reported the
metal as molybdenum. There was any
amount of the ore on the hill and In
l. -, Whit
cher and these two staked out claims
wherever they found the metal. The
miners were still laughing.at the young
men who they believed were working
on valueless ledge of graphite.
The next disappointment for lngham
came with the returns from samples
sent Spokane and Los Angeles assayer
These reported that the metal was not
molly bdenum but anthony and am
, was an unknown quantity in Okanogan
county mining. 1t was necessary to
find out all about anthony what it Is
good for and where the market
The results of investigation were en-
couraging AS an alloy for soft metals
particularly lead in the manufacture Of
type metal, anthony plays heavy
part in the commercial world and there
is strong demand for it. The market
has been supplied principally from
} Japan, but the output has not kept up
with the demand and the price has
risen to 20 cents pound or $3.50 ton.
In opening up the deposit lugham and
Whitcher both without a particle OF
mining experience, took only the metal
that looked to them as the purest and
threw on the dump ore which ranged
even higher in value than some that
they shipped They sacked up
and freighted to Riverside a little
over twenty tons OF the metal and
shipped it to dealer in New York.
1t had been all outlay with nothing
coming in up to this time. But the
news had gone out of the value OF the
find and the owners had plenty of Of
fers of financial assistance. The metal
ore is so easily reducible by smelling
that wood burning furnace can be
put in to handle the ore at an expense
of but a few thousand dollars. This
will cut out large part of the expense
of transportation, and the coming of
the railroad up the river will put the
mine within few miles of the freight
cars. The mining men who laughed
at the first news of the strike are now
trying to locate something like it and
many prospectOrs are out with anti
mony in their minds eye in the Cayuse
! Whltestone and Palmer mountains
Okanogan Record.
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