The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-04-19
CHELAN CON. COPPER co.
Active Development Work Going On
Night and Day
GREATEST COPPER MINE IN THE WORLD
Rich Strike Recently Made in the Big Tunnel
Trying to Keep it Quiet-News
Leaks and Causes Talk.
GREATEST COPPER MINE IN THE WORLI

months in driving tunnel on a group
of claims belonging to the Lamb-Davis
Lumber Co. returned from the Red
Mountain mining district last Thursday,
with them also returned Dave Leger
wood who has been employed as muck
er in the tunnel which the Chelan Con-
solidated Copper Co. has been engaged
on since the latter part of last summer.
While none of the men will talk free
ly, and possibly some of them do not
know much of what is going on, we
learned enough to confirm a report that
reached here some time ago of rich
strike made on the Chelan Consolidated
Copper Co.'S. property.
The tunnel is in something over six
hundred feet and had already cut three
veins of ore. The last is an eight foot
vein of sulphide which assays show to
be very rich. One of the veins pre-
viously encountered approximated fifty
feet but was not of as high grade ore
as the latter.
The Chelan Consolidated Copper
Company was organized over year ago
and is capitalized at $12,000,000. Its
principal Office is Leavenworth. The
paomoters and stockholders are princi-
pally New Workers and embrace num-
Der of prominent, well known and re-
sponsible capitalists. The company
owns some 80 very rich claims in the
Red Mountain mining district. Since
acquiring the property over one hun
dred thousand dollars have been spent
on the property. The driving OF
tunnel-not a little prospect hole bare
ly large enough for man to stand and
turn around in, but working tunnel,
eight feet wide and eight feet high,
distance of 5000 feet, is now under
way.
An air compressor was bought and
shipped to this point the latter part of
last summer. 1t was hauled to within
fifteen miles of the mine but the road
not being completed it had to be
abandoned. The compressor and a
sawmill outfit, both of which were last
fall taken as near the mines as wagons
could go, will, in a short time, be put
to work. The compressor will be used
in the tunnel which is already over 900
feet into the mountain, and the saw
mill to make lumber for buildings to
house the men and machinery.
The stock of this company has not
been hawked about. So far as we
know not a dollars worth of it has ever
been offered for sale. The owners Of
the property believe they have a good
thing and are abundantly able to fin
ance their scheme.
Some SIS, 900 was spent by the
company last fall and winter in building
a road to connect with the Red Noun
tain state road. From eighteen to
twenty men have been constantly en-
ployed in the tunnel for the past six
months, using hand drills, working in
eight hour shifts. The rock encoun-
tered is very hard, but considering the
size, the progress made is said to be
very satisfactory.
A line of standard gauge railroad,
some thirty-fve or forty miles long,
from the mines to connection with
the Great Northern railway has practic-
ally been decided on. Col. Woodland,
an old railroad builder, the local repre-
sentative of the company, has made
numerous preliminary trips over the
proposed route and declares that no
serious natural obstacle stand in the
way OF such road.
AS stated above, already three or
more veins have been cross cut, the
last one very rich, the bearing of the
tunnel will be continued to 5000 feet,
to strike vein of copper boring ore
that shows on the surface to be in the
neighborhood of hundred feet wide
and several miles long.