The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-01
THE RED MOUNTAIN
CRIMINAL CASE
MANAGER FOR CHEWAWA LEAD
AND SILVER MINING AND
SMELLING COMPANY TALKS
ABOUT CASE.

Aho COMPANY, tlACu Oh appear ltOhh
the Justices court at this place in
the superior court in Wenatchee last
week, caused a number of people
from this place to go to Wenatchee
last week and attracted a great deal
of attention, says the Leavenworth
Echo. Major J. s. Chase, of Seattle,
president of the Chewawa Lead and
ISilver Mining and Smelling company,
and a large stakeholder in the Che
Ian Consolidated Mining company,
both of which companies own a num-
Der of mineral claims in the same
vicinity. stopped off here last Satur-
day on his way home from Wenat-
chez, where he attended the trail,
made the following statement to a
reporter for the Echo:
Both the Chelan Consolidated
company and the Chewawa Lead and
Silver Mining and Smelling company,
in which companies / am interested,
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bodies and endeavoring to prove to
the world that mineral exists in Che
Ian county in paying quantities. In
the last 20 years millions of dollars
have been spent in the state of Wash
ington in an effort to find mineral
in paying quantities, with the result
that today there is not a paying mine
in the state. A few years ago sew
era1 associates and myself became in
terested in the Red Mountain mining
district and have spent over 100000
in building roads to a district where
was formerly only trail, and in min
ing machinery and development
work. The Chelan Consolidated COM
pany and the Chewawa company, of
which I am president, were prepared
to go on with work which if it
proved successful, would mean much
to the mining interests, not only of
Chelan county, but the entire state,
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hold up the Chewawa company has
put a stop to all mining development
in the Red Mountain district.
ITO put the matter in form so that
the readers of the Echo will under
stand the matter I will state briefly,
that the Chewawa Lead and Silver
Mining and Smelling company, by To-
cation and purchase secured num-
Der of mineral claims in the Red
Mountain district Last year the COM
pany sent men and machinery up to
the property and began driving a tun-
mel On the ore body of one of it's
claims for the purpose of discovering
whether at great depth the ore con-
tanned gold, silver or copper in guam
titles that would pay a profit on min
ing it. The tunnel has been driven
425 feet at considerable cost to the
company A short time ago samples
were taken to an assayer for the pur-
pose of securing test, with the re-
suit that several of the samples did
not show any value at all, one or
two showed a trace of gold and one
carried a gold value of slightly over
81 to the ton. This was not en-
couraging. but the company intended
to go on with the work in the hope
that it would grow richer when
greater depth was reached The
waste from the tunnel was dumped
on land which has no mineral value
according to the judgment of min
ing men. but was intended to be
used for a mill site. Through an
oversight the company neglected to
secure control of this particular
ground. as it had a right to do for
a mill site or dumping ground. The
ground has been filed on under the
mineral laws as mineral claim and
some work done to hold it. Our SUI
perintendent, J. E. Praul, was arrest
ed last fall for trespass on the COM
plant of j. c. Davis, who with DR..
Shore and man by the name of
Ledgerwood, claim the ground Be-
lieving the contention that it was
possible to hold the ground as min
ing claim under the mineral act was
absurd the case against Praul was
practically allowed to go by default.
To show the absurc1ty of holding it
as mineral claim I will say that an
old cabin bnilt years ago by the LIE
Roy Mining company, which is now
fallen into decay, is located On the
ground and has been used in common
by every one who has ever found it
convenient as stopping place when
in that vicinity.
The Chewawa Lead and Silver
Mining and Smelling company, while