The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1914-12-12

That Stevens county is ABOUT W
come into her own as a section to
draw the eyes of the mining
world. was attested this week
\ hen returns were received from
t1e Spokane assayer on samples
elected at random from six claims
owned by the Inland Marble Quar-
ries Co. in Deep creek, northeast
Of Colville.
W. II. Rathbun, mining engln-
eer, who has been III charge OF
prospecting work in a number OF
places in this county during the
last six months, had stated to a
few people that he was on track
of mineral shoWings in the COM
pany's properties, and adjacent
thereto, and had quietly acquired
considerable land. For time he
had a big force of men at work on
the various properties, uncover
ing lodges, making drillings, and
doing general prospecting, under
his personal supervision, and had
two mining engineers from Spo-
kane visit the properties before
any information was given out.
But upon the return of the assay
er's report, the statement was
made that silver, zinc and lead in
large quantities were the minerals
sought in the various properties,
and, the following assays from SIX
different claims are made public:
l. Zinc GOT per cent, $602O tom.
2. Nickel IL per cent, $3.50 ton.
3. Zinc Is per cent, $15 ton.
4. Lead 81 per cent, silver ITO
ounces, $90.77 ton.
5. Zinc 2.9 per cent, lead 76 per
cent, $53.62 ton.
6. Silver $328.20 ton.
The placer and mineral deposits
are in 25 and 26-39-40, and were
discovered by Mr.. Rathbun, the
mining engineer and promoter
formerly of the Port Arthur On
tario Co. Ostensibly the search
was for marble, and upon the To-
cation and purchase Of the marble
properties, company was organ
lied for the production Of the
marble, which is declared to be Of
the finest quality obtainable any
where. This marble deposit, to-
gether with the rich mineral show
ings, will make for Stevens coun-
ty mining reputation in reality.
From development circulars re-
Gently issued by the Inland Marble
Ouarries Company, the marble in
dustry will no doubt prove to be
one of the largest industries in
operation in Stevens county. Their
holdings consist of about 800
acres located in sections % and
26, township 80, range 40, liz which
marble deposits having unlimited
quantity and of the best quality
are being opened up. Develop
ment work is going on as fast
as possible and the preliminary
work is about completed, when
active operations will begin in the
way of removing the overburden
which is very light, and the work
of quarrying the marble will be-
gin. Several new buildings have
been constructed. The material
FOR large and commodious office
building is now on the ground and
will soon be under construction.
From good authority we are in
formed that there is ready market
for this company's product and
several large orders have been re-
fused on account OF not beng
equipped and ready for shipping.
The representative OF the Mission
Marble Company Of Portland,
Oregon, recently visited the prop
erty and is very desirous Of Sc
curing "a carload at an early date.
His report conceded with other
good reports from experienced
marble men, and he considered the
texture to be equal to any marble
quarried in the United States,
Alaska, Belgium or Italy.
The company will be able to
quarry marble for about 30 l-3
per cent cheaper than other com
panies owing to natural resources
and the ideal location of their
land and marble deposits as well
as the natural water which they