The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-12-31
GREAT STRIKE AT THE IVANHOE
Twelve Foot Ledge of High Grade cad Ore Cut
At Verticle Depth of Two Thousand Feet the
Greatest Depth Ore Has Ever Been
Struck In the Entire Northwest

me securing of the irrigation svstem
~ tp .nis part OF Okanogan county during
tn i sSar 1910 was sufficient unto itself
" iiiahe the year one OF the most propit-
ious since the country was first Settled
put tne securing of that great system has
ueen ,He ~ hio,iioWed during the very last days of
.lie oiu year by fortunate discovery far
more 1ar-reaching in Importance i'm many
respects than the watering of the VALLEY
lands, and that is the marvellous expos
III the lvanhoe mine.
us chief importance rests in the fact
,hat the strike demonstrates beyond all
room Ior doubt or question that mineral
IN large quantities and of paying value
exists in the adjacent hills it goes to
snow II conducted properly that mining
can be made a profitable industry in this
country 1t means the renewal of interest
IN mining In district that has been too
long neglected, and with that revival a
resumption of development on larger
ana more systematic scale than has ever
before been attempted. 1t insures the
early beginning of great activity in min
ing with the certain result of more paw
ing mines.
Without eXaggeration the strike in the
lVanhoe is one of the greatest and most
important that has ever been made in the
northwest, barring no district. 1t is the
elimination of plans carefully laid out
when ground was first broken for the
that should, and will, attract the atten-
tion of the entire country.
Last week A. W. Boyd. who has had
charge of the underground work as sup
erntendent since the tunnel was first
started. was in Oroville. and he had
samples of ore that had been uncovered
by the last round of shots fired just before
he left the mine This ore was similar in
its general character to the ore in the
old shaft, from which pay ore was eX-
tracted twenty years ago, only richer. The
ore was In the nature OF strongly mineral :
lied quartz. carrying native silver, and
was the richest silver-lead ore ever seen
in Okanogan county.
That blast made the Ivanhoe a mine,
for 1t broke into a ledge that has since
proved to be twelve feet wide. between
perfectly defined walls.
That ledge is not all the ore uncovered.
For several days the miners have been
least to be forty feet in width, Judging
from appearances.
The working adit on the Ivanhoe is in
the mountain approximately a mile -, to
where this ledge was encountered. The
aim in starting the tunnel was TO reacn
the ledge upon which the discovery shaft
was sunk. When the tunnel reached a
point that by measurements showed II TO
be about under the shaft cross-cut was
started and that crosscut reached the
ore. +, ~, ,o,.,r,
"A body has been made at a greater depth,
2 900 feet than any ore body that has ever
been cut in the Occur d'Alenes, the great
est slver-lead ore district in the whole
country. FurtneTTnOTe, tile NtiucS ~ ~
ore are much higher than that taken
from any of the Occur dAlene mines
which have produced millions OF ,,ii,, d2maD .
to the owners, and will produce mlinohs
more. ...o, u,ot
this strike is one of the most wonderiul
that has been made in the west. II selues
FOR ali time the mooted question as to
Okanogan lodges going to depth. 1t will
forever silence those who have lost no o,2 1p-
portunity to deprecate and deride Okar OK a.
once and for all the reputation of north -
ern Okanogan county as mining
trict where effort properly. applied in the
opening up of mining, claims VIII repay
the operator many. fold. .,.,o hoe
TO the editor Of the Gazette, who 10, mas tias
never lost faith in the mining possibllltles
of the country, during the G eighteen @ If yfrps fre
,uent failure through maladministration