The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1916-03-04
NOTES OF MINING


Electric Point mine, was here
Tuesday. Mr.. Young states that
his company has had ten miners
working all winter, and that they
have nearly 1000 tons of ore on
the dumps awaiting shipment soon
as the road is completed from the
mine three and one-half miles
down to the county road sys-
TEN. This road was surveyed
last fall, and work will begin on
construction about March 20, and
will require about month to
complete it. Shipments will be
made not later than May l.
George Stockwell is opening up
six inch streak of tungsten ore
near Bissell. While the output
is small, he has the assurance that
the vein will widen with depth.
At present they are less than 20
feet from the surface. 1t is ap-
parent that this is a continuation
of the Tungsten lode in the Deer
Trail camp.
The Laurier mine, at Laurier, is
working Is men and has shipped
10 50-ton cars of ore this winter,
some of which was treated at
Greenwood and the balance at
Grand Forks, B. c. 1t is a cop
per-silver proposition, a blanket
vein with a paystreak of 8 feet
that yields $40 per ton
Ore and fuel have commenced
to arrive at the Northport smelter
and the plant will begin opera
tionS as soon as some necessary
equipment belated by bad rail
way conditions, arrives. The
starting of the Northport smelter
will be an epochal event in Ste
vens county history.
The settlement Of the Copper
King difficulties which have been
in court during the past year, and
the consolidation of the contend
ing interests has been effected to
the satisfaction of all concerned,
so it is said. AS a result the King
Mining Co. has been organized to
hold all the properties involved,
which includes the Copper King
mine and over 400 acres of min
eral land, much of which is
patented, in the Chewelah mining
district. All litigation, it is said,
has been terminated.
SO long as our competitors own
the ships they make the rates,
they control the service and they
determine the routes. With this
power it is easy to favor their
own commerce and discriminate
against ours.-Mining and En-
gineering World.
"But little consideration is
given to sources of consumption
of various metals" says Mining
and Engineering World. "It will
be of interest to learn that the
moving picture industry consumes
an amount of silver equal to the
years production Of the state of
Nevada-approximately 15,000,-
900 ounces. There are about
10000 picture houses in the United
States, using approximately 120,-
100000 feet Of film regularly.
The average life of film is three
weeks. 1t is estimated that 49,
100000 ounces of silver per year
are used for sensitizing.'
The rise in the market price of
platinum from 500 to 1920 per
ounce has created considerable
interest in this metal which is
found associated with placer gold
in many places. Placer miners
for gold along the Columbia river
will famiiarize themselves with
a knowledge of platinum which
is believed to abound here.
The Wells Fargo mine, which
was discovered more than 80
years ago by Sergeant Wells, a
discharged soldier from Fort Spo-
kane who homesteaded and died
on Camas prairie near Springdale
some years ago, is promising
season of activity in development
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