The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-09-26
STRUCK GREAT ORE.

Messrs Atkins & Grant who are con-
Quoting mining operations near
INighthawk are saying little and saw
ing wood. Here is mine in active op-
Ieration and mill grinding on ore OF
which little is heard, and yet the de-
velopment is going to aid conspicuous
~ iL bringing the mining interests of
this locality to the front. The gentle
men mentioned secured the group of
claims about mile west of Night
hawk OF which the old No. 1 was the
key, and which has been rechristened
the Alice. They went quietly to work
prospecting the Alice and also push
ing investigation upon other claims In
the group. Last winter and spring a
Imi)l was installed on the Shamrock
IclaIm and that mill is now busy pound
ing out concentrates. The first car
load of concentrates will be shipped
to smelter in Utah about the 5th of
next month There is an excellent
showing of ore on the Shamrock, but
the great strike that is destined to
make the Atkins & Grant holdings a
~
lattract outside attention to the min
eral possibilities of north Okanogan
county, was recently made on the
Alice. The operators have been sinking
a shaft on the Alice and at the depth
iOf 80 feet have opened up seven foot
ledge of what is pronounced to be the
finest ore carrying silver copper and
Head that has ever been encountered in
the northwest. This statement is made
on the statement of an old experienced
miner working at the mine who is
familiar with about all the real mines
that have been opened up in this state
and in Idaho. The ledge is sal dto be
solid mineral, running high in the
metals mentioned. Messrs. Atkins &
Grant, who are old hands at this min
ling game, are naturally highly elated
over the strike, which is a result they
had reason to expect from the charac-
ter of the ore and general formation
near the surface. The strike is for
Itunate one at this time, when interest
has commenced reviving in mining in
a district that has been so long neg
llected, and will undoubtedly arouse
new interest in northern Okanogan
properties.
The strike will hardly be surprise
Ito those who have a knowledge of the
workings of the No. when that claim
Twas first prospected nearly twenty
lyears ago, and the one feature to be
Isurprised over is that those who first
located and carried on perfunctory
work on the claim did not go ahead
| and thoroughly prospect the ground.
From the very grass roots excellent
Iore was in sight, and the shallow shaft
lhaldly more than an open cut, in
which the ore was exposed, represent
ed all the work that was done by the
original locators in the way of devel-
opment. Such an exposure Of ore in
lany other mining district in the land
would have been followed by extensive
the No. at that time had other and
mere important irons in the fire, and
Iso neglected the one claim that could
have been the most speedily brought
|up to the standard of producer. OF
course in those days, with transporta-
ton so remote, there was not the en-
couragement that there is at the pres
ent time to push mining, but if the
ore just cut could have been opened
up even so long ago as twenty years
| il would have stimulated operations,
kept up the spirit of mining men and
! pl evented the long period of inactiv-
Iity that marked the decline in this
locality, interest in which is fast re-
living.