The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-04-28
RICH ORE FOUND
ON IRON HORSE
Big Showing OF Minerals Made by
Work on Consolidated Metal Mini
ing Co.'S. Claims.

| AS far back as the memory of the
oldest inhabitant runneth mining has
! been conducted with more or less ac-
| tvity in northern Okanogan county,
| TOO often with little regard as to how
mining should be done, and with the
natural consequence with less re-
suits than the public had every reas-
| on to expect. 1t has been the dream
of us who have watched efforts made
to evolve producing and paying
mine from the attractive shOwings in
this locality that eventually mining
would be done upon the practical sys-
tenn that has made producing and
paying mines in other districts where
fortunes have been digged out Of the
| harmless earth and Okanogan cOun-
| ty could boast of paying producer.
| The evidence Of mineral m this To-
eality is too pronounced and con-
| vincing to leave doubt that mining
can be profitably conducted and the
| time will come when the hope that
| has been somewhat dimmed by pass
ng years will be realized
At the present time there are sew
eral properties being worked within
a few miles of Orovile that give most
encouraging promise of demonstrating
the value of the mineral deposits
Ihereabouts. Just across an imaginary
line, in British Columbia, where the
formation is similar in every respect
to that on this side of the line, as it is
merely prolongation- of the noun
taneous range that stretches across
the international boundary as God
put it there when he said let there
be a armament in the midst of the
waters, there are operating and pay
ing mines, and few better paying
mines than the Nickel Plate and the
Horn Silver. If mineral is over there,
at points hugging the boundary line
on the north it stands to reason that
It is over here where the land hugs
the boundary line on the south. And
that is what operators on this side
of the line are now endeavoring to
demonstrate.
Along that same ridge of hills that
shoot up in places to the dignity OF
mountains on this side Of the line
and in the same mineral belt or zone
companies are carrying on develop
ment with most encouraging show
ings, and it is given to none to make
better showings than are to be OBJ
served on the Iron Horse group. con-
sisting of six full claims, 500 by 1,5OO
feet, now under exploitation under
the direct charge of John NJ. Went
worth, one of the oldest and best
known miners and mine operators in
north central Washington. and owned
by the Consolidated Metal Mining
company, which constitutes only a
fraction of the mining claims held by
he company but which alone we have
to do with in this article:
The Iron Horse group is located
high up on the mountain side on the
west shore of Wancut lake. and Il
" property ever was thoroughly pros
pected in order to test the true char.
acter of the ground that property is
the Iron Horse. This is not new dis
covery but an old property that has
but recently undergone resurrection
and pity tbs that it has been permit
ted to remain idle all these years, as
|, its proper development might hav'
proved this district to be a valuable
, mining field long ago 1t remained fol
. Mr.. Wentworth to discover its import
ance as a most promising prospect
: and subsequently to prove by ex
tensive investigation that it is tn,
, making of mine.
, Nature has placed the groupings, in
dicative of deeper deposits, in mos
: advantageous position The mountain
: where the original discovery wa'
made is quite percipitous, and Their
: are few ore bodies that could be open
ed up with a working adit at less ex
2 pense or more expeditiously. Alread
a prospecting tunnel driven but 8
t feet has encountered the ore at Yer
' tical depth of 80 feet and 80 feet NOR
a will put that tunnel under the roo
t of the cropping at depth of IL