The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-02-24
ROYAL DEVELOPMENT CO.
TO MAKE lEAVFNW0RTH
BIG INDUSTRIAL CENTER
MOUNTAINS OF ORE, SOME OF
1T MARVELOUSLY RICH IN
SILVER AND GOLD, OWNED BY
ROYAL COMPANY.

That Leavenworth will within a
year or so begin to benefit greatly
through operations of the Royal De.
velopment Comply at its Red Noun
tain properties is made cleare.
through recently published facts.
This company publishes (once in "a
while) little paper called The Royal
list, as it says, ''to give the news from
Camp Goulden - Royal Mountain
Mining District - Chelan County,
Washington" The paper is edited by
zone of the old Sour Dough- pioneers
who has devoted most of his life to
building up The Great, Great West"
The most recent number of this pa
per recently reached the desk of the
Echo editor and has been read with
great interest.
First we find THE Summers Eco
nomic Survey" referring tc the work
Of last summer. This contains as
says made, some forty in number.
The company has very large holdings
on and around Royal and Red noun
tains, having purchased an area of
some four hundred acres last year
from 0. A. Nuetzel and John Smith.
The country is rich in lead and cop
per and also shows many splendid
samples of gold and silver. We quote
from some of tho ASSAYS:
"No. /. North hole lead mine.
Gold 40c; silver, S1.00.
"No. .. "Capping.' About 800
feet from lead mine. Width so feet.
Gold, $500; silver 90c.
"No.3. South hole lead mine Gold,
60c; silver, $3.50.
''No A. Lead mine outcrop. Gold,
soc; silver, $3.50.
No. s. Vein 6 feet wide Rich
streak IA inches. Gold, Soc; silver,
$53.20; lead, $3.50; copper 4fo.
No ~. Ole's own sample. Large,
from glacier. Gold, 40c; silver
$4,000; lead, $3.50; copper, SLIPS. >
A sample which was marked "Big
Lead Mountain Monarch" but which
it appears was not fully identified as
to just where it came from, assayed
gold, $100; silver, s204.40; copper,
2.5Go-s211.4O.
Then there are what are termed
"Merchantable Ores" in the Royal-
list, one with silver running S66.S0,
another with gold $12 40, and so on.
These samples are mostly from
surface ores, much of them leached.
Samples from deeper down, it is ex-
pected, will show better.
A great tunnel is projected work
on it having begun last year. This
tunnel, known as Trir ity Tunnel, will
be when completed, $4,000 feet in
length-or seven and one-ffth miles.
1t will traverse the Royal Mountain
from the junction of Phelps Creek and
the Chiwawa River northward until it
passes under RedMountain proper and
the Spider and Lyman Glaciers, inter
secting the Great Mother Lode south
of the st. Francis cross-section tun-
mel and will follow tte Mother Lode
to and under the glaciers. 1t will be
J. 2 feet in width and feet high above
the rails and double-tracke with %
inch guage. Power will be generated
at the portal, where it is waiting to be
harnessed. This tunnel will enable
the company to economically work
through the whole of the two noun.
tains and under the glacier and as the
portal will be lower than the trackage
within the loaded cars will come down
without the use If much power And
work can go on, summer and winter
without danger of snowslides. The
tunnel will drain the area within.
Eventually a concentrating mill OF
ten thousand tons capacity per day
will be constructed at the portal. This
will he constructed in sections of 9
thousand tons per day.
A reduction and refining plant, il i,
planned, will be constructed seventeen
miles this side of the portal, or OF
the Andy Abbott place. purchase
Somc years ago by the company, an.
railroad will connect the two points
This lower station will be known a,
st. AIMS.
Editorially, Mr. Phillip Lonergar
says that he will not live long enougl
to see the tunnel and plant fully com
pleted, but. God willing. he expects t,
see the first section completed an
milling a thousand tons of ore a day
and perhaps see the second and thirl
sections running.
II is planned to open a permanen
camp this spring at the portal of tn
Trinity tunnel and. il is stated. al
time 1000 men will call il home
There is plenty of timber and groun
to construct all homes and othe