Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1922-04-14
Mine INDUSTRY
FEELS REVIVAL
Better Prices, New Developments
Indicate General I'm
proVement.

Changes in the business world for
the better, are nowhere more marked
than in the mining industry, which is
one OF the greater resources of the
northwest states.
The great mines OF Montana and the
Occur d Alenes, SO long shlu down, are
again running on at least part time,
since the first of the year, markets and
prices are better, and new develop
ments may be expected IN the vast ter
ritories that have as yet been hardly
scratched by the prospector. In the
great northwest there remains in the
bosom of Mother Earth great boards
of precious metal, yet to be discpv
cred and turned To the use OF man.
Each day OF the new year that passes
brings news OF developments and dis
coveries that promise well for the inn
mediate future. Cheering word from
the mining camps, especially from
Butte, which has been the center of
labor troubles in the past, brought
, about by un-American agitators. is
that hereafter only good American cit
liens will be employed in the indus
try; the signing on of men has been
$ systematized and none are taken UNI
, less they have record of good citizen
: ship behind them.
! Interesting developments are noted
! in the Orient district in Stevens ooun-
e ty This district was developed with
, the opening of the Colville reservation
J. some twenty years ago, prior to which
d time some prospecting had been done,
:. Explorers had been attracted I'd the
8 reservation by Red Mountain discov-
Y cries, OH the other side of the line,
II and by the sale of the lie Roi mine to
English capitalists for $4,000, 900.
Is Many locations were made along the
n line on both sides.
n Development Goes Back 20 We rs.
During the last twenty years much
money has been spent in developing
the district which has done only a
comparatively small amount of ship
ping during that period. 1t is reported
that the Galena Hill property had
spent $150,000 during that time; it has
recently broken into a real body of ore
and will soon begin shipping. The Old
Abe Lincoln will commence shipping
= in the spring, according to reports;
q the Montana and Washington will
81 erect stamp mill as soon as the
s weather permits, and other properties
:8 show signs of early activities.
"a Butte and Washington Properties
~ Interesting.
ri Ono of the most Interesting nronpr
M ties in the district is that of the Butte
and Washington. of which Col Fleet
"a wood Ward OF Colville. owns control
and is president These claims lie
on the east side of the Kettle river
ana run up the side and over the tops
81 of the mountains, and have been quite
III difficult to prospect. They We're pur
~ chased by Col. Ward from prospectors
some q years ago, and since that tim'
~ have been worked almost constantly
s many prospectors would have been dis
couraged but not so in this case, an,
it seems as though perseverance hat
conquered, for last October a real or
body was found in place by miners
al The property has continually bee
Ss most promising. Regarding its histor
Col. Ward says: Some years ago W
ZION commenced stripping the surface
O's where we found the white carbonite
which took the premium at the Yuko
,o,. exposition at Seattle. We seemed
arts be unable 10 1oliow the SUI Up. Nv
fur years ago, wheh mining engineers sen
Oh. out by Seattle parties made tho
no ough examination of the propert.
TO they looked at this work and said
of had any money to gamble with
to might spend little more. We trie
again and failed. At this time wa
that thoroughly discouraged, having speI
,uds 30 years time and more than $1,000
ores of the companys money, without fin
as ing pay ore. Last summer a friend ,
arg mine, who is now working d lease c
the Last Chance, told me that in a
near his experience he had new er know
If white carbonites to lay on the surfat
put without finding big ore body unde
ould meath In October, got Thomas keyt
and and w r. Ward. two of the best mi
ids ers in the camp, to go up with me al
and make one more effort TO find the o.
love, body: we started just where we lie
so off and in one hour had broken in
mp the ore. There was about eight inch
,sen, of ore where we first found it, and v
the have driven ahead II feet and ha'
now five feet of ore clear across Il
" is breast of the tunnel; everything shoy
/, or that we have a permanent ledge
100 place"
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