The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-08-11
ROYALIST
FOR JULY
RECEIVED

The Royalist, issued by the Royal
Development Co., for July has been
received at the Echo office and we
note from 1t the plans and hopes of
those IN charge Of this great under
taking. We reprint the following
man articles, which will be of much
interest to the readers of the Echo as
the operations of the Royal Develop
ment Co. are of especial moment to
us all-the development of great
mine here in our community being a
great factor in our commercial and
agricultural advancement:
Camp Goulden, Wash, July Is, 1922.
1t has been a slow, hard pull up to
this time, to get the roads opened so
the Royal management could get
through to the mine. The snow
slides this winter were many and ex-
tenslve, the snow running" in places
that have been imune for many years.
But the boys got through to the St.
Francis Tunnel, started the drills. and
are pounding away at this date on the
main tunnel driving westward. But
the first work done was to turn south
westward, along the west side of the
horse y driving in ore all the way
for about 100 feet, and the drift
stopped in solid body of ore twenty
feet wide, the best ore vet found in
the property. Alternate shifts are
being put in on the drift and the
main heading of the St. Francis Tun-
mel. 1t should not be long until the
two headings" intersect each other.
One heading in the ore west of the
horse" the other heading in the St.
Francis Tunnel
Promises are being made by the
L. S. Forest Service that they will
spend some money on roads and cul-
ve1ts this year.
A preliminary Camp is now being
set up at the Portal of the Trinity
Tunnel to take care of the men
Francis r. Finnegan of Buffalo, n.
y, has been appointed General Com
missary of the Royal Development
Company to take charge of all details
connected with such a department.
He deserves promotion for he has
earned it. Some Of the new boys in
Camp are from Hornell, n. Y, among
them being Eugene Stone and Geo.
Hamelman. Four ''huskies" from
Montana School of Mines, James and
Francis Naughten, Lieut. Borel and
Mccormick, will put in their time on
the Una Basin section, the silver prop
critics acquired last year, upon which
L. S. surveys are to he made this
year. The Trinity Tunnel will be
under this section some day, mile
under its apex at Nipple Mountain.
Mr. NJ. H. Gedney who has had ex-
tensive experience as foreman and
superintendent Of mines in Mexico
Alaska, Idaho, Colorado and Arizona
is now in the company's service in
charge of mine details under Jay
Lonergan, the chief engineer. Mr..
Monley, the former foreman, is en-
gagged in Montana.
A frst-class new portable saw mill
with daily capacity of ten thousand
feet has been purchased, and will be
set up and used at the St. Francis
Tunnel for about thirty days, cutting
cut the timbers and material for that
point. and then the mill will be moved
down to the Portal of the Trinity Tun-
mel, and cut up half a million feet
for immediate use at the Portal
There is also a new Planer, so, where
dressed and select lumber may be re-
Quired for house construction and
permanent buildings. the material fol
good Mission furniture, etc, can be
gotten out al minimum costs. The
management estimates costs of sawed
material laid down, at about S16.0C
a thousand feet B. NJ. A larger saw
mill will be erected in due time, the
portable" having many places where
it can be moved to, and employed
with economy.