The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-07-28
PPEARs TO Be
A PAYING MINE
= High Grade Concentrates ship
:, from Pyrarygrite to Smelter
Nets $l0,70O.

g1,t week the Dempster boys, who
4. ouerating the Pyrarygerite mine
IL Similkameen valley, better
l.Avn as the old Ruby, shipped car
q ~ d concentrates that netted over
crying and smelter charges $1,000,
Il y nat at least is the word reaching
~ office from reliable sources. 1t is
/ 81 10 be supposed that all the ship
~.nh from that mine of ore and con-
intntes, of which there have been
\ ny since the Dempsters took charge
telds the same returns, for such is
,4 the case, but the returns have been
~ nature to encourage the opera
~ and give the pleasant and pleas
" impression that at last the Pyrary-
f1fite has reached the point in the
liter Of development and extraction
7 ora where 1t may be classed as a
nyhg producer, and that production
- be expected to continue indefi-
nisly. II
Experience and experiment has dem
HD(rated that there are some three
Sudes Of concentrates now being pro-
&ced at the mill, and while the last
2ipment bringing in the heavy re-
iirrs was from the higher grade. the
Ier two carries sufficient values to
InYs profit to the operators. Those
4 tharge have been giving OF. 10y
I1ils to the public as to the nature of
8e work under way. the amount of
- and concentrates shipped or the
Mount received therefrom. That is
III business, and they are under no
3llutions to give out reports to
Mrs. than those who are directly
tsrested In the mine.
The result of the late shipment of
~ grade concentrates came to this
Nee through other channels than
lloos In charge Of the mine, and it is
4 such Importance to the town and
tuu(ry that we feel justified in maxi
hg note Of the excellent showing, not
MY because it will encourage others
'Nith partially developed properties
)o1cNed activity, but it goes far
Svad restoring the confidence OF
0osewho have been disappointed for
ysars IN the manner, and method EN-
ployed In working claims along this
l'ds Of the border line. The ore itself
lnd the returns therefrom is convinc-
|ns evidence that there is mineral in
~ hills, mineral of a paying quality,
ne quantity to be determined by those
NO may 60 after 1t in the mannc-
lollowed by experienced miners in
pmer districts where mining has been
made paying industry.
There Is nothing that could give the
|ublisher Of the Gazette greater pleas
re than to be able to point out mine
: northern Okanogan county as a reg
llar producer and paying dividends to
nose stockholders who had enough
onndeace In the country to chance
nelr money in an enterprise of the
IND. We have seen so many bright.
'eslnnings to finally peter out in abb
ect failures that after twenty-five
ears OF disappointment our hope had
'scome somewhat groggy. These dis
polntments have grown out of the
!ay mining operations have been car
lsa on that could hardly fail to lead
y 70 failure, although confidence in
ne mineral being here under the
'Iound has never been shaken. While
eeilng that mines would be made
one Gay, we had lost hope of living
Jug enough to see that desired object
onsummated. If the cid Ruby, the
pening up Of which we have watched
'nce the first work was done upon it
quarter Of century ago, proves to
Z tne first of the many prospects in
ne surrounding country to make a
= mine it will surely be a source
! sratification beyond power to ex-
sess in words.