The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1934-12-19
Cheaper Power
Will Aid Mining
Work In Nespelem District Will
Be Made Profitable, Dr..
Hudnutt Says
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Azurite mine is being appraised by
the Guggenheim people, now in con-
trcl of it, at 100 million. This mine,
in the Cascades is largely gold but
carries silver also. There are many
claims owned by this company and
they figure on a large amount of
development work and many years
of production. This country, until
comparatively recent date was al
most unheard of as mineral pro-
Queer.
In 1909, after getting things
started in Nespelem, took a trip
to the newly discovered camp called
Metaline on the Pend Orielle riv-
err. I secured, at Newport, the SER
vices OF a returned miner from the
Klondyke, Mr.. Everett. He was a
hardy, strong, fearless man and
knew all the ropes. We secured a
rowboat and tied it to the stern of
the boat Captain Cusick was run
ming to the Falls near the new
camp. Upon arriving, we hid the
boat in some willows and took our
packs and started out. Now I did
not have a heavy LOAD but I was
not used to being my own pack
horse. It only weighed about 40
pounds and seemed light when we
started up Flume creek. 1t only
weighed 40 pounds, but walking logs,
climbing over down timber, smash
ing through brush seemed to add
a pound or two every mile.
Look For Placer
We arrived finally at mountain
that looked as big as Rainier. Ever
EFT said, s'That mountain has plenty
of bald faced grizzly bears on it, I
said, Il haven't lost any. Let's
turn back We did, shot a deer
and made dinner Then we ex-
amined every stream for placer and
all the rock. There was no gold
and the formation appeared the
same, blue lime, a treacherous for
nation. After looking over the
country decided it was no good.
There were only eight men in the
camp. They would find lead ore,
put in a few shots and open up
what looked like a bonanza and the
next day shoot it all out. "Blue
lime is N. Co.," said T. We finally
wen to our hidden boat at 6 p. m.
one day and roWed upstream until
9 o'clock, made camp, got up at
$3.50 a. m. next morning, made cof-
fee and rowed until 9, went ashore
and got breakfast, mostly venison,
then started up again. We kept it
up until II o'clock that night and
drew up alongside Capt. Cusick's
boat.
The captain put us in vacant
cabin nearby with spring mattress
and said he would call us before
the boat started for Newport. We
had no trouble with insomnia that
night and at 6 a. m. we were aboard
and arrived at Newport OK.
In Metaline District
I had, at this time, an office with
two mining engineers, both very
prominent. I asked one of them
what he thought of Metaline camp.
He said, There isn't mine in that
blue lime and never will be-" So
came back to Nespelem, better sat
isfied with the country.
Now what has happened at Metal
inc in "a years. Men formed COM
panies and worked. Nearly all
failed. Then they used diamond
drills and found that the lime was
a wall, that the real mineral veins
were blanket leads, like Leadville,
Colorado and they found perman-
ent ore bodies. In the past year or
two, one mine at Metaline Falls has
produced two and one-half million
dollars worth of zinc, lead and sill
yer. 1t is wonderful lead and zinc /
country. 1t now mas both railroad |
and river transportation
Nespelem has neither at present,
but with good roads and truck
neither one counts
in the development of the Nespelem
mines.
Predicts Bright Future
E. F. Banker, director of Con-
servation and Development at a
meeting of the Washington Associ-
alton of Natural Resources recent
ly said, "The power possibilities of
the Columbia river are exceeded by
only two rivers in the World, the
Congo in Africa and the Maranon,
a tributary OF the Amazon. "a
light metal age is coming. he pre-
dicted. The greatest fortunes in
the state will be made in mining.
He said, "The development of the
Grand Coulee dam would mean de-
velopment of the mineral resources
which are now valueless."
The ores of Nespelem are per-
haps as rich or richer than any
other camp in Washington, but
when the cost per ton is near $50
for mining, transportation and
smelling it is evident to all that it
has to be bonanza to pay out.
Power Will Aid Nespelem
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