Show washington copper cliff mining company operating properties pro pertie s in the chewelah Chew elah district will resume development work at once according to T F P wilson president associated with mr air wilson in the copper cliff are C R nestos nes tos of spokane and a number of eastern persons the development will consist of an extension of the crosscut tunnel to tap the lead on the lower levels estimated at about feet on the foot level the vein is of sufficient width to furnish at least four feet f beet of shipping ore and six to eight feet of concentrating c ore shipments of ore from the copper king mine at chewelah Chew elah to the granby smelter will commerce next week S P domer president of the copper king company having just returned from grand forks where he made arrangements to handle the output for the present the ore will be hauled on a tonnage basis and later a contract will be let mr domer stated that his company had just purchased an assaying equipment for use at the property to td be ready for operation within vi thin the next 10 days the ore comes from a drift on the foot wall side 0 of the big I 1 lead ead and from a raise from the foot level the copper king was the first property in the camp to mine and ship copper ore at a profit many thousand tons having been taken from the upper levels As more evidence of the great activity in the chewelah Chew elah copper district north of spokane articles of incorporation for the checof mining company have been filed it at olympia by john B cooke F H hunter if walton hubbard M Q 0 hunter and J anthony smith all of spokane the capitalization will be divided into shares having a par value of i 1 each the property consists of twenty acres on the west belt one and one halt miles from the liberty copper two miles from the brownlow and one mile east of the superior surface exhibits comprise 15 parallel streaks within a body traceable for 1500 feet not a few of these streaks have been found to contain copper gold and silver lying close together the streaks are believed to join in the formation of a rich shoot at depth one of them has been followed by shaft to a depth of twenty feet where it is 20 inches wide and carries chaleo pyrite according to samples exhibited here A crosscut tunnel in 86 feet is expected to pierce this and other streaks at a depth of feet in an advance of 60 feet first located twenty six years ago the property was acquired three years ago by john B cooke |