| Show washington J NV douglas one of the owners or the copper king property at chewelah Chew elah states that the company has about 2000 tons of ore broken and stored stor ed in the mine and that shipping to the railroad is to be done as rapidly as possible this is the opening of a campaign of development work by the king mining company which has succeeded the copper king company considerable opposition to the selection of seattle as the location of the proposed federal mining experiment station for the northwest has developed spokane leading the fight against that city the protests are based on the contention that seattle is not the logical site for the station in that it is remote from all the producing metal mining regions of the northwest ana kaat if the plant is located there it will defeat the governments purpose in establishing it different points in the intermountain region have been suggested as a site for the experimental peri mental plant there is a tendency to unite on any place that will be satisfactory to the majority spokane is advanced as a candidate for the station under the plea that it is the financial mining and transportation por tation center of one of the greatest mineral areas areas in the united states and that the station should be located at a point convenient to the mines |
