Show washington NEWS NOTES special correspondence spokane wash feb 12 official announcement no is made that william ina manager nager of the germania tungsten mining company owning 2000 acres of land in stevens county washington north of spokane has closed a contract with steel manufacturers in germany for the entire output of the property most of the stockholders are residents of germany though several new york capitalists recently acquired an interest in the property and have advanced funds to keep the work under way the 40 ton mill will be enlarged and operated to its full capacity capa citi and the force will be increased to fifty men J R brown of spokane who has just returned from the property where he made an expert examination reports that more than feet of development work has been done and that a body of high grade ore has been found the ore will run high he abed and it is my opinion that it is one of the largest bodies of tungsten ore in the world the company owns the electric plant to generate power for drills and machinery also for the lighting of the entire camp the company plans to build a road to springdale ringdale Sp the nearest shipping point thus thud reducing the haul to twelve miles instead of twenty miles as at present J L harper manager of the new republic mining company operating at republic washington reports that running ground has just been encountered between levels two and three which is delaying the delivery of ore from the upper levels through the main no 3 tunnel the high grade ore is being sacked and a car shipment of this ore will go out in a few days according to general average values the carload will range close to gross value A car of the general average value of the mine reached the granby a few days ago this ore is from the lowest level an assay made by R J clonard of the new republic company from a picked sample from level no 1 ran a ton another assay made from ore taken from four cuts across a ledge edge two feet wide and awen ty five feet long on the same level ran a ton prospectors and miners from various parts of washington idaho and british columbia are students at the school of mines and assaying at the washington state college at pullman where F A thomson professor of mining is directing the course the school is equipped with an ad adequate equale plant for assaying and does a large amount of this work for prospectors the college makes no charge for teaching the mining man the only charge being for materials used in laboratory work |