Show NORTHWEST NEWS special correspondence high grade ore in quantity has been encountered in a joint tunnel on the property of the horseshoe basin mining and development company of spokane and the cascade gold cold and copper development company of ashland Ashlan fl ohio near lake chelan in central washington it is given out that a eighteen foot blind vein and a four teen inch stringer were opened at and feet from the portal in a crosscut cross cut tunnel driven to the main vein the depth is from to 1000 feet the main vein on the present level will be tapped at a depth of 1100 feet eight hundred and sixty feet of the tunnel is now completed the ledge stands almost perpendicular and is not less than thirty feet and in places sixty feet wide it has well defined walls there is one shoot cropping out on the surface several hundred feet in length two feet or more of clean galena ore besides several feet of concentrating ore J B weimer of salt lake city who took a bond for the laurel hill group in the elk city ida district last summer has started a crew at work the property consists of two patented and two claims two crosscut cross cut tunnels tapping the lead at depth exposed considerable rich ore including hematite the claims were located by jake prichard one of the few survivors of the early placer miners pritchard and a party of prospectors received information of the mountains of rocks in the elk city minin mining g district from the indians in 1860 1960 after the placer excitement was over the ledges which furnished the placer gold were prospected and some of them worked on a small scale french gulch famous for its abound ant yield of placer gold received its supply from the laurel hill ledge large pieces of highly miner quartz were packed by mules down to Anfe american rican river and there ground up by means of an arrastre 1 twenty eight tons of ore from the cumberland mine at maiden mont of which peter rosse is superintendent and part owner netted at the panhandle smelter where it is reported to be the richest ore yet handled at the plant the ore was hauled twenty miles by team and then shipped by rail to idaho the property was discoverer disco verey by rosse who four years ago in te rested R M calkins now general traffic agent for the chicago milwaukee dugent sound railway company at butte and oscar stephens in the property it was being developed in splendid shape when the sudden death of mr stephens at denver put a stop to the work and it has only been pursued at intervals spokane men have lately become interested in the mine and have an option on it the consolidated mining milling company has taken a thirty months bond on the queen victoria mine at beasley eight beigh t miles west of nelson B C this property was last worked under abond a bond held by J E cronin of spokane who developed it to a considerable extent and shipped a quantity of ore to the trail smelter before he relinquished ed the bond last year the amount of money involved in this last deal between the consolidated company and J P bur is not known the property is equipped with the most modern machinery and shipments will be made almost immediately to the smelter at trail it is a low grade copper property carrying much lime rock which adapts it to mixing with the rossland ore for fluxing flexing the latter more than of new york money was once spent in development of the mine thomas golden president and manager of the northwest coeur dalene italic copper mining development company has returned to spokane after starting a crew of men at work on the property which consists of three claims in the priest river district it has river and rail transportation to the panhandle smelter the property is controlled by spokane men william K X glenn is secretary and treasurer the ledge on the surface is found under ajder an immense iron capping the vein shows it to be a copper proposition carrying gold and silver there is sufficient magnetic and hematite hemi tite iron in sight to flux the ore the outcrop is twenty feet wide and the iron sulphides sulp hides the me outcroppings outcrop pings assay copper gold and silver A foot tunnel is now being started to tap the ledge at a depth of feet |