Show TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF washington sh shipments prents of high grade concentrates being made from deer park mines special Bp ecial correspondence spokane wash may 23 experts from colorado and europe who have examined the tungsten properties in the deer park district in stevens county wash north of spokane declare these will wi 1 be developed as the richest mines in the world within the next twelve months the germania Ger manla mine in cedar canyon twenty eight miles west of Sp ringdale is producing regularly and it is announced that thai the tungsten king property eleven miles north of deer park will begin shipping in thirty days while the baird harrison property is expected to enter the list before the close of the year the germania mining company owns acres of patented land and thirty anve mineral claims though its property properly is known to be traversed by five ledges development work has been confined to one which has been opened by four tunnels which including drifts aggregate feet in length in addition considerable wol work k in the way of upraises up raises dinzes and has been accomplished these workings show a quartz vein having an average width of two feet well amera iced throughout with tungsten in the form of with occasional shoots of high grade ore the property is equipped with a 40 ton on mill which produces five grades of concentrates running in value from fifty eight to seventy tour per cent in acid steady production at the mill began sixty days ago since which time two cars of concentrates have been shipped while a third is being loaded the two cars shipped aggregated fifty three tons and the net returns were more than a ton or upward of for the two cars the ore is marketed through an agency at cassell germany to the krupps of essen and is shipped to hamburg the freight rate beng 1860 a ton of which covers all costs after new york is reached E D rister of spokane director and t general counsel of the germania company of which wilhelm formerly of germany is president and manager said after giving the foregoing information we are now I 1 beleve believe the heaviest shippers of tungsten in the united states and we expect to treble our output as soon as the new machinery now on the ground for the enlargement tf of our mill is installed our concentrates average 70 per cent in acid while the product of the colorado mines averages 60 per cent the tungsten king claims owned by the deer park mining company is the oldest property in the district distri cl and consist of e gaty acres of school land leased from the state for thirty years A E barnes an bounces that a mill now in course of construction st will be in operation in thirty days producing from thirty to sixty tons of concentrates a month the concentrates are expected to net a carload the officers and principal shareholders of the company are residents of deer park the company is capitalized at and that sum to be paid in ansta laments during three years was recently bid for the property by a mining man of spokane adjoining the tungsten king is the baird harrison property consisting of two 80 acre leases this is now under development on a royalty basis by a syndicate organized at boulder colo william leach and E C regnier tungsten experts from colorado who have just completed an inspection spec tion of the property are negotiating for a bond on it they declare it to be me biggest find and best grade of tungsten ever discovered W A brockway a recognized expert of colorado and manager of the son property said in an interview in spokane that the ore found in the deer park district is of high quality and rich running from 25 to a ton the commercial va ue of tungsten now placed at 7 a unit will he believes advance to 10 within six months he says that in add addition to tungsten the finest quality of bismuth valued at a ton and tin ore have been encountered in the district adding tungsten is a peculiar and valuable mineral it is used to make the filament in tungsten incandescent lamps and excels all other oher minerals for this purpose up to a year or so ago the colorado fields represented resented ed the entire producing center of this mineral in america then tungsten was discovered near deer park twenty miles north of spokane and the ore assayed so rich that preparations for mining it on a large scale were begun 1 I have made numerous assays essays and the conclusion reached is that the tungsten found in washington is of higher quality than the colorado product and that if it can be found in sufficient quantity it will revolutionize the tungsten m ning industry and add mil millions ions annually to the value of the mineral production of th this s state |