Show washington electric power recently has been installed at the prize mine near oroville miles northwest of spokane and the mill will make a 90 days run on ore from the ledges on that property it depends d e upon the returns from the run whether operations will continue the tungsten king concentrating mill at deer park nine miles north of spokane has been reopened by the lessees lessels les sees considerable ore has been mined the last few months and is now ready for the mill almost without exception the mining companies operating in the tungsten field around and on the blue grouse mountain have resumed work the consolidated the tungsten king and the spokane mining companies are in the same field with claims adjoining and development work is being prosecuted night and day by most of them on a royalty basis for a term of three years the property of the beecher gold mining company in the orient district has been leased by william E B and louis lacoste of kettle falls the lessees lessels will start work immediately with a small force which will be increased as work progresses in addition to driving the tunnel ahead they will drift on the fissure vein in ill the shaft where ore is exposed that is said to assay from to in gold to the ton this vein measures from six inches to twenty four inches in width and is believed to be a spur from a large contact vein on the property the beecher group consisting of seven claims is on the north slope of first thought mountain about six miles northeast of orient |