| Show I 1 northwestern MINING NOTES special correspondence spokane wash dec 8 for the purpose of developing properties in the chewe lah jah washington camp north of spokane a group of chewelah Chew elah men has perfected an organization called the chewelah Chew elah consolidated mines company the organizers are joseph thompson E oppenheimer frank chase A H anderson and L R nestos with joseph thompson as president E oppenheimer vice president and frank chase secretary and treasurer the company is incorporated for shares of 1 each the new company has taken a bond on ion the leuer mines north of chewelah Chew elah consisting of seven claims this property is one of the most promising silver lead properties in the camp having shipped ore on the surface they claim feet of lead matter varying in width from six to twenty feet all said to carry good values in silver lead and gold the company will put a crew of men at work at once to open up the lead ready for shipment and expects to put the mines on a shipping basis before spring this property has been kept up for ten years by the leuer brothers who have erected go good id buildings on the property and have carried on some development the new company is strong enough to make a mine of this property which will open up an entirely new camp in the chew elah district that the sunset peak district of the idaho coeur calenes dA lenes is destined to open into a great tonnage producing area is the opinion of many mining men who have visited that section recently alex deering well known miner who has spent two years with the properties there is enthusiastic over the future of that part of the district with the interstate callahan developing into the class with the other big mines and capable of an output of to tons daily he believes that one of the several big g properties of that particular section has conle come into its own the senator dark clark property is developed to the stage where a large tonnage is possible and with the idora amazon manhattan and others in almost the same advanced state the question of transportation arises milling facilities also are to be acquired and for this plenty of if water is essential as well as convenience ta 0 the mirles mines opinion now favors the arec ton n of milling plants on beaver creek with a branch railroad running down the creek to 0 the north rth pork fork and there connecting with the main lines a distance of eight alles lies probably miners now are employed it in the sunset district and when regular shipping operations are under way thia 18 torce force will be increased to more than a thousand control of the well known rex mine ear ea entiat enthat washington Washing tOD miles west of spokane has passed into the hands of a newly incorporated mining company to be known as the entiat enthat mining company the company numbers amog its stockholders here P M percy martin spencer jack lillis and tom mcgough during the last sixteen years the mine has produced upwards of a million dollars and during part of that time dividends have been paid eugene church and charles F tilfer of tacoma are promoters of the new company mr fifer who is a mining engineer was in entiat enthat last week making an inventory of the tools machinery etc at the mine A crew will be started to work to prosecute development along lines laid out by mr pifer fifer in the spring a cyanide plant will be added to the equipment and a new stamp mill erected the million dollar mark in the dividend declarations of the standard silver lead mining alining company was passed this week when its directors in session at the office of we finch investment company in spokane declared a dividend of this disbursement which will be made on december 10 will bring the profits shared by the company to 1 all made in twenty one consecutive payments the first of and the others of each beneficiaries of whom there are about are chiefly residents of spokane and british columbia the property is at silverton british columbia ore said to be rich in lead and silver lying in a body seven to nineteen feet in width two feet of it solid galena has been followed by drift for feet in the new eighth level of the slocan star mine of british columbia according to advices advises received by spokane holders adding a fortune to the available resources and making possible an addition of between the eighth and seventh levels when the work shall have been completed the quality of the shoot at its face is reported to be as good as it was at the point of its first exposure on this level last october the ore body had a length of feet on one of its upper horizons at a meeting of the stockholders at wallace idaho monday the capital stock of the caledonia mining company was increased from to the agreement between the company and the bunker hill sullivan mining and smelting smelling Sm elting company was ratified this agreement includes an arrangement whereby the bunker hill gives up one unit of its mill to the caledonia and the use of the long tunnel of the bunker hill the edna mine in the valley section of the chewelah Chew elah belt for which was refused last summer by J B tuttle is being prepared for operations after an idleness of six years brought about through the destruction of its plant by fire arrangements range ments are being made with a spokane machinery house for a ne new w plant the work will be performed under the diorec tion of the valley mining company of which tuttle is the president of the feet of work performed on the property all but about forty feet was on ore the shoot was followed by a shaft to a depth of feet and by drifts the remainder of the distance having a width of eighteen inches near the surface the body has a width of four feet in the bottom of the shaft the values are 5 to the ton in silver and gold and from 22 to 25 in copper the edna is adjoined by the vulcan property with which spokane operators became identified recently |
