Show washington considerable activity is reported from the chewelah Chew elah camp the chewelah Chew elah development company is in ore ore thi the e full size of the shaft at a depth of sixty feet the ore improving with depth it will continue working one shift until the foot level is reached the mayflower people are getting in shape to do good work on en the big shaft by putting up a good camp for the men schoenberg brothers who are sinking a new shaft west of the anti omny lead encountered a heavy quartz quart at thirty five feet carrying iron and silver and showing traces of copper the copper king continues to block out the ore over forty feet was crosscut on one of the upper levels two weeks ago the vein carrying the high grade continues to improve as they drift the security copper continues to sink orf on the lead the change coming gradually in the ore as depth is obtained 1 the ben hur operated by the ben hur leasing company of which james T johnson john benson and G W fairweather of republic and dr kingston of grand ofris B ac C are the directing spirits is a strong ng factor just now in the maintenance of republics reputation as a prominent gold producing camp it is gradually increasing its production having ore reserves to continue sloping ore for a long period of late the company has been shipping about tons daily to the and the net returns have been most satisfactory the mine with its splendid equipment is now in such a shape that the cost of extraction has been reduced to a minimum sloping is being done on two levels the and foot on the foot level the drift south is nearing the line between the ben hur and the san poll foil companas Comp anys ground where at nearly the same depth the latter company left a shoot of ore of exceptional richness suspending work at this point it is declared owing to the fact they had tapped the ben I 1 aur ground george S bailey has been selected by the creditors of the republic mines corporation po ration as trustee in bankruptcy mr bailey who has acted as receiver of the corporation filed a statement in the federal court at spokane showing that the net earnings of the mines for twenty two days operations in january under his management were over in all probability a deal will be consummated soon whereby a new york and san francisco francisci syndicate will own the surprise lone pine and pearl mines comprising the republic mines corporation holdings and the quila which it has under option the consideration is stated to be after a close down since the first of february the un watering of the mines was started and they will be kept pumped out for inspection of the property as well as to be in readiness to resume operations at any time mr bailey states that if th the e deal now pending should fall through he feels confident if given a free hand to operate the mines that in a few months the entire indebtedness can be liquidated from the earnings |