Show notes from the northwest chewelah Chew elah wash dec 23 the virginia group of claims in the nine mile district di brict of 0 the coeur calenes dA lenes idaho added recently a added to the holdings of the red monarch consolidated mining company is proving to be more promising than first anticipated ac cording to conrad president of t the he latter company who has returned from a four days visit at the property we have opened an entirely new vein on the virginia group states mr by a series of open cuts we have traced it for 2000 feet the width varying from eight to twenty feet and we are still stripping it the ore is showing in every cut and carries quartz heavy with iron and some galena the vein is strong and well defined and is in place with perfect walls showing no indication di cation of faults on the lower end of the vein where it is about twelve feet wide we have started a tunnel with two shifts of men and will rush the bore as rapidly as possible the conditions shown by the diamond drills working on the rena fraction of the red monarch group are more promising than we anticipated at this stage of progress we are down feet and while I 1 was there we extracted a core eight feet long showing that the formation is in place and not disturbed and indicating that we probably will find the vein in the same condition this absolutely refutes the contention that the ground in this part of the district is broken and faulted the golden chest of the many recent announcements of the resumption of activity among dormant properties in the coeur calenes dA lenes none is regarded as more significant than that of the golden chest one of the most famous mines of the murray region the property has been idle for the last eight years but recently men were put to work clearing the under grounds and getting them in shape to resume operations samuel green of new york the controlling factor in the company has arrived in murray and it is said lie he has announced that extensive development is to be inaugurated soon the golden chest company with the exception of the bunker hill sullivan is said to own more territory than any other corporation in the coeur calenes dA lenes its holdings embrace thir ty seven patented and ten claims covering an area approximately a mile square lying between butte creek and reader gulch and from pritchard creek north to the divide divide separating the first named streams in 1884 the golden chest company erected a five stamp mill which later was increased to ten teni stamps for eighteen deais years the plant was SUP supplied plied from ore extracted from surface cuts and shallow shallo w tunnels in 1902 1962 the equipment was removed to the th e mouth of reeder creek and ten more stamps added the idaho company also had erected a twenty stamp mill in 1893 when the property was under option to the late john A finch and associates who failed to exercise it the original golden chest group is developed by a series of cuts drifts raises tunnels and dinzes aggregating about three miles in length the conditions in the property changed materially with the discovery of the klondike shoot this ore is said to have yielded about a ton in lead silver and gold while immense quantities of tungsten are reported to have been extracted and thrown on the dump as tile the method of treatment employed was not de wised to handle this character of product with the advance in the price of this metal as a result of the european war it is ben be N lieveld that mr green intends working the mine chiefly for its tungsten the gold king the gold king mining company operating the gold king and fern properties on hall creek in the nelson district of british columbia will begin shipping january 15 according to president W S hawley of spokane who has just made a trip of inspect tion to the mines 1 I found preparations for active operations progressing satisfactorily and I 1 believe we will be forwarding consignments consign ments to northport North port or trail in the next six weeks says mr hawley our compressor plant and hoisting equipment driven by a 40 horsepower engine will be installed soon and thy the gallows frame for the shaft will de finished in the next week this will enable us to get the plant operating by january L I 1 Po larius group immediate development plans for the po larius group taken under bond recently by W E mann and associates from mrs W B heyburn widow of senator heyburn or of idaho include the sinking of the shaft an additional feet installation of a hoist and a compressor extension of the drift from the foot level for a distance of feet and the preparation of ore for shipment early next year announcement of the plans was made by mr mann organization of the Po larius larlus mining company having been perfected earlier in the week by mr mann P J gearon manager of the success mine and L C wilson of wallace the Po larius property was one of the alie fir first 1 located on the south fork between osborn and kellogg in the coeur calenes dA lenes the early development being done by the late senator heyburn who uncovered gray copper ore |