Show LEASE THE KOOTENAI GOLD MINES regular correspondence spokane wash may alay 8 for a consideration said to be the general mining and willing milling leasing company organized by R A hutchinson and associates of spokane has taken a three years lease upon the kootenai gold mines situated six miles southeast of nelson B C the remodeling of the 50 ton mill n being operated on the property the installation of a pump and the driving of a tunnel feet below the present level of the lo 10 er workings are to be started immediate about ow the mine has been in operation twenty years and is said to have produced produce approximately at present ty three different lessees lessels are working on OD the property all of whom are from froin nelso and vicinity the 20 stamp mill has been operation eighteen years dra I 1 at the present lower workings are tunnel w taps age level but the proposed new and ad level the body feet below this I 1 about 1200 feet under the apex power is now being developed from eagle creek running through the property and a tram I 1 way one and one eighth miles long is in operation between the mine and the mill the claims are also known as the greenhorn mines among those associated with mr hutchinson in the company are E E alexander J D hanley and E V bobb all of spokane mr bobb a mining engineer recently resigned from the management of the arlington mines company operating in the okan ogan to become actively identified in the kootenai project the terms of the lease call for the payment of a 1212 per cent royalty on all net proceeds of the mines the general mining and milling leasing company also announces plans for the instruction of a mill this season on the flying dutchman property fifteen miles north of nelson which was taken over by the company about five months ago the flying dutchman is largely a developing ve proposition it is stated work is to be started about may 15 twelve hundred feet of underground workings have been completed and a large amount of milling and shipping gold ore is in sight according to the reports of the engineers the mine has been worked to a limited extent for twenty years |