Show washington A rich strike in the double header property eighty miles northwest of spokane is the sensation of the hour in local mining circles discovery of an ore body seven feet wide running to a ton in silver is reported in the property which was being operated to extract low grade milling ore running 18 to the ton the rich vein was accidentally discovered lying parallel to the lower grade vein the property is being worked by a close corporation known as the jenkins enkins 1 hammond company and composed ot of pra prank C hammond V S jenkins and W S jenkins mr hammond is manager the united copper mining company operating at chewelah Chew elah announces an increase in shipments from seven cars per to twenty cars the increase of production has been made possible by an increase in the volume of power with which the e inilla Is and other departments are operated tife the company now receives horsepower as compared with horsepower in the e previous devious four months the big mill was idle in all of that period the tailings mill only being used operations are proceeding day and night in the mine and the mills feed for the larger mill being supplied from ore broken in the period of limited production starting with an initial movement of tons of ore daily the big aerial tramway of the electric point mining Coni company near northport North port has been placed in operation the plant was installed at a cost of including bins and other equipment it is capable of transporting several hundred tons daily the tramway is nearly three miles in length and descends 2800 feet between the mine and the lower terminal at the base of the mountain it is equipped with forty buci buckets ets each of which makes the round trip in about thirty minutes bunkers having a capacity of tons have been im installed at the upper terminal and of 6 00 tons at the lower terminal J J stanford mining engineer of spokane has the following to say of a recent strike in the loon lake section the ore body struck by the spokane copper company last week has been penetrated four and a halt half feet by crosscut on the foot level of the shaft workings the body contains azurite and black oxide of copper in a lively looking quartz ore fills the face of the crosscut and the values are pretty generously distributed tri buted throughout the body so far as it has haa been opened the vein is about thirty feet wide where opened at the surface advance of the crosscut has been retarded by water from the vein which flows in a volume that necessitates balling bailing about four hours each day A pump is to be installed as soon as it can be obtained operations are proceeding with one shift |