Show the great northwest SPECIAL CORR correspondence spokane wash may 8 discovery of chrome ore in southern british columbia near the international boundary line has i caused much speculation in spokane min mill jug circles over what other undiscovered precious metals may yet be found in the inland empire the latest discovery was made by five laurier B C men who did I 1 not recognize the deposit but staked it on oil general principles confident they had some thing worth while they covered the mountain with claims which are observable from the laurier copper mine five miles southwest which is owned by residents of spokane I 1 the departing snow is said to have rel healed deposits of the mineral of which a large quantity has been broken in surface mining the extent of the body has riot noi been determined but a valuation of 40 to the ton has been placed on the material I 1 broken chrome is usually found in small de posits according to an engineer clean ore contains 32 per cent iron oxide and 68 f per cent chromic iron its uses include the manufacture anu of chrome bricks used as a v refractory in furnaces electric batteries cal ico printing and pigments but a greater part of it will go into steel at this time v it is believed owing to war needs chrome I 1 is among the war minerals for the devel 1 A of which the united states government has been asked to appropriate 50 f new discovery in idaho robert N bell state mine inspector of I 1 1 e idaho who has just made a trip of inspect f tion to a new discovery in the shoshone d dis s brict is closemouthed close mouthed as to results he paid said 1 I have been in the north end of the state in an investigation of a new discovery of mineral that is in demand by the govern ment but am not prepared to make a state ment at this time as to the result of my inquiry 11 mr bell has high praise for the new smelter at the bunker hill sullivan mine at kellogg he says bunker hill al sullivan smelter the mill is making about tons of refined lead bullion daily and as smoot smoothly A a as an old and well established plant the L COIn company pany is finding a market for its lead J output with the middle west oxidizing oxidising dising plants this market is made possible by the purity of the product th the labor situation seems to be the aly handicap in idaho all mines appear 0 to o be running shorthanded new develop ent is suffering in consequence all opera ons being confined largely to ore prodoc f tion v railroad to copper mountain work will begin early in may on a most difficult piece of railroad construction designed to afford an outlet for ore taken f from rom the copper mountain mine of the canada copper company near princeton B C the cost of fifteen miles of rail line is expected to be a million dollars it is to be done for the kettle valley railway company by W P tierney of vancouver there will be twenty seven trestles four large tunnels several open cuts of great height and a large fill construction plans were held up recently awaiting a decision on the income tax law the work will require a years time in the meantime the mining company will proceed with the construction of a ton concentrator and the further development of its mine opened on an important scale big development the copper mountain mine has been subjected to exploration and development for six years it was diamond drilled comprehensively ly by the british columbia copper company before the canada copper succeeded to ownership the work was performed over a large area and revealed wide and large bodies of ore containing copper gold and silver in low grades but in responsive spon sive form A power line is also to be erected from greenwood to copper mountain miles the concentrates produced in the mill at copper mountain will be treated in the smelter of the company at greenwood which has been in operation for many years the valley the valley company operating near valley washington has contracted for the delivery of a minimum of 2000 tons of monthly for the duration of the war and for a minim minimum m of a year it is expected the contract will produce a gross income of of which not less than 50 per cent will be clear the company has been recently exploring P properties roper ties and acquiring ground it now has three separate deposits on its property composed of more than 1300 acres the growth of the industry and its importance to the country since the discovery and development of the stevens county deposits is indicated by a comparison of figures relative to production and value said irving whitehouse of the valley company big industry more than tons were produced in the west in 1917 the freight charges were more than the value c of 0 the product at the points of consumption was more than the value of I 1 the output of the united states in 1915 was in 1914 it was the pioneer stage has passed material shipped crude or in part has been taken chiefly by hastily improvised plants in the east and after treatment furnished to the ultimate consumer at several times the price which the producer received yet even under those conditions the producers received an excellent profit with equipment to turn out the various finished products in one operation costs of production will be greatly decreased and profits and stability of the enterprise proportionately increased has brought 45 per ton ferro 80 per ton and brick to per ton these are all products which are most economically produced near the source of supply inasmuch as the weight is cut in two by calci ning |