Show washington the aichen aachen bee silver lead mining company in the old Deer tail tall district in stevens county will start building a complete mill on their property immediately H M howard president and manager of the company estimates the cost at the retiring board of the gladstone mountain mining company was reelected re elected without an exception at the annual meeting held in spokane the property is located in the northport North port district appearance suggest that the mine will become a steady shipper by spring said president lane in the course of his annual report the ore should net 75 a ton at current prices for lead he said A mountain top of dolomite was blown up at noon on new years day at the dolomite quarries east of colville for months the tulare mining company has been preparing for this explosion at 1230 new years day the mountain top was dislocated by the discharge of pounds of 10 per cent giant powder set off by firing pounds of 40 per cent powder the explosion was divided into two charges placed twenty six feet apart in the mountain cliff which was entered by a tunnel forty one feet long and three and one half by five feet in width and height after the charges were placed the tunnel was completely blocked and the charges were with a blasting battery and electric caps few people in this part of the country have any idea of the mineral possibilities of the spokane indian reservation in the extreme south end of stevens county says james keeth president of the 0 lo lim copper company while it has been known for a long time that there were good showings of ore in that district the reservation has been closed to prospecting until about three years ago when it was opened in mineral leasing in this small district are exceptionally good showings of coal copper silver lead and tungsten each of these minerals appears to occupy a district of its own and occurs in entirely different formations the district is approximately fifty miles northwest of spokane and twenty to twenty five miles north of davenport from which point it is entered at detillion bridge twenty two miles from davenport |