Show washington report is received from the gladstone mountain mining company operating a group of claims near northport North port wash that forty six tons of ore valued at has been sent to the consolidated mining smelting smelling Sm elting company at trail B C this payment is assumed to be in preliminary settlement which is 90 per cent of the value says the report the total value was or at the rate of a ton this is comparable with an expectation of 75 a ton several weeks before the shipment was made and when the price of lead was lower it is assumed that the metallic content of the shipment was almost solely lead hut but this will not he be known until the settlement sheet is received |