Show washington frank C bailey secretary of the northwest mining association with headquarters at spokane has received several copies of the aerial and geological map of stevens county from the office of state geologist at olympia engineers and mining men declare the map is a very valuable one A general convention of the business men of the northwestern states has been called for may 12 13 14 and 15 in the state armory at spokane washington its purpose is for the discussion and consideration of the present serious monetary crisis and to organize the new gold standard league speakers of prominence have been invited to address the convention contract work on the mine on the former spokane indian reservation near detillion bridge has just been completed the shaft on the copper ledge has reached a depth of feet from which a crosscut will be run the ore increases in value as depth is obtained work of shipping ore will be resumed as soon as the roads will permit the property is controlled py by james keeth and jerome drumheller of 0 spokane mr keeth is manager according to reports received at spokane the spring movement of ore from lead point mines in the northport North port district was started recently the electric point has tons of rich lead ore at the lower end of its tramway 2000 tons of it in the bunkers and the remainder on the ground the gladstone mountain has a shipment ready to be moved ten trucks have been brought into the field to haul ore and four to haul cedar poles the development of the lead trust mine is nearing a point where it will be able to yield ore for shipment ment several properties east of bossburg Boss burg in stevens county are being vigorously worked and the prospects are that the season will be the most active in a number of according to reports at hand the bonanza mine four miles from bossburg Boss burg has four men at work and expects to double the crew in the near future back in the early the bonanza was a heavy pro ducer since then it has been tied up for part of the time and not until recently has work been resumed the ore is lead carrying a little silver there is said to be four feet of good clean ore on the seventh or lowest level this ore is higher grade than on the levels above the shaft is down about feet and a drift is being driven east for about 2000 feet |