Show 0 washington gus makie a farmer living one mile from the last chance mine stevens county is reported to have been perturbed for several years by the presence of high grade zinc float on his land year after year he found samples of ore but not the vein from which it crumbled after trenching drenching tren ching at several points for about feet he unearthed a ledge covered by four feet of wash in the development that followed he disclosed a body of ore six feet wide containing 44 to 46 per cent zinc the raise in the copper king mine in stevens county is now up about ninety feet and will be continued to a point feet above the tunnel level from that point it is proposed to drift in the vein with the expectation pec tation of finding a long ore shoot in place the raise has followed a streak of ore from a few inches to three feet wide that assays essays per cent lead besides this there is lower grade ore the full width of the raise and it is estimated the shoot is fully thirty feet wide carrying a good grade of milling ore the entire width silver values are not high except when there is copper an ore body on the line of the gladstone and electric point mines at northport North port opened in the gladstone to a depth of fifty feet has been struck by the electric point in a crosscut at a depth of feet at the new point it is on both sides of the line it contains lead in carbonate and sulphide forms the gladstone has opened six chimneys four within recent weeks the sixth has been followed by shaft to a depth of forty three feet and is said to contain carbonates and some sulphides sulp hides the last carload of ore weighed more than forty three tons it contained per cent lead gross value was of which 4 was in silver and the net value the ark mines company in stevens county elected directors and officers in spokane recently as follows J J budd president and manager W P maurer vice president john meyer H hoffman and H karlsten directors 0 L budd secre tary treasurer the company is working the silver queen mine three miles south of kettle falls on the columbia river considerable sid erable permanent work and important improvements were made during the year 1 I think we will soon reach the ledge and find good shipping ore said mr budd recently after catching the ledge on the tunnel level we will drift east in the ledge for fifty or seventy five feet which will put us under the shaft shaft no 2 is down feet in gray copper and galena ore that carries from 75 to in values 4 chiefly silver but with a good percentage of lead A strike of solid galena is reported by the electric point mining company stevens county feet from its main workings and about twelve feet from the line of the gladstone mountain mining company the strike was made from the foot level of a new shaft and disclosed three feet of ore having an estimated content of 82 per cent lead the showing is among the finest made on the property for the development performed not enough work has been done to determine the size of the ore body ore is being shipped at the rate of tons a day the quantity in storage is between and tons ore is being mined at the rate of seventy five tons daily it is coming from several parts of the workings but mainly from the foot level although the and foot levels are substantial contributors the foot is the tunnel level 0 |