Show washington the lead trust mine near northport North port stevens county recently obtained a bond and lease on a timber claim near the mine and has struck ore on it according to re ports ore containing lead has been disclosed at the surface and is being followed by a tunnel several carloads of high grade zinc ore have been mined from the vein struck recently on the makle makie farm on deep creek near northport North port said P F mcgovern of that town the ore is carbonate and has a zinc content of 45 per cent the body is five feet wice wit e and has the appearance of continuity it is not in a lime formation it is said that the ore needs no smelting smelling sm elting but only a roast by means of which it can be prepared operators are proceeding with development the comparatively short distance to a rail point has added interest in the deposit work will be resumed this fall on the vulcan copper property eight miles west of valley stevens county by the general copper company of spokane which took over the property a year ago work was commenced june 9 1919 and consisted chiefly in driving a drift on the vein in a northerly direction from the main tunnel beginning feet from the portal of the main tunnel the drift has been carried forward feet and crosscuts cross cuts made from this drift into the vein the crosscut is sixteen feet wide and the hanging wall has not been Te reached ached an assay from the face of the crosscut showed silver gold and lead values directors of the general copper company are dr robert bell president C 0 johnson vice president arthur L hooper secretary treasurer J V campbell L 0 chambers A G rudeen and dr J H thomson all of spokane wash the three officers constitute the executive committee nine chimneys have been opened on the property of the gladstone mountain mining company near leadpoint leafpoint Lead point stevens county and in eight of them ore has been found in none of the eight is high grade lead sulphide a absent and in two its quantity is important lead carbonate exists in all chimney no 2 in which a foot shaft has been sunk has yielded three or more carloads of lead sulphides sulp hides with a net value of 83 to 98 to the ton A carload of forty six tons shipped recently returned net the carbonate ore removed from the several chimneys lies on the dump a carload of lead sulphide has been shipped another assembled for shipment and a carload of carbonate will be shipped this ore was removed from a shaft that penetrates the body for twenty feet vertically and has an area of eight by eight feet some of the chimneys will be followed by shafts and others will be explored by drifts from a depth of feet included in the latter are chimneys no 7 8 and 9 which can be connected by feet of drifting chimney no 7 contains high grade ore and is heavily oxidized no 8 is yielding ore and a little high grade has been found in no 9 the ore removed by the gladstone in the last ten months has supplied money used in exploration except that advanced to start the work and install equipment the northwest company five and a half miles west of chewelah Chew elah stevens county is operating at capacity in its quarry and plant and producing upwards of tons of product daily it has on hand and ready for shipment tons not since the war has the demand for been so urgent and at no time in the history of its operation begun three or four years ago has the company produced so heavily buyers are offering a bonus of 4 a ton for immediate delivery and will accept shipments arriving in uncovered cars a situation unprecedented owing to the loss from slacking sometimes suffered from moisture entering unprotected cars the current price for at chewelah Chew elah is 2850 per ton the company is operating five steel kilns kalns each feet long A tramway that removes tons of crude daily from its quarries in the mountains is in operation production from the quarries is proceeding on a basis of two shifts daily while the kilns kalns and tramway are operated continuously Calci ning 6 reduces the weight of raw product by 50 per cent three hundred men are employed in the plant quarries and tramway |