Show 0 washington the touchet mining company at huntsville which reduced its output during the last season announces it will resume operations may 1 at full capacity the drill of the spokane wild rose oil company Coni pank encountered an eight foot vein of lignite coal at a depth of feet when work was resumed recently stockholders of the idaho gold cold ruby mining company have been notified that permanent hydraulic operations have commenced at the property at leonia boundary Doun dary county near the great northern railroad owners of the mother lode in oro grande mining district south of elk city have purchased a ton mill the mother lode is a free milling free gold proposition with a shaft sunk fifty feet on the hanging wall and a second shaft of thirty five jeet feet with feet of crosscut cross cut work and a tunnel auns tuns i of feet assays essays showing 1 gold values of 0 12 per ton and upward the security copper company of kane has resumed work on its property proper at chewelah Chew elah and expects to work on iti cherno kane and butte mines also in stevens county after a prolonged suspension the ark mines company has struck the ledge on the silver queen mining claim Plair fl three miles south of kettle falls the tan nel has been driven over 1000 feet and con sid erable fine silver and copper ore has been uncovered the company controls nearly all the mining claims on this hill which was wa quite noted thirty or forty years ago on ae ac count of the fine outcroppings outcrop pings the marguerite property of the donner bonner mining company on trestle creek anvill be gin taking out ore for shipment and will have a carload of gold silver and lead ore ready in thirty days the property hai ha three well defined veins to cross c it which a tunnel has been driven this tunnel has as not yet reached the marguerite vein the central and richest one the ore to ie be shipped this spring will be taken from the first vein three feet wide which was recently cut the double eagle mining Com piny oper abing twelve miles west of valley stevens county is installing air pipes in the foot shaft of the mine and is figuring figurin on the in stal lation of air drills A crew of men are working extending the tunnel of the mine feet which will bring the main tunnel up to feet the mine located on the same claim as the big quarry leas ed to the american Refract ories company Compan is showing high grades in s alver iver and lead and has already shipped some extra high grade ore discovery of a large body of graphite ls reported at a point near the forks of the Locks awand selway northeast of No lookia kooskia okia and close to the proposed lewis and clart clark highway the vein matter has been cross cros cut for seventy feet and the dike of mineral matter shown to lie in a formation of 0 g gran ite and a nd gneiss graphite is quoted quo tedas as baying a commercial value of 60 ot per P ton and is steel gray in color and use id the manufacture of lead pencils assay show the graphite contents to be 13 and an 21 per cent reports from leavenworth indicate t when it recalde beca great excitement prevailed known that prospectors were in fron the old blewett mine district and were ex bed beda add ing from the samples of gold taken el banks of the peshastin Pes hastin creek one nug andis an weighed three quarters of an ounce d worth about 17 at present quotations c co oarse many smaller ones and considerable gold is said to have been found the s str wiles was waa ma made dein in the gulch about three I 1 be below lowthe the big blew blewett ett mine and nearer there was a run on the print shop for location notices and claims will likely be staked all over the region there has been more activity among prospectors this season than for several years |