Show washington smelter returns running 14 ounces more in silver than mine assays essays on a carload of ore shipped from the e mine in the oroville district has encouraged a renewal of mining activity in that district according to latest reports A second carload of concentrates from the mine will be shipped to the smelter at tacoma at once the 0 rite mine formerly known as the ruby euby is now shut down but the company will reorganize following a stockholders meeting in ta june 14 and operations will be resumed two miles southwest of valley stevens county are some mining properties which are looking weir well this spring one of them is the general copper in which a strike of good copper salv silver er ore has recently been made articles of ancor horation po ration were filed in spokane county for the ad admiral in iral con coll soli dated mining company which has consolidated the AL ad miral and denver holdings 0 arthur L hopper of spokane is president deiA other direct directors os are K it E plath treasurer and william B sprague secretary all of spokane work korthas Wor thas has been commenced on a new tunnel on the north end of the admiral property tile the hill is very steep and a fifty foot tunnel is expected to give feet of depth the ore is copper pe r and silver two carloads shipped re turned returned six per cent j copper aud and seven ounces in in silver two men are working but ut a lar larger larer er force is to be added and the company is con coll I 1 sideling dering si the installation of a compressor later mr hooper per is is also a ISO secretary treasurer of the general copper mining company which owns property a mile north of the admiral recently four feet of ore was uncovered on the sur su lace select sample from which run six six per cent copper and five ounces in silver the company will sink a shaft feet or more to explore this ground the ore is inthe in the same ledue ledge t as the admiral and edna veins one man has been employed prospecting and two others will be added shortly to bulk the shaft dr robert bell is president arthur L secretary treasurer A G C johnson A G rudeen dr peter reid dr J H thompson anda V campbell all of spokane completing the directorate L W hutton li part owner of the hercules mine in the coeur calenes dA lenes was made honorary member of the spokane chamber of commerce recently it is the custom each year to elect a man mail that has done the most good for the community mr hutans Hut tons devotion to tile the orphans has been the means of his election to fo such lionor honor two years ago the hutton settlement was opened in memory of liis his wife and it is now caring for more than a hundred children it is not in any sense of the word an ail institution for it is built on the cottage plan a few children in each home under the care of a mother the Ch lordie queen mine located fourteen miles from colville is attracting attention five claims are included in the holdings liol dings of the company and through these for feet within the lines of the companas comp anys property is a strong 0 ledge running in in a generally north and south saith direction hiis contact ledge is 25 to 30 feet wide vide and situated between clugston lime and colville Colvil lc quartzite through the ledge are streaks i ks of rich ore from a few inches to five to six feet fee twide avide the ore is chief chiefly galena and in places there are patches of ore carrying C some zinc and copper the first opening of the ground was by shaft 75 feet deep the no I 1 tunnel ass IV then run to connect with the bottom of this tunnel fron from the tunnel a was sunk feet this forms a continua continuation fion of the shaft all tile the way down this shaft are rich showings of ore at one place a carload of ore was vas taken out and shipped returning ta 62 to the ton on the dump of this tunnel there is is approximately 1 tons 01 ore and this it is estimated will run 62 to th the ton on the dump of this tunnel there is approximately tons of ore and ana this it is estimated will run 22 to tile the ton the ore taken out oui as the shaft and was dug confident confident of 0 developing a large body of rich ore are the company Is is now dri a Y ing its no 2 tunnel feet vertically below the no 1 this tunnel tannel is in I 1 feet F beet and is going forward six to seven sevene feet a day dan it has feet to go to reach a point sixty feet beede be low ali ohp botton bottom of the eight men are employ ed the property is owned by david E zent and associate associate of raul paul leplant is director and superintendent and was ope one the locators thirty seven years ago J ca 0 haas is presides president the direct directors os are H J doolittle C H preston and charles charlen case all of spokane and earl T gates of colville |