Show washington ALSO MAKES FINE SHOWING j the value of gold silver copper lead and zinc pro deuced from ore mined in in washington in 1923 according to the statement of C N gerry of the geological t survey was as compared with in 1922 several of the old producing mines especially those near republic northport North port and index responded to the increase in metal mendl i prices and resumed production at a normal rate large gain ingold the production of gold increased from in 1922 to in 1923 the output of gold from tb the e republic district creased en to but that of the boundary red mountain mine in whatcom county decreased dec c while the company was doing further development work the knob hill mine was the largest producer of gold in the state as a result of development work coneby done by the balaklava mining co the last chance mine was operated throughout the year after a long idleness and siliceous ore from this mine was shipped to trail british britis ih columbia at the rate of about tons a month the quila mine was another large producer of gold but the output of the surprise mine of the northport North port smelling smelting Sm elting 9 C co 0 was comparatively small output of silver is larger the output of silver increased from ounces in 1922 to ounces in 1923 most of the silver canic came from the increased quantity of siliceous ore shipped frob republic few shipments of silver copper ore were anade from chewelah Chew elah and the output of silver from stevens county was therefore small the large producers of silver were the united silva silver copper last chance ruby quila santa rita and old dominion mines the ruby and old dominion were the largest producers of silver ore and their shipments were we not regular development work at the old dominion mine opened silver lead ore below the foot level and silver silv ore was also being developed at the chloride queen property substantial gain in copper the output of copper increased from froni pounds in 1922 to pounds in 1923 A large part of the outa came from the property of the sunset copper co near enill index snohomish county which resumed mining and m ing in april the united silver copper co of 0 f Chev chenea velah for years the largest producer of copper in W washing ashing tOll shipped crude ore and concentrates to tacoma but at the greatly reduced rate of tons a month lead output doubled the output of lead increased from pounds valued at in 1922 to pounds valued at 2029 in 1923 most of the lead ore was mined at the gladstone mine near northport North port stevens county high grade sulphide ore and medium grade carbonate ore were shipped to the bunker hill smelter at bradley idaho the electric point mine in the same district was idle lead concentrates were shipped from the santa rita mine west of Sp ringdale and other shipments came from the bead lake addison iron creek bonanza and young america mines A new concentration mill for the daisy mine in the summit district stevens county was under construction zinc also more than doubled the recoverable zinc in the ore mined amounted to about pounds more than double that of 1922 the increase resulted from shipments from the washington black rock mine near northport North port part of the ore was smelted smelter in the east and part was treated at the electr electrolytic 0 zinc plant at trail british columbia A new mill and power line were completed during 1923 |