Show washington regular ore shipments are being al made from the quila and last chance mines of about 60 cars a month going to the trail smelter the number of shares sold on the standard stock exchange at spokane august 26 was the largest of the year having aggregated valued at A large delegation of mining men atten attending dint the mining conven convention tio n at wenatchee We natchee IV wash ash which opened september 1 for a three day session L K armstrong mining engineer of spokane was one of the speakers loren hudson and lyle coast well known pine creek miners have taken a foot contract on the van stone property on oil onion creek in stevens county and expect to soon start active work according to word received in spokane A gasoline power plant has been installed mining engineers declare that the van stone is one of the best undeveloped properties in stevens county with a wonderful body of zinc lead ore it is owned principally by residents of the coeur calenes dA lenes among the owners being hecla men it is reported bunker hill pigs are quite common on the docks at shanghai hongtong Hong kong manila and yokohama said frank berry engineer 6 on the president grant of the dollar line sailing from seattle to the orient while visiting at kellogg idaho 1 I felt acquainted with the bunker hill property before I 1 ever saw it the bunker hill smelter ships large quantities of pig lead to the northwest lead manufacturing plant in seattle where various kinds of lead products are manufactured and shipped to local as well as foreign markets after an idleness of fifteen years operations at the mountain lion mine at republic have been resumed according in b to word received at spokane the property has been purchased by thomas murray and charles A phillips of spokane from albert mclaren of buckingham quebec wealthy canadian cheese manufacturer murray phillips have also acquired from the county the tAe ben hur trade dollar and rebate mining claims the claims ac acquired have in the past produced considerable tonnages ton nages of g good grade of ore and justify further development which the new owners plan todo to do shipments are ex expected P acted to start in the near future to the trail smelter it is reported that both the electric point and the gladstone mines near northport North port stevens county have entered good bodies of lead ore the radio on the gladstone indicated ore in two different places and five or six miners have been working on each A few feet under the surface i in 1 I one of these locations a good sized body of ore has been discovered and work during the last week indicates that it is a ledge which is the first discovered on that property the other bodies having been of chimney formation this new body has not yet been developed sufficiently to determine its importance although the management is hoping it will prove to be the mother lode of the mountain the gladstone is employing about fifteen men and the electric point eight with J E yoder managing the development extensive alterations were started recently on the concentrating cent rating mill of the grandview Grand view mines at wash to provide for treatment of increased tonnage the mill a modern pilot concentrating plant was found too small for 4 its purpose and the alterations will enable it to handle approximately tons toils each 24 hours the grandview Grand view mines were the scene of a drilling campaign from may 1926 to may 1927 and prospecting by diamond and churn drill was virtually continuous for a year at that time experts figured ared sufficient ore had been prospected to insure a a cupl supply ay for several years guy E riegel of spokane has been active in ill the management of the mine in its development stage which is controlled by a closed corporation R F moore is general superintendent of the property the mine is in pend oreille county about miles north of spokane and ten miles south of the canadian border |