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Show 3I1XES OF WASHINGTON. Newty Items of Progress In the Mining Camps of the Northwest. Seattle, WasU,, Sept. 8. Work is progressing steadily on the Everett and Monte Cristo railroad which will tap the Monte Cristo mining district, when completed. Trains will be running in the early part of the winter and everything every-thing will be ready for the hauling out of silv er ore next spring. Miners are rejoicing re-joicing while the workmen are putting the mines in shape for active operations. Several of the principal leads are at least one thousand feet up the mountain sides and to carry the ore to the railroad a i . - wire rope will be used. Joseph L. Cleveland, president of the principal mining companies in the district, is reported re-ported as saying of the " MONTE CRISTO MINES. "The body and position of the ores remind re-mind me of the iron deposits we have been working along Lake Superior. About half of the precious metal in this ore is gold. Sixty per cent, of the ore must be concentrated." For this latter purpose a concentrator will be erected at Monte Cristo. Mr. Colby has selected Everett, the Sound terminus of his railroad, rail-road, as a site for his smelter. A company com-pany has been incorporated with $900,-000 $900,-000 capital. There is much activity in the RUBY CREEK DISTRICT, north of Monte Cristo in the Cascade mountains. The trail to the district is now completed, with three wire bridges, one 254 feet long, the second 180 feet, ; and the third 160 feet, across the Rapid river. The wire had to be cut into pieces of 100 pounds each arid carried up by Indians. Nearly all the land along Ruby creek is staked out in mining claims, most of them gold placers, and one hydraulic mine is now in operation. Several rich ledges of free milling gold quartz have also been found around the headwaters. - Gold has been discovered in the Cascade Cas-cade foothills in Thurston county. ON PORTER CREEK prospectors have found gold ore assaying $20 per ton. Free milling gold has also been struck on Orcas Island, in the arch- . 1 . 1 .1. J . t T"l 4. J lpeiau tL Luc uuriu cuu ui licl suuuu. On the Pacific ocean beach, a little south of Cape Flattery, several miners are working a gold placer which, with the most primitive means of operations, pays them $4 a day each. The gold is found in the black sand as fine as gun powder and very close to the water. It is thought that land slides from the hills brought the sand there. In eastern Washington the main activity is - IN OKANOGAN COUNTY, north . of the centre of the state. .The Canadian Pacific railway has now- open a line into the region, and is doing a large traffic in passengers, supplies, and minning machinery. The route is from Sicamous on the main line of the Canadian Cana-dian Pacific, fifty-one miles by a branch to the head of Okanogan lake, eighty miles by steamer to the foot of the lake, and thence forty miles by stage to the international boundary, or sixty miles to Loomiston in this state.. From the Slocan- mining district, in British Columbia, just north of Idaho, the first ore has been shipped. It came from J. F. Wardner's . FREDDIE LEE MINE, and was brought in sacks on the backs of mules to the Columbia river; by boat to th - Little Dalles, in this 6tate ; by the Spokane . and Northern railroad to Spokane, and by the Northern Pacific to East Helena. The transportation and treatment of this ore costs at present $75 a ton, but since the average assay is $264 a ton, there is a marginf or profit. . Ultimately Ulti-mately the product of the Slocan mines will go over the Canadian Pacific to Puget sound. ' The government has reserved re-served a townsite at New Denver, in this district, and at a recent government 6ale 100 of the lots brought $375 each. |