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Show O'Eaanasron 3Zillg. The Palmer district in O'Kanogan county is rapidly coming to the front. While there were only five stamps there last March, sixty-one are now dropping. Mills with an aggregate of 130 additional stamps will be in operation before snow flies. The formations on Palmer mountain moun-tain are distinct and clear in outline. On one slope the deposits are almost exclusively ex-clusively free-milling gold quartz; on the opposite slope it is free-milling silver with a small percentage of lead. George K. Stocker, one of the owners of the Black Bear mine, exhibited specimens speci-mens of free gold quartz taken from a vein on the 100-foot level of the Black Bear, that are among the richest ever found in that section. The rock carries heavy seams of free gold running from 100th of an inch to i-i6th of an inch. The Vulcan Iron Works, of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, has just finished a NEW MILL AT RUBY CITY for Thompson & Bourne, principal owners own-ers of the Free Thought and Arlington mines. Although the mill was built primarily to run on Free Thought ore, it is also a custom mill, for which there has long been an urgent demand. The mill is now in full blast. This plant comprises a concentrator and two Dodge mills, with a capacity of fifty tons a day. The Dodge mill differs from the ordinary quartz stamp mill as to the method of crushing the ore. By means of small iron balls and stones the Dodge mill acts as a pulverizer or gran-ulator. gran-ulator. A tramway has just been completed, 6100 feet long, for carrying ore from the Free Thought mine to the mill. Northport has hopes of GETTING A SMELTER. Mr. Burbridge, a San Francisco mining expert who is in the O'Kanogan country examining properties for a syndicate, is reported to have recommended thai place as the location for a plant to treat O'Kanogan ores. Around Northport activity in prospecting pros-pecting is displayed. The whole country coun-try is staked out between Northport and Little Dalles for placer and quartz mines. A prospector thinks he has found the "mother lode" of Mineral mountain just back of the townsite, and he and a companion are working at it with vigor. Most of those who have seen a specimen of the ore think there-is there-is nothing in it. The concentrator of the Old Dominion Mining company, at Colville, is working full time and earning a net profit of $500 a day. The monthly pay roll of the mine is $6000. |
