The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 2, 1899, Page 3

"i oo Pwr ee ap Rt e 4 LUCKY HITS AT ROSSLAND PUuph, the, Bilal nous MAEDA INDEX, Oct, With the exper American, Mining News inks ome Unsolic ted to any danger shenals misundbratodd —_ Regarding the nuniber of “While pallrond stocka have been ning Cam y In thin Way the boat would be und pr to continue work it tem a panteky nevers y Karty Wistery of the Le Rol, War man, and in every way for short dis q my y ni with the camp that not leas than 49 ranges ati vette we erent Worth 60,000,000, Firet Sot tor der the usual condition of ferry boata A cromout was trade in the Jumbo velopment canted on Thene will 4 mining sheren. Incr 4 trad BIT.5O — Paupers Became Mitton: the electricity would @ive great ad- tur me of the Copp probaly include the Bunset, Calu ing te full ter t bac ig \ batanes ie Average namayn Were made t sat are Hell, 1 detiendent wil the er outpute from ‘. . Sa he company will also buitd a J. M. Dawley & Co, of the three-for our, Uncle Sam, Copper King, thet, «mines euIniner Reason im birta Hiten Grlihae eae tarie number of electric laanches for pay streak gave returns of $12.40 Db, Pro some, Retaty omink 9 biggest boom In cee hace wate waa Mag aul s boats wil tonal laree amounts of of eimht feet from the foot wall gay ¥ ail winter it will be o big are golnk that - iG are pays! copper in thelr electrical equipment 4.13 gold, 66 Conte aliver, and 62 per thing i make the activity fallroads stocks ore # rut of oa hy. wage for ebstory work, which ipper, Waking the total $26.87 even greater than it in new, Ther favor, They have had their (onings, at confrobth them. All the en tunnel where this ore wna. taken Will net be #o large ® Hoatiog popus ond the # tive 4 investing Stipe are flourishing and there is a fram ja Only 16 fest in lenath. lation in the district, probally, but public are Ache change. And = pes nee ton eee per Be Ose “ Phe Copper Hell has Just finished 4 those who are here N be of the hange that promines to enrich mao oa darth: tech tas abate Pee hye erosacut tunnel 20 feet in benatth right Kind--men who are putting rlainiy than mecurial rativead re Ghee cole one vainhe heck 2 nt where they struck a large body of forth every effort to make f curities is doubly welowme at acme Wer bbiak, teen +3 iene ore, whitch proves the pay shute to ‘The camp is getting an enviable re lime, when the money market ie un- witha g De 14 feet In width, thie prowtr tiation on the out because of the veually tight and the fegeien contin thout any exertion on their part Copper Hell to be a mir evident desire to push the work an gent of buyers ja ev A by appr There is, of course, a great deat of body was struck at Che ® It should be done, and becaune there henalon ~ Ha cl la the element of chance in all mining Gan ine cen i A Bee aa are e0 very few proportions lacking ees tatethat eur ved ning a Men seem to “Ket there” the one on the Copepr Bell, This ta merit, ‘Phe summer's k haw had New York mactediainn ba . din hie os py sk~ attrdl ad nia veh That the Index mining district ts convincing proof that where depth the affect of proving to investare t counted the effects of a Bouth Afr be rapidiy coming to the front is being is gained in the Index district good stability of the camp, as well ant can wer 1 y have had ample time Senhinracae dete conte — ong demonstrated by the news of larae shipping ore in found depth and uniformity of the ore t to mend their fene on the polltt ese ads obama y byron age tamil Airikes being made in the properties Mining men thin district iad ten, Ut in probably the fact clane way, and #Ajuet thetr affairs e te, n te which surround the district, Hardly atined to beeer ne of a more than 6.000 feet of ground lo clrgumetances, There may be a cause of its overpopulation a day pransen anime new ettiiee or copper producing sections in. th been broken here within the past six ympathetic furry should actual » unfortunate idiers find is betn and the system. word, and the interest nd enthual- months, a showing that will ompare hostilities begin, but our flnancler® en Years ago no one dreamed of atic deve rork whieh tw be. sam that ts being manifested by rep+ very wel haome campe years end traders bave no sound reason for vast treasure contained in ing done in the distetet ts suffielent to resentatives of large capital from all f than this, The announcement rertous alarm of even affected de k and lofty mountaina déemonbtrate that Index is destined tions of the vuntry es creating @ the county Ppondens A war in Bouth Africa ench Canadian proepe re found to bee of the greatest mining stinuous demand f good proper they will at of horrible an it Ista contemplate, an i and yp nied to centtrs in this state,Inuustry and slof there mines are now through from he rrible as it may be in results, can . tn one day they Mining ive dividend payers.—Seaitie tance of name not fail to have a benefieta ton t present rich mines, Le a stimulating « the trade and commerce of this cour War Farle and Center Star, 2 100-foot tunnel wan tet here on last Uy. Great Britain will want supplies Having no money for recording pur: Raturday by the owners of the Ka ee ee ieee te cus wes, they offered a man in an ad- fon, located above Galena, and this weaghite tar tie Agate te ig nt settlement his choice of the uid not have been done 1 nent hed: Goeaanheeelsineep varies claims for the recording fe hie chose the Le Boi. Thus a mine now computed at $9,000,000 first 1 for tie The Frenchm men of no ntoney, considere: $46, 000 whieh they finally got out of the elaime to be a fair cleanup, yet to- day their hiltside Is calculated to have @ producing power of $15,000,000 yearly under improved working con- ditions, A year or two after the lo- catirig of the « an American reneral came in, bringing along hia cook. This cook is the father of Rossland and the man for whom the tewn ie named He staked out th nt townsite, and has fe it stakes an exeetlent inveatm far having made some $306,000 out of the sale of real estate Such instances are nothing. hov ever, in a country where paupers be- come millionaires within a year. Two years ago a miner in Rossland was burrowing @ few cents to get food, while the otter day he was enter- taining Spokane, the mecea ers who have made thelr « , a large ball, Twenty-four months and the miner is worth $2,000,000. Some curtous stories are told of the Le Rot mine. For instance. & taller, doing business in Spokane, had a Rossland customer who want- ed a suit of clothes, but had nothing to pay with, save shares of the Le Rol, then unheard of. After persua- stom the tatlor gave the Rosslander a sult and received 6,000 shares of La Ret. He put them away and for- get about them until months later, when « mining friend asked him to invest a trifle In developing @ gold eiaim. “Not mach,” sald the tailor. “T was only in ome mining deal in my Wi and I got hung up for a forty- dotiar suit. Got paid with « let of lit ep cat ui i2.3f riche all the shares as an equivalent. To do this the first bad to make out that the animal s ailing and unfit to race any more. Summer coming on Mt turned ow? that he had led, and the horse that season won §2,500 The second partner got furious, wished his sha at the devil, and started to sue his partner. Not long after this the second man sold his 46,000 shares for % a share, thus realising $268,000 from an original amount of $100. —American Miping News, TO HAVE COPPER EQUIPMENT Large Amount of Red Metal De- manded for Its Machinery. Copper enters so latgely into all electrical machines that anything tending to show their increase in size and number is of interest to its min- ere and manufacturers. Our readers will, therefore, learn with pleasure that the ‘Electrical Boat Company” of New Jersey, which has just been incorporated un. der the laws of that state, is about to build a large ferry boat to be oper- ated by electricity instead of steam. A late issue of the Marine Journal thus details the advantages of such & boat: “Electricity for propulsion of ferry boats is now being practically calculated upon on the Delaware, and many advanges and much econ- omy will result from its use. It will, for instance, save the fuel wasted when fires are being kept up, as they always must, while the boat is walt- ing in her slip, for a steamboat must be provided with engines and boll- ers for her highest speed and this, in the case of a ferry boat, can only be used @ emall part of the time “With an electrical equipment and ntorage batteries the batteries can be charged while the boat is in her siip, and @ great deal of space ne- cessary for steam machinery saved, besides clearing the vessel! of smokes stacks, lessened vibration and de- creasing the necessary crew “The control gear would also be put in the pilot house, which would be a most important and valuable feature, as simply by turning a 33323332333 4555doob So oSoooSooo SS 33333833333333% 33383338 $333292293222422 ‘The large copper mines of Arizona are nearly a ameociated with Heme stone; (hose of Hutte, Montana, are ® granite; those of Lake @upe in congtomerate, sandatone and dia- bare, th ¢ om mica rebint; th Shasta county, Cal In quarts porphyry; those of Idaho mostly In diorite Reference: ss According to best local there je no grounds for any esoeatian that copper will decline. It is regard ed by some weil posted authorities that 20-cent copper, while not @ prob- ability, right away at least, ie cer- tainly aa much « possibility as 19 of 12-cent copper. It te pointed out in proof of this that the foretan sity: tion is but Httle changed. All the for eign users of the metal are and have been for months running on short stocks and holding off, wherever It ‘was possible, large contracts, In hopes of a drop in the price of the metal, These contracts have yet to be filled, and stocks mhust be repiene iehed.—Copper Situation, The agriculturists In the wine- making districts of France huve united In a movement for the repeal of the tariff on sulphate copper, which In extensively used to protect the grapevines against black rot and mildews, In periods of heavy rains, says the American consul at Lyon the vines sometimes require five treatments, at an aggregate expense of from $2 to $2.60 per acre. Now that the use of copper has increased a further raise in the cost of blu Vitrol will ensue, hence the mov ment for the reduction of the duty. The imports of copper sulphate in- to France from the United States in 1898 amounted to 31,468 metric tons, an against 30,909 tons in 1887, 34,689 tons in 1896, and 24.641 tons in 1895, The committee of the French chamber of deputies has reported af- vernely toa reduction of the customs duty, as France is not « producer of copper and would have to depend largely on the United States for hee supplies, po-o4 sssesetatititaetit? HHH HHH SEATTLE NATIONAL BANK. Agents Wanted Everywhere. a cients First Regular Shipments. On August 29 the first remular ship- ment of ore was made from the Bun set mine, which also was the fest of any regular shipments from the In dex district, Thin company is now nonding down gud quantities of ore dally, and will ship at least 13 cars per month SSSittsttettiststitissestt 3 30,000 SHARES OF OPPER BELL For Sale at 20 Cents a Share This property consists of nine full claims, close to the Great Northern Railroad, and the owners have refused $200,000 for the group. For investment we know of nothing more assuring. This is another Index enterprise, and invites the closest investigation. $100 dollars has made a fortune more than one invested in Copper Bell, it would make cnormous profits. We believe it. JOHN E. McMANUS & SON: 918 Second Avenue SEATTLE, WASH. HERMITE eee OOSCOOOOOD invention for producing gold- ey from copper and antimony, ented in Germany, covers a me- ile alloy to take the place of gold, which, even If exposed for some time to the action of ammontacal and acid vapors, does not oxidize or lose ite gold color, It can be rolled and worked like gold. The alloy con- sists of copper and antimony in the approximate ration of 100 to 6, and te produced by adding to molten cop- per, as soon ae it has reached a certain degree of heat, the sald per. of antimony When the an- ikewine melted and en- tered into intimate union with th copper, some charcoal ashes, mag- nesium and lime spar are added to the m when the latter is still in the crucible, The Sunset Mining Company of Index is the first mine to commence shipping ore to the smelter The work on this mine has been handled in a thoroughly business-like man- ner, and while others were regrett- ing the lack of transportation facill- tles from their mines to the railroad the Sunset people set to work and built a tramway, which is now in op- eration. Last week the company shipped its firet carload of ore to the amelter, and Thursday evening of this week three more carloads ar- rived. These cars will average from $600 to $900 each. From this time on shipments will be made every week and will come at the rate of one car- Jou! a day, It is only a question of a few months until the Sunset will become a dividend payer and as soon an it does it will mean an advance in all legitimate mining stoeks, as it will attract the attention of mining men all over the country to this min- ing district.—Dverett News, iii tia ibis not been w falr ead through nit ier . ave of 010 per to break gro t Will be seen what these long tunnel contracts mean to the merchants of the wection and the state, for many men must be employed. The butld- ne of the wagon road for thin dix tance will have the effect of rousing owners to push work in nections of the Matrict, Hitherto Galena haa been practically out of the race be cause she could neither get ore out nor supplies In without extraordin ary expense.—Reattle Pl ; probably if that amount were Paiitttsssstistttiey Pitted ‘The Copper Betl—What seems des. tined to be one of the biggest mines of the district is the Copper Beli There is on the Copper Bell proper @ 20-foot crosscut tunnel, @ 14-foot ft, and some considerable dritt- ing from the bottom of the jatter, ‘This work bas demonstrated abso- lutely that there is an ore shoot at least 14 feet in width, and that it is 180 feet in height. Only one wall has been found as yet, with the 14 feet of solid ore. When work waa begun here they sank a 14 foot shaft in the ore cropping a short distance up the mountain, and from the bottom of this shaft drifts were run in both directions, the one five and the other neven feet. Every foot of this work is in ore that will run all the way from 7 to 40 per cent. copper, with some value in gold and silver Then they dropped down the hill 150 feet and began a crosscut, to Teach the ore at a depth, the work continuing @ distance of 200 feet be- fore the footwall was encountered, When they broke through this they found ore, and they drove through It 20 feet wittwut any diminution of the body or decreasing of values. There are now on the two dumps here fully 1,000 tons or ore that will average over 10 per cent. copper. Farther up the hill ts the Jumbo lead of the same property, showing on the surface 40 feet in width, When in something over 16 feet on the 40- foot tunnel small streaks of red ox- ide of copper made their appearance, and these have been increasing tll there in now a m averaging over three Inches on the footwall, while in the crosseut ot Intervals consid+ erable deposits are found, thus givs ing rise to the impression that on the hanging wall will be found a deposit of this species of copper ore of some magnitude, This is borne out by the fact that some distance above the tunnel, and on the hanging wall, a shot was put in and uncovered solid red oxide. There has been very mea. ger occurrence of this in the whole camp, the Calumet being the only property where it has hitherto been f 1 in any quantity, and that its appearance is hatied with delight may be inferred when it is known that it will carry over &8 per cent. copper. The gangue here is a clean quartz, carrying copper as well as an auriferous iron pyrite, having goed value. The Copper Bell now has the appearance of a mine.—Seattle P.-I. lines of Industry active and spur the energies of manufacturing and trans tion companies, All t n rk and wages for the mr es and the usual increment for by capital The effect upon the mining indur- try, which next t ure is the main base of national wealth, must neturally be stimulative. The war <1 clone one of the greatest sour the world’s goid supply. mines are getting Inte such @ shape that wes t output of Ke districs in the same—rich strikes hel pital abundant for develo labor conditions easy and rex and an expanding area of mineral bearing territory. Since the days of 4 there never wae anything $ like the universal mining enthusiasm that we find in the country today: there never were so many and im portant gold Wisceveries, nor so many men with brawn, brains and money ready to avall themselves of the golden opportunities of the min- ing industry Consequently, whether ralln stocks go up or down, whether th ere ruled by nentiment ynsideration: mine owners and investors in min may view the situation without alarm. We can keep on digging gold, copper, silver, lead, sine, an iron, whieh constitutes the chief ¢s- sentials of modern warfare aa well as the moat useful adjuncts of peace and prosperity, and absorb the ac- cruing profits with customary alace rity and cheerfulness” oe The Future of Mining. The news from all parts of the state in which mineral abounds is of the most encouraging character. De- velopment has very quickly respond- ed by affording results which justify the expectations of the most san- gulne prospector, Next year wil! witness one of the greatest mining booms ever known in this country, While many will be tempted to the ready diggings of Cape Nome, the Speculative will find jn the Cascades a_ certain wealth, Times are y much chang- ed since confident miners would core down from the mountains earnestly pleading for a few dollars with which to buy sufficient food and a lit- tle dynamite to prospeet their dis- covertes. It i# not so long ago that a mining expert sent over from one of the older miping states contempt- uously observed that there was nee a mine in the state of W: It is true we had nothin pect holes, but perseverance bas turned those prospects Into mines whose output affords profitable re- turns, There are hundreds of mines now in the state of Washingt the mouth of whose tunnels li quantities of ore awatting shipment in the spring. With limited means but with undaunted confidence, emall bodies of men have hammered away at the rock until they have dumped sufficient quantities to invite the at~ tention of the byyer for the smelte the tramway contractor and the rat road builder, It will surprise very many people to know that tunnels over 2,000 feet long have been driven in this state, Not only is this true, but very many tunnels have been run in from 400 to 1,000 feet. All this work ts bound to tell, and next year will witness the telling. If only one-tenth of the number of mines now showing great ore bodies should be worked suff ciently to produce returns, the ‘wealth of this state will be immens ly augmented. We have no bonanzas but we have such vast bodies of low grade ore that the certainty of long-continued wealth is beypnd question.-Seattle P.-L, | ,