March, 1883.
THE WEST SHORE.
61
There is much activity in the quarti and hy
draulic mine near Canyon City, Oregon. Pros
pects for the coming season are extremely favor
able. Work will soon be resumed on the Broadway
mine at Silver Star, Montana, by its English own
ers. The mill will be fitted up with new ma
chinery. A tour-foot vein of iron ore has been discov
ered in Beaver valley, Columbia county, Oregon.
Coal and timber in unlimited quantities exist
near by.
A rich gold-bearing quartz ledge was recently
discovered near Shasta, California,' and the dis
coverers relused an offer of $10,000 for their loca
tion of 3,000 feet.
The coal mines now being opened near Livings
ton, Montana, are 'the first discovery of true
bituminous coal on the line of the road. Exten
sive yards will soon be opened.
The Wellington and Nanaimo collieries, on
Vancouver island, B. C, sold 282,139 tons of
coal in 1882, an increase of nearly 50,000 tons
over the output of the previous year.
Work is being vigorously pushed in the new
coal mines at Madison, twenty miles from llcpp
ner, Umatilla county, Oregon. The region will
be thoroughly prospected this spring.
The Douglas Quicksilver Co. has lieen incur
ported in Portland with a capital of $100,000, to
deal in mining lands and operate cinnabar and
other mines in Douglas county, Oregon.
A new seam of solid hard coal, five feet thick,
has recently been opened in the east Wellington
colliery, Vancouver island. It is supposed to be
a continuation of the main Wellington seam.
A rich body of ore has been opened up in the
Red Jacket mine on War Eagle mountain, near
Silver City, Montana. The Black Jack and Em
pire State, on Florida mountain, are also in good
ore.
Very favorable reports are received from the
quartt mines near Britlon Station, twenty-five
miles from Baker City, Oregon. Several heavy
sales have been made, and quarti assays show
exceedingly rich ledges.
George Simmons has sold his interest in the
mines near Waldo, Josephine county, Oregon, to
Wimer 4 Sons for $20,000. This property has
been paying regular dividends, and is one of the
best mines in the State.
The estimated yield of quart and placer mines
of Tefferson county, Montana, In 1882, was
$600,000. The Mountain Chief, Chilllcothe,
Venus, Alta Montana and Comet mines all con'
tain fine bodies of ore.
A quarti ledge eight feet wide was recently dis
covered in JclTcnon county, Montana. The ore
is very rich in native silver. A third interest
was purchased for $S,ooo, for which $15,000
have since been refused.
Last season about 200 men worked in the
placer claims around Haitisburg, Alaska, The
extent of the pay gravel is unknown, but it b
from three to twenty feet in thickness, and lies in
the high banks or benches.
The Janet Gold Mining Co. has been organ
Ited at Olympia, W. T., with capital slock tit
Gray's harbor. The process is secret, but is sup
posed to lc Edison's magnetic principle.
A few promising quarts ledges have been found
nmr I line 1'UIim, the uivmmiI terminus ol the
Northern Pacific, ninety miles northwest of Mis
soula, Montana. Quite an excitement has sprung
up, and many locations have been made.
E. P. Bacheldor has been working the beach
sands twenty miles north of Gray's harbor, W.
T., for three years The gold Is very fine, and
not more than fifty per cent, has been saved,
though with a new machine he expects to do
much better. 1
Water on the bars of Eraser river is lower
than ever known by while residents, large
tracts of auriferous gravel are now bare, that
were covered with water when miners swarmed
along the river in 1858. If any one has faith in
Eraser river bars, now is his opportunity to test
them.
The discovery has been reported of a quart!
vein In Southern Alaska 200 leet wlile, winch
will net from $$ to $8 per Ion. Other rich
ledges exist in the same district. Wood and
water are convenient, It Is reKirted that San
Francisco and New York capitalist are preparing
to take up machinery this spring,
The gold product of Montana from 1K61 lo
1881, inclusive, is estimated at $103,300,000.
The output from 1872, when silver was first
woiked to any extent, to 1 88 J, inclusive, wis
$50,441,681, being about one-third silver. The
copiwr product, wlilch Is now several millions 1
year, is not included in these figures.
A practical miner reports the condition of
twelve out of some fifty locations in the Wallace
piarlt mining district, and says that if ore mills
25 per cent, of the assay value it is Imund to be
one of the best districts in Montana. It lies
about three miles from the line of the Northern
Pacific in Western Montana, and is well supplied
with wood and water,
A rich strike has been mode In the Cable
mine, near Butte City, Montana. The ledge Is
forty feet wide, assays from $60 to $75 er ton,
exclusive of nuggets found in profusion, and
enough ore has been blocked out lo run the thirty
stamp mill a year. A piece of ore weighing 150
pounds was recently taken out, so full of nuggets
as to be valued at $6,000.
According lo Wells, Fargo & Co. '1 circular, ihc
value of metals produced In 188 west of the
Missouri, Including British Columbia, Alaska and
the west coast of Mexico, amounted lo $92,411,'
835, divided as follows) Gold, $30,10 3,355 1
silver, $50,155,2881 copiwr, $4.55J7 I lead,
$8,008,155. This includes only what lias passed
through the company's hands.
Ilecla Company, Montana, Is now working Ih
Atlantis No. 2, Silver Quarti, Sheep and Fissure
mines on Lion mountain. The Cleopatra mine
at 6(0 feet from the surface shows vein of
twenly feet, that assays 109 ou nces of silver and
pan have been discovered. The country Is dilli.
cult of access, as the Vunkon is not free Irom k
until June, and an overland Journey la add ami
drcaiyi yet hardshi have never daunted the
persevering gold-srcker, and cold and ice will not
keep him out of the interior of Alaska.
The miners of Eastern Oregon have labored
under the disadvantage of a Nek of capital and
the great exens of bringing suitable machinery
ujHin the ground, With the oening up of com
munication both east and west by the O, 8. L,
and 0. K. & N, Co., both of these disadvantage
may be removed, if an ctlort is made by mint)
owners lo do so. A mining atMiciation at
Baker City would accomplish much for that re
gion.
The galena ledges of Ilia Kootenay region are
reHrted lo be fabulously rich. A gentleman re
cently came In from there with exceedingly rich
specimens, and retmrtcd a ledge loo feel in thick
ness, In which there were J 50, 000 Ions of ore In
sight. Capitalists are trying lo secure a charter
from the Assembly of British Columbia to build
railroad and otierale a steamlHsai line on tha
Up)er Columbia, to njien up this valuable rcglon.
It is rich in agricultural lands and timlwr as well
as minerals. The Koolenay country lies on built
sides of the International line, where' Idaho and
Montana unite, Koolenay lake bclni north
of the line and In British Columbia.
The heaviest sale of mining property In the
vicinity of Helena, Montana, was ellecled in
February, The Drum l.uininun mine was ills
Mned of to t-ondon capitalists for $1, 610,000,
part of which has been jwiri and potsculon of
the property given. The new owners are lncor
Miralcd as the Montana Company, and promise
to build a fifty-stamp mill, ami run a tunnel to
tap the ledge at a depth of 500 feel. Five hun
dred thousand dollars have been set Aside lo de
velop the mine, ll Is Iwlievrd thai this I but
the beginning of heavy investments In Montana
mines, as there are many valuable Icdgea In lit
hands of men who have not the capital lo work
(liein, which will be furnished by companies) pre
pared to develop llicin iiiorougiuy.
Rail, River and Road.
TIio iifw round umm and a cur mIhmI
Imvu Ihh'Ii (Kimpli'UMl In Witlliihi,
Thu Mtiw'liuiii mt'k tuiini I In tlm llluu
mountain will I (Hiiiiili'ltl In April.
Tim Nlnmlunl giuiKi' trnrk U all htld lm
twMtn Wnllii Wullu himI Hint) Mountain
Htutloii,
Thu Cowllt rivr In Udng uleared nf
iiiikm nil)! other olmtrui'tlmiM by mittim of
KUllt MiWJiT.
Klglit of tlitt 11 in t illnliiK'Mom fans r
Mug built at thu I'ulliimn aliniM fur Hi
Northern I'twllli; mmI.
KiIiii tndUllit are talking of at imw
36 pei cent', in leL A large body of good 0,. IlKhtdru.lKhl ....I jrW ..l,
I lu.t kA Jamais tlaaal Silttf Maul 1 tart I a. .
has been blocked out in ll Silver Quarts, which "V ....
ill be held In reserve. The HecU's output I A fill liew whinner, I lirLten! th
nearly $100,000 per month. .Vitf'r- Jloy , won litum litl at houttl IU-imI,
Reports from Alaska ...thai y mile, up the ';"u -, MU ..
Yukon river, at its function with the Turunnsn, 1 IM tol'l Hprlng UrniM.wood It. 11
$1,000,000, to work the black beach aanda of I ealwsiv. gravel deposit averaging $l,)0 lo lUlX,liajoi,UorglUillloUlllUlllaouuty