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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1883)
October, 1883. 244 THE WEST SHORE. I'M The development of coal mining on Puget Hound ii iccond only to the immense growth of in lumlicring industries. The three point! of shipment are Sca'.tle, New Tacoma and Belling limn bay. In the thirty yearn since coal was dis covered there have licen mined a grand total of l,8co,ooo Ions, the major portion, however, having been produced within the past few years. Seattle is the largest shipping point and the New castle mines the greatest producers. The growth of this great industry is Ust indicated by the iccord of shipments at Seattle since 1871 when the mines tributary to that city were developed. The shipments to October I, the present year, ex ceed the total of any previous year by more than 4,000 tons. The recoid shows as follows: 1 87 1 4.9'8 187a 4.30 " 1873 13 57a " 1874 9.027 " 1875 7.'5' " 1876 104.556 " 1877 ni.734 " 1878 128,581 ' 1879 3,i(S " 1880 UH.497 " 1S81 147.418 " 1882 IU,48 " 1883 to Oct. 1 155.35 " Another interesting feature of the exhibits men tioned is that the whole process of working the ore is shown from its raw state to the solid ingot. Some of the specimens are so rich at to almost take the form of nuggets, while others, though dull in appearance, are scarcely less valuable, and are representative of some of the best paying mines ; a striking illustration of this paradox be ing the Horn Silver mine of Utah, which has paid in dividends in fifteen months ,300,000; the Ontario with about 000,000 sterling in 87 dividends; and the Crescent, of Park City, pay ing in July 12,000 as a first dividend. Then for Montana there is the Parrott, owned by a private .... 1 e fr company, with a montniy dividend 01 x.0,000, one of the finest mines in Butte, with ,300,000 ore in sight ; the Lexington, owned in Pari?, de. done, no camp in Montana has a better showing. This summer a twenty-ton water jacket smelter was put up, and is now running in full blast on galena and other smelting ores with which this camp abounds. There was also erected oscillating works, for the purpose of treating the gold quartz of the numerous gold leads. A ten-stamp gold mill and two arastras are working in Wisconsin gulch, and they have plenty of good quartz to keep them running for a number of years to come. Thre is no doubt whatever in the minds of those who are now there that if more working facilities were introduced it would prove to be one of the best silver producing camps in Montana. The mines are all easy of access, and, so far, there has been no trouble with water. In fact, it is a poor man's camp. The foimation is principally daring in July 44,ooo dividends on six months' granite and slate, and higher up the mountain working; the Alice, with a gross product in seven lime and quartzite. Some of the richest leads months of 140,000 (dividends expected shortly) are lound in the lime, and none of them have the Drum Lumond. sold in London for over shown indications of giving out. In a few years, 1,000,000, wilh its estimated double that value of ore in sight ; the Bell, in Butte, one of the most promising mines in the territory: the Shoiibar; the Moullon, with about an equal output to the Alice; the Cable, one of the finest gold ledges in existence ; and the Anaconda, with equally rich copper ledger. As a copper pro- ucing district, Butte, Montana, will, it is pre icted, startle the mining world, and rival Lake Superior." Several years ago a rich silver quailz ledge was iscovcred in the Kicking Horse pass by J. J, II Grand total 1,182,601 " New Tacoma is rnpidly Incoming an impor tant point for the hipmcnt of coal, the product of the Wilkeson and Carbonado mines seeking an nutlet at that poiil, and cal hunkers of great capacity have recently been erected there. The Travonia, the mine where silver bearing cium! 1 was first ditcovcred in Summit valley. Molilalia, and whose shipments of rich ore to Newark first alluded the attention of capitalists to the lole.es of that legion and led to the growth of Hutle City, is now being thoroughly developed niter an idleness of a number of yeais. The magnificent exhibit of the varied ores of Utah, Montana and lduho at the eKiilion in Amsterdam is thus smkcn of by the London MtiitnfJwi mU: "Occupying a space of twenty. live squaie mclies in the main gallery of thi plincipal building may be seen over three Ions of siccimcns of minerals as choice at they aie vailed fiom the Rical mining centres of Utah, Montana and Idaho, in charge of Mr. A. Zcehandelaar, the commissioner apointed to represent these tcriiloiica, This admirably displayed collection is quite unique, and it admitted to be the best of its kind ever exhibited. The prime object of 111 attractive display Is not to show the beauty of the ores, which are found in such abundance in the localities named, at to give European! tome idea of the economical and commercial value of th minerals. The display it surrounded daily I experts of almost all nationalities, who have the benefit of carefully prepared description In three languages of each of the minerals, togelh with the assay, commercial and marketable value. when the mines are more developed, there is no doubt but that Georgia gulch will be lined with smelters.' About n month ago placer diggings were dis covered on the waters of the upper Yellowstone. The ground is now staked off for a distance of several miles up and down the river. Four mineit at Gardiner are averaging $150 a week, and many more in sums ranging from $3 to $10 per day to the man. There it much excitement in Eastern Washing- inn. Northern Idaho and Western Montana over . , .1 If I...- !l I - eaiy anu oiners, 01 momana, uui . u wa.su, digcoTerl.d nlacert in the Cccur d1. far removed from any point or shipment and sup- . mnllntain. and nalf . thousand men have plies it was practically wortniess, mougn me ieaa , . . h mountain wilderness to find a a large one anu supposed to oe exceedingly , - . )aCcr j:Rt;nK, have been rich. Now that the Canadian I'acihc railroad , . ... . mnnv reliabie men ienve o has been located through the pass this ledge it sha(1ow of dnubti hut thal half the men already rendered acccssihle ana vaiuaoie, ana tne ait- . nothing of the crcat numbers yet to 1 !-J - J - ' ' 0 - ... covereis nave orizaniicu wniuuuy, acmrcu lease from the Canadian government and are pre. paring to develop their bonanza as soon as the railroad reaches it. If the lead is hall as rich and extensive at reported the prospects for a large mining district in that tcctitn are extremely flattering. A first -class 20-stamp mill has just been opened on the Collar mine, in ine niamen uisinci, Montana. This marks a new era in the history of a promising camp that has as yet been prac tically undeveloped. It is now believed that Maiden district will soon become one of the regular bullion producers of Montana, arrive, will succeed in finding a paying claim is certainly a matter of great uncertainty where the diggings are necessarily limited. The mines first worked are on Pritchard, or Discovery creek, ana are said to have been discovered by a Dr. Pritch ard whose report" caused the Bitter Koot Blam- pede last June. This creek heads at tne mvioing line between Montana and Idaho and tunt west ward forty miles, emptying into the Creur d Alene The diggings are about thirty nines northwest ol Coeur d'Alene mission and teventy miles from Ralhdruin, Idaho. A town called Eagle Town hat been laid out and several busi nest firms have established themselves mere. Of the Tidal Wave district the Butte City it expected that 300 men will spend tne wimer ... Miner says 1 " Thit district is situated in Madl- the mines and that a great many more win wm ton county, Montana, in what it known at the in at early at possible in the spring, It Supplies taken in on Dack animalt, and bread tellt at one dollar per loaf, small piet fifty centt each and flour at twenty dollars per hundred, ray oin extendi for twenty-five milet up and down Dis covery creek and along the tributary ttreamt and gulchet and hat been found on www u . river itself. The first parties to reach the mines (Ti,.r.i ,. r th claim, but OS the Tobacco Root range. It is a comparatively new camp, the oldest location being made in 1881. In 1S64 considerable work was done by prospectors who were looking for gold. At the cost of trans, portation was too heavy in those days, any. thing but gold was valueless to them, and the consequence was that silver, lead, copper and Ahr m.nratft.vtffri abandoned. In 1881. work ing facililiet being better, the camp was again ground was quickly absorbed at that rate, there orosivected for tilver. and with eood success. At but little doubt that ere thit the new comert have ili i.rm-ni time then are at least a hundred pood "regulated" thai matter, as hat been the custom oavinir Drosoects. and new leadt are being struck in all placer diggingt on the coast tince '49- Ju,t every day. Assays may be had from tome of I how extensive and valuable these new digg'fg them at high at $6,000. The veint are all de-l are will not be fully demonstrated Delore fined, and for what development there hat been summer.