October, 1883.
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THE WEST SHORE.
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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
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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,
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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
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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.