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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1887)
012 THE WEST SHORE. ore helonging to the Portland company, ami I showing a good yield. A twerity-ftamp mill ill erected at"it the firt of NovemUr, hy tlie fJrcgon Hold Mining Co. Thi comjtany lit in Irx line 1;k n it ledge two hundred and wvcfify-five feet, and ha thirteen litiii!rI ton 4 off In night. (ioM predominate, ltit it car He aome filvr. Tin' Alia No. 1 ha an incline of two hundred feet an-l tdiow high grade ore. Alta No. 2 i down one hundred feet, all in good on-, Ped Jacket in down fifty feel, and Ihe ri hct on yet found in tin- camp. The Pore! (Jucen ha in lino fifty bi-l, tunnel forty fi-ct, ari l ii foot vein. One ton of ort worked at Omaha hut fall yielded r.l2.ft. Tin Allen A Co wan the firt discovered in tin camp, Mr. Allen pounding "t. ith a mortar, 1 1 !KUt from Iwenly-flve pound of ore. It ha a one Imii dred ami thirty-five-foot tunnel, tapping a f ur ft ledge. The ln:iiijt.i group ha four claim oned from fifty to wvehtyfive feet, all how ing high grade on, ami come of rcmarkahle richne. Tin Simmon group are the I-! de-vctoM-. The Whitman ha one hundred and ten men at work. Work i plenty; wage f'.V.Vl outi.i and f.l.V) underground. Me hanic get fninl.riilo.vm-ri!ar." Kouti.my Mii . Pciurhing prHrtor from Koiitenay lake, It. C, rert the mining outlook in that region a very good. There are ahout fifty juarti location, all showing galena cropping, while a have lcn 0-hcd up to a ilepth (if from twenty to wvctity fcet,ej hihiting ore continuously from the mirface ilow n. lie riii Carrie alit ( ! feet of olid gale na of a low grade ore, eight to ten ounce oil ver, other howing from eight imhc to two feet of ore, rim ni nit from thirty to one hundred aii'l thirty oumv, w hile tin " Krao M ha t wo vein, one twelve an. I the other eight feet wide, the ire Icing Uith galena ati'I rarhonate, the latter cUm, in aome instance, running' a high a f it teen littnlnt ounce, while the galena or rum acatti-red throughout the vein ami iof low grade. A tiew li-tri t, a!ut thirty mile aotith of thU ramp, ti.t lm iliot-ovrrvil thi fpririjr, hyCJi!!e artie, one vein Wtt alout three fertarA ami ram in)? a nprr nulpliMe ore aM)inB alut eighty five tinr silver, while another ha aUmt ri!tt fwt of ore nmnirijf fnm iiteen to forty-five nine nilver, anl pretty heavy in rt.pj r. Two uliipmenta of rar!orute ore were ma-le from thi elaltn, nf lt pin' to I'utte, an I ai4)ing two humlre-l an l ritity. even urKfi ;lwr an l fiy three jr ont. leJ; Uks otler to rurtlaml, rarryinj; two hun dml inl forty-four ounrea pilver and fifty-two jer rent leal. Water lia put a top to ojvtiing thi claim until maehinery can 13 put up for pumping iro-. The mine are alut eighty mile north of Maho Territory and ninety mile fuiith of the Canadian Parific railroad, a hranrh of whih i now l-eing urveyeJl to Kotenay lake, and will ! the mean of owning up a vatt and totally unproHjeetcd wntion. t ill aoiitli of thi plaiv, and on the American nile of the line, i the new camp of Metaline, whore more fralena ore i in ni'ht on top of the trround than any H-mm who ha viited there ha ever w n U-fore, the ore, however, rarryinj? only alioiit eijjht ounce nilver. All I hem- ramji art n-aclul from Sand Point, on the Northern Pa cific railroad, hy water courw and a few mile of mountain trail. fjoio Savino Maciiim:. Much interest i felt all over the Pacific eoat in the qiiehtion of mining the flour tfold found on the ocean lach and along the har of the Snake, Frawr and other river, when the gold i o fine, and the and o heavy, that it ha lecn hitherto imjio Hihle to mine to advantage. The llawjt .( VaU Uy, of Mountain Home, I. T., thu dewril' the new machine in uh then1, which apear to la the "long felt want" of the earn! miner: " Thew machine are a simple of eontniction a they are durahle. At the head of the ma chine i an ample hoper, and from thi the trravcl paxne into a large cylinder, alout four feet long and twenty inche in diameh-r, and into a coarw, htrong Nnni. The wreen i made fat to the cylinder, which make from forty to fifty revolution jn-r minute, the flange on the outnide carrying the how lder and coarne gravel out through a out at the oj'ixjfite end, and to one hide of the plate, w hile all the small er i-article are forced through into the cylinder, or machine projT. The infide of thi cylinder i crip-rdinel, and conttnict4Hl like an auger, three-inch eop-r flange working from the head of the machine, making a dintamv of one hundred and forty feet to le traveled hy the fund, from it entrance into the machine until it i di hargel onto the tahle. Tlie innide (4 thi m-n-w cylinder, like a hattery, i charge with ijuickiilver, h that every article of gold i caught a it come in contact with the plate, while tumhling and rolling through hy the rev olution of the machine. Through the center of the machine, a1o, run a rforated inm pij', though which aUut an inch and a half of wa ter can l lftv with jm! preture, the trong ji-ta ai.ling the " digi ntion " of the tnachino hy