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The Granite Mountain. Preparations are
being made to erect another mill on the famous
Granite mountain mine, in Montana. The com
pany has a cash surplus of $350,000.00, which
will be more than ample to put up a one hun
dred stamp mill of the best pattern. When
this is done, it is estimated that the mine will
earn $400,000.00 a month for its stockholders,
who are nearly all residents of St. Louis.
Gold Discovery on Wood River. A belt of
gold bearing quartz has been discovered on the
south side of Camas prairie, near what is called
the fir grove, in the Wood river region, Idaho.
The find is creating considerable excitement in
that region, and also attracting a good deal of
attention from prospectors. Already about
twenty claims have been located, and lots of
prospecting is being done. The ledges are said
to be well defined and rich in gold. Assays
showing $500.00 to the ton have been made.
Nevada Creek Placers. Some of the rich
est placer diggings found by the early miners
of Montana, were on Nevada creek, in Deer
Lodge county, but they were abandoned be
cause no water could be obtained to work them
profitably. A company of Helena men, of
which Col. Broadwater is president, has been
organized to work this ground by the hydraulic
process. The company owns six hundred acres
of land, and will bring water upon the ground
by means of an expensive ditch from Blackfoot
river.
Quartz Discovery at Katchez Lake. A. O.
Mer, J. A. Doll, E. J. Sharp and J. J. Sny
der reached Ellensburgh, W. T., a few days
ago, from a prospecting trip on the head waters
of Katchez lake. They met with considerable
success, and brought with them samples of ore
from three different locations, known as the
Last Chance, Hazel and Mountain Blossom.
They report a thirty-inch vein on the I-ast
Chance, assaying from $100.00 to (000.00 in sil
ver, but quite base. Hazel is about the same,
but no assay has been made of the ore taken
from this vein. The Hazel is supjwsed to havo
been located twenty years ago by a protector
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named Casto, as an old pick with decayed han
dle was found near it. It is said that Casto
took samples of his find to Fan Francisco,
where it was assayed and found rich in silver,
but the prosjwetor never returned,
Salmon River Reduction Works. Tho Sal
mon River Mill ft Mining Company has lccn
incoriwated at Tacoma. J. M. Buckley, as
sistant general manager of the Northern Pacific,
ex-Lieut.-Gov. Chas. K Lawton, U. R. Everett
and E. M, Hunt, of Tacoma, and C. G. Illglicc,
of St. Paul, aro named as t run tecs for the- first
six months. The capital stock is 150,000.00, in
one hundred shares. Tho company proves to
construct forty-ton reduction works ono mile
northwest of Salmon City, and havo them in
ojeration by early spring. They will sIho put in
a saw mill of twenty-five thousand feet capaci
ty, and will conduct a general miners' supply
st re. ThiB enterprise is just what is needed
to develop tho wonderful wealth of tho Salmon
river country. Hundreds of claims aro waiting
to turn their treasures into bullion, and next
year will, no doubt, witness great development
in tho Salmon river district.
Lakes Union and Wabiii.notom. The canal
connecting Lakes Union and Washington, on
tho northern boundary of Seattle, has at last
been completed. Tin canal is but a quarter of
a mile in length, but has cost (10,000.00. It
will Iks enlarged and improved until tint largest
steamers plying on Lake Washington can pass
through and corno to tho dock at Seattle. Its
chief business will lo the passage of K' from
J.akc Washington to tho mills on tho bay, and
a boom of one hundred and fifty thousand feet
was sent through tho second day after tho wa
ter was let in. On more than one occasion
government engineers and high ollicial havo
recommended that the government secure Mer
cer's island, in UVo Washington, f.;r a navy
yard, and construct a ship canal from Salmon
bay to I-ake Union, and from Lake Union to
Lake Washington, but up to this date the mat
ter has rested in tho recomnicnlalioiiA, so far
as tho government is concerned. Speaking of
the entei prise, one of the projectors remarked: