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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1889)
WKST SIIOKK. JIKI nix to I'ightwn dollar per ton, and requiring cxpeii xive machinery to work it. Although there in gold enough on the inland to pay off the national deht, ut ono mine, the Trvadwell, liita Imvii developed into a pay ing inntitution. In 1S82 John Treadwcll, a miner from San Kran eineo, came into Southcantern Alacka an a pronprtor. The I milium conducted him to the " ltanin," junt acrona from tin' inluiul, where miggetH had lrii found. Not weeing what he thought would pay for working he went to louglnn, and iiiiiong other proicrtic wannhnwn a ItK'ution of one " French I'ete." Hcing hard up Pete offered to nell for four hundred dollarii. Mr. Treadwcll made the purchaxe and returned to enlint capital In the enterprine. The next year he nueceeded in erect ing a ten ntiunp mill. A year' run wan no natinfaetory that A one hundred and twenty Mump mill wait put up. In 1SHS thin wa enlarged to a two hundred and forty utauip, making it the largont in the world. Here timid giant employ the nurplun water to wah off the nnr face of the ledge preparatory to mining, while the main ntream in conveyed in underground pipe to a Knight' water wheel attached to the machinery. The water nupply availahle la alut miner' Indie. A long tunnel run front the mill, tapping the ledge ;itl feet Mow the outcrop. Shaft have U-en mink from the nurface into thin tunnel and are lined an chute The plan of mining in to hhtt the tinrti mc and convey it hy thenechuten intothetuiinel, when'it in loaded on car and hauled to the mill. Two great, yawning hole, neeuiingly hottomlcnn pit, have leii hlantcd out, and a third will lie licgiin ere long Klcetric light illum inate the pitn and tunnel and the work never ntop for dark lien. The Ihirlelgh drill lake the place of the nledge drill of other day. Thl drill i operatetl hy compremted air, ftirnUhcd hy engine and conveyed hy hone. Two men manage ihi apparition, carrying It from Hiint to oiut and drilling holm ten to twelve 1 & m k Al.lH lll ' " ,',1':r;:;:,r,T,: rtiii ' 1 - 'tyv; Tr"";1" aiH.ui f mm xr ion. in oim , ; . . ., ,r A th liravy Mt ar dl- rain and nhine, Sunday and ry da h, - , I ami fall rln- working alternately two we,k day nh ft a d w w K night .hilt, hut the h,lge ,n practically u,uU, , I ,l ( uMimil,(lllt and the owner have . lifetime ...coine. ; prf rBf Theaix hn r,l horne , "",;::r, r J,,,,,,,; , , ,n,derou ma, h.nery in furni-h, hy ..I f j mountain ntr..amn. A ditd, ru nmg " 1 j TrK r , of the IJidge" an .n ug lLUe, U. -d of ,U , tapping hnh riw-k, Ka.e ml, U , ((f ,,,, Tll(( . ,, numeroua nniallermoiin.a.n Mr...... J wMlll it ,J w ,..,,, thin W in pr, of conn, r,, t, on, and I w Will U. n,,iW to complete 1, w, , k ) , , ,,,. )( U ,Ul) WU. , ,h".',,M i f . l unl .irr. f ..irr r. .. Into .U f.l.uir, .did r-n k the entire water nupply of th ' I ,, wfc ,r of the inland Ucnveyd in W h.. . . ( Jw ,,, tU , , hundrHl and twenty f.-l lv A