WEST SHORE.
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THB SILVER KINO.
Look at a map of Washington and British Columbia, and you will ob
serve the outlet upon the Columbia of the Eootenay river, not far north of
the British boundary; and there, a little to the eastward, joa will tee
Eootenay lake, a mirror set among the high alpa, and reaching away be
yond limit north and south. You will see that the lake has an arm branch
ing a score of miles westward, from which the river finds its course down a
stairway of white cataracts to the Colombia. And now look upward from
these nameless falls strung like great diamonds about the bases of the
southward hills the foot hills that spread from Toid mountain like the
rays of a star that reach outward from the central crags and snow fields over
the valleys of Cottonwood creek, 8almon river and the Kootenay.
Three years ago some Colville men were prospecting, and some of the
horses were lost. Two young half breeds went in search of them over the
high shoulder of the eastern spur In the deep snow. They found mineral,
and on the return of the party to Colville the specimens proved to be very
rich In silver. Rumor was soon abroad, and very early in the spring, upon
such slight clnes as were to be had, a party set out to discover, if possible,
where the mineral had been found. The original discoverers, the Hall
brothers and their party, Informed and helped them to such a degree that
they were presently Involved in a river trip that would take several weeks
at least, by way of the Columbia and Kootenay. Meanwhile the Hall party
set out overland, and took but very few days to reach the ridge of the east
ern spur, where they camped by what is, in sumnur, a lovely lake bordered
with alpine lilies, but then a deep snow field. Two hundred feet down the
north face brought them to where the stakes were planted of the Silver
King, the Kootenay Bonanza and the American Flag; and another pros
pector, who found the party in camp, located an extension called the Dan
dy. These, with the three locations made by Dick Fry, of Bonner's Ferry,
form the nucleus of the camp at an elevation of 5,400 feet above the sea.
Dr. Talmage says that we would
all be rich but the Lord can not trust
us. Still it is not pleasant to think
that the Lord can trust some of the
millionaires of this country in pref
erence to ni.Chnmiclt-TcUgraph,
AJ.?.n.T9.
BISHOP SCOTT ACADEMY,
POBTLAND, OREGON,
A lloudlnf and Day School for BoI
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City of Ellensburgh,
WASHINGTON.
Klltn.bnrfh, oounty aaat of Klttitu Co,
U a town that takaa iu irowth linoa bar
tart mo. Population lull, hsil of whom
out tht put yaar. Ita raaouroai ara, trot,
aanoultural! noond. Monk, tha tributary
rantta now tMdini UO.UJ0 bod. Mwarala
wall dmloptd art fold, uWr, ouppar.
lima, marbla, bnt the fraatatt It Iron, til
kuuta, or. aaaannf 40 to 86 ptr tank Kit.
tiua oounty it tha faofraphionl on tar at
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oounty, tht town Utt oantar of tot .allay.
Abundant raaooroaa to anpport t vary largo
town. Tht QDtTtraa! haliaf it that tht pop
ulation will aoual 1&.UD in a raw yaara.
Proparty hat doublad in Taint annually,
and UTaatmaDta mada now will bring four,
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sicians Is the ablest In the slate. It is composed of Dr. II. E. Jones, Dr.
W. Jones. Dr. K. McKemle, Dr. A. D. Ilsvan, Dr. J. Bell, Dr. W. D. Brat
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A depotit, supposed to be sixty feet wide, of copper ore assaying $400
per ton in silver, has been disclosed by a little digging, and this extends
3,000 feet. It is a treasury of gleaming violet with lustres of ruby and cobalt,
every fragment a jewel save the dull rough patches of brittle silver that de
face the surface. The peacock copper has from twenty-seven to forty per
cent, of the bulk, twenty-two per cent, is sulphur, nine per cent, water, and
earthy matter, and there are smaller quantities of antimony, magnesia,
nickel, Iron, gold and other minerals. From the summit of the mountain,
a bare crag at a height of 7,600 feet, the course of the Silver Kinj and Iro
quois ledges may be seen reaching across the forks of Glveout creek and
over the northeast spur some two and one-half miles. On the northern
slope extends the vast gold belt, looking down upon the Kootenay and
its cataracts, with hundreds of claims, in most of which free gold may be
seen in the quarts. Opposite, under a high crag on the north side of the
river, is a copper belt with ledges from 100 to 200 feet wide. Another gold
belt covers the eastern slopes of the mountains on Cottonwood gulch ; and
joining that is the fourth great mineral region of the camp, the galena belt.
Thus there are In one mining camp five distinct mineral districts totally un
like, and It would take too much space to tell of curious nickel and Iron dis
coveries and divers complicated ledges that give scope for the varied mis
information of " experts." This wild and lonely crag, the star of hills, so
rich a treasury of hidden wealth, the web of tangled torrents seeking the
Cottonwood, the Salmon and the Kootenay, these glittering streams them
selves, and the wide west arm that leads to Kootenay lake, seem to be set
at the nucleus of the world. Wide and wild, to north and south and east
and west, one stormy sea of hills, vast, dark, terrible I and behold the
crested seas beyond their gleaming waves of snow spectral beyond the
limits of the world, with glaciers and Ice fields reaching away, like the sea's
white tracts of foam, Into tin haze of white light Into the Infinite I
II. R. A. Focock.
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