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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1901)
"fPfPU 'li3FliPWlWWlj! rt-4V V"SfTt " " .Hpfwpy . THE STJNBAY OEEGONIN, ORTLA&Ly MAY 26, !$ "sr AT SI HELENS MINES OXE OF KATUIJEJS GREATEST 3Il EOAL STOREHOUSES. Wonderful Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead and Coal Region Witlifii-SisUt of Portland Every Day. Three railroads are today building towards the JBt Helens mining district. A. feufth Is at tills moment being .sur veyed. Whether any or all of these are to reach the region, z. few months' wait ing will determine. Tiie Northern Pacific branch, from near Tacoma. and the Tacoma & Southeastern Railroad just at this time seem to be running a race, and If newspaper reports are true, this Summer will see some live ly railroad hustling from the Taooma J anew to travel b.ere and -there through tne district in searcn ior piacer guia. Some placer claims were located by min-1 ers near the ,-scfatbern. encPif the dis-1 trlct, but after a season's elean-up, with an average sfi? 0 cents to Jbe man per day, placer mining was discontinued, and has never been resumed In .the St. .Helens mining- district. In iM some Ulrcauiee .people 3Sce in duced to open the district, and the Samp spji mine came Into prominence. It was a,.sreat"Iyke of low-grade ore, a .moun tain it that material, carrying gold, sil ver and copper in quantities of com mercial value, if handy to a railroad, but useless lor purposes of long-distance wag on hauling. Twenty -thousand dollars "W&s spent upon this property, much Of it' being wasted, and bad management and debts eventually closed down the work. After maintaining a useless existence for some years, the company finally disband ed and the property passed Into other hands, and is now once more being placed in shape for further development and In vestigation. The failure of the Milwaukee Company seemed an almost death blow to the St, the district where there could not be got ten a warjter power ranging from five borse-pgwer all theTvay up to thousands and over. ' "There Js a -big amount of mining timber and timber" for splendid lumber in this district, Cedar is found on lojprer ground, n hemlock, fir and nine everywhere. Coal I has been found north, and south of St Helens, Mountain. Good roads cap be con structed with but little cost." The veins of the district are of the true fissure character. Take the great Chicago vein as n example. It can be followed1 by -the pmpass ior nearly two miles in length. A- croppingat the surnmlt of5 the upper Chicago Is nearly 2000 feet higher than at the Grizzly or Tqutfe. Another class pf ore is found in hites, such as at the Sampson and at ling's claims upon the mountain whpre widfch is undetermined and In which true quartz seams have in places uncovered. Leach-, of ore as -soon as the wagon road shall be -opened. TheNorway has at present sev-. r - J MMtMMMt tMt -- fMMMtHmH 0---- X aaaaMBBraHB3liHMBHBME52refaiMBHB MBPWi i 1 1 1 1 1 H aaaMaaMaTaVBalSCsgFMWBF - . MamBWMaHH'ac??K5FiiS' X i; HHltllliliB district Is not inaccessible Is manifested by the CastleRock Road, now being built for wagons. In its entire dtetance it follows the Middle Toutle River and af fords an easy grade throughout" the en tire distance from Spirit Lake .,to the Northern 'Pacific Railroad at Castle Rock. Spirit Lake Is a piece of water of great depth, and six mjles long by two miles wide. Rut IS miles had to be built to reach a wagon road 1n Cowlitz County, and between the mining inter? ests at the head jof Spirit Lake, and Cow litz County, the road was Jald out and will toon be "opened ready for travel. What was three days travel by pony and on foot over the longer routes will now become an easy .country wagon road of a few'nours over 'an easy1, although formerly unused route. The Sweden. Bronze Monarch and -,Casoa.des Cajurne properties, belonging to Portland parties, the Young America., belonging to Peter son ana Jjane. oi uisue iwck, uiiu me i , - - - .. - , .Z, .)..!,.. .-.j Washington Chief property of Mr. Be- , "g In the chut es h as been extene. and, gltfe, of Kalama. lying upon the .east shore "" "ZZ "nz2Zn7trit of Spirit Lake, expect & begin shipments -KMJ?jS&Z E. Q STARK Secretary. ' . o 1 MOUNT ST. HELENS AND ST. HELENS MINING DISTRICT FJROMOPOHTLAND. 4it't'''t'ttt,1tttttAt'tf,tlft --- fl a A-------. e country towards the St. Helens District. The destination of these lines is not an nounced, but at least they are traveling in the right direction for the district. The Tacoma & Southeastern has recently let to a Portland firm a contract for ties Jo Jay SB miles of the road, with more to follow. The N. P. has expressed itself ready to build as fast as does its newer neighbor. The Portland, "Vancouver & Yakima Railroad is now at -work upon its ex tension towards Yakima. An officer of the road has recently said that the line expects to build only 32 miles during the J present season, which would bring its road well Into the district, and has given a promise of extending into the district this season, if sufficient ore shall be guaranteed for immediate shipment. This guarantee will soon.be ready for the ilrst road into the St. Helens mining dis trict. The Ladds and .Bourne are at .present pushing their railroad survey from Wash ougal to their own copper properties, 30 mijes north of the Columbia. It has been BUggeste'd that a splendid through route would be one extending- north' into the district from L,dd and. Bourne.' ;prop-. ertles throueh the St, Helens District ajid out upon the North Toutle or Green River to meet the Tacoma & Southeast ern. The Portland, Vancouver & Yakima is within 40 miles of the district, and the N. P.. the O. R. & N. and U. P., the G. 1C.. the S. P. and the C. P. are from BO to 100 miles distant from the heart of the district With the shipments of heavy machinery from the far East, which will be demanded when the district is fully opened up, every through line in the West has a large financial Interest in seeing one or more lines of railroad in the region as soon as possible. An elec tric line 4s also at present being consid ered up the Middle Toutle from Castle Rock to the .headwaters of the Middle Toutle pver an excellent grade, ending at -Spirit Lake, In the heart of the dis trict. The Question of railroad will no longer be a discouraging one to the St. Helens mining district, according to pres ent indications. The St Helens mining region really con sists of two districts, the St. Helens and the Washougal, occupying that section of country lying north, east and south of Mount St. Helens, being principally within Skamania County. It is about 20 miles wide by 40 miles long, and here and there throughout this great district many hundreds of splendid properties have already been opened up, the greater portions of which, however, have as yet been but scratched over. The greatest prospectors of the region have been -the mountain streams, which here and there have coursed through and exposed the seams of mineral. The Washougal district has many ex cellent properties, but this section has not been so systematically prospected as Helens mining district. Capital had gone into the district, it was argued, and had failed. Along with this failure, most of the men -who had pioneered-, there lost" sums of money which they could 111 af ford to lose, and a chill of disappoint ment came over the region from which those who had previously had faith in it have but recently recovered. Three years ago the prospectors re turned to , the. claims which they had In many cases actually abandoned, and with the general Improvement in times, from their own resources began to drill into and explode powder in the veins which had -been uncovered here and there in riv er, creek and ravine. The results following-were very encouraging, so much so that the stories which were brought out eral hundreds of tons of rich peacock and sulphurates upon the dump which will net $20 per ton after the long wagon haul, Tailroad -transportation and smeiter jpjiarges have been met. Work has been going on In this camp, upon Paradise or Lake Canyon Creek, almost continuously for the past IS months, and the camp is actively at work at this time, although the enow has not as yet gone off. From the Norway camp a wagon, road is to he built to the Chicago Camp, where the Yellow Metals and 'Chicago are ac tively. In operation at this time. The dis tance 'is. between two and- three mile.s. This. rod will be continued .from the Chi cago -to the Grizzly,' "Schultz's property, where six feet of quartz crops out Into the Grizzly Qreek,- and reach the Samp- -tin or the blade of a new shoVel. A nrob 1cm is here presented fqr some cqte eIec-( tricinn to liandle this water and save the copper therein contained In solution. The power Is at hand in the sfretfms for the manufacture of electricity. -'' - Dr. Schumann predicted the richest" sul-; jjhJdes at the lower levels in the Chicago nnd Norway, predicating the same at the 300 or 400-foot levcls.xThis pred.ica.tion hast proven itself true so far as development has been made. The Polar Star, has greater depth than the other m.ines In the region and its1 sulphides -have richened materially during the last hundred feet opened. Dr. Schumann predicts virgin copper- Jn some of the S.t. Helens mines at a moderate degree of depth. The fact undoubtedly is that the erosion of ages has worn off the mountains at t&e alti tude of the mines of the St. Helens dis trict so that today most of the prppertles are very near the water level. The Tich sulphides already shown at the Spirit Lake and North Toutle mines, almost at the surface, can scaroely have any other significance. The solid character of the country rock, granite in most cases, scarcely warrants a belief that depth of mineral will not be found. Hundreds of millions of dollars have ! been' carried past the ,door of Portland, ) and ca.rried to far-away Alaska or the British- possessions, rnucn to De lost m that far-away and uncertain region. If but a small portion of this money had been -employed ln"the development of the St. Helens mining district, what a boon; it would be for those who had made such investment and what a blessing to Port land. If what Portlandcrs had invested and lost in the frozen North had been put into St. Helens, a smelter would to day be sending the. smoke of its furnaces towards heaven along the banks of the Willamette. St. Helens Is to solve the smelter ques tion for Portland. Those interested in the recion promise that by the Spring of -3902, a -year-henco, the St. Helens -mining district will have 1000 tons of ore dally ready for shipment by any railroad in the district. This would be ore enough for two good-sized smelters in Portland. Al ready the Tacoma smelter, whicl .has tested the Norway ores. Is putting a quarter of a millions dollars into addi tional copper-smelting machinery and i?iant. Who can doubt but that the con dition in the St. Hejens mining district known to the Tacoma 'smelter has had much to do with this additional outlay of money In enlarging Its already success ful property. It is to be hoped that Port land will soon be ready with smelter fa- -- & -: - '9 HUGH "McGUIRE, Pres. Paqific Paper Co., President; lie ftwaze Moiareli The Michigan -copper .mines paid last -year about $20,000,000 in dividends, In these mines there are HS&72 shareholders- tji " par value of the stock being $81,000,000, an'ct the number ol-sbarea-- j8'i-3fQQO.' Of this amount, only 519 shareholders, ovtfing thp insignificant number of 15,827 shares, reside in. Michigan. ! , We trust that Michigan's history in this-regarcljvil nob be.;, . - " .,-. repealed in relation .to the ' - o Great .Copper Belt'trf tlie St. HcfeHS MMiDg:BMriet; ! e a. Ci. The treasury stock in this corporation is finding ready-sale at . . . . 'U v!t rthe present price, j?$ cents per share.. This stock, is" preferredi : - - ;:1': lrawjng dividends up to its present selling price before the com-' - '---. : mon stock shall participate. Only a small portion for sale at this price. No salaries until the mines shall pay. dividends. Manage- -- - raent economical. Work now in progress- upon its great veinv. 20 feet in width, in solid ore. One ijhw,ncji1'ed dollars now .wo.uld buy $800 in stock paid and non-assessable Expect to be paying dividends next year. Address 1, C. STARK, Secretary, Marqnam Butttftog, PQRTLABu, OS. .9 9eaeeeo0eae69$99e9fiooQG,eoec9OoeQO&Q&QQ.QOciooa9 99e0&ooi0oeea e. 0 e e. e e PIONEERS IN SI HELENS HIKING PROPERTIES t . t ' ; OM)MHHH -------- --- - o " ;; " x SPIRIT LAKE AND MOUNT ST. HELENS. Geo. M. Welstcr. 1001 copyright. i H.H. McCarthy & Cp. are tfje pioneer firm of mining brokers handling stocks and properties in the t, Helens Mining District. We claim some credit for far sightedness In early determjoinfl that this, was to he one of the greatest mining camps In the world, This business sagacity resulted in our securing some of the pest properties in the district. We have mines and claims and mining stocks secured at reasonable rates, before the present rush for such properties hap fairly begun. Our customers may now have the benefit of such business foresight. Address ' h. n McCarthy & co. Mining Brokers and Miners SHERLOCK BUILDING PORTLAND, OREGON .eo9scsaesia909ee 09ooaoooooo9oeoQoao,:oocoaocooooo.ooooa9io a O T. HELENS ! MINES 9 o 9 o o 9. o o 9 o o o o a o q o 9 o o o. o o o Q o a 9 o- o o o. c a o a & o o o a -. o a 9 9 9 COPPER GOLD J SILVER SPIRIT LAKE AND MOUNT ST. HELENS. Geo. M. Welsfer, 1001 copyrlsht. - . Q 6 ---,--- MM tMMMtM9M tMMHt MtH ----- t-Q induced others, kmen' of 'larger means, to begin an investlgatlon-of the region. Since then the -district? has steadily advanced, until during the past "Winter, every avail able man who knew the district and had worked, there before were In the moun tains driving tunnels and sinking .shafts upon contracts (of which there were plen ty) forthe,Jiewer Investors in the region. So far as known, no man who has been In that section and examined its great fissure veins has frowned upon its pros pects as to minerals. Many a "man "who has bPen Induced to go over its prim itive trails has come away with tho fore most Idea of the great problemof rall- MMMMMMMMMMMMM ---- - A ST. HELENS TUNNEL. Jibs -its upper and higher neighbor. The principal Influence in this section Is the Lndd & Bourne mines, embracing a. sec tion of territory surveyed and located or boucht. over six. -miles in length and palf as -wide a region as larce as from road transportation, and has raised the question, "The wealth Is liere, "but what will you do. with it or how get it out?" This question has besn es ef!en answered, "Get it out over the route which you came in on," jmd that has settled the St. Hel ens mining district with nine-tentns oi Portland courthouse to Montavllla and those who have heretofore gone Into the half as wide. It is reasonable to believe i xeglon. that these people think that they have The same misraanagement which led to something of value, or they would not. j tne disastrous ending of the Sampson two years after beginning to investigate, ( proposition planned the,, trails into the be now in the region surveying a railroad j cnip. instead of following river routes, to their properties. . j mountain passes were crossed and the The St. Helens mining district has been zig-zag course of some of these trails, prospected at various times during the 25 or 50 switches being often jequlred In ja6t 40 years although no organized ac- crossing from stream to stream, are" today tivity "was manifested until about 1SS3, a study fit for the contemplation of an when W. "W. O'Connor, of Toledo, and J Ingenious civil engineer; some other adventurous spirits, began The fact that the S& Helens mining- son, which lies about four -miles from the Chicago. Here also H. H. McCarthy's Washington Treadwell, a vein of $10 ore nearly 100 feet In width, will be reached, and an easy grade leads to the Polar Star and Goat Mountain properties, Session's and Gray's promising mines, six miles, from the Chicago. Later a wagon road will be constructed up the North Toutle, which will afford even better facilities to reach the Polar Star, the Minnie Lee, Andy Olson's Index group and Smun's mine and the other North Toutle mines than by Spirit Lake. The building of a railroad within a few months would make much of the present prospective wagon road6 unnecessary. The Ripper and the Chief claims are ga lena properties. The veins are narrow, but picked ore has run as his"h as 46 per cent In lead, with silver and copper In .good quantities. Other galena properties have been opened on Lewis River, but in nearly every Instance copper Is an im portant constituent of the ore. Gold Is found In nearly every Instance, a fact which will make these properties worth working even should a low price In cop per close down half the copper mines in the world at nresent working. Drl Maxlme Leopold Schumann, the min ing expert, last year in a report upon the St Helens mining district, had tbls to say: "There is no mining district where Nature provided su tnoroughly and so profusely a cheap motive power at the very door of each mine prospect as in the Mount St. Helens mining district. Jt do not know of a single location claim in cllltles for the great future in. store fpr her from, the St. Helens mining district. Another feature of the region, of Inter est to the pleasure-seeker who lives In Portland, Is Spirit Lake. It Is an Ideal camping place, and when the P., V. & Y. R. R. shall reach that place it will no doubt be a favorite resort for pleasure seekers and picnic parties, being reached in two hours from Portland. Mount St. Helens may be climbed In a day from here and one can return to camp by night fall. Summer hotels and camping pluces will line the lake front, a beautiful tree covered region, as soon ns the road shall be finished. Again, a visit to tho great mining camps within two hours' ride,, and within -sight of Portland, Will ere long be one of the pleasure jaunts . advised to tourists and which every Portlander, young and old, will plan occasionally to take. The St. Helens mining district Is. now, open. With Its new wagon road the mountains will be full of prospectors and prospective Investors this year. Next year It will be another Cripple Creek In excitement and activity. Nearly l.OOQ.OW pairs of American shpes are now sold yearly on the British mar ket, in spite of the tax on hides with which manufacturers on thjs side have to contend and frcm which British makers are exempt. The superiority of American machinery brings access to foreign mar kets. Besides, shoes made here are more .shapely and are sold more cheaply than those road,e m .Europe. oeoQooeseeGeoeesaaeeeeoeee eo90eooa9oeooa - 9 HON. DELL STUART, Frosident L O'CONNOR, Secretary. Sweden Copper Minbig-to. bwns 3000 feet upon the great Paradise Valley or Canyon Creek vein, the mother lode of the St. Helens Mining District This company is selling sta;k guaranteed by the Title Guar antee and Trust Co. of Portland, upon advantageous terms. JNo property in St. Helens combines so many good' features as does the Sweden, which consists of .a group of .claims, containing 180 acres of rich mineral land covered, with fine timber and with,a water power large enough 'to operate a .great mine. Work now. progressing favorably upon the property. Address SWEDEN COPPER FINING CO. Room 617, Orcgonlan Building, . Portland Oregon 6 999999 99999 9999999999.9999 99999999999 99999999 9999999 Those St. Helens mines in- which "the Mining Corporation, Ltd., has an interest are among the I wonderful mining prop- erties of the world on g account of the remarka- ble showing which they have made from the very earliest state of their de e velopment. I When ores possess enough silver to pay for the mining, gold enough to make the properties valuable if the ore con- tained nothing else, and I copper in greater propor l tion than the other great o copper .mines, as several properties have already indicated, that there is little chance in invest ments in the stocks of such companies. The Mining Corporation, Ltd., has for sale stocks in just 1 such companies. The. prices now are very low, 2 and will soon advance. . I St. Helens is just now opening into a "boom" S'Whrrrwill surprise the S -older mining camps oi" America. o 9 9 e 9' o o 9 a a 9 O 9 a 9 9 9 a e a o a o 9 a 9 9 a 9 a e a a e o o, e o a. o a A o o o JAMES STEEL. -PrsshbrH. GUSTAY ANDnRxON,, Secretary.- letlw Metals Mmm ' Go, OF PORTLAND, QZ. Stock in this company will make.yoiwuore moneythan any stock on the market. -. , " '. j .-. Do not fail to invest in a block o( it at.the first -subscription price, five cents per share, par value one doliar, fully paid and non-assessable. . . - - If you have any money that you can invest buy th' stock and hold it for a large profit, as it is sure to become very valuable in the near future. -COPPER STOCKS are the safest, pay the largest dividends, and are the most per manent of any investment securities on the market. The Standard Oil Company people are the largest investors in COPPER STOCKS. Why not follow their example? -9. a 9 9 '9 . 9 9 a 9 a a a e a .9 9 9 a o 9 a 9 9 a '.a e 9 a a 9 a o 0 9 a o o o a o o 9 a 9 Selling: Agems, L Y. KADY & CO, .-: 9 a a 9 " a 9ioooo8eo a,o oocoGoaaacQOQooaooQOQooooooopQeaaaaaeaaa 607 (UARQUAM BUILOifSG f PORTLAND, OR. Qoaoeaao 0000000 0009 00 000 o oce 00 000 00000c o 00 QQQooo.oa9.e0 For further information , address Tk Mining Corporation 2 - a O -7 '2 ,0 '9 9 a o a .. o 9 9 a s D-.fl...... . ? 9 9 a C9999999999999999999999999 Limited. Morqnam Building (Sixth FJopr) W. W. PcASUP. President Sherlock Bid-. ascades W. BSTREETEPi. Secretary Worcester Bldg. Calumet Mining Co. -a PORTLAND, OREGON Although the piinrtpal properties of this corporation are now held under bond For sale, and its stocks have been with drawn from the market, a limited amount of stock in other ex cellent St. Helens Mines is in our hands for sale. Write just vha,t you want, and we can surely suit you. A block of East ern Oregon shares for sale. Address communications fo' W., B. STREETER, Secretary.. asetvoosooosoaooooosacotea oooooooaeooooooooaoaoosoaoo eoe&aoo8oooooosoo6ooooeo 0000000400004000.900000000,9 a o . - a N W. ROUNTPEE, Prcsidsnt. WM-1. PATTERSON, Secretary Chicago Mining Co, (LIMITED) 030,000 Shares, P?Id Lip, Par $1.00 Each The treasury stock In this company will be advanced upon June 10 to 2o cents. Price until that date FIFTEEN" CENTS per share. Na remittances made after that date will be accepted at less than 25 cents. A contract let and -work 'wjll now heem upon the 700 feet crosscut upon the ilay Queen, whlcfi will cut the great Chicago lead at a -depth of aboutlaOO feet.-civlne the greatest depth attained in the St. Helens district.. Active work Jyts Tbeen going on upon this property almost continuously for .the. past yeari Address N. W. ROUNTREE, President , , Second and Stark Streets . , J ... 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