Digital Bob Archive

16 June 1980

JULY 31, 1890-The Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company shipped 250 tons of sulphurets to the Tacoma Smelting Company on the City of Topeka. The company has a contract to send down a thousand tons of the sulphurets which are accumulating much faster than they can be handled by the present chlorination works.

P. Wyborg and Henry Korkoran have been engaged this season in opening a placer claim on a bar about three miles above the mouth of Lemon Creek. They have brought water to their property by a ditch of considerable length.

Charles Forrest is running a tunnel to tap the Col. Sellers lode near the falls of Salmon Creek.

Dr. F. S. Reynolds has taken personal charge of the work of getting out ore on his Silver Queen lode on Sheep Creek and plans a large shipment to the Tacoma smelter on the next boat.

T. S. Nowell has purchased the Monitor lode claim in Silver Bow Basin from Captain James Carroll. This claim was first staked in June, 1881, by William Moore and Thomas Mooney and later was purchased by Captain Carroll who placed a Huntington mill on it. The mill was damaged by a snow slide a couple of years ago and has not operated since. By this purchase, Mr. Nowell secures control of both the north and south slopes of Silver Bow Basin and affords a better opportunity for tapping his Ground Hog and Summit lodes. Mr. Nowell and son Willis E. Nowell will depart for Boston on the George W. Elder and F. H. Nowell will be general financial manager for both the Silver Bow Basin Mining Company and the Nowell Gold Mining Company.

AUGUST 7, 1890-W. A. Sanders who has large mining interests in several areas near here has proposed the erection of a sampling works which could run tests for claim owners.

Earlier this season Archie Campbell placed a Dodge Improved Pulverizer on the Fuller First lode, the original lode location in this district. This equipment has a heavy hexagonal drum or barrel. Rock first goes through a rock-breaker, then is fed into the drum which is lined with forged steel bars. Pieces of iron from 10 pounds down are used inside the barrel to pulverize the rock which then passes through the bottom onto copper plates and to a concentrator. The mill treats from 7 to 9 tons of ore every 24 hours.

Willis Thorp brought in 35 head of beef cattle of the George W. Elder for the local market.