An Everett Miner Sees a Bonanza in the Okanogan

An Everett man, well known in the Okanogan country, was in the city yesterday on his way back from Squaw Creek. According to the story he told a Post-Intelligencer reporter, the present season will be one of the best from a financial standpoint that the country has ever known. Splendid discoveries of rich silver-bearing ore are being made, capital is being invested, and mining men from Colorado, California and Montana are in the district. A wagon road is being constructed at heavy expense, so that supplies and machinery can be moved into districts where new mines are being opened. For some time past civil engineers have been at work making a survey for a railroad which will extend into the Slate Creek country.

Col. Hart, a well-known mining man who represents Montana and St. Louis capitalists, has been up there and has spoken favorably of several valuable properties in the Slate Creek country. He is engaged in having a wagon road built into that country, and before it is finished he will have spent in the neighborhood of $75,000. A survey for a railroad is also on, but it is almost impossible to find out who is at the back of it. Hart is generally believed to be the person who is having the survey made.