Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1864-09-24
Correspondence boise Newa.
PLAosavIlLn, september Is, la64:

lpeclaI DUTY Lndt owe 10 some OF NY
friinds there, as we'll as the public generally,
to lay before them through the medium of
your invaluable paper, a few facts calculated
to interest as werT a. fss-ese-s's-a-s.-
about South Boise two months, by dint of
which residence I derived some knowledge
of the extent, richness and doings in that
section of the country.
In the first place, Mr.. Editor, I wish it dis
tinctly understood that I am no monmaniac
on the subject of quartz, nor have quartz
on the brain. am subject to neither of these
infrmities. am not on the " sell short nor
on the buy" | will admit that am in
terested out there, and so would any man be
if he was aware of the real and vast richness
of the country I invested in some of the
lodges as man would in lottery, never cal
cplating TO derive any pecuniary gains from
the same, but soon found out that this lot
terry was one of the most judicious invest
ments that l could have made, and one that
may draw the big prize" and that before
said about a country so rich in mineral land
as Alturas county is, is problem not easily
solved. The people out there seem con-
scious of its richness, so much so that they
take no pains whatever to extoI the same
thinking, and that rightly too, that facts
speak for themselves. But l feel as in duty
bound, to lay few facts before the people in
connection with that country and its enor-
nous wealth. Yes, think the present crisis
and depreciation in Washoe stock even re-
qdires it and it is due to some of the enter
prising men Of South Boise, who labored hard
to make It what it is, to wit second to no
country on the Pacific coast in richness in |
gold-bearing quartz. First and foremost of
these enterprisng pioneers, stand Messrs.
Cartee, Gates & Co., who aside from their
being gentlemen Of the highest standing in
society, and whose integrity the community
place implicit confidence, they deserve special
praise for their enterprise and exertion in
putting up and in working order 5-stamp
steam quartz MILL when we consider under
what disadvantages they had to labor, and
what serious obstacles they had to overcome.
They took in the mill and commenced active
operations before ever a wagon road wa.
built to Alturas That their pecuniary rer
turns from the same may be good, is my most
ardent wish, and one that they nobly deserve
Ito this no doubt every one viii say amen
There are some 40 or SO arastras at work (
each crushing from 1000 to 1000 pounds of
rock per day. Arastras at this age of ma
chinery and invention are nowheres." One
good mill will crush more than all these aras-
Lras put together, and certainly save more
gold than an arastra can. Messrs. Cartee. o
Gates & Co. intend to buy up rock and crush
1n-their own account. Much credit is also
Tue to billy b Dover, merchants on Rocky
Bar, Mr.. Oily is the most accommodating z
,xpressman that ever straddled ian old boss Il
'lr Lewis Redon, of the firm of Redon & Co.. d
8 gentleman held in very high esteem BY :
vi those who have the pleasure of his ac-
Iuaintance, besides he deals out the best of u
liquors and that too with literally that has tt
,ecome proverbial at Rocky Bar. As for the h
balance of the denizens of Rocky Bar the
east said the better you there find about
he meanest set of Webfeet alive / shall N
therefore, forbear passing any comments on m
heir liberality and public-spirited enterprise. W
Now let us take stroll through the tun-
els and Lodges. The Ophir and Ada Elmore =
0 South Boise, are the same that the Gould C
: Curry and Ophir are to Washoe, and hope y
hat none will be so rash as to dispute nv b.
sssrion that the 0phir, Ada Elmore and the to
confederate Star are the staudard-bearing al
edges of South Boise. This fact is acknowl- te
dyed by every man that knows anything ca
bout quartz and quartz lodges Heretofore sl
ome men supposed the 0phr to be nothing Sc
ut chimney" but the company having
pened tunnel l75 feet below the surface of
lie ground, have demonstrated the fact that
le Ophir is one of the most permanent O.
dges there; the rock that is coming out of III
10 tunnel will surprise many it is certainly =,
lie rickest gold rock that was ever found in -
by country. The company are about to su
nix shaft in the tunnel on an incline, and to
lpect to make big strike. In my humble %
DiniOn the company would do much better
work the ledge themselves and not lease ne
ont. The Ophir believe is the only ledge NC
at has been paying regular dividend, with an
1t single cent having been levied as as Dr
ssment; this believe is something that
ldom or never happened in Washoe. The
da Gilmore is second to no ledge in the ira
'untry, but owing to the fact that few spec far