The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-03-31
Mineral Resources of OWyhec County
Facts and Figures.
SILVER CRY, Oyyhee Co., /. TIL
March oath. 1866. T.

OLIVER ClTY, fOWynee OO.f l. .,J( ffH
o#9 March Gath, 1866. g.
EDIToR WORLD: Having been solicited by
the Mint Committee at Boise City to furnish
them with statistics and facts relative to the
mineral wealth and mineral resources of this
county, have thought proper to send a SYM
opsis of the Report for publication in the
W oRLD: and believing, too, that publication
of facts, will do much towards influencing
Congress in making the necessary appropri-
ations for the Institution very much needed
in this part of Idaho Territory If the other
counties of the Territory would furnish the.
Committee with facts it would swell the fg-
ures into millions. The returns that make
are from the crushings of four mills. The
whole number of days engaged are 840.H "a
No. tuns ore reduced ............. 10, 1876
90" Stamps engaged. ......... ........ %
So" Ledges producing the ore......31
Amount of Bullion....... 81 ,463, ,755 90 s
Average yield per tun ~. "o2 14l 81 =
The above does not include the production
of the Ainsworth MILL which worked on the
"Poorman"9 ledge The yield of this mill is
not Tar from $500, 600. There are now ten
millsready to run--wotking, altogether, 1O2
stamps. Owing to the. high price of wood,
and the difficulty Of hauling rock at this sea-
son. of the year-being neither good sleigh
ing nor roads fit for wagons--several mills
have suspended operations until Spring.
When wagons can be used these mills will
again be started and then the bullion will be
shipped from this county by the tun. 4
have Just returned from a trip to Flint
District. There found numerous rich ledg-
es, from to II feet in width, and native sill :
YER distinctly visible. The quartz in this
district is mostly silver-bearing however
gold is found in paying quantities ID some of
the lodges. This is known from the fact
that the rock has been pounded ont in hand
mortars. Nearly every man in that district
has his silver and gold .brick-the fruits of
their ledges. The climate is much milder in
that than in Carson district; being on the
South side of the mountains, the hills are
quite bare of snow. a 4 +.
A good wagon road, connecting Silver City
and Flint, to be continued to the OwyheeI
river, about 40 miles above the present cross
ing, will be completed by the first of May or
June. Then we shall have road through to
Humboldt, Chico, Red Bluffs, and other pla-
ceS in California. 100 or $50 miles nearer
than the present one. Then farewell, long
farewell, to the Columbia river and its mo-
nopolies. Several merchants from this county
have already gone to San Francisco after
their Spring stocks of goods, and intend 10
ship them via the Sacramento-cOming over
the road via the Owyhee river. Once get the
Indians tanned ~ (the indefatigab Capt.
Walker, with his company of mounted rifle
men, is after them with n sharp stick and
there will be an immense travel on this road
The snow, which is about / 5 inches deep on
an average, is fast disappearing. Already
the hill-sides are bare, and considerable rain
is falling.
Quite anumber of the idaho boys are try
ing their luck with the hkeerds" sWhere
the carcass is there will the young eagles be
gathered together" The "boys'' always like
to be where there is money-or a show for it,
You can't fool ''sport" or Jew Dutch
man. Many new buildings would be in pre-
Rress of erection were it not for the difficulty
Uf obtaihlng lumber. IEXI 10y
We shall have new hotel here this Sum-
mer, where the traveller can find rest for his |
wearied limbs and grub for the inner man.
Mr.. Editor, resign your pen for week or |
two and give US call. You, of course. want
to give your genial neighbor, the Estates
man." call. He wants q little consolation
from the humane since candy" has taken the
wind out of his sails
Our Republican friends are in great tribu-
lation over here. They look as though they
had lost their DAD, since the veto. "Their
souls go marching on" 9a
We democrats are in quandary here we
don't know whether it is best to let the John
SON endorsing Republicans vote our ticket at
the next election, or not. A good many of
them want to- We think the Simon-pure are
sufficient to carry the election. If the new
converts will behave themselves seemly, and
continue to wear Sackcloth a while, maybe
we will let them in. Verify, the signs Of the
times are propitious. OWYHEE.
TIE New York World says: The day of
Judgment is coming Libbens @. Berry has