The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-02-09
THE POORMAN NINE.

THIS TIME STANDS at the noaQ OF the IlS6. We nave
given the ore on exhibition critical examination
and take pleasure in testiying that we have never
before seen such magnificent specimens taken from
a single mine. Large blocks of ruby silver, horn
silver, silver glance and boxes of pure black sui
Iphurets met our astonished gaze. One piece-the
Iargest-weighs over three hundred pounds. Some
of the specimens carry scarcely any quartz, be.
sides being thickly specked with gold. We
handled number Of pieces of ore which we are
positive will work Twenty Thousand Dollars to
the ton.
We clip the above from the New York
Mining Index of Jan. 10th. From the same
authority We are glad to learn that the exhi-
bition of the ores in that city from the Poor
man, and other newly developed gold and
silver quartz lodges of Idaho, in Boise, Altu-
ras and Owyhee counties, has had a very
beneficial. influence upon our general mining
Interests, and given thacapitalisls of the East
a feeling of better confidence so far as con-
Germs the investment of money in further de-
yeloping the mining resources of the Terrific
Try. Unfortunately for Idaho, she has suffered
in reputation from scheming, inscriptions
Operators in quartz, who have gone East with
rare and wonderful Specimen ores" which
never came from the lodes they were repre-
scented to be stair average" samples Of, or
with pockets full Of trashy or absolutely
spurious mining stock, and there swindled
many, whose credulity they had imposed on,
out of tens and hundreds of thousands of
dollars, for lodes which had yielded few
very rich specimens, or had no actual exist
ence. In some instances, oyer-saDguine but
very susceptible Agents from the East, sent
out here by capitalists, had been terribly
|duped by operators who "salted" claims to,
lure their victims into purchase, after which
not even color could be found.
The natural consequence of these base and
fraudulent transactions necessarily followed,
and for year or SO the capitalists of the
East have declined to invest in our mines at
any price. The reaction upon Idaho was
most harmful. There were hundreds who
held excellent, rich, bone fde claims, but
they required the aid of capitalists TO devel.
ope and properly work them. They were
honest men; but the frauds of dishonest men
had ruined the market from whence the cap
ital flowed, and hence they had to either sac
rifce their claims, or hold them in damaging
idleness, All this, besides doing great in /
Justice to the individuals who owned the
mines, inflicted still greater injury upon
the general prosperity of the Territory. S
Fortunately for all this dark time is rap
idly passing away. The wonderful, actual Il
profits which have been reaped during the f
past year by some of the quartz companies, b
in which Eastern capital is chiefly invested
he visits made to the noted quartz districts !,
BY men of wealth and mining experience b
rom the East; and finally, the exhibition in
the cities of the East of such large quanti- t
les of the rich ores taken from our mines, D
IS must convince all who see them that there q
$ no deception practiced in their selection, D
Ind satisfy capitalists that the ores are, if not Ii
iverage specimens, sufficiently abundant to Il
warrant the assumption that mine that
'ields such quantities of almost pure metal fl
must be a verypro6table possession. n
The taken to New York this season u
y G. G. Robbins, from the Poorman mine Il
n Owyhee; by Col. Preston and others, from o
he Rocky Bar, Red Warrior, and Yuba mines
f South Boise; by Mr.. s. G. Rosenbaum, <
rom the Gambrnus ledge in this county; !
nd by other. parties, with ores from various u
aging, profitable, enduring lodeS in this, in 3
Ilturas and Owyhee counties, --all theseex- =
EDITIONS Of genuine, rich ores, by men of ;,
nquestioned integrity and practical expe- h,
fence in mining, cannot but restore conf :,
ence in the mines of Idaho among the cap !,
alists of the Atlantic cities, and cause to n,
ow hither the means which are so generally
eeded in order to more fully and advantage :,
usly develop and realize the boundless ca
ealth in precious metals which every in &c
lgmed person must be aware exists in the
lineral districts of Idaho. We feel assured D
lat brighter days are about to succeed IN the 81
uartz and great mining interests of our =
eerless Territory. .'o 5 ~
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en-. Sheridan's prohibiting civil funeral "
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