Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-05-25
A TOUR IN THE BASIN.

Pioneer City, to make inquiries into the realiz
atoms and prospects of the several minin
districts In and about each of those principa
points. BY Pinkhams fast accommodation
stages-and his line well merits the title-w,
reached CenterYille in about an hour and {
half from the time we left this city, and after
apleasant stop there of an hour, were again
on the way, and got to Placerville q good hour
before noon. At Centerville we learned from
old Notwithstanding claim owners and
ditch owners-that the diggings generally were
paying fully as well as in former seasons, and
increased water facilities enable claim owners
to work places which have before gone un-
touched, save in prospecting, and these new
diggings are yielding all the way from wages
to big pay. The ditch owned by Ben. Wilson.
Law & Waterman, coming from beyond Pho
neer City to Orleans diggings, is being extend
ed to supply other claims and district near
Centerville, and every inch of water it can
supply will be in active demand day and night.
The bitches of G. w. Thatcher and B. Il.
Channel are also called upon every hour of
the twenty-four for every inch of water they
can furnish, and in every instance where a
clean up has been made, the expectations of
the miners have been more than realized.
At Placeryille there is more mining than at
this season last year. One good sign is, there
is not an idle man i'll the place. On the hill
diggings across Wolf creek, opposite the town,
one set of claims is run during the day and
another set at night, as sufficient water is not
afforded by the ditch to furnish both sets with
all that is required to run them day and night
continuously, as they would be if water was
Obtainable. The merchants. and all engaged
III business In the town, were in fine spirits
and confident of prosperous business season.
Mr.Wm Lynch, the great ditch and claim own
er, had just opened new store, and received
from San Francisco a heavy and valuable
stock of general merchandise The stores of
John Eisler and of Fleischman & Heyneman
are also supplied with good stocks, freshly re-
ceived
From Placerville we walked over to Granite
Greek, and there, at Walshs store, at once
saw cheering proof of the excellence of that
mining district-two large sacks of superior
dust, amounting to few thousands of dollars
recently cleaned up from claim The dig
sings about there are paying exceedingly well.
A clean up in the claim of Devine, Ellis &
Leary, just below the town, amounted to
nearly ten thousand dollars, after four weeks
run, and this was not full clean up, as some
OF the boxes Were not touched at all, and it is /
expected that handsome amount will be /
taken from them when the next clean up shall
be made. The claims of this Company are
extensive. The bed rock is at an average Of
not more than ten feet below the surface.
and the ground therefore is very readily
worked They own the ditch from which the
water is supplied to their ground, and work
snder superior advantages There are also in
active operation, along the creek, the following
hydraulics, viz: Lynch & Minear, Q; Brain
ard q Co., a L. Reynolds & Co., Q; d.
Crowley, l. Con. Healy, s. Frazier & Co., Il
and others are ground sluicing in the creek (
and in Illinois Gulch John Riggs & Co., and
Clark d Co., are running hydraulics There
ire 10 all nearly 500 men employed, and by
me OF the earliest miners there, and most ex-
enslye claim owners, we were assured that S
he average pay will not be less than $50 per
lay to the hand Lynch's bitches and another !,
urnlsh water in plenty ut present, but the :
iolume is daily diminishing in the upper ditch
=, and will not give the supply required after {
few weeks more. Miner & Lynch have |
bout 600 feet of heavy sheet iron pipe running !
rom their telegraph" to the edge of their
working ground, which was made there from
ae sheets, and it is a fine piece of workman o
nip, as well as very superior substitute for q
uek or gum hose. We were glad to see that 7
he miners on Granite creek permit no China Il
aen to come into their diggings in any capa-
ity tits wise rule, and should never be 1
eparted from, It is now, beyond doubt, the
lchest mining district in the Basin. At the =
estaurant of r. Fitzgerald at the upper part !,
! the camp, good substantial fare is afforded il
MS matter OF hotel and table fare is of no t.
mall Importance to the traveller and because :
IS good thing to enjoy. we shall state that
ersons who propose visit to that region will
nd the International Hotel at Placeryille. fr
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