Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-05-16
GOOD VIEWS FROs DEApwooD.

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From Tassell, the Expressman between this
city md Deadwoodr Basin, we have received
the following cheering intelligence From the
diggings in that newly developed naming camp:
Tassell left on Monday morning, and. reached
here in regular time, On Wednesday. There
are now two distinct mining DISTRICTS in Dead
wood Basin, called the Old, District and New
District, respectively. In the former about
100 men are busily at work, and in the latter.
about tAirty9 men. The best claims so far
known in the New District are III Elwood
gnlch, where Elwood, Houtea &, Co., and II.
Fl. Knapp g. Co. have very good ground. The
latter lnadea cleansp for prospect, Of two
days run, with two mems work, and the pro-
duct was thirteen eunces and -four dollars
$2l2. johnson g. Co., who are also in the New
District, have very good prospec cts
In the Old District. the chief claims belong
to Gray, Romer & Co., the Dutch Co., and
Bunker & Co. At present all have free wa
ter, and only one or two companies have made
a cleaning up, but the indications have satifed
all of them that they have very good paying
ground. Che Dutch Company made a clean
up after a run of fourteen days with three
men and hydraulic-free water land took out
over $4,000. This company have a ditch COM
pleted frem Rock Wilson and creeks, FIVE miles
long, which will yield them an ample supply
for their ewn use, and enable them to furnish
a supply to other claims. The capacity of the
ditch is between 800 and 400 inches. The
water was let into it for the FIRST time on last
Monday The price of water is fifty cents an
inch for twenty-four hours.
| Gray, Romer g. Co. had made very cheer
ing clean up, but the amount is not stated.
This company have still plenty of free water,
but so soon as this shall fail, they will com.
mence work upon their big ditch, which taps
Deer creek eight miles above, and will flow a
volume Of fully 1000 inches, to feed the mines
in both New and Old districts.
The snow has melted away in the Old dis
trict, and all the claims that had been taken
are being worked; but there is still a good
deal of snow on the ground in the New dis
trict, and until it disappears large scope OF
ground will have to remain idle. Everybody
in both camps are ut work, however, and par.
ties or individuals daily arrive to locate claims
A case of claim jumping had been decided
in the Old district. The claim of Bunker &
I Co., which was located last Fall. was jumped
by REVERE g. Co., who alleged that the ground
had not been properly represented The yer.
! diet of miners meeting in favor of Bunker
: 81 Co. was appealed to an arbitration of three
who gave similar judgment, and this was &C
cepted as final. A case involving suit at Law
has sprung up between the Gray and the Dutch
! Companies, in regard to the right of the latter
to dump on the ground of the former, who are
, the oldest locators.
The diggings in the Basin run from two t.
twelve feet depth of stripping, and are easil,
worked The soil is soft loan, marshy ir
|, some places, with very little gravel or rock il
: it. The only trouble to the miners is the fall
en-, rotten timber, whence the Basin derives
its name, and which lays thick in places. The
timber there is small, lofty white pine, and
the soft top soil does not afford sufficient grasI
to the roots, so that the trees readily toppls
over on the occasion of high wind or othe
t rude shock.
The Payette river runs through the Basin
and for seven miles down, all along the flats
4 the ground is staked aud located for claims b.
t the miners. The prospects obtained from thes
: flats have so far been very satisfactory.
The main valley Of Deadwood Basin ]
:, about eleven miles long, and in width run
from narrow lower pass of 400 yards, nea
' the point of entrance, to maximum OF on
and half miles above. 1t is mostly rolin
, land, and is watered by number of sma
streams the whole length. The gulches ar
: small and narrow, and prospect or pay YER
. handsomely. From the Basin to the headwa
Is ters of Salmon river the distance is only fftee
u miles, and the trail thither leads through lo'
i and easy pass in the mountain divide. Tn
trail follows on to Salmon diggings, sixty mile
% from Deadwood, and one hundred and twent
:. miles from Idaho City.
! In that region, all the way from Deadwoo
~ to Salmon river, there is an abundance OF dec
2 Ielk. antelope, rabbits, and a species OF Dir
!; resembling grouse, called fool chicken,
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