The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-02-18
MINING PREPARATIONS IN BOISE BASIN.

| of Boise BASIN, We HAVE ih1ciy Aoool'o" A-
nation in respect to preparations which are
being made or are completed for the approach
inc mining season. This information warrants
us in the statement that the coming Spring ana
Summer will prove to be one of the most ia
yorable and the most prosperous mining sea-
sons which has ever been realized. The aggre-
gate snowfall throughout the whole Basin gives
cheerful promise of an ample supply OF water
down to time beyond the usual limit OF the
working season, in the reservoirs and bitches,
and also to those who depend almost entirely
upon free water Persons who have taken the
trouble to make measurement of the quantity
of snow on hill tops, and in the flats beneath,
report to US a general average of between sew
en- and eight feet on the SUBMITS, and OF from
fm,r TO FIVE feet on the levels below. This Is
mich more than was given last season, and the
snowfall for this season is not, most probably,
over yet so that it is quite safe to add another
foot or two of depth to that now on the ground,
in the estimate to be formed of the full aggre-
gate at the opening of active mining.
From Mr.. Welton we have more precise In
formation of the extent and character of the
preparations uader way for mining than from
any other person So far. 1t is of Placervllle'
and Granite Creek and adjacent districts that
he has given report. In Placerville and Gran
tie Greek districts from fifteen to twenty new
telegraphs for hydraulics have been put up
the works over on Lady's Crevice, Ophlr,
Boyle's Gulch, and contiguous districts are all
ready for work and an unusual period OF mIn-
ing is confidently anticipated, by reason OF the
increased and improved water convenlences
which have been constructed since last season ;
and each of these districts are not only among
the very richest ever discovered IN Idaho, but
the gold which they yield is of finer, better
uuality-ayeragiug fully SIS per ounce
The ditch owned by Dennis Crowley and
John Brogan has been extended To Placervllle,
and enlarged 50 that it will supply 800 inches
of wafer to claims, on the Wolf creek side.
The large Lynch ditch, now owned by Ellis,
Divine Il Co., has also been put in good condl-
ton, so as to yield an abundant supply to their
rich ard extensive claims in the creek.
Fluming is also to figure largely in the com
ing mining season over in that region. Miller,
Hamlin. Hartman, and ten others, have formed
Company, to construct bedrock iiume III
Wolf creek, below its junction with Granite
e. ~ .y,rL ba 4
owned by Miller & lIanlin will be moved from
its present site, between Placervllle and Gran
lte, down to q spot fAvorably chosen near The
fume Another Company, headed by Mr., W
| d. Vantne merchant of this city, and called
the Nantine Company, have already put III
nineteen hundred feet Of tlume at the mouth oi
pany have twenty three hundred feet OF similar
fuming completed and next above Larkln X
Langery have seventeen hundred feet OF tlume
Each of these three great fumes are construct
ed Of stout lumber, and are two feet deep, with
four feet width at the bottom. The lumber
used in their construction cost upwards OF So
tute u pretty heavy item OF expenditure. But
the parties who have borne this, and who pro
iected the enterprises. are very confident that
lucrative rccOmpense will flow to them from
the gold product of the well-tested rich ground
The Gold Hill quartz ledge) Company have
hands steadily taking out ore in their mine up.
on Granite creek, and we are informed that
the ore is of good rich quality generally. The
Company are we'll satisfied with their mine, al
all events, and none of the stock is in the mar
ket, which is I favorable manifestation of tn,
value of the ledge.
The extension of tbs ledge, of GOO fee
length owned by John and Manuel Eissler, o
Placerville, will be worked as soon as the sea
son will permit, and every indication has beer
given, in prospecting, that the mine will pay
richly.
The White Pine excitement has affected bu
one miner, so far as known, in Placervile ol
about there, and this one has no claim, but il
much given to the chasing up OF every freshly
reported gold discovery. The claim owners
are all content with the promise before then
of n frstratc season of mining, and those who
depend upon daily labor in the mines are 81
certain that they can do better where they are
than in any other district, in the approaching