The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-05-13

oughue, show that the flow of dust has set in
for the season, and that it comes in fair share
to each and all. Barely an idler is to be seen
| in the place. and that worthless object known
as GUNNER" is not to be found in Center
vile at this time.
PIONEER CITY
Our next stopping place was in the famous
old camp of Pioneer, or Hog em. On the way
we saw the big ditch of Ben. Wilson g. Co.,
running volume of $40 inches onward to the
diggings at hummer Hill, where the claims pay
so richly. Another ditch has been dug along
the line of the big ditch and above it, by Baker
& Jones, but there was no water in it, nor had
there been so much as fifty inches in it, we
were informed by miners on the road, this sea-
son. AS it depends entirely upon the melting
SHOWS and the brief rush of water in the little
mountain gulches high up, for it's own water,
and heads in no creek or steady running stream,
this new upper ditch can never be expected to
supply any continuous or considerable heads to
the claims along its line.
Pioneer City is much reduced from it's for
mer business Importance, and the mines about
there do not yield so richly as they used to.
Still it is good mining camp. Water is amply
furnished at fair rates from Ben. Wilson
bitches, and during the past week the claims
higher up, supplied by the Mountain ditch, have
been re-opened for this season.
We were shown by Jas. Duncan and Mr.
Burkett several hundred pounds of the ore ia
ken from the Duncan mine in Charlotte gulch,
about four miles from Pioneer The ore is
very rich in galrna and in the sulphurets there
is good per centage of both gold and silver
which he had made from the ore, and it is, SO
experienced lead miners say. of superior quail
! ity Assays of the ore have yielded, of gold,
all the way from S27 to over $1,000 per ton,
and of silver from $40 to $50 per ton. The
mine has two tunnels, one pierced 81 feet, and
| the other-the main tunncl-450 feet About
800 tons of ore is at the dump, ready for crush
ing and reducing and It can be delivered at the
dump at cost not TO exceedS2 per ton. SO
far the expense III opening the mine and getting
out the ore has been about $4,000. A small
furnace has been put up in the rear of Mr..
| Duncan's store, which will reduce about 300
pounds of ore at u time and II is the intention
OF the owners 10 first test the average value of
the ores in this before they shall proceed TO
get more expensive reduction works put up
near the mine.
| Although the mining and business Importance
year or two. there is not much better camp
| in any mining district in Idaho, perhaps for
/ those who are engaged either in business or
mining. than it is As we say above. the Claims
| pay well. and the dimnution of trade has been
accompanied also with falling off in the num-
Der OF business and public houses. The old
pioneer firm of Madigan Il Cannady, whose
standing rs merchants is Of the best, have now
the general merchandising business of the
| place almost exclusively, and therefore they
are certain to enoy good and profitable trade.
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and Dcyeucr & Co, Green Holland. Z. kce-
gan, and Garrity's restaurant, Nil have a salts
factory run of custom. And JAS. Hone, who
keeps both meat market and livery stable, and
John Donahue, the blacksmith, have their time
we'll occupied in profitable trade at their re-
spectivc callings. The duest place we saw
was the Postoficr. where II. McGuinness pre-
sides rs Postmaster and he deserves n more
lively occupation and better fortune.
A prominent feature on the road to Pioneer
about mile from the camp, is the large and
splendidly cultivated garden of Mlchaeson,
who raises the finest varieties of vegetables we
have seen in Idaho. A glance over his prettiy
arranged and skifully titled grounds is enough
to convince one that practsed gardner has
charge, and walk through the place confirms
this conviction On the hill above, to the lief,
of his garden, Mchaelson has also fine grain
fields
PLACERVILLE.
From Pioneer we went to Placerville, and
on the way, along the creek, and on the side
hills, saw several claims that were being
worked, some by white men, others by China
men Placerville is, like Centcrville, lively
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