The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

action OF the small OAHU VI o.
hold their discovery somewhat IN the s'y'e u
the dog in the manger.
Loon creek flows rapidly in its bed OF large
boulders, and very little gravel or SAND is iouno
in the bed. In many places the gravel washes
over the clean bedrock. 1t is in crevlces along
where the water at higher stage mas run tlla'
a good deal of the coarse gold has been taken
out. So far as prospected, the unduiating
bars which have been formed by the water
flow, contain this same kind OF coarse goio III
spots-in one place very rich pocket VIII DC
found, and in another almost nothing Inc
farther down the creek the finer the gold Is
found, and as the deposit OF gravel oelo" inc
canon. where the creek has spent It's fury, Is
deeper than ct any point above and the gold
is much finer, Mr.. Angles theory Is that IN
high water season, when the creek must con-
tain much greater body of water and now
with much greater force, the coarse gold Is
caught in its way down in the crevices, or Is
run in the pockets above the canon, ana the
gravel and finer gold in it are swept on below
and deposited along wherever the stream Is
less rapid and where there Is saEd or loan or
gravel to catch and retain the particles lie
has himself witnessed the panning out OF dirt
from some Of the bar pockets which yielded all
the way from 81 so to SIG per pan but
whether the same ground will proportlonately
paw all the way to bedrock is the problem yet
to be solved. The depth of the ground on the
bars runs, agreeably to location, from three to
six feet, and the bedrock is a very hard slate
or marble Below the canon the bars are
wider and deeper The canon has been claimed
for every foot, and will have to be worked by
wing dams or by flumlng.
Mr. Angle thinks it lmpractlcable Tor per-
sons TO winter in Orc Grande or anywhere on
Loon creek. Right in the camp he saw the
trunks aud roots Ut big trees which had been
torn from the mountain top or sides and swept
down ON the bars by vast SNOW slides. The
mountains are so lofty, their sides so steep,
and the creek bottom SO narrow, that The
snow slides, and the very high water IN the
treshet season. will render the camp utterly
unfit for wintering Aud the temperature Is
much colder than il is IN Boise BASIN. On the
night of Wednesday OF last week ice iroLc IN
the little pools along the creek Ia Il halt inch
thickness Nor are the facilities 10 be readily
had for building up a substantial camp against
the inclrinencIcs of the winter season. No
timber grows on the bar nor upon the moun-
tain above the west side of the creek ORC
Grande is on that barren side, Because OF
the want of tcams-alid this want must be
endured until road il cut-there is no means
of hauling lumber across the creek into the
camp. and by reason of the excessive rough
ness OF the creek bed. and the big bonldcrs
which line It's banks ii is with great labor and
much difficulty even the whlp-sawcd lumber
can be transported from the east {" lib" West
side OF the creek. There are three or four
parties engaged IN getting out lumber 10y whip
saws, and the price for boards Is 500 per .oou
feet. Until the demand Tor stuff 10 make
sluce boxes and for other necessary mining
uses is pretty generally supplied very little
will be diverted into building uses aud there
is not likely 10 be any abatement soon IN price.
The only two log cabins IN the place are occu
picd-one hy 10. Galaton who has the only
store in camp and the other by blacksmith.
will drive big business IN has line. Al!
the others were brush shautics. save two,
which might be called tents If Ia stretch coarse
lOHcAllf over IluAc p'1' N"HNt'tut'h 81 t''tt
Galation had sold nearly his entire stock when
Mr. Angle left. and was driving q very lucra.
tive trade There was great scarcity al
mining tools IN camp. and this want, with that
Of the want of lumber for sluicc boxes. &c.
was one reason why more work had not been
done in opening the miucs. Flour sold nj $50
per 100 pounds, bacon H. cents per pound. SUI
gar at 80 cents coffee nj ~ cents. and beef nj
- cents.
On Canon creek, less than two miles above
Orc Grandc. Mr.. Angle discovered what he
Tatro, also we'll known here. has discovered
another ledge in the same region Pieces of
the rock have been brought in for assay.
The rush 10 Loon creek continues undated
On his way in Mr.. Angle met. between Dead
wood and the Payettc, fully l25 men, some
some on foot driving pack animal
aud others with blankets on their backs, max
ing the trip as the poorest must
He thinks Loon creek already good small
mining camp. with the chances in favor of its
becoming more extensive rs it is prospectcd
But it cannot be worked generally until about
mid -summer and from that on until late in the
Fall. Idaho City, Centcrvillc. Pacerville and
Pioneer must continue to b. the dcpots from
which to supply provisions and merchandise to
that whole region. because they are the most
feasible points for the trade The trails from
Leesburg and from Northern Idaho are too
difficult and hazardous for trains to travel and
the distance from the great bases of trade,
either from California Oregon, or the railroad.
is much shorter and the TRANSPORTATION safer