The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-08-25
BEDROCK FLUME.

and since reading the article referred to VI
have consulted with several parties whose ex
perience in mining entities their opinions to b.
received as authority on such questions. Mr.
Donald Grant, OF this city, who is an old mine
and ditch proprietor, has been giving this mat
ter some attention, and formed some estimate
of the probable expense of construction, as al
50 the probable profits to be derived from it
which he has furnished US for reference. Fol-
about four months during the year More creek
contains an average of about five thousand
inches of water. A fulne OF the dimensions
of eight feet in width by six feet in depth, with
q grade of one-and-a-half inches to the rod
will easily carry twelve thousand inches; and
then, with side bitches ON both sides of the
creek, for the purpose of ground-sluicing into
the main fume. all the water, even at the high.
est stages, can be used to good purpose. 1t il
estimated that hume of the above dimensions.
with the grade stated. will carry of two humid.
red cubic yards of dirt per minute. The cost
OF moving dirt in the nature Ut stripping" by
wheelbarrows. at the lowest estimate. has ay.
eraged ffty cents per cubic yard, and millions
Of wheelbarrow loads Of dirt that have been
thrown aside as worthless would pay from one
to ten cents per load. At least one-halt of the
ground in More creek has never been worked
or mined out, and it will pay rs well as any
that has been worked.
Ground in More creek has been worked that
paid S2.700 in - hours. with only four men at
work. This ground was 10 the immediate vi
cinity ot Idaho City. and We are confident tina,
equally IA rich ground exists. though not 50 rx.
iensise. in places nil the way along the creek.
from Walla Wala Flat To Warm SPRING. that
has not been worked at all. Only three cum.
panies are now at work along that entire dis.
lance OF about Tour miles aud bali, aud tho
balance OF the creek ground IL either abandon.
ID or used only for dumping purposes should
/ Company be organized va ar. informed that
u. 90 would be- Sufficient tn procure . frat
lass portable sawmill. put u, in operation. and
my the necessary cattle. wagon. and trucks
or hauling logs and delivering lumber ~ here
equlred. and that the lumber. delivered on the /
.ronnd. would not cost 10 rxcrrd si6 per VI |
10 build tlumr of the dimensions given would
rquirc about 900 fr-t OF lumber 20 every rod
Il dame. White laboFcrs eau EASILY be- hired
Turing the winter months az irum z. 80 10 81 .
'cr day. while Chinese cuuld be obtained a,
probably one-half of that: but we arc opposed /
o employing Cinnamon when white labor can /
" procured. FROM the estimates aud figures
furnished US. the ilumr would run we'll with
700 inches of water. and one Of the ahusr
imensious and grade. with tina, amount OF va.
er. would more l00O0n cubic yard. OF earth
. every ~ hours Placing toe lowest estimate
pom the value of the dirt-an average of ten
cnts per cubic yard-and the gross proceeds
er day would at that rate be $1,000. while
be expenses could not possibly exceed 81 900:
aus clearing. over ard above expenses. So. 900
er day. which. for four months. with the same
mount of water. would aggregate si.o-0. 900
= clear profit. But throwing in the balance
tU0 ysas @Hs sasAuk use WHuse A4tie at the q
west estimate. the net proceeds would be nj .
'ast 100000. These figures may appear ,
'rge. and the estimate rather extrav agan,. but i,
'ere Is no doubt of the ground averaging at i
asst ten cents per cubic yard. while We believe
will pay ut least double that amount II IL e
slieved that $4,000 would place the ilumc !
1der way to snch an extent that ii would then 9
~ at least one-half of the expense Of further v
instruction, while an additional outlay of $50.
10 more would construct 1t of such length =
at the proceeds derived from 1t would not /.
lily defray all further expenses but would also c
oduce dividends. One-half the labor and !,
oney thrown away every summer by miners Il
the Basin prospecting for diggings would Ii
lid about two miles of the bedrock flume, r.
ID after its completion IL would afford con. = =
INT employment to at least one thousand men
ground.sluicing aud cleaning bedrock The
IN submitted 10 US OF fume of the forevo. \
I dimensions 10 for double hume. one being Il
Q feet in width by SIX In depth, and the other d
rec feet in width and Of the same depth--the NJ
aler one being Of sufficient capacity to car. I
all the water running in the bed OF the creek +
ring the latter part of the mining season, Mt "
Itch time the large tlume can be cleaned up 90