The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-02-15

OWYHEE ITEMS.-We take the following
Items from the Aralanche of February 10th:
Inc Silver City Lyceum was broken up on
last Ia Monday night and it is proposed to get up
literary entertainments on another plan. :
Lutte Lindsay, of Boise City, passed through
OWyhee a few days ago en- route for home from
Portland, Oregon, having returned via San
francisco on account of the Columbia river be-
Ing trezen up between Portland and the Dalles.
Onlast Thursday Bachelors team and sleigh.
loaded with sugar, slipped from the grade and
tumbled two or three hundred feet into Jordan
creek, short distance below the Ruby City
toll gate. No serious damage was done. --
~ The Empire Mining Company was incor-
porated in San Francisco, January. 26th, with
q capital stock of $2,50O,000 divided into 25,-
900 shares, The Trustees are Hill Reachy,
Geo w. Beaver, j. w. Gashwiler, James s..
Kennedy and Martin Herman. The Empire
mine is located near the Poorman, on War
Eagle mountain, and is yielding richer silver
ore than any other mine in the camp.
B. L. Davis, Superintendent of the Golden
Chariot, has resigned, and t. B. Pheby is to
take his place.
Wells, Fargo and Co. shipped from Silver
City, for the week ending February 10th, g
bars of bullion, valued at $l5,066 SO.
The Golden Chariot Mining Company, on
January 3lst, levied an assessment of So SO
| per share, payable on or before March 9th.
The South Chariot Mining Company, Feb
Sd, levied an assessment of 81 per share, pay
able on or before March 9th
| About eighteen inches of snow fell in Owy
ne during the past week, and on last Friday
the wind blew perfect hurricane.
S. M. Vessels and E.sC. Hardy have sold a
half interest in the Original and Galena mines.
10 South Mountain District for $4,000, The
parties making the purchase are to erect three
smelling furnaces ready to commence opera
tions by the Fourth of July next, and upon
their completion one half interest in them is
to be decided to Vessels & Hardy, who are
to have full control OF them till the 200 is
paid, December 1st, 1872, being the time with
in which the money is to be paid, and the buy
ers are not to have a deed for the one half in
terest in the mine until the money is paid.
The furnaces are estimated to cost $4,000
each, and will smelt IS tons of ore per day,
and turn out Is tons of bullion.
1t is reported that Donnelly Johnson and
others have sold the Golc0nda for Sl25,000.
but if the sale is not completed parties in Salt
Lake City are ready to take One-half of the
mine for $4,000. The Golconda is over fifty
feet wide
From present indications six furnaces. turn
ing out thirty tons of bullion per day, will be
in operation in South Mountain District early
next Summer This mining camp is situated
almost in the extreme southwestern corner of
Owyhee county, within few miles of the Or
egon aud Nevada lines-about 100 miles from
the Central Pacific Railroad and about %
miles from Silver City.
The Aralanchc, in speaking of the South
Mountain mines in connection with those in
Nevada and elsewhere. after comparing the
yield OF the ores and width of the lodes. says
that such comparisons prove them to be among
the richest base metal deposits in the world"