Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1876-07-28
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y 90 demoralized financially that one !
y hardly possessed Of sufficient copr.
age to claim for it modicnm Of res.
pcct. and did we not know that il nos.
sesses merit beyond what is accorded
to It generally by outsiders, we would
not even try to claim for it the notice
OF any one. Speculative schemes to
"DuIp or "bear" Owyhec mining
stocks in the San Francisco markets
instead Of honest efforts to work mines
70 the best advantage, have ruled. un-
I'll by Acknowledgements and dishonesty
the reputation and credit of our mines
have been sunk so low that none seem
70 have faith enough to stretch forth
q redeemIng hand. The people, espe-
c'al'y the miners. are all impccunious,
ana what is unusual in . mining com.
mnnity. without credit. 1t matters
out little what miners prospects
may be he can hardly buy sack Of
Hour or side of bacon in Silver CITY
unless he can by some means or other
raise the money to pay for it.
Quite 4 number of young, able
bodied, Industrious men, with GOOD
mining prospects, have been forced 10
leave here because they could not ob-
tain the bare neccssaries to support
life while opening up their mines. /
am an old pioneer on the Pacific coast,
and have never seen such "A state Of
affairs before. | believe that with n
set OF merchants who would foster
and encourage individuals, cndeavor.
ing to open up mines and develop the
country, Owyhce would stand to-day
III the foremost rank of mining dis
tricts. Two such merchants as Crafts
and Kingsley, Of your town, wonld be
a God-send to this county. While ev-
erything is coin here, aud the distance
to the railroad hundred miles less
than from Idaho City, prices rule at
present as high here as there.
The most promising quartz camp Il
have any knowledge Of is this, known
as the "Wagon,own mines" bur we
have no mills TO crust, the ore. and
have to depend on hauling to Silver
City all we have worked. so per ton
being the price for hauling and crush
ing. In the earlier days If the Camp
silver seemed to BE- Predominant in the
rock, bu; recent discoveries are show.
ing up more gold, several leads hav-
ing been opened lately that assay high |
in that metal.
We are greatly in hopes that mills
will he erected before winter. We
can work the mines "a well. and haul
the ore as clicaply in winter as in sum.
iiier
Vague rumors have been anoat
within tie last wcc., 10 the effect that
two Germans had discovered placer
d;g.ings about thirty miles from here,
at Mahogany mountain, tho richness
Of which was beyond California an
the days Of 40" 4 stampede took
place, one following another, slipping
IF quietly in the evening or light
time, each trying 10 slip of from all
the rest. Some have returned, but
report no gold found. One fellow
it humbug, saying he
didn't believe that ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
acknowledgements
Dnandhew d notrunaftcrthemany
more"
The miners Of War Eagle Mountain
nave turned loose the superintendent
they had in confinement. They didn't
'Kittlc" him. No money has arrived
and restitution is staring them in the
ace, but believe the superintendent
was not in the fault. OwYHEE.