Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-06-01
At Quartzburg

iday and night, Z with twenty-five
Estamps, crushing fifty tons per diem
lThis is the finest mill In the Territory
ASA gold orc reducing work it i IN
surpassed, being in all its appoint
ments complete and perfect. Th'
power cf the engine is SO horse, anG
TALL the machinery works with the
lsmuothness and precision Of clock
The ore is hoisted through an incline
by means of steam power, and is con
veyed to the batteries in cars, dumped
upona platform from which it is fec
Into the batteries by hand. There are
about fifty men employed in the mine
and mill, and all the works are car.
ried on so Systematically that six dol
lars per ton pays the whole expense
of extracting and reducing the ore
The vein is only ten or twelve inches
thick, but there is no blasting re-
quired to be done. And the average
result.is one ton of ore extracted and
reduced for each days labor. Such
management as has characterized the
Gold Hill mine and mill would have
made many of the Owyhee and other
mines of the Territory that have prov
en- failures, brilliant successes. No
one on the outside knows what the
Gold Hill pays, but it is known that
the company has grown wealthy, and
always have money on hand to pay all
demands. The mechanical skill and
inventive genius of the present Super
intendent, William Coughanour, is ex-
hibited in many things connected with.
the mill, and his constant presence
and attention to business is a guaran-
tee of success. In the Office of the
company are two valuable cabinets of
minerals and curiosities from different
localities, but the richest and rarest
are those from the Gold Hill mine.
1t would;take a days time to satisfy
one in the examination of them. They
are not'large. but one of them is the
richest | have ever seen. Near this
mill is the
Eisler Mill and Mine,
Situated on the Gold Hill ledge, with
ore exactly the same as that of the
Gold Hill. John Eisler, Esq, is the
the owner of this property, which bids
fair to be one of the valuable proper
ties of the Territory. The mill has
steam power of 25-horse capacity, ten
stamps and an arastrar. The mine is
worked through tunnel, the mouth
of which is about 200 feet above the
mill. The quartz is lowered in cars
by windlass or reel, the descending
loaded car carrying the empty car up
to the tunnel Mr.. Eisler will be
ready to commence crushing in a
week or ten days, and it is reasonable
to expect most profitable results, as
the mine and mill are both good, and
the owner thoroughly practical bus
mess man. The town of
Quartzburg
Has one store of general merchandise,
kept by Major R. G. Allen, one saloon
kept by George Bake, Esq, one
boarding house by Mrs. Bullock, a
'eed and livery stable by II. H. Hawk
ms, Esq, and boot making estab- |
iShment. At g
Granite Creek G
BESIDES number of small placer min I
ng operations, the Danskin Brothers !.
ire continuing their extensive placer !;
mining work with large force of ~
nen, and making it pay handsomely. a
Ihe store of Danskin Bros. and that of Z
jounty Commissioners Con Healy, are \
10Th doing fair business. Mr.. Hea- -
y runs a pack train that is now en- o