Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-06-15
sneak as ] saw it.

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arch company's mill, also run by wa
ter power; having ten stamps, elgn'
mans four settlers and a contractor
r H Dennison, the Superintendent
and amalgamator, informs me that
thew save about so per cent OF the
bullion, and that they are running
their tailings into reservoirs to De
hereafter worked by some process
which will save the other halt. ,lhere
are others, however, who are comper
tent to judge of ores, who think 1t I'M
possible to save, of this character Oh
ore, more than 25 per cent. OF the DULL
ion by their present process,
Next above this mill is the one
called the Greenback, which belongs
to the Monarch company, but is being
run on Last Chance ore by Mr.. Ho-
gan, who has leased it. The mill is
only calculated to save free gold; is
stamps, having no pans or Settlers OF
any other appliances for saving sll'
ver To work rich ores by such
means is bad policy at least, but CIR
cnmstances are such as to make 1t
necessary at present or not work them
at all.
Above this mill Mace Chapman and
his brother are running little mill
bv means of an overshot wheel, which
can, with its two stamps, reduce
about one ton per twelve hours. They
have little roasting furnace equal to
the capacity Of the mill, and succeed
in saving most of the metal in the
rock. 1t is only intended for pros
pecting small lots. Messrs. Chapman
charge $50 per ton, and are conSid
cred square dealers; 50 that honest
returns are doubtlessly made. They
have power sufficient for eight stamps,
and will, if their works succeed as
we'll as they think, put up the addi-
tional six after awhile.
Capt. Baxter has mill at the up
per end of the town which is only iD-
tended for the reduction of free gold
rock.
The mills named are the only means
by which ores can be reduced at this
camp. Capital for the erection of
mills and hosting works is needed,
and before the mines of Atlanta can
take the position they are entitled to,
more life and energy must be infused
into the people directing affairs, or
new men must be placed at the helm.
There are good aud efficient men here,
but the power behind the tlarOne is in
the East, and so many companies have
been bilked by bad management and
the force of circumstances in early
days, that it is hard to convince men
who are not here to see for themselves
that there is any permanent wealth in
the country. And now when it is
told to capitalist that there are
mines of enormous value here, and at
the same time tell him how little has
been done, and that there is not even
a wagon road to the district, and that
the mines have been worked for thir.
teen or fourteen years, he doesn't be-
lieve you. He r fuses to believe that
such mines have known existence,
with so little done to show it. But it
is nevertheless true, and though
hardly hope to be believed, will
speak of mines and everything else
here as l find them; and if l misstate
anything | invite those who think so
to correct me through the columns of
the WORLD. In this communication |
will speak of but one mine; but in
succeeding letters Imay tell what
may have seen in others. Having