Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-01-05
LETTER FROM ALTURAs COUNTY,
ATLANTA, |. T., December 26. 1875.

quartz lodes is attracting the atten.
ton OF those in search of fortunes
and there is every probability of some
OF these hearty sons of toll being
awarded for their great activity and,
perseverance, in developing the great
mineral wealth of Atlanta.
The Monarch and Buffalo companies
are at work sinking and stopping out
large quantities of ore for milling, and
slowing it away to be hauled lby
teams in the spring to their mills 10,
Gated below town on the banks of the
river, where there is abundance of wa
ter power to run our stamps and pans
Tor the same. East and west of these
companies the Atlanta lode is tracea-
bic for nearly two miles. There are
several companies prospecting on
their respective claims with indica-
tons as good as was found on the sur
face of either the Monarch or Buffalo
ground. The mine owned and worked
10y Messrs. Judge Newton Heath and
Taylor is looking remarkably we'll.
They started to sink sometime ago,
following the vein down some dis
tancr, showing a good and we'll de-
fined lode of rich free gold rock.
They are about commencing to run a
cross drift from the back of their tun-
mel to enable them to intersect the
vein Seventy-fve feet below their up
per works. This mine is situated
about one hundred feet south of the
Monarch ground, and yielded two hun
dred and twenty eight dollars per ton
last summer. The most important
subject under discussion at present is
the question of taxing ores shipped
from our mines to other places for re-
duction. 1t being a question of life
and death with the future of Altnras,
and her people taxing these ores
would tend to iniure the future pros
poets of Atlanta by increasing "a still
greater expense to the two hundred
dollars it cost to extract, forward and
reduce each and every ton of this
shipping ore. If such law is put in
force it will certainly retard the. prog
ross of our mines, and may cause a
cessation Of mining operations here,
which would undoubtedly ruin all bus
mess connected with the working of
development, and also prevent pros
pecting carried on to any extent No
one would engage to look for any sill
yer ores if they were compelled by
law to pay taxes. If any impeachment
is placed in our way Of progressive
movement, it will not only injure At
lanta, but all of Alturas, and her sur
rounding counties At present our
communication with the outside world
is cut off for want of good wagon
road down the river. The Atlanta
companies are willing to advance
money to carry this project through,
but if there is any taxation on orc it
| is doubtful whether they will do any
thing towards it or not. Let the hon
orable representatives of the people OF
Idaho Territory assembled to enact
laws of aprogressive nature, for the
people give this important subject
due consideration. Without any
prejudice or hard feeling, let this tax
ing remain where it is for two years,
and then if those companies do not
erect proper works to reduce these
ores at home, then tax them, but give
them and the people of Alturas a
chance to build up grand future tor
Atlanta.
Last evening Mr.. and Mrs. Croutis