The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-06-20
YANKEE FORK.

From The Times Review.

| FROM Inc Times review.
Mr.. Jordan, an old Nevada miner,
arrived in town last evening from two
months visit to Challis, Bonanza City
and other camps in that part of Idaho.
His opinion of the country is anything
but favorable, though he thinks it will
ultimately become great mining and
business center. From Challs to Be-
nanza City the distance is about sixty
five miles over rough mountain trail,
covered with snow about eight out Of
twelve months of the year. Every
pound of freight taken into the latter
place is transported on mule-bach, at a
cost OF from two to three and half
cents per pound.
NEW ROAD.
Messrs. Pease & Co., of Challis, have
commenced building wagon road to
Bonanza City, which will not be COM
pleted before the first of November.
They are advertising for men to work
on it, their object being, as our infor-
mant states, to get crowd of men into
the country whom they can employ at
their own prices. A large number OF
Mormons have settled in and around
Challis, who are working, or are willing
to work for smaller wages than Neva-
| dams are accustomed to receive. After
the road is, finished it must be borne in
mind, that it will be impossible for at
least one half of the year, and even with
Mormon labor, the cost of freighting
viii be extraordinarily high.
THE IMMIGRATION
To that section has been immense dur
ing the past three or four months, but
there is now scarcely three hun
dred people in both Challis and b.
nanza City. Men accustomed to min
| ing camps can see at a glance that there
is nothing to do, and many of them
have gone to Montana, Salmon River
mines, other portions of Idaho, or re-
turned to this State.
TRE MINES
Are rich beyond anything that has been
said of them, but with the exception OF
two, are producing, and must ne
cessarily be so until their owners can
erect mills. A small quantity of ore
has been sacked and shipped to Salt
Lake from the Norton mine, and the
yield has been very large, in proportion
to the amount of ore shipped. About
81, 800 per ton is considered fair aver
age of the ore already taken from this
| mine.
NO WORK Fur TWO YEARS.
Mr.. Jordan thinks that the camp
will amount to nothing for at least two
years, as, even when the road is COM
pleted and mills erected, there are now
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to do all that is to be done.
GENERAL OUTLOOK.
The class of men now in Challis and
Bonanza City are prospectors, who have
gone there with probably three months
supplies, and who must no. matter
what discoveries they make, seek other
fields when their stock is exhausted
About IS per week is charged for board,
but as most of the men there board
themselves; restaurant men are not
making sudden fortunes. Two or three
drinking saloons are in operation in the
two camps, the proprietors of which do
not consider themselves on the high
road to-fortune, at twenty-five cents a
drink. Yankee Fork is overrun and
overestimated, and those who 60 there
twelve months from now will be fully
as well off and enjoy fully as many
chances to make rich strikes, as those
who have been spending the past win
ter in the snow and living ON half ra-
tions.
Eiremen's attention.
snecial meeting of Winnamucca