Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1880-02-13
IDAHO's ADVANCEMENT.

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vancing. Considering our isolated
position, lack of immigration societies.
mining excitements elsewhere, lack Of
capital to develop the country, and
many other drawbacks, the Territory
has much improved during the past
year, and there are reasons for beliey-
ing that its business and other inter-
ests will be active before the close Of
this year.
The Owyhee mine, one of the best.
It not the best, in Owyhce county, has
been sold to Boston company, who
are now working it. Very rich ore is
reported to have been struck in IL
which, if it holds out, will cause other
investments to be made in that section.
The Florida Hill mines, near Silver
City, are looking well, and attracting
some attention below.
The Cincinnati company that owns
the Bonaparte mine, six miles east Of
Rocky Bar, Alturas county, have thor
oughly developed it, and it would take
millions to buy them out to-day. Sew
eral men are at work erecting 20
stamp mill, which will be ready for
crushing early in the spring.
After spending $4,000 or $50, 900
on the tunnel to tap the famous Attain
ia mine, few miles from the town Of
Atlanta, the ledge was struck and a
large body of good milling ore found
at a great depth. San Francisco
companies would have invested there
several years ago, but near the sur
face the walls were granite and the
ore contains principally ruby silver,
and they feared the pay would de-
crease, or entirely give out at short
depth. But the tunnel has removed
all apprehensions of this kind. The
mine was tapped at the depth of over
500 feet, where the walls were porphy,
ry and the ore black sulphurets, the
best indications known for the perna.
nency of mines. The Monarch mine.
on the same ledge, has so much i'm.
proved that the force will soon be
largely increased. All the other
mines in Alturas county show up bet
ter as they are developed, but many
of them are in the hands of poor men,
and their development will be slow.
The discoveries of rich mines at
Custer, Bonanza, Challis and Bay
Horse Districts, in Letnhi county, and
in the Wood river and Saw-Tooth Dis
tricts, in Alturas county, have been
wonderfully numerous during the past
year-in fact SO numerous that CAPT
talists can hardly believe the reports
from those districts, and people be-
come bewlldered when they try to as
certain which will be the leading dis.
trict. But all who have seen them do
not hesitate in saying that those
places taken together will fol III bo-
nanza unprecedented in the history of
mining. The enormous amount of
money made by shipping ore to Salt
Lake, and working it in arastras and
hand mortars at home, proves the
great wealth the mines contain. A
furnace to be erected in the Bay
Horse District is now at the terminus
of the Utah ami Northern railroad
ready for shipment as soon as spring
opens, and there will undoubtedly be
others put up during the summer; the
Custer company will put up mill OF
not less than forty stamps during the
season, and other companies will erect
smaller ones. Hundreds of prospec
tors will be scattered through the
mountains in three or four months
from now, and it is impossible to