Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-10-04
GALENA GLEANINGS,
The Camp Recovering from Last Falls
"Blackeye''-Tke Senate Smeltcr to
Start Up SOOn-The Conway Castle,
D0lta. and Other Mines.

the multitude of claims in the imme-
date vicinity, which are we'll spoken
of by the inhabitants; while he, at
the same time, is apt to wonder why
more work is not done upon them
Upon looking into the matter, how
ever, he soon ascertains the main rca-
son, to wit General decentralization
caused by the failure, last season, of
the house of e. l.. Wilson, Jr., far the
heaviest of the business houses of the
upper country, and the consequent
lack of confidence which the mishap
caused.
Galena, which little over a year
ago, had the best prospects of any
camp on the river, received back-set
from the Wilson failure from which it
has not yet recovered. Some 10000
belonging to various companies oper-
ating here, We're tied up in that disas-
ter, and that money could not be
availed of until late this summer. In
the meantime the properties of those
companies remained idle, and the
neighboring mineowners, after the
custom of their class, permitted their
properties to remain in the same CON
dition.
A new start was made this summer,
however, but rather too late for any
notable improvement this year. The
fine Acton smelter of the Senate Com
pany, which was built at the Pacific
Iron Works, in San Francisco, has
been completed, and is now ready to
; be "blown in" an event which will oc-
cur in a few days. The fring-up of
this furnace will give quite an i'm
petus to mine development here, as it
will insure local market for our ores.
Developments are still made in the
claims being worked. The Quimby
Hill properties are showing up espcc-
tally well, and the few tons of ore
shipped from them to the HALEY
sampling works paid a good profit.
THE SENATE.
The Senate mine, on Senate hill, is
looking splendidly. The main tunnel
is now 80 feet long an incline Of 1.5
feet taps the shaft at a depth of so
feet, giving a free circulation of air
through the whole mine. They have
also run a cross-cut, and struck large
body of ore which is undoubtedly the
same as that in the Conway Castle, the
adjoining claim. The mine was closed
this week, the entire force of men be-
ing discharged. The Company's fur
mace will begin smelling ore Oct. lsr,
and continue about two weeks, when
work will be discontinued for the win
ter.
| LIE SoN " Al I A. LIE "A n ID DEl.IA.
The Conway Castle, which adioins
the Senate, is being worked by IA
New York Company, owning also the
President and the Delta. A shaft 90
feet deep and a tunnel 100 feet deep
have been driven this season, the lat
ter showing remarkable slickensidc
walls and ledge six feet wide in which
fine carbonate and galena ore is inter
spersed. The carbonates contain so
per cent. lead, and about so ounces of
, silver per ton. The vein has been
opened at intervals the entire length
of the claim.
Your correspondent was rather
struck by the large amount of mineral
shown by the Delta, situated in the
gulch below the Conway Castle.
Two veins are exposed in the Presi-
!. denton one of which there is now a
shaft 20 feet deep, and several open
cuts showing the vein. They are now
driving a tunnel to strike the lodges az
;. their point ofintersection.
;. The Company intend to prosecute
!. work through the winter, and will run
tunnel to cut the main ledge of the
Conway Castle at depth of 400 feet.
The Company's mines are under the
able management of Professor Jos.
ID. Marsh, an experienced mining
: engineer.
OTHER MINES.
Jno. l.. Sims, of New York, is man.
aging number of mines between
: Quimby and Gladiator hills. These