Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-10-06
THE EAST FORK.
A NEW DISTRICT THAT WILL SOON
BE FAMOUS.

It's Location, Accessibility, and Mines
An Important Feeder to the Senate
Company's Smelter At Galena.-Etc.
A majority of people who have
heard of the exceeding rich discoveries
in the East Fork District, have formed
erroneous conclusions as to the loca-
ton of the new mining section, and
while some supposed it to be situated
upon the East fork of Wood River,
others concluded the locality to be
somewhere upon the East Fork of the
Salmon River.
Neither are correct as it is located
in Custer county, two miles northeast
and on the divide from the head of
the East Fork of the Salmon River.
This divide is the boundary line be-
tween Alturas and Custer counties.
The district is eight miles northeast
from the Wood River stage road, and
is reached by the old Challis trail
which leaves the stage road two miles
east of Sawtooth City, Or 10 miles west
of Galena, and follows up the East
Fork of Salmon River to the head
waters and there crosses the divide
and passes through East Fork District
on the way to Challis. BY the trail
it is 100 miles from Sawtooth City to
Challis, while by the travelled road, it
is 14O miles. The south boundary of
the district is formed by the county
line, and the district extends northerly
and embraces several square miles of
mineral lands. Washington Basin is
81 miles to the northwest, Germania
Basin is three miles to the northwest,
) and Champion Basin is two miles to
the northwest of East Fork Mining Dis
: trict south boundary, and are all in
Guided in the East Fork Mining Dis
trict.
The principal mines of the district
are the Germania, Champion, Crnsus,
Arctic, Red Warrior, and Idahoan,
, which are all developed, while hun
dred more are being opened with en-
, couraging prospects. The wellknown
Grand Prize mine is p miles S. S. E.
l from the head of East Fork, Oh Grand
e Prize Mountain.
J. The Fast Fork is an old mining
$ district, and was located several years
0 ago by miners-mostly from Challi,
e and Bayhorse-but they only located
n without developing any of the claims
e The work of development has al
ways been confined to tunneling, a.
a no machinery was ever brought t.
g the district. Each of the mine.
e named as being the principal ones ha
+ shipped large quantities of high-grad,
$ ore for years past, and since the erect
\ ion Of works at kinnikinnick, hav,
r. had all the ore reduced there, which i
l, distant 40 miles from the mines; blu
II since the erection of smelter Il
t Galena City, on Wood River, only II
= miles from the new district by goo'
d roads, contracts have been made Their
y for the reduction of the ores extracte,
/ in the future, and as rapidly as tn
mines are developed additional smelt
ID ing facilities will be provided on up
'e per Wood River. The smelter a
Of Galena was blown in this week, an
he promises to improve matters Their
Of very greatly.
o. The East Fork district is all lin
xt formation, and the mines are easy
y work, though most of them are not az
: cessible by wagon-roads. The lode
are, in majority of cases, large, an
crop strong, or to width of 20 fee
", The character of the ore is principal
ke carbonates. In the Gernania carbon
m ates predominant. In the Champio
it is high grade galena, running Z
er per cent. in lead. In the Cresus tn
a vein is quartz, carrying nothing br
ne free gold. The smelter runs from tn
r Germania return 800 ounces silver pr
I'D ton, and from the Champion abor
at the same, while the Crpsus mill rur
es give returns up to $4,000 per ton
or gold, on choice, sorted rock, or 81 pc
or pound, and this is not from specimen
OF but from slopes.
II The miners have mostly suspendc