Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-07-17

wv. The deepest workings are 3OU
feet, but the levels are from zoo to
700 feet. In very few cases have the
ore chutes punched out to less than
six inches, while the average ore.body
is two feet. In the 23O-foot level of
the Bullion mine the ore-body has
opened out to width of four Or five
feet, and in the bottom of the shaft,
~ feet below, it is two and half fee,
wide. The camp contains about 4Otl
miners and prospectors. The present
daily ore shipment is 30 tons, and
within two weeks, when commentators
now under construction shall have
been completed, the output will easily
be doubled. The ore runs from $50
to zoo ounces in silver, and from 81
to % per cent. lead. 1t is a fine ga.
lena and gray copper in character,
while the contact and granite vein
ore is a milling quartz, carrying some
gold. In the " God River district,
which also includes Ketchum, Belle.
vue and the Ornament and Ohio con.
tacts-ten miles to the north-thcre
are, up to the present writing, 81 pro-
ducing mines. Last year the total
product was appropriated at 3,OOO,.
wv, and this year 1t will be about g..
100000. by the way of contrast,
rather than comparison, consider for
a moment the silver San Juan. of
which Colorado is justly proud. Last
year and twenty years alter its discov-
cry by Baker we crowed Justify be.
cause it yielded 100000, or one.sixth
Of the amount produced by the Wood
River mines three years after their
discovery. And then the San Juan
is in progressive State while Wood
River is in an isolated Territory. How
would Colorado take it if a Wood
River newspaper were to attack the
San Juan?
Another feature of the Republi-
cans correspondence was the attempt
to load the blame for the apparent ill.,
treatment of the miners here upon the
shoulders Of the Union Pacific man.
agement. In pursuance of this dis.
cussion it was also claimed that the
officials, the Idaho and Ore.
yon Land improvement Company and
the smelling men are in collision to
'ob the miners and make their prop.
'rties valueless. The most charitable
hing that can be said about this
charge is that it was the result of
hurried and superficial observation.
The fact of the matter is the rate on
're is comparatively small. At $27a
on to Omaha, it is only IS more than
The rate charged between Leadville
md Omaha, while the distance is as
wo to one. One of the statements
made with reference to this subject is
hat it now costs as much to ship ore
% Omaha as it formerly did to team
t to kelton, Utah. But it should be
that the rate, kelton to
omaha, was and is now nearly as
much as it is from Haley to Omaha,
and the ore shipped to Kelton was
treated at San Francisco. 10 res son
another way: If it is as cheap to
freight the ore from Haley to Kelton
and then send it to Salt Lake for
reatment as it is to ship it to Oma-
Ia. why are there no: some tea,nsters
n the business? There is not pound
II ore going to kelton, while the
rtlght records of the Union Pacific
how that considerable of it is find.
ng its way into the Denver works.
If the miners are oppressed-and |
and'dIv believe they are-the smelt-
NJ men are the sole oppressors. BE.
ween the local smelling company
nd the Omaha company all the harm
as been done. The former is com.
osed OF men who are doubtless prof.
ing by the disastrous experiences of
he Quaker folks at Leadville. They
ad scarcely gotten we'll under way J.
vo years ago when they boldly an S
ounced that no other smelling plant
'ould be established here so long as
'ey could prevent it. They still oc.
1py the field, and from an iinsiynif n
IN. concern their works have spread
ushroomlikc into smeltcr OF $50
ms daily capacity. Que need go no
'rther to seek evidence of the value -
the mines and the ores. The Oma-
hrm-l have it from gentleman
with it-entered heartily
to the scheme ofthe Phiiade!pl,ians. +
he arrangement is that the Omaha :,
orks shall get all the bullion for re. l.
cement; the HALEY works shall
ulct the miners in the full ore rate
"a afterwards pay the bullion tariff r
the Missouri river, or give Omaha =
opIe a stipulated proportion of the :
;! rate which they exact, together
tn 10 per cent for possible loss on
en- ton OF ore they treat. The object of
e conspiracy is to suppress the output.
large the local works as the product
US unnaturally increases, and con. n
Tue to divide the usurious sno;ls