Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-02-10
A STRONG CONCERN.
A SAN FRANCISCO COMPANY TO OF.
ERATE IN SAWTOOTH.
The Jupiter. Justice, Ophir, and Mid.
night Mines Taken Hold Of-Details Of
Present DevelOpments-A Mill to he
Brought In In the Spring.

A letter from George Wedekind,
now in San Francisco, states that he
has placed the Jupiter, Justice, Ophir
and Midnight mines there. He has
organized stock company on the
above mines with 100000 shares at a
par value Of one dollar per share, and
disposed CT 100000 shares at SO cents
per share for working capital. He
has already purchased from the Vul-
can Iron Foundry, in San Francisco,
Il complete 2O-stamp mill which will
cost, when ready to run, $4,000. 1t
has 20 stamps, with White and
Howell furnace. This plant will be
one OF the finest on Wood River.
George Wedekind is President of the
company, and will expend $4,000 in
developing the property. Mike Rose
has received the appointment as fore
man of the mines, and Mr.. Burch, Of
Bellevue, has been appointed Gen
eral Superintendent. George Am.
mond will have charge of the con-
struction of the mill and works.
President Wedekind has organized
a strong company, and intends having
the mines opened on a California ba-
sis. He will return to Wood River
in about three weeks.
The name of the company is the
Sawtooth Gold and Silver Mining
Company of California. The princi-
pal stockholders are Lloyd Tevis,
Nicholas Luning, J. d. Frye, J. w.
Jones, Wellman, Peck & Co., Spru-
ance, Stanley & Co., and D. b. Nye-
all of San Francisco. The above gen
tlemen took half the stock and thereby
furnished $4,000 for the develop
ment of the property, and the remain
ing 100000 shares is held by the orig
inal locatros of the mines.
The mines are located within one
mile of Sawtooth, in Beaver canyon.
The Jupiter is opened by shaft 125 #.
deep-at which depth the ore-body is
80 inches wide and ore is in the shaft
all the way from the surface down,
averaging 80 inches in width. There
are l39 feet of drifts-all showing ore.
Six hundred tons of first grade ore,
averaging $50 ounces in silver, and
GOO tons Of second grade, averaging
RS ounces in silver, are out on the
dump. One. third of the value OF the
assay is gold. There is no waste,
and the ore alone, when stopped, af
fords room in the drifts and slopes
for men to work without stripping or
breaking down any waste.
INC JuStiCc Is SHldllcT VEIN, up
ping at an angle of Is degrees, and
is in granite formation with a slate
hanging wall, and strong, heavy clay
gangue on the foot WALL The vein
matter isquartz containing ruby silver,
which has produced up to $1,000 in
silver and $500 in gold to the ton.
The silver ore is black sulphates, ruby
and stephanite. The vein carries IL
inches of ore at depth of 35 feet,
which is the lowest point yet reached
on the vein. Twelve tons of ore
from this mine is cached or stored in
stone house built for the purpose, so
that it should not be stolen. 1t is
stated that this ore which is cached is
worth $4,000 to $4,000 per ton.
The Ophir is 35-foot vein, cut
across on the surface from wall to
wall, and all the ore exposed is free
milling and averages 81 ounces in sill
yer per ton. 1t crops out strong dis
lance of two miles, and carries Il uni
form width of 80 feet. Trenches dug
10 feet deep by ~ feet wide cross the
ledge, and the ore averages 81 ounces
in silver everywhere. 1t is quartz
carrying ruby, native and wire silver,
and some gold. Sixty tons of ore are
out on the dump.
The Midnight is not much devel-
oped, as the deepest work on this
mine is II feet. The ore is contnu-
Gus and free milling, ruby, stephanite
and native silver, carrying 1875 ounces
to the ton, and some gold. The vein
is % inches wide. There are six tons
Of this Ore IN tho dumn