Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-09-15
SHEEP MOUNTAIN.
A District that Will Loom Prominently
Next Year, II the Bottom Doesn't Fall

A District that will Loom Prominently
Next Year, II the Bottom Doesn't Fau
Out.
Idaho Worldl
Charley Small. who has been in this
district prospecting for about month,
returned the other day. When Char.
ley left there were about two dozen
men in there doing representation and
development work on their claim: and
delving and hunting for new veins.
Considerable digging has been done
on the surface, sinking prospecting
holes, running open cuts, etc, and as
the result Of all the labor expended
there is not vein, with two or three
exceptions, that has been opened to
sufficient depth to warrant ANYTHING
like a firm belief in their permanency,
and to say that Sheep Mountain is or
is not mineral district of real value
would be mere guess work. With
the limited extent Of development
that has been made so far, this dis
trict hasn't very much of attraction
for the capitalist. This season and
last everybody out there had the pros
pectlng mania, very good mania,
too, in a new district, and conse.
quently not much has been done in
the way of opening up mines, locators
being content with merely represent
ing their prospects. Next season the
work of development will commence
in earnest, and if the bottom doesn't
fall out Of the lodges that district will
loom up into prominence. A great
many locations have been made and
the lodges show we'll at and near the
surface. The Mountain King mine,
owned by the Daley Brothers, makes
fine showing. In running a tunnel
for the main ledge three veins that did
not show on the surface were crossed,
one eighteen inches wide, and two are
three feet, and the ore is high grade.
The character of the ore is galena. A
shaft was sunk to the depth of IS
feet on the vein that cropped out
This is the vein that the tunnel is run.
ming for. The tunnel is now in about
80 feet, and is within rs feet of this
vein, which is three feet in the bottom
of the shaft. The last load of ore
packed to Bayhorse and smelted, a
short time ago, gave the owners a re-
turn OF ISL pc: ton after paying cx.
penses of packing and smelling,
which amounted to SIS ton--pack-
ing $40 and smelling $50. Nick
Johnson's train does the packing, and
has taken out four or FIVE loads this
season. He has SO animals. All the
ore that has been smelted has given
big returns. The Greyhound, on Mid.
die Salmon, near Sheep Mountain,
gives promise of becoming valua-
bic mine. A cut 40 or so feet in
length has been run on the ledge at
the surface, and the ore is good, but
the vein is somewhat broken. The
ledge has been tapped by tunnel
and the vein shows two or three feet
of good ore, the character of which is
black sulphurets. A casing at the
face Of the tunnel has been broken
through an cighteen-inch vein of ore,
revealing assays as high as 5000
per ton. This casing, before it was
broken, was believed to be one of the
ledge. The Tracy, on the west side
of Rapid river, three miles northwest
of the Mountain King, shows three
feet of galena on the surface. A tun.
mel has been started, which will tap
the ledge at the depth of seventy-fve
feet. The tunnel will be run about
twenty feet and will reach the ledge
in two or three weeks. n blind ledge.
with sixteen inches o: solid galena ore,
has been struck. This location is
owned by Joseph Miller, A. d. Cam.
eron, Chas. Waller and J II. Lee.
Mr.. Small has taken up an extension
of the Tracy, on the east side of Roar
ing river. He calls it the Niagara.
These locations are on line with the
Alta johnson. Charley brought in
fine specia en- of chloride ore from his
location, which he will have assayed.