Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-09-11
sheep Mountain.

CIaley small, who has been id thiS
district prospecting for about a month.
returned the other day. When Charley
lei there were about two dozen men III
there doing representation and develop
ment work on their claims and deIying
and hunting for new veins. Considerable
digging has been done all through Sheep
Mountain district but most all the work
has heen done on the surface, sinking
holes, running open cuts, etc,
and rs the result OF all the labor expended,
there is not vein, with two or three ex
ceptions, that has been open 4 to suffi-
cient depth to warrant any hing like a firm
belief in their permanency, and t,sav that
sheep ountain is, or Is not mineral
district of real value would be me re guess
work. With the limited extent of devel
opment that has been made so far, this
district hasn't very much attraction for
the capitalist. This season and last every
body out there had the prospecting mania,
very good mania too. ina new district,
and consequently not much has been done
in the way Of opening up mines, locators
being content with merely representing
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 I'D into
prominence. A grea' many locations have
been made and the ledges show we'll at
and near the surface. The Mountain King
mine, owned by the Daley Bros. .lakes a
fine showing. In running tunnel for the
main ledge three veins, that did not show
M 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 g lena. A shaft was sunk to the
| depth of eighteen feet on the vein that
cropped out This is the vein that the
tunnel is running tor. The tunnel is now
in about fifty fect and IS within twenty
| five 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 return
of 1871 per ton after paying expenses OF
pa king and smelling, which amounted
to $50 Il ton-packing $45 and smelling
$50. Nick Jollnsnn's train does The pack
i G. and h taken gu four or five loasls
this season. He has 'hirty-eight animals
All the ore that has been smelted has givel
big returns. The Greyhound, on Middle
Salmon, near Sheep Mountain, give:
promise of becoming a valuable mine A
cut forty or fifty feet in length Ii; S beer
run on the ledge at the surface and thu
ore is good, but the vein is somewhat bro
ken up. The ledge has been tapped by
tunnel and the vein shows two or three
feet of good ore, the character of which il
black sulphurets The other day casing
at the face of The tunnel was broker
through and an cighteen-inch vein of orr
revealed that assays rs high AS 5000 pc
ton. This casing, befOe it was broken
was believed to be one of tae walls of til,
ledge. The Tracy, on the west side o
Rapid river, three miles northwest of TIL,
Mountain King, shows three feet of galen,
ore on the surfa e. A tunnel has beer
started, which will tap the ledge at til,
depth of seventy five feet. The tunnel viii
be run about twenty feet and will reacl
the ledge in two or three weeks. A b|int
ledge, with sixteen inches of solid galen;
ore has been struck. This Il cation is own
ed by Joseph Miller. A. ID. Cameron, Chas
Waller and J. H. Lee Mr. Small has ia
ken up an extension of the Tracy, on TIN
east side of Roaring river. lie calls it tn
Niagara. These locations are on II lin
with the Alta Johnson. Charley brough
in fine specimen of chloride ore from
his location which he will have assayed
Hon JOE TRAVIS. one of the solid mel
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