Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-06-10

THE BANNER COUNTY OF IDAHO
TERRITORY.

$4,000 square miles, or larger than
Vermont and New Hampshire COM
bined. 1t is about 200 miles in length,
with width varying from 70 to 100
miles. 1t is the banner county of the
Territory, not only in size, but also in
wealth and population. In it lies the
great Wood River region, the phe.
nomenal richness of whose deposits,
as we'll as those of the Sawtooth, have
made the name of Alturas known all
over the world. Situated in Central
Idaho, watered by the river from
which the section takes its name and
by score of tributaries, at an eleva-
ton of from $500 to 5000 feet, are
the great mineral fields of Idaho. In
this extent mines are very numerous,
and experience tends to show that any
industrious prospector can expect to
find a paying claim, if not "bonsn.
"a" in q seasons prospecting.
No other region on the face of the
globe affords such a diversity and
wealth of mineral formation as this.
Along the Great Snake river valley,
in and around Atlanta, Rocky Bar,
Smoky, ETC., extensive placer claims
abound.
On both sides of the Wood River,
Little Wood River, Lost River, and
Little Lost River valleys and their
tributary canyons, gulches, forks and
creeks, silver-bearing galena and gray
copper mines are found by dozens
some OF which have already yielded
their hundreds of thousands of dollars,
while twice as many more are show
ing equally valuable ore bodies as de-
veloped.
Along the gold belt-which extends
from Resurrection District, Is miles
below Haley, to the head of Rock
and Camp creeks, and on to the Smoky
Districts, Rocky Bar and Atlanta ~
there are over a dozen known mines
already, and many other claims are
also developing into mines. Among
the former are the Atlanta formerly
known as the Monarchy the Atlanta
Hill formerly the Last Chance). the
Buffalo, Big Lode, Vishnu, Alturas,
Bonaparte, Camas Nos. l and 2, West
Canas, Hidden Hand, etc., which have
already yielded an aggregate of over
5000, 900, though gold mining-as
we'll as other kinds of mining-is still
in it, infancy in this country.
Besides the above, there is elias.
of veins which carries ore which is
somewhat refractory, necessitatine
roasting. OF this class are the Vienna
Mountain King, Pilgrim, Columbis
and Beaver, anc other claims situatec
in the heart Of the Sawtooth range
All of the claims named are ore pro
, ducers, the Vienna and Mountain
King alone (which are owned by {
Minnesota company having record
ed yield of over $75O,000 in the pas
two years.
SCARCELY FOUR YEARS. PROGRESS.
With the exception Of Rocky Ba
and Atlanta, all the territory com
prised within the boundaries of Altu
ras county has been settled less tina,
, four years, and has had very little as
, sistance from capitalists, yet its RECORD
S is such rs it can we'll be proud of. II
! that brief space of time the trackles
desert has been spanned by $50 mile
e of railway fully equipped, with al
}. equal length of telegraph lines; tn
i ta1-paying population has increase
!. from about 500 to 5000 souls; tn
y valuation of taxable property fror
r. $75O,OOO to $3,e50,O00; the annus
q county revenue from $4,000 to $3.50
e 900; the annual yield of the mine
d from s25O,Ooo to s5,O0O,0oO-and e,
erything else in the county has CORE
= spondingly improved. The increas
n in mine property values can be bette
. realized if the following mine sale
e are quoted:
Is The Minnie Moore was sold on
>. year ago to an English syndicate, whic
"a includes one of the Directors of tt
is Bank of England, for 100000.
The Mayflower, at Bullion, was sol
to J. B. Farweli, Of Chicago, tv