Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-08-18
CENTERviLLE LETTER.


Ed. WORLD: = Weather during tie
day little too warm; nights cool
enough to sleep comfortably under a
couple pairs blankets. Our crops,
owing to the early and frequent rains,
promise greater yield than for many
years past On the ranches of Messrs.
Dempsey, Goldtrap, Young, Havird
and Baker, every foot Of available
land is under cultivation and bloom
ing like the rose, and the owners are
Jubllant over the prospect Of excellent
crops. On the ranches of All Tow,
All Vow and Long Bung, situated on
the north foothills of Garden gulch,
three crops of Chi-a cabbage have
already been harvested and threshed.
They say they are sure of two crops
more and possibly three. Our rew
school house. built last winter, is an
ornament to the town-2Ox32 feet
II teet from floor to ceiling-neat and
commodious, and cost the small sum
of five hundred dollars. Miss Lizzie
kedway, OF Boise City, is employed
as teacher, and parents are delighted
at the progress their children are ma
king under the supervision of this
young lady. Our placer mines, that
is, those situated under both of the
main bitches, are nearly worked out.
The bedrock is peeled from the heads
OF these bitches to the bend on Grimes
creek. Recent discoveries in quartz
give US hope that brighter days are
dawning for Centerville and it's inhab-
itants. Hank Thompson and S. X.
Goldtrap will sink the shaft on the
Bon Ton, fifty, and may be, hundred
feet deeper. The depth of the shaft
is at present sixty feet. The ledge is
from 10 inches to feet wide, assay
ing from SIS to $1,7OO per ton; silver
predomlnating. 1t is free milling ore.
The great quantity of water that has
to be holsted makes it a very expens-
I've mine to work. With necessary
machinery the Bon Ton can be made
one OF the best mines in the country.
The lsidore, owned by Sweet & Gun
derson, shaft IS feet deep. Is tons
OF rock from this mine, worked at
Jackson's mill, payed about s25 per
ton. Del'lah property of Hugo Bay
house, tunnel in so feet and within a
few feet of the ledge, shaft 40 feet:
good rock in the bottom; last crush
ing done at Jackson's mill, from that
shaft, paved $50 per ton. Sweet
Home, Hank Thompson owner, pros
poets well as far as worked. Pioneer
property of Oaks, Havird & Co, tun-
mel in 16O feet, with two rich seams
from Z to 6 inches wide. On Lewis
gnlch there are five locations. East
ern Queen and Little Turtle, owned
by A. B. Morrell, of your city. Mr..
Morrell has completed wagon road
to his mill site in the gulch, built a
boarding house for his men, graded a
mill site, and great deal of other
necessary work in very short time
and at very small expense. A tun-
mel from the Eastern Queen will be
SO constructed that rock taken from
the mine can be dumped into the mill,
thereby saving considerable cost. A
few hundred tons of pay rock can be
taken from the cop of both of these
mines at very little expense. Admit
ting, as some of the croakers have it,
that these mines are not deep, there
is rock enough in sight to pay hand
somely for all the work that is to be
done. These belly achers take that
all back, for it is wlcked--croaker
&c hiftar oppEoot;onN not o,,I