The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1885-10-03

nne gOld specimens, DUB not enough
. ore for profit.
The Ontario concentration jigs
away ut its usual rate on the ores
of that mine.
There is said to be enough placer
ground at Cariboo for fifty years
diligent piping.
The advent Of concentrators into
this country has proven the true
key to prosperity.
Milton Pinncy has leased the
Davitt mine on Deer Creek and
will commence work at once.
Jim Dawson last Sunday struck
a foot vein of carbonate ore in the
Pride of Idaho, on East Fork.
The Vienna Mining and Milling
Company recentlypurchased $4,000
worth of hardware from Ketchum
house.
In the Mountain Queen they are
upraising from the deep tunnel
300 feet below the surface-on
good ore body.
Wood River possesses an advant-
age over many other mining regions
in an abundance of iron and lime
for her smelters.
A great majority of the mines
now in operation on Wood River
axe dividecd-paying. OF course
as yet the dividends are small in
most cases.
Operations at the Parker mine
were suspended Wednesday and
Thursday to admit Of slight repairs
and cleaning up the boilers at the
hoisting-works.
The Senate Mining and Smelling
Company at Galcna bas fully dem
onstrated the practicability of
extensive operations at that camp
and will probably plant a larger
smelter there in SO.
The Tenbroke mine on Warm
Springs Creek, owned by the Phila-
delphia Company, has been worked
under lease by Mike Carey. 1t is
reported that a fine body of ore
was struck recently.
Eagle Greek has more low grade |
ore than any section of the coun-
try. 1t can all be worked to a
profit, however, as soon as a road |
is completed to the mines, since it |
contains the very best huxing iron
in large percentage.
A gentleman who is well-informed |
on the subject, stated few days
ago, that the Minnie Moore mine
and concentrating works would
probably soon be taken hold of by
the first mortgage, who is director
of the Bank of England.-Times.
1t is now generally believed that
the copper mines of Houston,
Idaho, will develop into gold, exclu-
sively, at depth Of 200 feet. This
is demonstrated in the "Big Cop
per-" which is now turning the
attention of its owners to gold
process for the ore.
Ore in large quantities has been
struck in the Blackhorse, and
Superintendent Page feels quite
confident that the mine is on the
verge of dividend-paying career
The owners of this property have
labored long and earnestly to bring
about this just reward.
The Carrie Leonard, Isabella, o.
c., Sunday, Pot Wrestler, Messen-
ger, Mollie Bond, Pine Tree and
Night Hawk are adjoining claims
on Little Smoky. They all prom
Use to equal the two first, which are .
famous mines, and to con-
stitute one Of the most thrifty
camps of the future.
The Elkhorn, Parker, North Star,
Triumph, Carrie Leonard, Isabella,
Silver Star, Salamander, Ontario !
and Ophir are at present all divi- :
dend-paying mines in this vicinity. ,
There are many others preparing
to make dividends and still others .
that would be included were their c
owners disposed to market ores.
The Spring City (Nevada) Min
,r's Union, at meeting held last
week, disbanded their organization
and decided their hall and other
property to the public school of '
5he district. The miners notified
superintendent McCurdy of the
Paradise Valley mine that they
would work for $3.50 per day after ]
October 1st.
The Hard Scramble mine, adjoin- y
ng the Trade Dollar, on the head il
If Little Smoky, has been leased q
rom p. M. Bruner and Mr.. Wilson /"
~ Dan Kingsbury, j. T. Kings n
bury and Scott Meyrs, till the 18th =
lay of July next, who will COM g
nence work on it at once. There =
8 a good ore body-from three to i
our feet-and the ore runs all the $
vov from E0 fO DOO OunceS