The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-12-18


The Eureka mine is in a cayor
near the town of Bullion. its ore
is ordinarily rich, carrying sixty
to ninety ounces, with sixty pei
cent lead at the best. A large pro.
portion is second class or concen.
trating ore, which is dressed at the
mine, the works having the capac.
ity Of seventy tons daily. The
mine is regarded as very deep fol
that country, the shaft being down
over 400 feet, over sixty of which
was in solid galena.
THE MAYrLowER,
One of the most important mines of the
section, lies next above the Bullion, and
but short distance of Ii is q great ship
per of ores, and has now ore-dressing works
capable of handling sixty tons daily, which
are OF the usual form, jigs, Cornish rolls
etc. The mine is owned by Farwell Il Co
of Chicago, who have derived wealth from
it. They ship ore to Omaha. 1t is worked
by tunnels, whose aggregate length is over
two thousand feet. Tho vein averages q
yard in thickness and yields very fine ore
iIue ttlis sliipicu w oiudiid nav
ing averaged $3.50 per ton. The concentra-
tions have amounted to six tons daily, and
with first-class ore makes a carload of ship
ments per day. The mine is now closed
down. In one of its earlier years ii shipped
eight hundred tons of ore, one thousand
tons of which, the first shipped, averaged
LIS ounces silver, and 20 per cent lead. The
mine, it is said sold for four hundred
thousand dollars.
THE IDAHoAS,
Commonly regarded as the greatest Of the
Wood river mines, is situated about mile
from the town of Bullion. The lode is very
prominent upon the surface and was easily
located. Ii is on contact between lime
and slate, and is nearly perpendicular. The
ore is galcna, with small proportion OF
gray copper. At the surface the lode Is
twelve or fifteen feet thick, but gets wider
with depth. reaching nearly thirty feet in
places. Below there are large number of
narrow seams of ore lying between string
ers of quartz which is somewhat mineral
lied with galena etc. and suitable for con-
centration. The mine Is worked by shafts
and adiis, and has been eXpensiyely fitted
up with hoisting works, draining tunnel,
etc The ore is of a valuable quality, lots
of many hundred tons averaging hundred
and twenty-five dollars per ton i'll silver and
lead Among the improvements are con-
centrator that cost thirty thousand dollars,
consisting of a rock breaker, Cornish rolls,
revolving screens, ore dryer, double COM
partment jigs size-boxes engine and boiler,
Il ditch three hundred yards long, boarding
house, office, blacksmith shop, two ore
houses, two miles of railway track III and
around the mine, and innumerablc tunnels,
WINES and shafts. This fine property was
sold for $3.50, 90 i'll 1888. In 1881 it produced
two hundred thousand dollars, and this
year has shipped as much as one hundred
tons per week.
OTHER CLAIMS.
Passing north to the Warm Springs dis
trict we enter another region of productive
mines situated west and northwest OF
ketchum. The Ontario is on Warm Spring
creek. and has lode six feet thick eli rich
galena and oXidized ore, which l. worth
over a hundred dollars a ton a. ii stands III
the mine This is the property of a pow
crful company, who own other properties
in the neighborhood, but they have shut
down the Ontario and its concentrator OF
late. Here are the Buzzo mining compa-
ny's properties, producing concentrating
ores. which are dressed in concentrator
which belongs to the company. cost $500,
and has daily capacity of forty tons and
is driven by water power. The lode worked
by this company is ia limestone, carrying
pink manganese There are quite extern
ssive underground works. Near by and
similar To these are the Ajax, Night Hawk,
yellow Jacket and other flines. The first
class shipping ore in this region is as valu-
able as any. and generally assays over a
dollars in silver and lead. The
West Fork and Black Hawk mines belong
to Philadelphia company, whose smeiter
III Ketchum we will notice later. They
,.,;J GIG nln for tl,a former mine i'm which
one man took out 800 tons OF ore worth
$5J, 900 i'll twenty days.
WARN SPRINGS CREEK
Rises in the high region whose eliminating
points are the Pinon peaks, about the head
of Big aud Little Smoky rivers. The creek
flows east and empties into Wood river ut
X KetchuIn. At its head, or, more exactly,
ON the west slope of the divide which sep
crates Warm Springs creek from the wa
ters which flow westward, is a promising
group of mines, of which the Carrie Leon
ard is chief The Silver Star belongs To
the Philadelphia Smelling company, and
has a twenty-inch VEN oi gray copper;
which assays very high. 1t has produced
ore in the four years Of its
SMOKY DISTRICT
Lies about the heads of Big and Little
and a number of good mines. The center
of the district, or districts, is about twenty
five miles west of ketchum. The Smoky
Bullion Mining company OF New YORK OWN
the most valuable properties. among them
the Providence, Ophir, Smoky Bullion ana
Wallace mines, some OF when coiitah,
large bodies of galena rich III silver ana
gold. The company have a very hhe con
ccntratinc plant of thirty tons daily capacl-
ty. The Isabella claim has three-foot
vein of high grade silver ore, assayil.g from
one hundred and fifty to three hundred
ounces. The Huntington Mining company
own the Little Smoky, Buckeye and other
claims. The Fourth of July IS spoken OF
as am important claim. The King OF the
West is o fine one, but lacks machinery.
The ores and concentrates PRODUCER III
smoky Bullion district are sIipped 10
KctcIium via Warm Springs creek. TO de-
liver ore at the smcltcr there costs $l5 per
ton. and they are subject To a charge oi f.'
per ton for treatment, as they run low III
lead These expenses are decrared 100
heavy for the ores To stand There was a
five-stamp mill i'm use to work the taiilngs
from the concentrator, but its success OF
failure has not been announced Inc 10y M
was that free gold existed IN the ore. Inc
Smoky district contains perhaps ~ i'illleis ..
Six thousand tons of ore are on the ouinP
of the Silver Star mine, which IS owned py
10 Il, .i p5;iadaInhia Mining and Smelling
cn,,nanv and daily shipments of high
,,r, ~ orc are made fo Ketchum. The VEN
:, r;ns Srnu, fonr to nineteen feet in width.
1t is proposed to expend 100000 on con-
centrator.
THE ELKHoRN MINE,
Which is on lode in limestone, which
dips sixty degrees east and appears like an
ordinary vein in having regular walls. IL
is worked by shafts and tunnels ana con-
tains an almost solid mass Of lead ores,
palena and oxidized compounds. from TWO
to nine feet thick. The output oi this mine