Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-07-30
MINING NEWS.

moofc, dt Droduloru, luanO. Iney now
have immense bodies of ore in sight, very
high grade.
A pocket was recently found by a man
named Kipp, near Jayhawk, in Ell
Dorado county, Cal, which PANIED out
twenty-five ounces in gold.
A sale has just been perfected OF
Henry's diggings near Placerville. 1t is
a gravel mining claim and sold for $780,
900 to Chinese firm of San Francisco.
A rich strike was made in the indie
pendence mine in Elkorn district, Idaho,
last week, and the crew has since taken
out several Thousand dollars worth of fine
ore.
H. M. Hasbrouck is taking out some
very rich ore from an opening in the Bis
marck, at depth of fifty feet. He has
very curious specimen from the place
where he is working, consisting of the
roots of plant covered with horn silver.
Calico Print.
The shaft of the Silver Conner mine
1T Eureka, New, has been sunk to the
i50-foot level and drift is being sent out
Tor the vein. The Silver Conner is the
property of four miners who have been
| declaring dividends monthly of 81 900
each for the past two years.
The Prescott, A. t., Journal Miner of
recent date, says: John McDermott,
| lessee of the Lynx creek hydraulic works,
came in town with 81 500 worth of gold,
taken out in a partial cleanup only of a
Ten days run. They have taken out to
date over IS 900, and water continues to
hold out to run portion of the time each
day.
Montana Bar was the richest diggngs
ever struck i'll the country; old timers
tell OF 100000 being taken out of 200
Ieet of the bar and of a six-mule team,
hauling nothing but gold, that stuck on
Slaughter house Bar hill and had to be
reinforced by OK teams. The miners who
worked there in those DAYS believe that
the hasty and careless system of mining
in use at that time let many thousand
dollars run over the short fumes on Mon
tana Bar.-Helena Independent.
The mines in the v-discovered
gold range, near Hawthorne, New, on
the Carson and Colorado railroad, are all
holding out well and are likely to become
permanently valuable properties. When
these mines were first struck almost the
universal prediction was that the surface
richness would reach no great depth. 1t.
was for this reason that Daily, the dis
CONcIcI Vi IHc IJcpdltO, Tie llrSt OF the
series of gold mines in this district, sold
for $50, 900 what would not now be
bought for $250,000
Active work is still in progress on the
Helena, and some fine ore is being
brought up by Supt. Swan and stored in
the capacious ore house of the company.
1t is probable that this company will yet
take hold of and work the Christmas
Gift and may secure all the mines in the
Helena district that will pay for work
ing. And it is limited that experts for an
English syndicate have been looking
over this promising group of mines dur
ing the week. The district ought to be
made to produce largely by somebody.
1t is too promising to lie idle.
The placer excitement which broke ont
in Sitka just as we were going to press
last week, grew out of the discovery of
good gold indications in the gravel in a
gulch not far from the beach at James
town bay, by Messrs. w. J. Prout and
A. A. Starwalt. These gentlemen have
gone down sixteen feet and struck a
stream of water which temporarily stop
ped their work. But they are providing
force pumps and will prosecute the work
to full test. The indications continue
good, and they say they will find tie bed
rock in spite OF the water or " bust. -
The alaskan.
The Baker City Sage Brusl-of the 9Th
SAYS of the latest find: Important placer
diggings have recently been discovered
on Eagle creek, above where the new
bridge is built. There are about four
hundred prospectors in the vicinity, and
they have staked out claims on both
sides of the creek as high up as the snow
gentleman from Boston has staked out
claims for his sisters his cousins and his
aunts until he has 800 acres under his
control, but the boys are considering the
proposition of jumping about 300 acres of
his holdings. They think the gentleman
from Boston wants too much. The
placers are being worked, as water is
plenty, and considerable "dust" is being
taken out.
Jacksonville Times Considerable
work is going on in the Gold Hill district.
....Prospecting continues in many
places, and some excellent discoveries
are reported Ex-Governor Chadwick
has been inspecting his mining interests
in the Gold Hill district. I'D. King &
Co. have struck excellent drifting dig
gings on Jackson creek, which are said
to pay 81 per hand daily. The Med
ford Reduction works are making run
on ore from the New Discovery mine,
which promises well. -. Bedrock was
struck in the Sterling mine a short time
since, and everything is progressing sat
isfactorily there. . l.. d. Brown has put
quartz mill in the vicinity OF Swinden
& Co.'s ledge in Rock Point precinct,
which will soon be running in good style.
Helena Independent: There are signs
of an active season of mineral operations
in Red, Lee and Bald mountains, which
promise a great increase in the districts
Immediately tributary to Helena. The
Red Mountain Consolidated Tunnel COM
pany has penetrated with their tunnel,
some seven hundred feet in the side Of
the mountain, and the work is progress
ing as rapidly as possible. Mineral has
been reached which promises to pene-
trate rich ore body soon. The COM
pany insist that if there is anything in
the Red mountain they will certainly