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

total annual production lies between $780,
900 and 5000 reaching in 1884 $I67 900.
of which $4,000 were dividends Its ledge
IS about yard wide, and contains several
distinct ore bodies. producing ores that
reach one hundred and fifty ounces silver
mine Is the Baltimore. valuable claim, as
yet hardly developed, but has paid forty
thousand dollars in one year.
THE MONDAY,
Situated on Elkhorn mount ain four miles
east of ketchum, has fine lode six To ten
feet wide, of oXidized ore, soft, and requir-
/ ing no blasting; that runs from twenty to
fifty per cent lead, with forty to eighty
ounces silver, with small pockets OF richer
silver ore intermingled with it. The main
ore body is concentrating ore and contains
large quantities of it. In tunnel No . the
vein Is narrower, from tour To seven feet.
yielding thirty to fifty per cent lead, and
/ forty 10 one hundred and fifty ounces silver
q" There Is one spot over forty feet long
whence over three hundred tons of ore have
been extracted that yielded one hundred
and sixty, ounces silver and fifty per cent
lead, ending i'll a deposit of galena eight
feet wide, with native silver In the deep
shaft, which Is down three hundred feet,
| the vein at the bottom is over four feet
wide, well mixed with mineral In the
| lower workings are large bodies of tale in
the vein, carrying high grade ore. The
! hanging wall is slate foot wall limestone
| The MONDAY company own the MONDAY,
Benlyn and Juniata claims, all i'm high
| grade ore; easy of access by a wagon road
| over which teams can haul five tons in "A
wagon To HALEY, twelve miles. being a
| slight descent all .he way" This mine's
production in 1883 was So, ,000 as reported
The Quaker City mine. owned by Prof
| Jenney and others, but now worked under
| lease, has at times prodnced some very rich
ores. Assays made this year give 300,
1867 and 2i50 ounces silver per ton as the
contents of galena shipped at various times
aggregating twelve tons. :.
ON EAST FORK,
Northeast of Haley, is the Paymaster
mine, owned by the Philadelphia Smelling
company. and worked by tunnels and an
incline The vein is very rich. and CON
tanning numerous pockets of galena. The
North Star, also owned by the company,
has shipped much ore, most of il assaying
from one hundred to one hundred and
thirty ounces silver and sixty per cent
lead The ore is mostly arsenical pyrtes
and galena, and n conccntrator has been
erected to treat IT, The vein now worked
is twenty-five feet wide, with punches of
first-class ore scattered through it, the
great bulk being concentrating ore. A
tramway mile long is 10 connect the mine
with other works. The output is over forty
tons per day.
The Morning Star. the frs. extension of
the North Star, makes as promising show
ing. The Southern Star Is on Il Ihree-foot
lode in which Is Il narrow ore-strcak assay
ing well IN lead and silver, and containing
thirty or forty dollars per ton in gOld-a
rare accompaniment in gaiena mines.
The Pride of Idaho, on the south branch
of the East Fork, L. described as well de-
fined ledge eighteen inches thick, in lime
and IL unrL.aJ by fDrir tunnels ITS
ore assays from fifty To two hundred and
iifty ounces. Its vein is exposed for three
hundred yards on the surface. Its output
IN 1884 was about twenty thous md dollars,
the weight of ore being one hundred tons.
The Silver Fortune, on East Fork, has
what Is pronounced to be the largest body
of ore on Wood river. The vein Is sixteen
feet wide, of low grade ore, lead sixty per
cent, silver forty ounces. 1t Is about TO be
worked on large scale. Such ore com
inands a sufficient price in the snlelters To
make the working profitable, and there
seems to be great proSpectOf wealth from
this well named mine.
LITTLE WOOD RIVER DISTRICT
Lies twenty miles east of HALEY on one of
the forks of Little Wood river. In il are
several mining properties OF note, of which
the principal is the Muldoon, noted mine
and the property of the Little Wood River
Mining and Smelling company, who hay e
operated so extensively at and around
ketchum The company bought, four years
ago, the Muldoon mine, paying for 1t $780,
DD0. and set To work To develop their prop
erty thoroughly. They ran main tunnel
300 feet on the vein. in ore all the way, ana
connected the extremity of it with the sur
face by a perpendicular uprise. which was
also i'm solid ore Five levels were run from
this shaft every seventy feet or thereabouts,
100 tons of the ore taken out being sent 10
smelter that was by that time provided.
They built a tramway 100 feet long from
the dumps to the foot ot the mountain,
with ore-houses at each end. The sineItlng
work are elaborate and complete, ana are
not surpassed elsewhere in the mountains.
There are two of Rankin. BraytOn * Cos
forty-ton, water jacket, blast smelling iur-
naces with blowers, ore crushers. sa1npling
floors, etc. There is a full and complete
Brush electric light plant, and twenty char
coal klns, each of one thousand bushels
capacity, connected by "a tramway with the
works The four hundred tons OF ore Tor
the ties was smeted and over one hunred
tons of bullion produced. The working Is
successful Iron ore for fluxing Il found
twelve miles distant. The ore first extracted
assayed 10 per cent lead and loo ounces sill
yer. The product of 1883 was S34 600 iii gold
and silver, lead not reported. After quite
a season of active work, the smelling estab-
lishment closed and is understood to be Tor
sale The mine has produced largely and
various encouraging developments have
been made. An ore body containing five
feet of solid galena was found in the Null
doom soon after its purchase which assaycd
one hundred and seventy ounces.
NORTH FROM KErcHUM
The country becomes more elevated and
the size of Wood river dminishes as we
approach its sources. Numerous creeks,
Eagle creek, Fox creek, Porphyry creek.
lack creek, Boulder creek, Canyon creek,
Owl creek, Cherry creek and some others
come down from high mountains, on whose
sides a great many prospects have been
found. The town of Galena sits at an elc-
walton of seven thousand four hupdred feet
and is surrounded by lcad-silver mines. the
district being the most northerly of what
is considered the Wood river country.
toll road leads west to the west fork of Sal
mon river over a pass very little short OF
nine thousand feet high, and trails lead
north and cast. connecting the Wood river
country with Sawtooth and other camps
north. east and west.
The scnate group Of mines. just north of
Galena and about the headwatcrs OF Cherry
creek, are the principal claims. They are
the Senate, Kid, Chief, Red Cloud, etc The
Senate vein is in places as wide as thirteen
feet, but averages less. 1t carries q very
large percentage of iron oxides, and less
lead. and ASSAYS twenty ounces OF silver
and upwards per ton. The mine is worked
by tunnel five hundred and fifty feet long,
with an uprise to surface seven hunderu
and fiftv feet. The best ores assay thirty
to fifty ounces, with twenty-five 10 Iorty
Der cent lead Fourteen men are now ex-
tracting ore. A smelter OF thirty IONS
but il unerstood not 10 have been success
81 ~ II now b.iny converted into con-