Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-02-10
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SiN'y-hve cents per ton are being
worked in California, at net profit
after deducting expenses Of mining,
milling, etc, of thirteen cents per
ton, affords a solid foundation for the
prediction that, before many wears
Doise county, as a gold producer.
VIII be famous, and her fame will
spread far and wide. Our county has
mammoth bodies of what are here
termed grade ores, but which. IN
Nevada County, California, where
rock paying sixty-6ve cents per ton
is worked at profit, would be classi-
ned as high-grade. If this county
hadnt such bodies of ore already dis
covered and developed, a prediction
that bright and prosperous future
Is sure to dawn in Boise county be-
lore great many years, would be
taken with many grains of doubt.
Inns county has many mammoth
ledges, the ores of which will mill
from 50 to So per ton. Of course 1t
Will require large mills and the latest
improved machinery to make such
ledges pay. Rock is now being
worked that could not be made to
pay ten and fifteen years ago, and
paying handsome profit, and the ex-
penses of mining and milling will
gradually grow less, and veins that
Will not pay now will ere long be
worked at profit. What we need
more than anything else is capital to
take hold and put up mills of large
capacity, and improved patterns.
Most OF the mining in gold quartz in
this section has been carried on by
men of small means, and mines that
cannot pay their way right along can
not be worked--that is the profit
must be sufficient that the proceeds
of the mines will enable the owners
to carry on dead work"-a necessity
In operating any mine-when such
work is required. When it becomes
necessary to do this "dead work" if
the mine owner has not enough mon
ey laid by from the yield of his mine,
to carry on the dead work." or to
put on hosting works-there being
some mines SO situated that such ma
chinery is required-work stops,
whereas if the owner was a capitalist
he could 60 ahead, and nine chances
out of ten his mine would soon pay
for the outlay, and be rolling out
bullion at lively rate. The Pioneer
mine, at Quartzburg, until the past few
year, was looked upon as an almost
barren belt of porphyry. The Gold
Hill company began developing it a
year ago last July, and up to date it
has turned opt s135,000. A man of
small means, if he had taken hold of
this mine, would have soon sunk his
little pile and then have been ready
to take solemn oath that the Pio-
neer was no mine at all, and that it
would soon bankrupt a millionaire.
The ore turns out IS per ton, but this
company, with their fine, new 25-
stamp mill, with rock breakers, feed
ers, and other adjuncts of frst-class
mill, are making it pay. There are
many large veins in this county carry
ing low-grade ore-a great deal of it
that would even now pay with i'm
proved machinery of large capacity,
and capital to carry on the work of
exploitation. As the mining art
which we think can very correctly be
termed an art-including reducing
processes, is becoming more and more
perfected every year, and pursued on
more extensive and economical ba-
sis, and improvements going on con-
tinually-ores that will not now pay
more than the expenses of mining
and reducing, will in the near future
pay a handsome profit. As foun-
dation for our prediction we will men,
ton only three of the many mines in
this section carrying low-grade ores
that will before many years be turn
ing out immense quantities of bullion.
They are the Forest King, Sub Rosa
and Washington mines, all these To-
cations being on the same vein. In
working these mines only the high
grade was extracted. The Sub Rosa
turned out great amount of bullion,
and the main ledge, of low-grade ore,
that will average four or five dollars
per ton, still stands in the workings
of the mine. This vein is from ten to
fifty feet wide. The Forest King
and Washington are of about the