Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-09-21
THE MAYTLowER MINE.


The celebrated Mayfower mine, two
miles up the creek. is looking splendidly
and promises to he richer and richer as
depth is attained on the ledge. The
mine was discovered last May by Luther
M. johnson, discoverer OF Alton district,
and has paid for itself and made money
for its owners from the very day of its
discovery-a fact which can be said of
no other quartz mine in the country.
The sixty tons of ore which have been
excavated from the mine have yielded
seventy pounds of gold bullion, while the
loss i'll silver on the first crushing,
through lack of concentrating or silver
saving apparatus, must have been very
great, as the rock is very rich in horn
silver and silver sulphurets. The last
crushing of Mayflower rock at Mr.. Will
| ley's mill produced a 34-pound gold
brick, and an experiment was made in
concentrating the tailings, with the re-
suit that 700 pounds of concentrates
worth $500 were saved. This concen-
tratng process was added to the mill
quite recently by Mr.. Chase, of Wood
river, and while it is very simple ar
rangement it does excellent work on the
ores OF Warrens camp, although it is
less effective on the sulphuretted ores
ing. Mr.. Wiley promised to write
description of the concentrating process
now in use at his mill, which will prove
of interest to our mining population in
other camps. An assay of the May
Hover concentrates-raw and burnt
showed the following surprising results
per ton:
Raw: Silver, $254S.42; gold, $12S1. "a
total, $500 sc.
Burnt: Silver, $270307; gold, SlSS4oO;
total, $45S7.97.
The shaft is now down on the May
flower 40 feet with three foot ledge of
wonderfully rich ore in sight, with free
gold literally scattered everywhere on
the vein. A tunnel has been started to
keep the shaft dry during the winter
from which it is expected 60 tons of
rock will be mined. This will be crushed
and concentrated, and the concentrates
shipped to Omaha for reduction, after
which the mine will shut down for the
winter, and the lucky owners will make
tour of the eastern states and dispose
of their surplus dividends. The May
Hover Is indeed property we'll worth
having, as it has paid wonderfully, from
the first days work has never yielded q
pound of worthless rock, and is 80 situa-
Wv .h"1 ~ S'u NC ldppcl at ueptn OF
400 feet with very little expenditure.
The ledge stands almost straight up and
down and grows stronger, bigger and
richer the further they sink. The fame
of the mine has already extended far
and near, and has brought quite num-
Der of prospectors in this summer
through whose work other and equally
promising prospects have been dscov-
red,.all of which goes to prove what |
have repeatedly insisted on, viz: That
the Warrens basin has never been more
than scratched over. that it will be a
greater and richer camp in five years
from now than it ever was, and that the
sooner our neople on Camas prairie
build that Warrens wagon road the
quicker they will be congratuating
themselves upon their enterprise and
good fortune in being associated with a
high priced and ready money market for
the products of their farms, dairies and
gardens.
Pony Smead and George Dyer are
prospecting Martinez hill for the Fool
hen lode, and found 1900 pounds of rich
float last Friday.
Pony Smead and Three Fingered
Smith have evidently got on to coed
thing In the Bamboo Chief three-foot
ledge of fine looking rock on Martinez
hill.
ITO be Continued.)
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