The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-10-06
MlNINS SUMMARY.

lOHQS, COIlSlStlDS VI NOItn CldT,
Sheep Mountain and Custer county
ores and Ramshorn and Clayton
bullion.
A gentleman named Clark dis
covered a fine silver-lead vein on
Thompson creek, branch of Warm
Springs creek, a few days ago and
got an assay of over 800 ounces
from the groupings. The work of
discovery still continues with about
as much promise as ever.
Several lots of Sheep Mountain
ore have been sold to the First Ma
tional Bank in the past two weeks,
and Kemp's pack train is ON the
way in with another load. Several
parties there contemplate further
shipments and will he checked only
by the approach of winter.
The cost of packing ore from the
Sheep Mountain country to Ketch-
um has recently been raised from
$35 to $40, owing, presumably, to
the lateness of the season and the
consequent danger of storms in the
mountains.
w. M. and B. F. Harris, of this
place, recently located a fair gold
prospect at the head of Colorado
gulch in Mineral Hill district, and
will shortly do some development
work upon it. They have about
ten inches of good looking white
quartz on the surface, a fair sample
of which assayed 1913 per ton in
free gold. The formation is in
granite, being in the northern end
of the Camas belt, and is very easy
working ground. Should the assay
value of the quartz continue as
good the prospect is not bad one
for free milling proposition.
Milt Mourning sold the First
National Bank about three tons Of
ore from the Wood River claim last
Tuesday from which he received
very good returns. His prospect
is situated west of Boyle mountain,
on Warm Springs creek. Milt has
spent considerable time prospecting
in the Sheep Mountain country, but
says Wood River is good enough.
and he proposes to stick with 1t.
There are a great many of the same
opinion, and while there will GER
tainly and reasonably be consid-
cradle rush into the new district,
Wood River will by no means be
forgotten or neglected by the pros
pecting fraternity.
Mr.. J. C. Fox, of Custer county,
was interviewed by representative
Of the KEYSTONE yesterday relative
to the newspaper report that he and
Others intended to put smelling
plant into the Sheep Mountain
country this fall. Mr.. Fox says
this is not the case. They have
contemplated the project of smell
ters for that district, but have done
nothing thus far towards acting on
the proposition, and will not do so
before spring. 1t is probable that
at that time a company will have
been organized by Mr.. Fox for the
purpose mentioned, and $4,000
plant ordered for the new district.
Mr.. Fox is very sanguine over the
prospects of the Sheep Mountain
and Seafoam districts.
Salmon City Recorder: The
Helena Syndicate operating the
Golden Circle group, with Mr.. J. F.
Allen, an old and experienced mill
man as superintendent, are busy
enlal ging their reduction plant
Garter & Walker process) by the
addition of new retorts and other
machinery, and will double their
capacity per diem when ready to
start up again. This company,
though it has plenty of high grade
ore on the dumps, and opened up in
the mines ready for reduction, con
tinues development work opening
up new ore bodies daily, thereby
greatly increasing the value of their
mines as we'll as proving their per-
manency. This company composed
of Helena business men and prac-
teal miners, will no doubt continue
it's successful work and add to the
wealth of Lemhi county as well as
to the prosperity of Gibbonsvllle.
1t is reported that the Omaha d
Grant smelters, Denver, have raised
the cost of reduction on Wood
River ores $16O per ton. The KEY
STONE is informed that the First
National Bank of Ketchum is buy
ing ores at the usual rates-S6.4O
per ton LESS than formerly.
Weiser Leader: The Summers
mining district was struck in Sep
TENDER last by Messrs. James Sum
mers and James Ruth. The district
was laid out in June last, and lies
to the eastward of the Seven Devils
district, and covers all that portion
of Washington county drained by
p,,;l r;var and its trihuta ries.