Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-25
BEDROCK FLUME.
company Formed to Work S,rtmes
and Granite Greeks


large amount of ground in Grimes
and Granite creeks, which will be
worked through bedrock fumes
Arrangements for commencing work
this fall are being perfected, as two
members OF the company who visited
the ground are well pleased with it
end realize that millions lie covered
beneath the sands. The people Of
the Basin have been hammering awax
at capitalists for twenty years o,
more to open up the creek beds by
bedrock fumes, and it is a fact TO,
congratulation that some of them have
been made to realize that of all in
dustries to be inaugurated the work.
ing of the beds of the creeks will
prove most profitable.
AS has been repeatedly told, the
beds OF all of the creeks of the Basin
were worked when labor was 81 and
So per day, water 81 per inch, tools,
lumber, provisions and everything
else proportionately high. From
eight to ten feet of top dirt had to be
wheeled off at enormous expense SO
that pay streaks of from one to three
feet could be got at. This was
shoveled into small, short boxes.
through which a good deal of gold
passed and was shoveled out in the
tailings. Narrow streaks of rich dirt
were wheeled off with the strippinps,
because it would not pay to save it.
Nothing but the very richest of
ground would pay to work. AS soon
as the creek beds were hastily run
over, the miners of the bars and hill
sides commenced dumping into them.
These tailings all contain gold, and,
as they could be rapidly worked
through fumes, would pay, not count
ing the acres of new ground that
would pay handsomely now with
small boxes if it could be got at.
There is ground enough-in Grimes,
Granite, Ophir, More and Elk creeks
to keep several companies at work
for twenty or thirty years, and every
one of them would yield millions of
money. Of course 1t requires large
capital to start these enterprises, but
that matters not, as all who know the
ground know that the profits will be
beyond those of anything entered in
to in Idaho Territory heretofore.
There is not surer or better invest
ment on the Pacific coast to-day.
Every miner who worked in any of
the creeks knows this, and had they
the money bedrock fumes would be
working in every creek of the BASIN.
After the usual process of short sluice
mining in California had been finished
bedrock fumes were put in, and all
that we ever heard of yielded good
profits.
We have peculiar advantages here
for flame mining. The creeks have
good fall, water in sufficient quaint
ties, good roads and timber in abund-
ance. Portable saw mills could
easily be moved to any desirable
point and lumber cut wherever
needed. As soon as the Granite
Greek company gets its fumes up to
paying ground, which can easily be
done by next year, the returns will
be so handsome that other companies
will Immediately secure all the ground
in the other creeks, and there will be
a revival of all classes of business not
since the bright days OF
the sixties, when Boise Basin was
known far and wide as the great
placer mining district of the West.
Ground that has yielded so many
millions must contain millions more;
and, comparatively speaking, it will
but small capital to get at it.
We know this because ten thousand
men, most of whom were not practl-
cal miners, rushing and fastening to
work the best ground, necessarily left
a large amount that would be consid-
cred very rich to-day, and did not
save a very good per centage OF that
which they did work.
That one company has been formed
to work by the hume process is an
occasion for rejoicing among our cit
izens, as others will follow in rapid
until hundreds of men will
be added to our laboring population.
WE saw magnificent specimen OF
silver ore Sunday from Hooten's dis
covery, a short distance north of the