, 1888-06-28
FROM MURRAY, IDAHO.
MINING NEWS, SOCIAL CHAT AND GOSSIP
OF THE CITY.

| MURRAY, luahO, June 20.
| 1t is possible that the former citizens
OF Murray, who now reside in the city
by the falls, may yet take some inter-
est in the fortunes of the Murrayites
in the mountains. Perhaps they
would not recognize Murray of few
years ago in the quiet secluded, we'll.
ordered little town whose only excite
ment is the daily arrival and departure
of the stage.
We have mill In Murray now. A
giant affair OF two stamps-running
by combination of compressed air
and the force of gravitation. The
compressing power is Pritchard creek,
through the mediation Of an overshot
wheel. The pulp from the stamps is
put through Major Hopkins new an
affair had lately been at work upon
four and one.balf tons of ore from
Frank Reeds Buckeye Boy on Dream
gulch. An equal quantity OF rock was
put through what is known as Frank
Reeds Arastra, the ties; in both Buck
eye Boy and Arastra giving practical.
ly the same result. About $50 per
ton, free gold, and a quantity of con-
centrates, consisting Of sulphurets and
other minerals not yet assayed.
The rat tat-tat OF the baby mill
when at work sounds like an attempt TO
mimic the reveile call of Uncle SANS
drummers, but If it can do this kind
Of successful test work it will help the
north side OF the Ceur d'Alene more
than did all the expenditures of the
Louisville Co. Frank Reeds people
here put q night and day shift to work
taking out ore upon the strength of
this test, intending to put it through
larger mill eventually.
The new amalgamator scenes TO be
. success as far as tried. The bed
rock fume still keeps lowering in the
distance, but the only certainty about
the thing is that the larger portion of
the gulch placer claims are bonded to
q prominent local attorney, the deeds
are in eschew, and he has until the
first of July to take up his ortions.
Judge Clagett has u force of six men
sinking IL shaft on the center lead OF
his Joe Dandy claim at Littlefeld, in
tending to tunnel from the bottom of
the shaft up and down the gulch to
crosscut the upper and lower leads.
The Golden King Mining Co.,
through their attorney, Judge Clagett,
are paying all debts contracted by
their agents and superintendent here,
without rec ard to legal process. This
the confidence OF the Murray people |
in the justice and honesty of the COM
pany and their attorney. Legal at
tachments and circumstances had so !
combined their effects, that the great.
er part OF the debts, due to miners,
steward, carpenters, etc, could not
have been collected by process of law.
The long deferred session of the
United States district court will be |
held next month, when we hope to |
have the pleasure of meeting the new
incumbent, Judge Logan. If his
terms are as long as those of his pre-
decessor in Office, we may look for u
two months sitting.
The county fathers hold their usual |
stated meetings, resolve themselves in
TO committee Of the whole upon the |
affairs OF the county, territory and |
nation, vote themselvs their fees, and |
adjourn to enjoy the fruits Of their ex-
SCSblNC tOli dtlu W ICpCdt tAC CCIc' !
mony on the next occasion.
Old Father Columbia, Oregon's |
mighty river, persists in getting the
chinooks into our mountains. The
skies have wept over us for weeks past;
the lachrymal tanks aloft are overfull.
The placer miners take advantage of
the heavenly tears, and by some
strange chemical change, mayhap the
effect of the alkaline sweat of honest
labor upon the acid liquid from the
clouds, the overflow becomes visible in
the dull glow of gold in Hussey's bank.
The booming days of these camps
are about over. We are getting down
to regular, steady business Jog, and
the class of people who expect large re.
turns from a very small outlay of capi-
tai and the least possible labor, have
"folded their tents like the Arabs, and
as silently stolen away."-packed their
blankets out TO the kootenai and other
newer camps. May their shadows never
grow less, and may the stampede re-
suit in varied benefits to the newer
camps as well as to ourselves.
Hence as result Of the hiatus there |
is a visible clearness of the moral at |
mospliere, but then that may be due |
to the plentiful rains. Water does
have the effect of washing down the
floating impure particles, although |
heretofore the Murrayites preferred to |
wash theirs down with anhydrous
whiskey. hope the w. C. T. U. ladies
will not interpret this as an invitation
to them to come here. The conse.
quences might be serious. There is
very little water used about this town. |
The little we have is jealously reserved |
for mining purposes, and the ladies
might bo compelled to imbibe of the
stronger waters, or die of thirst. Either