Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-07-07
SILVER CITY xorsss.

OA0S ehES 0ITN NOyxsS.
Circuit court adjourned Tuesday.
One horse-thief sent below for two
years, and nine mcn on trial for
numbering o chinainan acquitted.
Schools dismissed for the sum-
mer.
Fourth Of July q quiet dayrMa
sonic ball.
Work has been temporarily sus-
pended on the Owyhee mine, the
mir being bad. The delay is re-
grcttcd because the mine was Civ
ing promise Of being big producer.
Captain De Lamar since arriving
here is reticcnt, as usual, as to what
will be done at the Wagonton prop
erty-the Wilson mines. The fact
that company has been registered
in London with capital Of $780,
600, indicates that English capital
will be employed in working them.
The Proustite company are MAX
ing improvements in their mill at
Wagontown, proposing to start up
soon, with ore enough in sight to
run steadily for year.
The event of the week here is the
contamination Of the purchase of
the Poor,nan group Of mines by J.
H. Brotherton Of London. This
purchase includes twelve mines,
with as many different owners, and
the amounts paid for many of them
not being made public it is not pos
sible to announce the aggregate
sum involved. The amount, how
ever, is sufficient to safely place it
as the second largest mining tran
saction occurring in Idaho during
the present year-the only Target
one being the Gro Elmo. These two
great groups of mines being located
on the same mountain give it nearly
as much prominence in the finan-
cial world as it occupies in the
physical world, and people who
gaze upon War Eagle mountain
from points hundreds Of miles dis
tant realize that this is consider
able.
A side transaction to the above is
the purchase. by tie same party, of
the Elmorc stamp mill, including
dwelling houses, Offices, shops, sta
bles and grounds. This is the finest
mill in Owyhee county, is in such
perfect condition that steam could
be turned en- and the stamps started
n one weeks time. It's original
cost was sl65,O0O. The purchaser
secured a great bargain in this
it having passed into the
hands Of parties who had loaned
money on it ard were glad to get
IN elephant off their hands at a
ourth Of its value. 1t is the inten-
ion Of the owner to add ten more
lamps to the mill and put in con-
entrators, considering that process
'est adapted to the ores of this
amp.
The Orc Elmo Limited-thc name
nder which this company is regis
cred and will hereafter be known
having route surveyed for wire
Runway from the mine to their
ew mill site, in town, expecting
hereby to reduce cost of ore trans
ortation to twenty cents per ton,
lstead of four to six dollars, the
resent cost. Work is progressing ,
lvorably at the mine and one of
nc mills in town expects to start
p soon on the ore to enable the
wners to experiment in working it
y concentration, the machinery be- ,
g now on the way to make the ,
roper changes. ,
Bets were made here last spring
lat every snow drift in sight Of !
'wn would disappear before the
h of July. These bets were lost
close scratch, there being Just
bout enough left to freeze our holi-
~ ice cream. The people up here /
have no flies on them," because
le flies do not exist here. 1t is a
orious summer resort. !