Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-09-15
IN WESTERN ALTURAS.
PROSPEROUS AND GROWING
SECTION.

How $50 and 800 Mines Are Planning
Out-Tbey Could Not Be Got for Humid
reds Of Thousands Of Dollars-The
Alturas Limited Again In Bonanza
Pine Grove All Risht-The Prairie
People Hopeful-Etc.
+. c. Colin, of the E. G. Coffin
Hardware Company, got back last
evening from a two weeks trip
through Camas Prairie and Pine
Grove to Rocky Bar.
He says that although some of the
farmers on the Prairie suffered from
the grasshopper visitation this year,
they are looking forward to better
times next year and better prices for
their products owing to the opening
of mine properties on the Gold Belt
which skirts the western edge of the
Prairie. OF its future, Mr.. Coffin
does not entertain the slightest doubt.
At Pine Grove he found the mill
shut down, but only temporarily, and
the St. Louis company working every
man that it can to advantage, but net
pushing work particularly at present.
. Some of the men have been laid off
for few days; but only until St.
Louis can be heard from. The fact
} is that it has cost much more to build
the mill and open the company's
; really excellent and extensive prop
erty than its managers had anticipa-
} ted. Consequently, more funds must
be provided before the work can be
pushed vigorously. Funds will be
forthcoming shortly. and the company
will prosecute operations all winter.
j.. Work is being done OH several
: other prospects and mines at Pine
r Grove, which will evidently become
e profitable, and the camp has good
future.
ROCKY BAR AND VICINITY.
At Rocky Bar Mr.. Coffin found y
stamps pounding away on gold ore
e viz: The Alturas Q.imitedD Com
- pany's milI--5O stamps; the Reese
mill-,.10 stamps; and the Settle mil
-12 stamps.
J. NJ. Patterson, superintendent O
70 the Alturss Gold (Limited) showed
him through the mines and mill. MI
Coffin found an AL plant, and every
thing running in thoroughly sys
tematic, busine sslike way. Evi
a. dences of the utmost thoroughnes
j. were to be seen on every hand. Tn
d company's property has begun
e another prosperous era which, it i
e hoped, will continue indefinitely
st For months its workings were throug
9. horse or barren ground which wa
IS fully 400 feet long; but during tn
!. past mouth or SO the workings hav
70 penetrated into the pay streak agar
Of and found it wonderfully rich in fire
Mt cold-so rich, indeed, that the anna
he gamators are kept busy putting quick
|v silver under the stamps A lum
n picked up on The dump by Mr.. Co
~ fin, and sampled by him, proved II
he richest piece of free gold ore
ed ever saw.
10. HOW A $40 MINE PANS OUT.
,r- Mr.. Coffin was at the Reeser ~
ky when they were cleaning-np on 4
ton lot of ore from the Mounta
"a Goat mine which had just been p
de through. 1t yielded $4,000, or I
sal average of $50 per ton! This W
the second lot. The first lot p
through went better, and u third
of 40 tons upon which the mill is nc
'ht running is expected to 60 1925 p
Old ton! The Mountain Goat vein
I'VE opened for oves 400 feet, and sho,
OF continuous body two to four f.
rs, thick, of ore similar to that REFER
ore to above. The whole vein is c
iss tracted and milled without sortir
and the ore is perfectly free. Or
and-a-half years ago the Mounts
Goat mine sold for TWENTY DoLLAl
50 how A 800 NINE IS ESTEEMED.
.. The Ophir mine seems to be We
similar in value, etc, with the Moul
~ ain Goat, and both properties I
-. owned by strong New York inc
49, porations. They ale in charge