The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23
IDAHO NEWS.

district, lately crushed in the Elmi-
ra mill. at Banner, yielded the lar.
gest Of any surface rock ever crush
ed in the county. Two or. three
hundred sacks will be sent to Omaha
for reduction in few days. There
are four parallel veins in the dis
trict, which is a few miles beyond
the head of More creek. and devel-
opment work will be carried on in
the Horn Silver owned by A. w.
Dunn and NJ. H. Kempner, and the
Peep of Day and Mammoth, owned
by Kempner and DR.. Southworth.
A 5O0-foot tunnel will be run to de-
velop the Horn Silver at depth. Six
men are now at work in the district.
A. w. Dunn, one of the above
named locators of the Horn Silver
mine, was for some time a miner
and prospector of the Little Smoky
mining district, and has many ac-
quaintances in Ketchum. We are
pleased to hear that Mr.. Dunn has
got on a lucky streak.
Judge Jas. Carr, who has spent
the summer at work on the Edgar
mine, on Archie mountain, four
miles northeast of Banner, came to
town last Saturday. He has had
two assays made of the ore, one
going 667 ounces silver and $40
gold, and another 1876 ounces silver
and $40 gold. This ore was taken
from a depth of twenty-five or
thirty feet, where the vein is two
and one-half feet wide, with the
rich ore scattered all through it.
Mr.. Carr says he will have a valua-
BILE mine developed next year.
Shoshone Journal: The Journal
in referring to the change of time
of the running of trains from coast
to coast says, will be very fast: Es-
Inmates have been made showing
that the average number of miles
per hour from New York to San
Francisco will be thirty-one. For
so long a distance this is considered
very swift, as there are many new
crews and engines, the taking of
water and coal, and many other &C.
currences to detain. Over some
parts of the road nearly sixty miles
an hour must be made. On the
Idaho division of the 0. s. L., it is
frequent occurrence to make sixty
mile runs for long distances, now.
as the road bed is considered good
The new trains are to be vestibuled
which will! aid in increasing the
running time. The result Of the
experiment is awaited with much
!, interest.
Register: Readers of the Regis
ter will remember the account O
? parties finding a trapper named
Cook out on the rocks up the South
, Fork of Snake river last summer
, he claiming he had been shot BY
, Indians whom he refused to feed
1t was across the Wyoming line ane
f the Indian was arrested and take1
, to Evanston where he was waiting
trial, but has saved that expens
getting hold of a razor belonging
, to one of the other prisoners he cu
f his throat with it.
Silver Press: The manager of the
Cinnabar Company's mine, nea
Clayton, says that the tunnel which
they are running to tap the oil
shaft, or shaft No. l, is in 335 feet
9 which is about ten feet short of tn
: main lead, as estimated by the sur
! vev. Ore was struck in the face 0
!. the tunnel on Thursday, the 14th
: in punches which is almost a sur
e indication, in this mine, that tn
permanent ledge is near.
e Shaft No. 2, Or the new shaft
= which is 6x7 feet in size, is dow
: 1O5 feet and at the bottom is all il
ore. No idea can be given of tn
! magnitude of the vein here, as a
= this point on the surface the ledg
: is fifty feet in width of payin
e smelling ore. The grade of or
e here averages about $125 per ton
:. Is per cent lead, 80 ounces silve
e and the remainder gold. The gol
e in some instances runs as high a
i. $40 per ton, as shown by actus
$ assay.
e Mr.. Kirk is working a crew {
d nineteen men and is drifting to tn
e north. There is a two-foot strea
J. in the workings that runs abor
!, 5000 per ton; the second class G
Z, remaining portion averaging abor
$50 per ton. Two pack trains hav
been running steadily for the pa'
month, and still the dump of ore
u n charging, there being now on I'll
- ground about sixty tons which
! ! nearly equally divided between fir'
= and second class ore.
y Remarkable Rescue.
&c Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainheld, ii
IS makes the statement that she caught Col
g which settled on her lungs; she was trea