The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-10-26
MINING NOTES.

maze 6nlpu0nt VI 4 Car lOdU VI
ore to Ketchum this week-one lot
from the Wellington mine and the
other from the Keep Cool at Galena.
ATLANTA.
Through the kindness of cor
respondent, the KEYSTONE has been
furnished with the following inter-
esting mining items from the old
Atlanta district: 1.-THE long period
of stagnation that has hung over
this place so long is virtually at an
end. I have it on good authority
that the Yuba consolidated have
consummated their purchase and
intend pushing development at an
early day. The property sold is on
the Atlanta lode, which has an av-
erage width of rorty-five feet. Ac-
cepting the record of the output of
the Buffalo and Monarch mines on
the same great lode, as criterion,
the new company certainly start out
under most favorable auspices, and
as the cost of the treatment of ore
is now at a minimum, twelve-dol-
lar quartz ore paying, Atlanta
should take her place at the head
of the column. The Buffalo and
Monarch mines have a record of
three millions of dollars. This will
be better appreciated whcnit is con-
sidered that much Of this amount
was produced at a time when they
were saving but forty per cent OF
the assay value of the ores. After
exhausting the higher grade ores to
the depth then explored, the low
grade ores were thought to be val
ueless, until the introduction of
COMMENTATORS, which gave such ex-
cellent results and SO fully demon
strated the proper mode of treat
ment, that owners Of quartz prop
critics are assured of profitable re-
turns for their long, patient waiting,
for there are few, if any properties
in the camp that do not show ores
in paying quantities. There are
many meritorious mining proper
ties here, among which is the Gam
brinus, the owners of which, Messrs.
Majors, Gaetz and Wolters, are
erecting a concentrating mill to treat
the immense body of ore exposed
in the above named property. OF
the various mining claims devel'
oped and in process of develop
ment, more viii be written later
A visit to the old camp will amply
substantiate all that It's partisans
claim for it. That it is destined to
be the leading producer Of this
to-be commonwealth of Idaho.
sEAFOAM.
A lot of eight tons of ore from
the Birdie R. mine, at Seafoam, was
sampled at the ketchum sampline
works this week. yielding 335 l4-1O(
ozs. silver, 2-1O or. gold and % pei
cent lead per ton, netting the own
ers of the mine 1882. This i;
the highest grade ore shipped
in quantity from the above named
camp during the season. Other
shipments of ore have been made
from the Birdie r. mine prior tt
this, but none so rich, showing evl
IDENTIFY that the ore in this mine i:
improving as the work of develop
ment progresses.
H. c.. Erman, of St. Louis, who
went over to Custer last week or
business connected with the Fourth
of July mine and mill at that place
returned to Ketchum last Wednes
day night. From Mr.. Erman WI
learn that the machinery for the 10
stamp mill is all upon the GROUND
and that the mill will be completed
by the middle Of December. Mr.
Erman is highly pleased with thu
outlook of the Fourth of July prop
erty. He left yesterday via Denver
F., for st. Louis.
Challis Messenger: H. H. KNAPP
and l.. l.. Sweet came out from Gus
ter Tuesday. They brought out -four
bars of Bullion, the output OF tn
Dickens-Custer mill. This was tn
first bullion shipment made by thu
company since resuming operations
and was forwarded direct to London
1t was valued at nearly $4,000
! The Challis-Dickens mine, OF
Dickens Hill, is working fourteen
men. Everything on the outside
indicates preparations for cont'nu
Gus work and the treatment o
foreman Thomas Dyer is all tina
any one could ask, but the llttl
board over the mouth of the tunnel
on which is neatly painted tn
words mo admittance," preclude
any one from divulging the secret
of the depths. Everybody seem
to know, however, that the old min
has been all icleaned out, that tn
water has been pumped from tn
lower level and that the main shat
has been sunk still deeper. Rumo
has it that a rich body of ore ha
been struck, and that the rock
held together with wire silver, a
thick as cobwebs, as in days of ole
| ,r, IS %ho rich Cfrl X