Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-01-10

Il Million Dollar Company Or
gdnised to Dereiope quarts
Mines Ia the Elk Cifu
Basin.

interests of the Elk City basin
are attracting the attention OF
the outside world. The show
ing made by the Cluster" the
"Cleveland," and other lodges
on which development work
has been done, is of such a ma
ture that there is no longer any
doubt of the strength and per-
manency of the veins or cfthe
richness of the quartz. The
district has passed the prelim-
mary prospecting stage, and is
now about to enter upon the
more substantial era of devel-
opment and production.
There was lately organized
at Pataha, Washington, a COM
pany of mining investors called
the Idaho Consolidated Min
ing Company an incorpora-
ton having its base of opera
tons in Elk City. The capital
stock Of the association is one
million dollars, divided into
10000 shares, of the par value
of$lOO per share. One thou
sand shares have been already
disposed of at $25 per share,
and we are informed that quite
a large block of the stock has
been poken for at a fair fig
ure by a private syndicate. The
mines incorporated in the com
pany are the "Redstone," the
"Rowena," "Gen'l. Harrison"
Bertha" and "Mother" lodes.
The incorporators are J. H.
Walker, John Houser, Eugene
Spedden, d. H. Poyneer, II. B..
Ferguson. II. Il. Spedden, p.
Talbot, Fl. d. Poyneer and E.
II. Fox These gentlemen are
all well acquainted with the
camp ard discovered and loca-
ted the mines which have been
consolidated and incorporated.
Some of them have been pros
pecting in the Elk City basin
for four years, and it is there
fore a natural inference that
they should be good judges of
the character of the quartz in
that mineral belt, and are well
satisfied that the incorporated
mines are not only worthy of
d development, but that they will
stand the severest tests of ex-
animation to which intending
investors will probably subject
them. DR.. Poyneer is an cid
and well known mining opera
tor on this coast. He took in
and put up the first quartz mill
erected on Gregory gulch du-
ring the Black Hawk excite
ment in Colorado.
All through the present win
ter a full crew of night and day
shifts have been employed in
driving a cross-cut tunnel on
the "Genl. HARRISON" and on
December l5 they were in las
feet, and at this writing have
probably cut the ledge at a
depth of $50 feet below the
surface. tits then the intention
Of the company to drift on the
'Redstonc," and it is expected
oy May l the tunnel will have
attained length of200 feet on
hat ledge. tits estimated from
he width of the vein on the
surface, that there should be
800 tons of ore on the dump
It the same date. We are also
informed that the company will
positively have a mill in there
his summer, and it is to be ia
Ken in as soon as the trail is
dry. The intention is to have
al the machinery and plant in
Lewiston by March /.
The "Mother" lode is sixty
feet wide on top of the ground.
1t is a prospect claim,pure and
simple, but has a large surface
lrea of blossom rock in which
rec gold is sometimes found.
A tunnel is projected in the
spring to strike this ledge at a
depth of 500 feet. The "Red-
stone" is six feet wide, and the
: Harrison is solid ten foot
edge. The ore from these
mines is pretty uniform in val