, 1890-03-06
AT BOULDER CREEK
A Promising Mining Camp on the
Kootenai, Eighteen Miles
Above Bonuer's Ferry.
a History Of tho Place and a De-
scription OF the Develop
mont Work.

BOULDER GREER CAMP, Idaho,
Feb. 2O.--Work here has been
pushed during the wintcron mum.
bcr of claims. Among the most
prominent are those Of the Boulder
Creek Mining Company. On their
Iiomcstakc mine they have run u
tunnel in on the ledge l7O feet, gain.
ing depth Of lB0 feet, showing up
"a well-deilned ledge varying in
width from four to six feet carrying
concentrating galcna ore. 4 mum
Der of specimens Of wire silver have
been taken out nt the depth of 100
feet This il the first native silver
ever found In the KoOtenai valley In
Idaho.
On February nn immense snow.
slide came down with,such force that
II not only covered up the mouth of
the tunnel, but crowded solid wet
snow back IN the tunnel twenty-five
feet, injuring two men, who We're,
after number of hours of hard
work, liberated. Work was sus-
pended ON tho llonestnke, and
men put to work ON the Star and
Eureka. The star was located two
years ago, but no work has been
done until now. ON the surface 1t
showed about twelve To eighteen
inches of dccompo-ed quartz. \
cut aud u tunnel tapping the ledge
ut Il dcptho twenty feet show three
feet of fine concentrating ore. An
open cut ON the Eureka, 500
feet above the main tun-
mel, shows four.foot
ledge of galcna and iron carbonutcs.
The Wntch'cm, north eNtcu.
sion of the Eureka, owned 10y g..
Athcrtun and othcS, las an open
cut 2D0 feet above the cut on the
Eureka, showing the ledge To he
three and II half feet wide, carrying
galcna and iron cnrbonutes, the
same rs the Eureka.
THE CANip.
The Boulder creek camp il located
ON tho south side of Kootenai river,
eighteen miles above Bonucr's
Ferry. 30 far as can I've learned, the
first prospecting was done here by
placer miners in 1867, returning
from the great placer excitement at
Wild Horse, British Columbia.
Good prospects We're found, but the
party was short of provisions and
had to abandon them, Nothing
morn was done until 1851, when one
Of the former party, Mr., II. II.
Marklcy, of Cedar Fails, Iowa,
brought men In and thonughly ly
tested the placer ground, but found
II could not he worked at Il profit on
account ot the lnrgc boulders To be
handled. MIR. MnrlSlcy then turned
his attention 10 the numerous quartz
hedges on the mountains ON either
side of the creek, locating several OF
the best. During the spring of 1854
sandy Morrow, discoVerer of the
Tough Nut claim on KOotonai
lake, discovered the Eureka and
Kate Fry claims, which he sold
60 Il. Fry,
Mr.. Fry held claims until lss0,
when they were sold to MIR. Mark
lcy and Others. In the spring ~ ~
W. T.. X. Brewster and l.. Russell
discovered the lIhba, II thrcc-iont
ledge ot g,lena ole, which was also
bought 10y Mr. Marklcy.
\ number of good prospects we've
found five miles up the creek by
Gibson Athorton and Sandy Nor
row, which were sold To the lio1tc-
nui Mining X smelling Company,
who abandoned them, aud after
ward were relocated by by other
parties. Lust fall u number of pros
/ poets were found about one mile
/ above Boulder creek, where u new
camp nus lecn started known us the
surprise district.
Work on the property of the Il.
/ G. NJ. Co. will he pushed during the
coming season, and in all probabil-
| i,ic7 Il conccntrdtur erected. We
predict very bright future for this
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