Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-06-06
ELK CITY BOOMING
The 1BlancO' and sTerwil-
liger' Mines Bonded.
And an Option on the Blue
Dragon Wanted.
\ WAGON ROAD URGENTLY WANTED.
The Banner Quartz Camp in Idaho County
Bottled Up for Lack OF Wagon Road
communication with the Prairie.

tci. VIII nave oPcliC oe"eIdi
days in Elk City inspecting
some of the quartz properties
of that camp in the interest of
a syndicate of Portland capi-
talists, arrived out last Friday
and spoke in glowing terms of
the wealth of quartz they had
seen during their sojourn in
the Elk City basin. 1t was a
matter of very great surprise
to these gentlemen to find so
large and so rich a country in
such a bottled-up condition,
and they remarked that if that
basin was opened up and made
accessible the people of Camas
Prairie would soon have a mar
ket as populous as Butte for
our farm products.
So favorably were they i'm
pressed with all they saw that
they bonded the Blanco mine,
on Red River, the property of
R.S.Sime. The Terwilliger
mine, on Deadwood mountain,
was also bonded for the same
parties, and negotiations are
also pending for a deal on the
Blue Dragon mine, ,on American
River, which will doubtless be
consunmated when the absent
partner is heard from. On be-
half of the syndicate, Mr.. Fisk
arranged for the development
of the bonded properties prior
to purchase. Tunnels are to be
run and shafts sunk to prove
the permanency of the lodges.
We are informed that the price
to be paid for the Blanco is
$4,000. A similar price was
offered for the Blue Dragon.
1t is unfortunate both for
Elk City and for Camas Prai-
rie that no wagon road runs
into the camp. We know from
personal experience how very
difficult matter it is to in
duce men of capital to visit
and inspect the mines of a
camp where they have to uE-
dergo the hardship of a long
and tiresome horseback ride,
no matter how great the in
ducements or how promising
the prospects offered. The
men who buy mines are not, as
a rule, as tough as we are, and
would rather ride in a sleeper
or on a buck board rather than
take chances of breaking their
necks jumping over the dowr
timber in a trip over a noun
tain trail on the hurricane deck
of a bucking cayuse. There
ought to be energy enough
here to build wagon road tt
Elk City. and it seems to III
that the people of the Prairie
are only waiting for the people
of Elk City to move in th'
matter to cooperate with then
and build the road this year.
1t is time for the people O
the Elk City basin to move il
this business if they are reall,,
in earnest in desiring a wagol
. road built into their camp. |
remains for them to make tn
first move. There is money an,
labor here to aid the enterprise
The road will never be built
the people of Elk expects thi
Prairie to build it without ali
from them. Camas Prairie
of course interested in tn
buildingof the road land Cana
Prairie will freely contribut
the great bulk of the none
and labor needed for its con
struction. 1t is unreasonabl
to expect the people of Cana
Prairie to build wagon road
to other peoples mines. To
man up a tree it looks as
the owners of those mines wer
the men most vitality intereste
in having the road built, an
yet they have made no cor
certed action To sacnra If IT