The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-11
COPPER CAMP
Seven Devils May Become One OF
the Greatest Mining Camps In
the World - The Whole
Country 10 Ore.

Weiser. Idaho, 10 the Boston Transcript,
is n reliable exhibit of the wonderful cop
nos mines ~ Wasbinuton county. Idaho:
Sevan nev;ls IN situated in washington
Y - 1917 - ~ . 90
county. W miles nortn OF Weiser anu o'Voo
feet above, near snake river. ius hame
Is derived from the clump OF mountain
peaks. there being seven which lie at the
extreme north of the camp and look down
,,,,on !, . a - they were the ,uay,Iians ~
~ ,.s a. !, i%"anI;as
s "s"i'r - 81 T.N
uis Veritapie howiine wlluerhess' Inc
top OF the plateau Is 500 feet above
Snake river and only five miles from II.
that man was 10 he barred for all time
from rohh;no 4, ~ he vast Mineral w.aItb
r. ..Nn.". .a.a"..s r., ,...I"
~ secius'on "a prese"'eu o"' r..e
knowledge OF It's hiddeh treasures When
spoken OF il was alluded to as some far
physical appearance resembles closely
the pictures of the moon: one pro,p Of
monntains.
~ Tha raaso, ,,,, ,,.so ,,;,.s ,.v.
been worked was the difficulty of getting
in and out OF that district, but now u will
only he a short time ere the world will
possess these mines. Ii may take a life
time or only a few years to develop them,
all owing to circumstances. railroads, cap
ital. etc. As the season advances excite
ment over Seven Devils increases, and the
question Is, who Will secure control OF this
mighty camp? Boston should have IL, as
she Is the biggest copper owner i'm the
world.
The resources of this camp will make
one of the grandest mining operations
ever started i'm this Western country. The
|, great Anaconda mines have no such ore
Y as found here. When Senator Clark of
Montana contracted TO deliver the French
syndicate 100000 pounds of copper and
the ore to run 30 per cent. copper. he
first bonded all the mines he could in
Seven Devils. The district covers a
scope of country Is by "a miles, and con-
tains vertical veins from 20 to
$50 feet wide and thousands of feet deep.
This wonderful mineral belt was dis
:. covered by Levi Allen % years ago, and
: he located what Is known as the Old Pea
cock, the phenomenal surface mine of
the world. He held il through Indian
wars n massacres. going every year
2OO miles by wagon to do his Sl0O assess
ment work, realizing its value and
greatness, until in 1883, after ex-
pending $1,000 he had to take
he own only three-sixteenths in
a NINE that could not be
bought for 100000. This mine has been
ground-sluiced off down the gulch for
one-balf mile for the free gold il con-
tanned alone, exposing some II acres of
Ol1N thst as'' ~ v, - ~ ,Nhts y
years ago there was in sight at this mine
1900 tons of ore, value nothing; now at
A10 cents per pound S5~,20O.OOO. Ii can be
worked at a net profit of S3,500,000, vein 50
feet wide.
Three years ago $4,000 would have con-
trolled the whole district,as the bulk of the
prospectors and miners stampeded for
new field. Cour d'Alene and the Owyhee
war Eagle) Mountain gold camp. The
decline IN copper through the failure of
the French syndicate also helped To defer
the opening Of the camp. Now the Pea
cock is held for sl,OOO,OcO and the South
rFPeacock FOR SlUo,O00.
Seven Devils ore, assorted, VIII run 30
per cent? picked, 90 per cent. Copper
TO so per ton; ada Su per ton freight,
and we nave copper at about : cents per
pound, without allowing Tor the gold or sill
yer al all. There Is enough OF that I'm the
ore 10 pay Tor the working, SO that what
ever the copper brings Is clear gain.
One of the first locators of Leadville,
= who has lived In western mining camps
all his life, says: "Ihe forests and natu-
raj scenery OF the region Is magnificent.
The whole country is ore. A thousand
mines may be located side by side and
the talk OF millions OF tons OF ore is no
exagperation. The minera is there in
n ineNhaustible quantities."
The recorder for this district told me that
ION both sides OF his camp are found
gold d n considerable gold is found
"a in the copper ores. We really do not real
: lie the possibilities of this great mineral
district. IL Is the biggest and richest
precious metal belt in the world. The 100
or so mines recorded are only "a mite in
comparison with what Is there. We Will
have n city I'm Seven Devils that Will beat
al.-l -. H.