The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-21
THE SEVEN DEVILS
May be Tapped by the Union
Pacific Railway.
THE IMMENSE COPPER MINES.
n. Treweek Tells of the Great Possibilities Of
Washington County, IdahO-A
Mining Boom nj nent.

n. Treweek, vice president of the min
ing stock exchange, vino, in company with
General Passenger Agent Eccles, Resident
Engineer McCarty, Of the Union Pacific,
j. d. McGill, w. H. Remington and
Horace Lewis, visited the Seven Devils
country. gives some interesting in
formation in regard to that country.
Wien the big SIX arrived in the Seven
Devils, the natives askedt hem where they
left the other-member. This little joke,
while it SCI hard on the estimable gentle
men, was the source OF good deal of fun
while scraping the gulches.
The Seven Devils country, which has
caused great deal Of talk in mining circles
OF late. is located On on the Snake river in
washington county, Idaho, about one hun
dred miles from Weiser, sta
ton on the Oregon Snort Line.
Whlle the railroad passes through The
southwest of Washington county, the
mines, though in the same county, are 100
miles away This gives pretty good idea
OF counties III the northwes5-this one
being as large as the state OF Massachu-
Setts, including Boston bay and the hub.
IL is enc OF the best numbered places
ever saw" said Mr.. Treweek; 1T has
enough ties TO reconstruct the entire Union
Pacific system. / saw some of the finest
1rult that man could lay eyes on, and
potatoes twelve inches long. Wash
ington county has only pop1-
illlon OF 2o00, yet | venture
TO say tnat that county could support
lV0,0O0 people. IL mas the finest prunes, and
peaches as o;g as ones fists. believe that
Idaho IS one of the best states on
itne Union Pacific system. There
are abundant opportunities for SET
tlers-l mean farmers. What is
! needed to bring this country out and give
= home market is the development of its
mines. They cannot ship their farm pro
ducts to compete with Oregon, nor to east,
nor to Utah, where we take care of our
selves. L saw some OF the biggest copper
mines ever saw in my life. With rail
roads TO the mines this country would 20
ahead OF Butte if the assays hold out.
Tney are working some of the mines on d
small scale. but being compelled to pack the
ore'on mules for hundred miles to the
railroad they cannot make much Roadway.
The Old Peacock is the biggest mine there
surface, and is opened up from seven to
eIgnt hundred feet, with shaft down 10C
feet. If the body of ore extends down
200 feet and is 765 feet long and 10 feet
wide, it will yield 10000 tons of copper
ore. 1t shows 20 to IS per cent chopper
and SO to $50 in gold. This mine was
discovered by placer miner
named Levi Allen, twenty five years ago
and was claimed ten years later. The princi
pal owners of the Peacock are ex- Gov Hau
ser, Albert KIeinschind and E. A Clarke
of Butte.n
The presence of Union Pacific officials
naturally eyokes surmises as to the nten-
lions of that road and gives color to the
rumor previously published in The HER
AID that the short line would be extended
along the Snake river to Lewiston, thus
avoiding the steep mountain grades While
this route would be longer than the presen
line, 1t is claimed thai the easy grades an(
large freight the company would receive
from the Seven Devils country would NOR,
than make up for the expense of construc
ting The road. 20 =
Mr.. Treweek and his companies were
very favorably impressed with the mining
possibilities of the camp and as they ar,
lot adverse to good thing, it can be Sc
down that they came away with thei
pockets filed with leases on the best il
sight eu