The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-03-29
IDAHO NEWS.

| The Statesman of the 23d instant
says that a geological surveying
party left Boise City on that date
for Eagle Rock. The survey will
commence at Eagle Rock and run
from thence westerly between Snake
and Wood rivers. 1t will take the
entire season to complete the line
that has been mapped out to the
Oregon border. Although this party
is known as has been stated, it is
intended to utilize the information
it may gather to prove the practi-
cability of irrigation.-Calling at
the assay Office yesterday, Mr.. J. w.
Cunningham, the assayer in charge,
showed the reporter gold brick
taken from the Kentuck mine, about
thirty miles below Salmon City, on
the Salmon river Its value was
upwards of $1,000; two from the
Gold Belt of the value of $500,
and one from the Comfort Consoli-
dated, of Rocky Bar, of the value
of $4,000. All of these were received
during the week and make q pretty
good showing for the opening of
the season.
Democrat: Hon. Ben Wilson,
probably the most extensive placer
miner in the territory, has already
commenced cleaning out bitches
and otherwise getting his ground,
near Centerville, in Boise Basin,
ready for work. He says that he
will probably give employment to
at least one hundred men this sea-
son, but he may find it difficult to
get that number, as active and ex-
perienced miners are getting scarcer
as the years roll by. Like the buff
falo, Indian and other mossbacks,
they will soon disappear. Mr.. Will
son has every reason to expect
prolonged and prosperous mining
season.
Caldwell Tribune: G. H. Hol-
brook, of Squaw Greek, was in town
the other day. He says that in the
past ten days over 1900 head of cat
tie have come down from Long Val
ley to find feed on the bare hills.
The stock owners did great deal
of work to get their cattle out, hav-
ing to cut a way for them through
four miles of snow.
Messenger: The Gladstone Min
ing Company has shut down its
mine and mill at Orc Elmo, on &C.
count of running out of hay and
grain for ore teams. All of the ore
houses and bins are full, so the
miners had to be knocked Off
Frank McAllister of Bayhorse, in
forms us that his company, who
has had FIVE months lease on the
Cemetery and Little Hoosier mines,
near Bayhorse, has taken out 25
tons of 3OO-oz. ore and about Is
tons of 10000.
Shoshone Journal; The sheep
men about Shoshone report about
33 per cent loss for the winter.
While the loss of cattle along Snake
river will not average 20 per cent,
some owners, however. who were
not as we'll supplied with hay as
they should have been, will suffer
greater loss-pro badly 40 per cent.
World: A. W. Dunn, of the new
district on Crooked river, arrived
here last week by way of Summit
Flat. He says snow at his place is
eight feet deep, and at DR.. South
worth's place, about mile from
the summit, it is about fourteen
feet, and on Summit Flat still deep
err, but as he did not measure it,
does not know the exact depth.
Mr.. Dunn is now running a tunnel
to tap one of his lodges 800 feet
east of where the ore was taken out
last fall and crushed in the Banner
mill. This tunnel is now in IS feet,
and there is now about Is feet be-
tween the face of the tunnel and
the vein. He will resume work this
season on the tunnel he has been
running to tap the ledge at the
depth of $50 feet. This tunnel, to
cut the ledge. will be driven 700 feet,