Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-07-11
SEVEN DEVILS.

ton to u Statesman reporter:
81 firmly believe the Seven Devils
to have enough wealth in copper, sill
yer and gold to pay off the national
debt Of the whole United States. You
may say / don't know anything about
figures, but / have been in the 6gur-
ing business over forty years and had
no little experience in copper, there
fore better figure maker would be
hard to find.
Let me here describe a group of
Seven Devils mines and you may
make your own figures and calculate
the result. The Peacock mine is
said by experts to contain $4,000 tons
of copper ore, practically on the sur
face, which will average 80 per cent
copper; that would yield $4,000 tons
metallic copper, in pounds As, 000,0 900;
present price Of copper II cents per
pound, total S7,650,000. Now, mind
you, this grand thing is visible
would it be extravagant to estimate
the same amount to be hidden? Then
you have one mine with $15,000,000
of copper available.
The South Peacock adoins the
above mine on the same lead cop
per richer, if anything. The vein is
from 100 to $50 feet wide, and the
top exposed on the surface. The
South Peacock was lately purchased
by William NJ. Pratt, of Boston,
Massachusetts, for a company of Bos-
ton gentlemen who purpose the de-
velopment of the Seven Devils coun-
try and camp. Mr.. Pratt, through
Mr.. b, w. Warrington, of the Idaho
Commercial company, at Welser,
has bonds on a group of seven other
mines IN the vicinity of and surround
ing the Peacock, all on the same
veins and equally as great. The
reason these mines have laid dor
mant so long is that so late as 1876
the proving savage laid in wait for
tho scalp of the gold hunter. The
railroad has only been running
through Idaho for seven or eight
years, and, considering everything,
the progress made is remarkable.
The settling up of the country has
been rapid, and also the develop
fnent of the copper mines.
A. kleinschmidt, of Montana, has
been shipping copper ore from vari-
GUS mines for year past. Freight
from tho mines to railroad is $50 a
ton, and from Weiser by railroad to
smelter about $50 more. Then fig
ure 100 per cent of the freight money
wasted in the 80 per cent debris and
you have a freight bill of $120 per
ton against this ore 1t is folly to
ship ore under such circumstances.
With such huge and phenomenal de-
posits of copper ore to work on by
smelling on the ground, railroad
and smelter could be built ON the
freight money wasted in paying
freight on the quartz and refuse in
the ore shipped away. The proper
way to work these mines is to organ
ize company large enough to con-
troll them and build railroad and
smelter. Most of the miners are poor
men. They know and realize the
greatness of their possessions and at
the same time know the impossibility
of developing the camp without
large capital, therefore they are will
ing to practically give away their
claims and to this end have bonded
their mines literally for nothing,
through Mr.. Warrington to Mr.. Will
lam ID. Pratt, of Boston, Mass.
Mr.. Pratt has had his attention di-
rscted to the Seven Devils for at
least years and is now making an eff
fort to secure for Boston control the
phenomenal, remarkable and great
Seven Devils copper mines.
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