The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-09-20
MINING NEWS,

lures OF the mining outlook is tn
fact that so many of the smaller an,
individual operators are at worl
around in the hills. Original loca
tors and miners who have long helt
promising prospects, merely repre-
senting from year to year, are nov
getting out and marketing little
lots of ore all over the country anc
realizing encouragingly. Many Of
the older and bigger producing
mines are being worked by lessees OF
small scales at considerable profit
This is certainly favorable to the
region and indicates that it is by nc
means played out. Such operations
will encourage the companies and
investors who have through depre-
citation in values of silver and lead
for some years past experienced dis
couragement and depression, while
the attention of other investors and
capitalists will be drawn to the
promising situation.
Major Hyndman and Mr.. E. B.
Williams made a tour Of the old
camps during the past week-to
Galena, Sawtooth, Atlanta and in
termediate points - and express
themselves as most agreeably sur
prised at the amount of work of
the kind mentioned being done in
quiet way and the good indica-
tons therefrom.
THE P. 4 I. COMPANY.
The general improvement in the
mining outlook during the past few
months, and prospects for more
favorable results in operations ow-
ing to the enhanced value of silver
and lead, shows its effects on our
immediate interests in the recent
visit of Sydney L. Wright, Esq,
President of the Philadelphia d
Idaho Company, and his authorized
announcement as to the intenti ons
Of his company.
Mr.. Wright visited the company's
interests generally with view to an
intelligent determination both for
immediate and future operations.
He left fully satisfied that the COM
pany can now initiate a system of
gradual resumption with perfect
justification, and instructed to such
effect.
Operations upon the North Star
mine are to be continued with at
least the present force, and the Sill
yer Star mine at Smoky is to be
worked during the winter with a
fair foroe-not as heretofore in mere
development work and exploration
of ore bodies, but in extracting ore
and getting out a supply from de-
veloped bodies of several thousand
tons, preparatory to starting up the
large concentrating mill at the
mine early in the spring.
The output from these two mines,
with their results Of lessee opera
tions at Boyle Mountain and other
points, viii justify the company in
resuming smelling and bullion
manufacture at its extensive works
here at Ketchum ; and while it will
not be in the market for the pur-
chase of high-grade ores generally,
it will afford a market for all the
lower grades Of the region.
This proposition looks reasona-
BILE and is announced in the best of
faith from an authority that has
always proved reliable. This com.
pany's efforts have ever been con-
Quoted on the fairest and most hon
orable basis TO this community,
and to all concerned, and it is to
be hoped its long season and series
Of discouragements and depression
are over, and it is about to realize a
dawn Of prosperity and success that
i; deserves and has we'll earned, and
over which we will all rejoice.
NOTES.
Ole Opland and Chris. Hall, who
have leased the Atlanta and Idaho
mines at Saw.ooth, which have laid
dormant for five years, after only
two months work by themselves,
marketed this week TO the First
Bank Of hetchum six and one-halt
tons of ore that Melted them $500.
Other small lots are coming in daily
and we hear Of more to come right
along.
Sullivan & Anderson have let a
contract to John Lynch to run a
1OO-foot crosscut tunnel in the
Trapper mine, on Boulder noun
tain. Mr.. Anderson informs us
that the ledge in the main tunnel
of the Trapper is looking fine.
G. w. Taylor shipped about four
tons OF 1OO-ounce ore to the smell
ter, Thursday, from the Olympia
mine, on Badly mountain opposite
town.
A SCRAP OF PAPER SAVES HER LIFE
/, was Just an ordinary scrap OF wrap
ping paper, but it saved her life. She
was in the last stages of consumption,
told by physicians that she was incuraole
and could live only short time; she
weighed less than seventy pounds. On
piece of wrapping paper she read OF Dr