Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-12-04
LOOK OUT ros NEW ORES.

S~tss says IL II
the hrst ore OF that kind discovered
IN Idaho outside of the Bonap arte
at Rocky Bar. That paper is in er.
ror. Very rich telluride has beer
discovered in Warrens, also near the
Seven Devils, and ore Of this charac.
ter (tssted BY the best expert on thi.
metal in the United States-Bnrlin.
game, of Denver), has been discoy.
cred within three miles of Idaho CITY,
on the mountain south Of town. There
is . big belt carrying this metal,
which. however, is too much scat.
tered at the surface to pay, but with
development it is expected regular
veins will be discovered. This same
section carries copper, and one mine,
the Keystone, carrie. tin. This mine
Was worked in early days, mill put
up, and one or two short runs made,
but the bullion proved not to be sill
yer, and whea the owners dis.
covered that the metal was not what
they were looking for, work stopped.
On finding that the bullion was not
silver no further tests were made to
ascertain what it was until a few
years ago. A test was made of one
OF the bars, now in Boise, and it was
pronounced tin. A specimen of the
ore was also sent off to competent
assayer last spring, and he said the
metal 1t contained was tin. There
are other lodges in that district that
carry considerable metal, tho nature
OF which has not yet been determined,
but some of it will soon be sent to
= competent assayer. The ore sent
to Burlingame for a telluride assay
he said contained q small per cent. of
tellurium. What the other metal
running with it is has not yet been
determined. The veins of the dis
trict have not yet been sufficiently
developed to form any idea of their
value. The veins run northeast and
southwest, through by the Halfway
House and on back of Boise. This
belt has been given the go-by until
recently. Prospectors failing to find
free gold pronounced "that side of
the creek ne good" and named the
hill south of town "Yellow Dog
Mountsin," but it may come to the
front yet, Notwithstanding the preju-
dicss of the free gold hunter. The
thorough prospector prospects for
and studies the characteristics and
nature of all metals, and will hop on
to anything likely to prove of value.
The New Eldorado, or Beaver dis
trict, as it is now called, was "thor-
oughly prospected for years and
years by free gold hunters and they
smphatically rendered their verdict
finally that there was nothing there,
but two years ago A. w. Dunn,
scientific prospector, went in there
and right away struck rich chlorides
and horn silver ore assaying hun.
dreds per ton, and the very first day
located the champion silver mine of
the county, the Horn Silver, and kept
right ahead until he now has group
of twelve or thirteen claims that can
not be surpassed by any group In
Idaho. The free gold prospectors
had pounded up any amount of this
rich silver ore, got none of the "yaller
stuff" and with great show of min
geological knowledge and in loud
voice pronounced the section nom
mineral bearing. That is the differ
snce between a thorough, practical
minerologist and experienced pros
psctor, and the man who knows only
FREQ gold, and it requires no expert
ence to tell that metal in its native
state. But free gold mines are not
always the most valuable. Now, the
district south of town carries copper,
telluride and tin, and although only
in small quantities at the surface, so
far as known, the fact of those metals
existing there is sufficient to encour-
age prospecting. The ores also car
ry gold and silver, but not in paying
quantities on top. There is no tell
ing what development will prove
them to be. The Democrat says that
back Of Boise City, on this same belt,
tin was discoved the other day. Who
knows but what this belt, all the way
from this place to Boise, may yet
nrove to be one of tho best in Idaho?
THos. WRIGHT has struck the chute
in his mine, the Chickamon, five miles
east of town. The strike was made
in his lower, or 400 foot tunnel. The
whole face of tho tunnel is in ore,
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