Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-10-24
PINE GROVE POINTS.
Interesting letter from ''Sooner"--
The Gold Hiii and Other Good
Mining Propertics.

Interesting letter from .Soouer''---
The Gold Hiii and Other Good
Mining Properties.
After lying dormant for nearly
two years our camp is beginning 10
again show some signs Of life.
The Gold Hill company have a
large force Of men at work in their
mine and are daily extracting large
quantities Of high-gradc ore. Mr..
Muller, who has charge ofthe works,
is a man of ambition as well as
good Judgment, and is the only SUI
perintendent this company has ever
had who went to work as though he
meant business, and the company is
to be congratulated on their selec-
ton Of a man who will at no distant
day place their mine on a paying
basis. He is having the ore crushed
ut the Franklin mill, which is kept
running TO its full capacity, and is
also working over the old tailings
that were run through their own
mill several years ago. These tail
ings are about one-tenth snlphurets
besides numerous particles of ANAL
gum which escaped from the bat
terry and was lost. This don't speak
very we'll for the mil. amalgamators,
and it is such mismanagement as
this that has led outsiders to believe
our ore is all low-grade. With such
work, il is no wonder that moneyed
men are so backward about taking
hold Of our mines. But when their
true merits become fully known
this will then be one of the fore
most mining camps in Idaho. Sit
uated as we are on the line of the
contemplated Boise and Butte rail
road, on The South Boise river,
which stream could more than fur
nish motive power tor all the ma
chinery ever needed, we are sure to
attract the eyes Of capitalists before
very long. There are but few, if
any, camps in Idaho that affords
more inducements for the invest
mcnt of capital than Pine Grove.
The Mountain view mine, two
miles from town, has about 900
tons of ore on the dump and many
thousand tons more in sight, which
averages $50 per ton, but it is too
base to he worked by the free pro-
cess-the only machinery we have.
The sulphurets from this mine as
say 1920 per ton.
The Hawkeye mine is another IL
lustration. In this mine WINE
has been sunk 30 feet deep, and in
the bottom there is seven feet Of
solid ore, but like the Mountain
View. is too base for our mills TO
work successfully. The sulphurets
of this mine assay $21l per to,., and
five ton Of this rock will make one
ton of concentrates-and yet these
mines and many others are lying
idle. The owners, who are poor
men, doing only their annual as
sessment work. hoping that at some
time capitalists will take hold of
these properties.
Everybody is busy preparing for
winter. Judge Rowland, our popu-
lar landlord. has added a large
woodshed to his hotel and is other
wise fixing up his house in fine
style. His table is always supplied
with the best, and no man need pass
through Pine Grove hungry.
George Crandal has built $50 feet
of sheds in addition to his large
barn, and is prepared to shelter at
least 100 head of stock. Those hav-
ing stock to winter would do well to
give him call. He has plenty of
hay, and those patronizing him may
rest assured that their stock will
come out fat in the spring. George
has also built house and furnished
it with a cook-stove, table, bed
steads, chairs, etc, where teamsters
who stop over night with him may
find comfortable quarters.
] shall try and let YOU hear from
me oftencr-that is If do not get
50 fat that | can not weld a Faber.
SOONER.