The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-08-20

But good Mines Now Lying
Idle.
THE RESURRECTION OF RUTHBURG


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The editor of the Citizen has lately
visited the mines at Kuthhurg and
says OF them as follows.
"TLe following day we visited Tie =
Belmont mine, owned by the hs. + {
Mining Co., and which has cne tilo.s-
and feet OF tunnel, but no defined |
ledge of milling ore Still in the low
er tunnel there are small pockets OF
smelling ore that is very rich Tie
mine has not been worked for several |
years.
Next we visited the buckeye m.ne,
owned by Henry Allison, which has
about 250 feet of tunnel. There is
about one hundred ton of 40 per cent,
silver ore on the dump. A new
tunnel is being run which will tap the
ledge lower down. This is undoubt-
edly the most valuable claim in the
camp.
The Hercules is about two hun
dred yards below the Buckeye, and
also has considerable development
with Il remarkably good showing.
1t is owned by VIM. Allison Alex
Houlahan, and Stewart Simpson.
The ore is free milling and the owners
expect to put in machinery and work
it during the coming winter.
The Wideawalze is over nearer town
and is being worked by Billie Eckles
he and Alex Houlahan having recent
ly relocated it. Assays from this
mine run all the way from 80 to Sl20
per ton in silver. 1t was sold about
ten years ago to Senator Hearst, OF
California, for $1,000, but as be never
returned or had any assessment
work on it Jake Waterhouse jumped
, it and worked the assessments yeai
OF two and left the county, since
when there has been nothing done OF
it until Eckles and Houlahan re
7 located it.
+ Near this mine is the Eldorado
) owned by james Ruth, upon whicl
A there is well defined ledge of pay
y ing ore.
t Above the Buckeye mine is tn
/. Cincinnati, owned by W. D. Shaw
e John Atwell and Conrad Grad 1t i
e generally thought that development
e on this mine will bring to light som
{ very rich ore.
/ These are the only mines our part
5 visited but there are many others no
t so we'll developed that carry a lowe
e grade of ore which with more devel
c opment will, no doubt, prove to b
# valuable property.
/ Under the guidance of Peter Aller
$ we visited the stamp mill erected
II number of years ago by the Heat
G Mining Co. This is a valuable piec
II of property and has been idle for
e long time. In fact it has never bee
| run more than four months altogethe
le since it was put in the camp. Sin
Ie ply because it is not the right kind
N work the ore advantageously. Itwi
lc probably be moved to some otht
l. point in the county at an early dat'
Dt There are twenty houses in Rutl
70 burg and only three of them are o.
lr cupied. At one time they were a
n occupied and the streets were :
Id crowded with tents that it was almo
er impossible to get through them wi
De Il team and wagon.
70 Martin McCandless is the only OIL
I'd of the early prospectors who is st
ly in the camp, and the silver locks tn
no cluster on his wrinkled brow tell on
he too plainly the story of hardshi
-al endured and of fond hopes shatter
We and broken He is confident that
lot smelter will be put in the camp at
in early day and the former life and a
ad tivlty of the place be restored
he In the above where he says, ''l'
ere tons of 40 per cent silver ore
ere editor of the Citizen doubtle
all intended to say, $40 ounce ore,
lin 40 per cent of one ton of ore wor
lie be SOC pound of silver per ton, whi
would he worth about. 50, 600
that rate the 100 tons would be wol
$500, 600, and such a fortune as Il
G.. would not lay idle six weeks