The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-01-08
WEALTHY WARRENS
A WoNDROUsLY RICH CAMP!
1t is Across the County
Line but is Directly
Tributary to
WeiSer.


line, and very isolated, everything
being taken in by pack train, causing
all kinds of commodities to be held |
at very high prices However, the
Warrens state wagon road will soon |
be completed to the camp, which will
bring it directly tributary to Weiser,
as this is the nearest place of impor
lance by 60 miles. There are about
100 white men in the camp, and
about 1000 Cinnamon, who are
working on the old placer mines. A
good many more whites will arrive
there next season. The place has
two stores, two hotels, two saloons,
a butcher shop and blacksmith shop.
About sixty quartz locations have
been located
THE MAYFLowER
is owned by King, Johnson, Church
& Gaskell, who have a stamp
MILL on their claim The mill has
been run steadily this season until
the coming of winter closed opera
tions, the ore worked more than pay
ing for all improvements on the mlne.
A shaft 80 feet in depth is tapped by
a 200-foot tunnel which runs for the
whole distance through ore. A tun-
mel is now being run from the mill
and will be 400 feet in length and
tap the ledge 800 feet below the sur
face. Mr.. johnson last season dis
covered another mine across the
gulch about one fourth of mile from
the Mayhower, and from which they
took about nine tons of ore. working
it in their mill and receiving a return
of $40 per ton.
THE LITTLE GIANT
is owned bp Geo. Reebolt and has Sc
far proved to be the best paying min,
in the camp, it having been NOR
thoroughly developed than any ant
the ore being very rich, runnin;
from 500 to SO, 600 ton. A rul
of thirteen tons of ore returned $23,
900. There IS a five-stamp mill o.
the mine and about 200 tons of or
was worked in it this season.
tunnel has been run in 900 feet o
the ledge and is ventilated by thre
air shafts. Three Wines will b
sunk from the tunnel this winter an
another tunnel will tap the bottom 0
each, and everything made ready fo
stoping ore in the spring. The min
will employ about twelve men thi
winter.
THE KNOTT
is owned by Governor Norman B
Wiley. Three tunnels have bee
run on the ledge, the lower one bein
80 feet below the upper one and ha
been run in the vein for 400 feet
The mill on Steamboat creek wa
moved to the mouth of the lower tun
| mel this season, and another 100-foC
tunnel has been contracted for. Th
ore runs from $25 to $50 ton.
THE KEYSTONE
is owned by II. +. Randall. Twent
tons of ore were worked last seaso
in an arrastra, paying $50 ton.
shaft 130 feet in depth is tapped 8
4 feet from its mouth by a tunne
Y The mine has an ore chute opene
e 200 feet long.
t The WASHINGTON
2 worked 100 tons of $40-ore in Wi
: ley's mill before it was moved frol
Steamboat creek. The owner!
Ockart, Warnhelm & Thompson
: have been stoping ore all summe
A 300-foot tunnel has been run
, the bottom of a 2O0-foot shaft.
mill will probably be erected ne'
summer.
THE BULLDOG
owned by Sim Wiley, last summ'
worked 30 tons of ore in Reebolt
d mill, which returned $500 a tol
It The mine has a tunnel 200 feet al
e a shaft 80 feet. No more work w
e be done until spring.
l.. There are many other location
d among them being the Ontari
n Glover Leaf, B. d., Minnehaha al
others. The ore is nearly all fire
;, milling and some of it very ric
Next season will likely see lar.
influx of miners to the camp.
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