Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-03-01
BORING MACHINE.
a schsne to Find Out what = ne,.v
the False Bedrock.

Inc business men OF this blace ara
talking Of getting 4 boring machine
with which to bore through the false
bedrock Of More creek for placer..
This false bedrock is : sedimentarv
formation and has never been sunk
through. Australia has 1 formation
Just like this and the richest placer
ground found there was the gravel
between the false and solid bedrock.
This development was made after tho
original placers were worked out. II
it should be discovered that there ia
bed of gravel below the false bed.
rock Of the Basin that is richer than
the ground was down to this bedrock,
this will be : bigger camp than it
was in the sixties. The people Of the
Basin sunk shaft on Elk creek in
early days, but having no pump, hav-
ing to hoist both dirt and water with
buckets, had to give up the work at a
depth of 100 feet. There is one fact
that those who are now thinking Of
embarking in this enterprise would
do well to consider before putting
their money into the work. All the
ground Of More and Elk creeks was
located and is held BY the bedrock
fiume company. Ii it is discovered
that pay ground exists below this
false bedrock it will be claimed and
will undoubtedly be held by the fiume
company, but if decided that the
fiume company canRot hold it under
their locations it will cost the promo
ters of this other scheme a pile of
money before final decision to that
effect will be reached in the courts.
Now we desire to call attention to a
little matter the WORLD urged time
and time again for consideration by
kickers against this company when it
was trying to get grant from Con-
gress. The bill asking for the grant
limited the company in many ways,
forced them to do certain amount
of work each year, gave miners on
each side of the flume privilege ol
dumping into it, prohibited the COM
pany from employing Chinese, and
limited their operations to the false
bedrock, giving any one the privilege
of prospecting on the bedrock fume
company's ground and sinking below
this false bedrock and holding, own
ing and working all ground thus dis
covered. The company preferred
this grant to ownership of the grount
by location, for the reason that capi
tai feels more secure in working un
der a grant from Congress. Under
grant there are no doubts as to tn
rights and limitations of the company
Those who formed the company ha'
not the money to carry on operation
without the aid of outside capita
and while well knowing that by lo
eating the ground the compan
would have more rights and priv
leges than they would have by Sc
curing grant, it would be difiicul
or impossible to convince capitalist
of that fact. The kickers succeede
} in defeating the grant with its linn
tations. Now two or three of thes
chief kickers have always heen a
most as sure that rich gravel exist
between the false and true bedrock
as that one and one make two, an
the WORLD is, and has always been, a
enthusiast in that matter, and OF
predictions that the richest placers {
the Basin have never yet been d'
/. covered and will have to be sunk TO
: we expect to see some day verihe'
: The WORLD was instrumental in ha'
t ing a clause inserted in the bill tn
. was defeated in Congress, limltir
. the hume company to the grour
above the false bedrock, and givir
others the privilege of going on the
ground and sinking for pay dirt, al
locating for deep working. Wetr''
hard to impress upon the kiekers tn
;. the grant asked for, with its limit
,ions, would be far better for {
country than if this company shou
y locate, and without restriction
. They couldn't see it that way. Aft
failing to secure the grant the COZ
pany located in twenty-acre lots, a
e thew are secure in all the rights gu'
I. anteed to locators of mineral lar
\: After they had located one OF
J. kickers whose enthusiasm is unbour
r, ed on the question of deep place
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