Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-12
BOISE CoUsTY MlxIxS 90.

Tor carrying on development work Of
the Boise County Miaing company
recently became somewhat impatient
over the apparent slow movement. Of
the Board Of Directors and expressed
an unwlIlingness TO put in the money
subscribed and predicted that the
work Of sinking shaft would never
Dc accomplished, and these forebo-
dlngs even led to belief that agold
dld not exist, anyway, below the false
bedrock" and that too, after being
at first enthusiastic over the great
possibilities Of the enterprise when it
was being organized. The fire Of
enthusiasm died out and their faith
with It, but the possibilities Of big
results remain unchanged. Ii the
gold Is there not one color of it has
vanished. These doubling ones are
now again filed with renewed faith.
New subscribers have called for stock,
some OF the first have agreed to
double theirs, and this gives the en-
terprise new life. The 1900 at FIRST
subscribed will be raised, and easily,
too, to $4,000, and the work will soon
De under way. The Directors have
moved none too slow. Like Davy
Crockett, they wanted to sbe sure
they were right, then go ahead %
The FIRST thing to do was to secure
title to the ground from the Bedrock
Flume company. That they have
done, with the exception Of the sigma
ture of Carr, of Ohio, and that they
will get. The next consideration
was the securing of pump, and 9th
or machinery, or the letting of a con-
tract, the contractor to furnish all
machinery. They have agreed upon
terms of a contract, which Is the bet
ter plan. A. B. Morrell agrees to
sink shaft 200 feet, and furnish ev.
erything. for $4,000, the shaft to be
double compartment. The Directors
could not possibly have done bettel
than that. 1t has been agreed thai
if granite bedrock is struck before
the depth of 200 feet is reached, Mr.
Morrell is to receive the $2,800. l
such should possibly be the good for
, tune of Mr.. Morrell the company cal
well rejoice with him. Both will b.
gamers. There are many peopl
who do not know the possibilities o
this enterprise. A rule that has ha'
no exceptions is a pretty good one t
Z. pin your faith to. Only two section
have the same formation as Boise Ba
sin-a false bedrock-of the sam
character as this. One is the Aus
tralian placer fields and the other
! placer camp in British Columbi'
! The best pay in both of these was be
tween the false and granite bedrock:
The people of Australia, with the Ell
q ception of one man, had no fait
whatever in striking pay gravel vi
. derneath the false bedrock. Tn
g man showed his faith by his work an
= with limited means started a shat
T. When his money gave out he worke
, for wages, got little stake and wei
to work again in his shaft. he keI
:, this up until rewarded with the ricl
est gravel ever discovered. Hon. .
" Travis, of this place, was in Austral
when this discovery was made, is
". miIiar with the formation, and says
" is identical with what is here termt
~ false bedrock. 10 British Columb
the richest gravel was between Il
false and the granite bedrocks. II
% men who showed their faith there,
A' we'll as the Australian, had not Il
y good grounds for faith that we ha'
" Their faith was then an undemo
strated theory, but what they demo
- strated we have as firm foundatl
10 for belief that pay will be stru
here and that it will be much rich
ID than the gravel that formed on
~ false bedrock, and which has yield
nt over s1UO,O00,0o0. There is no
Ie terprise that can be conceived OF Ii
I'd is fraught with such golden posslb
90 ties as this. lfit is proven that Bo
be Basin is an exception to the rule,
will cost each subscriber but little
- find it out. 1t is almost certain
an that if gold exists between the ia
90 and granite bedrocks the ground
he far richer than the gravel that
been worked, and that, everyb'
t." here knows, was fabulously rich.
IDS the people here should fail to ca
ok, on the enterprise, outside capital
ou will take hold of it, and all we wo
nd get out of it would be in an 'nd''