Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-08-14
DIXIE MINING DISTRICT.
Several OF Oar Citizens Visit the
New Gold DigginEr.

New Gold Diggtngr.
To rvs Brllsrs;
The Dixie mining district, located
about % miles from Mountain Home,
near what is known as the Rocky Bar
stage road, is no canard. The gold is
there, sure.
Having heard that there were some
p-ospectors at work in that sectSon,
and that they had struck 1t rich, sew
eral Of Mountain Homes residents
thought they would take trip to the
diggings and see tor themselves. sun
day morning, bright and early, a party
consisting OF Messrs. Shields, Frank
Hall, Purdy, Woodward and Rhoades,
left Mountain Home on a tour Of in.
spection.
Having left the ladies---Mrs. Purdy
and Mrs. Heifrich--at Captain Geo.
w. Hills upper ranch, we proceeded
on TO Dixie diggings, where we ar
rived about noon. At the miners
camp we found quite number OF men,
and they had made themselves com
Portable with tents and cabins. and had
erected forges for sharpening their
tools, and everything had look as il
they had come To stay. While one
party was preparing dinner for us
some oil the others entertained us with
an account OF their prospects and
showing us how ii would pan ont. We
saw the rock, which is mostly quartz
with stratas Of decomposed and honey
comb quartz running through 1t,
pounded fine in mortar and washed
in gold pan. The result would as.
tOnish any one. Enough gold was
obtained in this way from piece oI
quartz about two inches square, u
convince any skeptic that there was
rich mineral 10 be found ut Dixie dig
gings. In fact, from several tests
made IN this way from different strata
of rock, the results varied from five u
twenty-five cents to the pan, and the
demonstration proved that the ore wa,
! free milling.
After partaking of good dinner
| furnished BY one OF the miners, We
visited several OF the claims and fonnd
that they were indeed something mort
than mere prospects. Some OF the
tunnels were in 80 feet on the lead and
showed good pay streaks from one u
three feet in width. The reported as
says OF ore in last weeks BULLETIN
were correct, as we ascertained from
the miners. The pay streaks were
mostly composed of decomposed and
honey-comb quartz, varying in width
from six inches 10 three feet, with vel
defined walls. The rock is easily
worked and several of the claims have
both shaft and tunnel.
There are about fifty miners in the
district at present, and all of them
SEEM to be sanguine of success. The
camp is easily reached from Mountain
Home by the Rocky Bar stage road, AZ
il is only a short distance from the
road Ia the main camp and can bt
easily seen from the same. The coun
try is rolling, but easily travelled with 4
team or ON horseback. Stages leave
Mountain Home daily, and very low
freight rates have been secured by
stage TO Dixie station
! Mr.. Shields, OF the firm of George s
Rice & Cos. large grocery and outfit
ting establishment at Mountain Home
being one of the party, was so i'm
pressed with the outlook that he will
probably start branch house at Dixi,
diggings Immediately. This will ena
bile the miners to obtain their supple:
very reasonably, as deserved.
John X. Wilson has been appointed
Deputy Mining Recorder for the Dixie
Mineral District, which will be great
benefit to the miners of that district
and save them much trouble in having
their claims recorded.
The miners there now have kept
the matter very quiet and have been
steadily at work. Upon inquiry We
learned that they did not care TO boom
the place, but were willing TO give us
all the information desired, and also
offered TO assist any miners who
wished TO locate on the ledge.
have been United States mineral
surveyor in Colorado since March oil
1880, have visited many OF the mining
districts of the Gunnison, Aspen, Lead.
vile and other well known and rich
mining districts of Colorado, and have
been connected with the u. s. Sur.
veyor Generals Office ut Boise City,
Idaho, AS chief OF the mineral depart
ment from March, 1887, until the
change OF officers, nearly four years,
and have had n chance To see much in
mineral districts. and / think the
Dixie mining district has as good in.
dications as any ever saw.