Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-22

April IS, 1892.

Ed. WoaLD:-Nearly all the placer
miners having claims near town are
AZ work, though the water has not
/ got to its height. 1t is hoped the in
crease within week will be such
that operations can ba carried on
night and day. Smith & Williams
are working their claim in Golden
Fleece gulch. Ben Wilson opeaed
up fine body Of pay ground last
season at the mouth Of Texas gulch,
and is now making extensive prepa-
ration for big run the coming sum
mer. Jake Keller is working his bar
diggings one milo below town. A..
A. Spain will use water from the
Channel ditch in bis hill claim in Sis
kiyou gulch. p. J. O'Brien is work
ing hill claim in Slaughter House
gulch. Matt and Lum Davis, owners
of the Express mine, near Grimes
Pass, are taking from the lower tun-
mel as rich ore as any ever taken out
Of the mine since its discovery. H.
H. Whitney, Superintendent of the
Mountain Queen mine, has the mill
in fine running order, the twenty
stamps working to perfection and
crushing two tons to the stamp in
twenty-four hours. The mine looks
as promising as ever. Mr.. Whitney
will employ between fifteen and twen-
ty men. Dan Mckay and Bert Wat
son, while prospecting last summer,
struck ledge which will eventually
rank among the leading mines of the
county. 1t is located on the Payette
side of the Muddy divide, ons-ha +
mile west OF Mountain Queen, and
can be traced for distance Of 1000
feet. Float from this ledge shows
free gold and plenty Of it. The Pio-
neer, owned by Oakes & POT Lcia, sit
uated three miles north of town, is .
valuable property without doubt.
They have run 700 fe, o. tunnel and
developed thirty foot ledge, all OF
which will mill to good advantage.
In one of the lower tunnels four
foot silver ledge was struck that as
says 200 ounces per ton. Twelve
tons OF gold-bearing rock, not select
ed, crushed at Morrell's mill on Lew
is gulch, paid something over $3S pei
ton. This is one of the properties
that will come to the front within q
year, for it can truly be called bo
nanza. Bruce and Bottcher, owner:
of the Sunbeam, one-half mile wesr
of the Pioneer, after many months o
hard labor and perseverance, have
their tunnel in 24O feet, and accord
ing to survey should be within TWEEN
ty feet OF the ledge. The tunnel vii
tap the ledge at the depth of one hun
dred feet or more. Cross-cuts hav'
p, been run here and there on the sur
face for 1000 feet and show veil
of ore from two to four feet wide tina
will mill from $50 to $35 per ton. ],
Poncia has a controlling interest il
the Ekhorn mine, having purchases
nearly all liens fled last spring. He
like numbers of others, has grea
. faith in the property and is fully con
vinced that if properly managed ca
. be made to pay monthly dividends
A shaft has been sunk to depth q
forty feet in cross cut $50 feet fror
the entrance of lower tunnel, in whic
ore was found that will mill all tn
way from $40 to 800. This is sur
posed to be a continuation of the pa
). chute from which Hugh Turne
= cleaned up $4,000 few years ag'
In the 600-foot tunnel, upper or ol
l. works, as they are called, a ledge tw
;, to five feet wide was developed thi
:. will pay from IS to $25 to the tol
A Six experienced miners can keep tt
mill busy day and night.
~ Kile Brothers are working the
A mine located on East Fork of Ro
II Fork.
g Thomas Currie has fully recovere
Is from recent attack of erysipelas.
in A man named McCurdy, living
lie the lower end of town, accidental
to fell into the cellar at his residence
u short time ago, and, though new
had any former experience in fallir
into cellars, received quite shakir
up. The cellar was not serious
tx hurt. He says his wonderful agill
" saved him from being converted in
no beautiful corpse. Veterinary su
". geon Harloe happened to be in TOW