Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-02-24

Dr., M liiOiiu, lNtS, anu Jdch III
yer and G. ID. Calvin managers and
superintendents of the enterprise.
The company are well pleased with
the trial test, and intend to build !
three more dredges this season, of
larger size. The dredge that is
built handles three cubic yards per
minute, and has saved twenty cents
per yard.
CROOKED RIVER PLACERs.
About four miles from Elk City
in southeasterly direction, Crook
ed river empties into the Clearwa-
ter. Crooked river, like all the
streams in this section, has been
worked in patches and on the shall
low bars, but the main or deep
channel never has been worked.
This surface scratching or coyoting
has been done on both sides of the
river for a distance of twenty miles
from the mouth, and being done in
the early sixties, it is needless to
state that it paid well. For over
twenty years this ground laid dor
mant, until a few years ago, when
the craze for large tracts of placer
ground struck this camp, then ev-
cry acre of the river bottom was
located by men financially unable
to open the ground themselves, but
willing to sell for moderate price.
p. II. McEntec, mining man of
; considerable experience, (having
run the Moose creek diggings very
successfully for three years. bought
, six claims on the mouth of Crook
ed river, after carefully prospect
ing and fully demonstrating to his
own satisfaction that it was safe
investment. He already owned a
ditch twenty-seven miles long that
covered the ground. Mr.. McEntee
: went to Portland this winter to
, buy supplies to work the ground,
, viz: giant and several hundred
f feet of iron pipe, also pelton
wheel and circular saw to saw lum-
o Der for fumes and other purposes.
!, He contemplates putting in a two
compartment hume, one six feet
and one four feet, by three feet
deep. This will be necessary, as
the river carries an immense body
of water in the spring when the
t snow is melting on the surround
A ing mountains, and will easily fill
n both fumes. The smaller COM
$ partment will hold all the water
|. along towards the last of the seas
c on.
THE BIG 4 PLACERs.
= Next above the McEntee GROUND
:. is canyon about three miles long
:, and very steep. The canyon is 10
o . Gated for dump ground by the own
% . crs of the claims further up tn
= river. c. l.. Rice, j. M. Crunk
= James Reardon and NJ. L. Murra,
r own one claim each. These, wit
one other claim still further up tn
. river, are under bond to jaime
- Reardon, of Butte City, Montan;
u u for the sum of $4,000. Further II
~ =. the river yet S. b. Irwin, j. {
y :, Litchfcld, j. M. Anderson, N. /
" Pettibonc and others have locate
" claims. All this ground prospect
good, it being almost impossible t
find a pan of dirt from the gras
y roots to the bedrock that will n(
r show some gold, running from
n few colors to as high as fiftce
Or cents to the pan.
Il RELIEF CREEK PLACERs.
- At the upper end of the big 4
y (this is the name of the claims III
~ der bond to Mr.. Reardon) Reli
d creek empties into Crooked rive
eS from the southeast. On this cree
" Matt Lauer Joe Schooner and Fran
81 Busch have located three claims {
~ ~ the deep ground that is left in IL
nc gulch. From the upper end
y these claims Relief creek has bee
nc worked out slick and clean in Il
" good old days when half an oun
" or s. was regular days wages.
WV DEADwooD GULcu.
pe About three miles east of the
lis claims and across Il steep h
,et known as Deadwood mountain,
IN Deadwood gulch. On this gull
n James Witt, in partnership wi
or Lee Mann, II Chinaman, owns son
is very good placer ground. TIL,
"a are putting in bedrock fun
OK under the superintendent of l.
ed Mann. Their ground consists
Ter four or five claims, and is Il mil
ire long by about $50 feet wide. The
N is no doubt that Witt and MAJ
he will make big clean up this Sc
40 son.
les TWENTY MILE CREEK.
as About twenty-five miles fro
he Elk City in an easterly directio
IN Twenty Mile creek empties its co
Oh tents into the Clearwater rive
&C. On this creek the Enterprise Mi
or ing Company, under the manag
ok ment of Mr.. Dan Greer, of S;
ial Francisco, have acquired by loo
ed ton and purchase 800 acres of pl
up Ger mining ground. This groul
his was located in May 1899, and
a force of from ten to twenty-fi
he men kent constantly at work av