Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28
RESULTS or THE ROAD.
wHArlT WILL DO roR nLK cry.


The Idaho County Free Press has
been running series Of articles des. |
,riptive Of the gold mines Of Elk
City and vicinity. Thirty or forty
claims, all developed to some extent.
are described graphically and com.
pIetely ana the writer SAYS there are
1--WE hundred other locations. The
lodges are all large and well defined.
carrying good grade of ore. Follow
ing are the closing paragraphs Of the
last article:
WAGON ROAD WANTED.
The great and most pressing need
OF this section is wagon road. We
have large hodies of refractory ores
that will have to be treated by the
most improved methods, and will me-
cessitate the erection of large plants
OF heavy machinery. which it would
he physical impossibility to pack on
the back of animals over any trail.
There are also large tracts Of placer
ground that is too fiat to he worked
by bedrock Aume, hut will pay hand
somely when worked by dredges, hy-
draulic elevators or some other i'm
proved machinery that will obviate
the lack OF grade.
With the construction of the wagon
road, now assured, capital will come
and hiring the large plants of machln-
cry that will he necessary to extract
the gold and silver that is we'll known
to be contained in these ores, and will
give employment at good rate oi
wages to several hundred men and
teams. 1t will make a market fol
all the produce of the farmers u
Camas prairie; the wheat converted
into four), oats, potatoes, onions, tur
nips, carrots, beets, cabbage, beans
heef, pork, mutton, chickens, ducSs
geese and turkeys, eggs, butter ant
lard, and all of the fruits that ar,
raised on Salmon river and the pIai
rie. In fact everything the farmer
have to sell the miners HAVE to buy
BESEFITs TO CAMAs PRAIRIE.
With a wagon road to Elk Cit.
and 1000 men working at fair rate O
wages, say $3.50 per day, the farmer
and fruit raisers of Camas prairie an
Salmon river will be independent G
any railroad. They would not hav
to give up one-half or more OF the'
produce to some heartless corporatio
for freight. This we know the farmer
of the Palouse country are doing
Some people may think this is vii
assertion, but anyone that knows an,
thing about mining and reads, know
the low price of lead and silver at II
present time, can see that capt.
will! turn to gold as the safest lnves
ment. This being SO, it is no que
work to say that inside OF two yea
there will be at least 1000 people
Elk City basin.
MINING MACHINERY EXPECTED.
: Last season there was paid out
t the different companies and individ
|. ais engaged in mining in this sectlo
r over $4,000 in hard cash, for packi'
= in machinery, merchandise and veg
e tables, only FIVE per cent. OF VIII
5. was paid the white men, the otf
is ninetv.6ve per cent. being paid
l. Cinnamon and Indians. A strane
5 might ask: Was this money all p'
to Cinnamon and Indians becat
white men did not need it? \
J. there are plenty of white men II
ID need the money, and that could
< all this hauling and earn at least
g. mart of this amount when the hay'
70 and harvesting was done, but tn
Mt was no wagon road. Now this $e'(
or amounts to nothing when we take
o, to consideration the amount OF
c. chinery that will be brought IN n
IL when the road is completed.
it. California Mining company the
c., attic & Tacoma Mining company,
I'D Lille May Mining company the
no Consolidated Mining compa
and the Cleveland Mining comps
:: will all put in quartz mills ana
!" Red River Placer Mining comp
II, Il, will put in three more dredges'
NEW PLACER LoCATloNs'
Mt. :.
be Since the foregoing was VIII
he there have been several hune
nj. acres of placer ground segreg'
to from the public domain and ap
tai priated by both companies and
to viduals, some of which are as folk
: a The Parker placer claim, on