Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-10
BONANZA AND CUSTER.



from private letter to e. W. Jones,
from Cal. G. CIawson, dated Feb.
2Rth:
J write you to let you know that
our old friend g. S. Inness (bet,er
known ~ Jack" Inness) is dead.
de wss stricken with apoplexy while
sitting At dinner with some of bis
neighbors at his homo in Custer, and
died almost immediately and without
. struggle. He was buried in the
BONANZA cemetery. "Jack died on
Tuesday, the 2lst inst, and was
buried Thursday, the Path. His age
was GA years and a few days. He
was an old timer of the Basin, and
lived at Idaho City, or in that vicini-
~. He was a prominent Mason
there, as | have understood. A COM
mittee of his brother Mssons exam
'ned his papers and letters, but failed
to find any from any Of his relatives.
There is not a mill running here,
although there are three in the dis
trict, the Morrison mill, on Jordan
creek, the Fourth of July, on Conti-
mental gu'ch mt. CUSTER and the old
Custer; all of which are indefinitely
laid off for no one knows how long a
time-ir all depends on the restora-
ton Of silver.
The Montana is being worked this
winter with q force of seven men.
The owners are there except Varney.
He has been out of it for years and
the Pfeiffers own his interest. The
mine had not been worked for six or
seven years. 1t is good at the depth
of 500 feet.
Varney IS working on gold quartz
ledge at Loon creek. Pete Albert is
there also.
There are four or FIVE men working
on different mines and prospects on
VT. Custer, and seven on Mt. Estes
which about comprises the number Of
miners at work, except a man here
and there working on his own pros
pect. There is no one on the ole
Dickens this winter.
Llew Clawson has a prospect or
Dickens Hill, on which he does some
work occasionally. He is III Pfeiffer'
store this winter, while Mccarthy i:
at BOISE City.
am intending to try placer min
ing in the spring. located about
eighty acres -four tracts) of bal
ground on the old Ramey Bar, com.
mencing on the high bar opposite tc
and west of the Fox and West bridge
and running up on the west side o.
West Fork to the Frenchman's saw
mill. Joel Richardson, one of the
early old timers here, and one of The
Custer owners at the time it was sold
came back from the States last yea
and repaired the old Ramey & Co
ditch and piped cut up into the ba
a couple of hundred feet and devel
oped a nice channel 500 to $40 fee
wide, and rich. l located gronnc
from his ground along up the bar. |
is about so feet above the fiat, ant
easy to werk-probably best to drift
am intending to run a drift clear
across to prospect the bar on m
ground. l would have been workin.
: on it this winter. but the weathe
would not permit, but will commenc
soon. 1t is over a mile from towr
Richardson only struck his pay in tn
fall. From what he has found tn
bar for mile in length has every in
, dication of being valuable. Th
channel lies back of slate rim fort
to fiftv feet above the fat of the Yan
kee Fork and West Fork.
!. We are all glad your road bill &c
through this session, as | understan
it is substantially the same as intro
, duced by you at the first session.
will open up the most interesting an
most valuable undeveloped section {
Idaho. There are gold mines, an
; all other kind of mines, almost, alon
, the route.
We have done considerable World
Fair work this year. Mrs. Clawso
has sent Mr.. Wells (Commissionerl
number of sketches around the bs:
of the Sawtooth mountains and Il
4 Salmon country beyond Stanley, an
5 wrote articles also. She is paintir
1 Red Fish lakes in oil for exhibit. ST
9 has done some hne work.
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