The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-07-08
MINING NUGGETS.
LAID OFF.

| men laid OF were principally those who
have beer mining the high-grade silver
ore and the mining of this ore, which is
shipped and sold to the smelling COM
panies in Denver, has been suspended
because, under the present status of sill
yer, the snelters refuse to purchase, and
| if it were mined here now the ore would
have to be stored to await a market,
!, and the manager deems it inadvisable
to mine and hold the ore. 1t will be re-
sumed again as soon as a market is
| opened which will give fair price for
the ore. This reduces the output of the
mines about $4,000 per month.
WORK THE PLACERs.
In view of thousands of miners being
thrown out of employment by the de-
preston in the price of silver, the sug-
gestion is timely one that many of
them could form little companies and go
to work at placer mining There are
hundreds of bars on Snake river and on
each fork of the Boise where fair wages
might be made all summer with suice
boxes or rockers. Properly equipped
parties of four or FIVE men could be
formed for prospecting and saving gold
from the gravel bars and there is room
for thousands of en- to follow this pur-
suit. In this issue we copy remarks
made about newly invented machine
which is declared success in saving the
fine Snake river gold, and il is claimed
that five dollars per day, per man, can
be made by its use. If this is true, the
field for its employment is several huDd
red miles in extent and every idle min
er in the country could find an inde-
pendent and profitable occupation. If
some favorable turn is not made to in
crease the price of silver the prospect is
very far from bright for the miners,and |
this suggests itself as the best method of
relief from the depression, and also one
which would add very largely to the
gold production OF the country. 1t is
believed that Snake river bars alone
contain more fine gold than has been
mined by all the world within the past
ten centuries. Every friend of silver
wishes that gold could be produced so
rapidly that the gold bugs would wish
that metal degraded instead of silver, ss
the bankers of Holland suggested doing
when California was pouring it's food of
the yellow metal on the world during
the ffties. II all the miners recently
made idle by the wrong done to silver,
were to turn their attention to placer
gold mining they could assist materially
in helping the cause of silver, and would
virtually assist in hosting the gold bugs
with their own petard.
NEW MILL.
Mr.. John Scales is now building a mill
at Wagontown to work the tailings he
has been saying from the DeLamar mill.
The mill will be simple affair, consist
ing of, for the present, two pans and
settler, to be run by steam power. Mr..
Scales begun three years ago to save
these tailings, at first catching them by J
turning all the water from the creek
through flume running to the reser-
voir, but shortly afterwards getting per-
mission to connect his hume with the !
waste fume from the mill. He pur- $
chased several acres of land at Wagon ]
own, built nice residence there and !
reservoir, by excavating
The ground and building dyke on the I
'ide next to the creek, and has since q
added another and larger one. Having
taught nearly all the tailiugs from the
mill for the last three years, he must
nave now considerably more than so, 600 !.
ons. BY their exposure to the eIe- !;
nents, the mineral in them becomes
'xidized and can nearly all be saved by
Assays of samples show :,
hat there can be very handsome mar I
lin between the value of the bullion
and the cost of production,
nd Mr.. Scales enterprise promises to
'e paying one. The mill at present :
icing constructed will be enlarged and :,
being now more of an exper- :,
mental plant, or trial trip, as it were. O
BLACK JACK.
The boarding house at the Black Jack
line now dishes up all the Injuries at
s command to one single boarder, the
atchman. Ten days ago spoons and
ishes ratified for fifty hungry men. At %
lie Black Jack mill 500 tons of rich ore II
re piled, and the mine is prepared to OIL
eep that much ahead every day for a is
ear, with the mill running steadily ; %
ut the stamps are hung ~. AS the
srcentage of value in the gold pro- al
iced is greater than that of the silver, 9
ere is an apparent anomoly. Why isl