Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-03-17
ELK CITY MINES.
The Greatest Gold Quarts Camp
IN the United States.

BY NJ. L. Murray
Continued from last week.
IDAHO CON. PROPERTIES.
The Idaho Consolidated Mining
Company own the Redstone, Ro-
wena, Myrtle, Pataha Belle and
other claims. The members of this
company are Messrs. Poyneer, Wal
ker and others, of Pataha and Pom
eroy, Washington. This company
have done considerable develop
ment work in the last three years,
and in every instance showed up
great strong veins of quartz, carry
ing a large quantity of sulphurets.
The 215 foot tunnel on the Red
stone will have to be driven some
As or 30 feet further before the
main ledge is cut. This tunnel
was run on a feeder from the main
ledge which is very rich, one assay
running over 81 900 per ton in gold.
The feeder is only about one and
one-half inches wide and highly
charged with sulphurets. The
main ledge is about four feet wide
in the bottom of the shaft, which is
As feet deep. The ore in the shaft
is similar in appearance to that in
the tunnel, being largely composed
of sulphurets that will average SIS
to $50 to the ton, and improving
with every foot of depth, both in
appearance and assay. The com
pany erected little mill ON this
property, which is not all it was
claimed to be, so will have to be
charged to experience. The Rowe
ma is the east extension of the Red
stone and is of the same character
in every particular with one excep-
ton, it shows a little carbonate OF
copper and once in a while a little
cube of galena. The ledge is about
the same width as the Rcdstone.
The Myrtle and Pataha Belle are
located on a parallel vein about
one-half mile south of the Red
stone. The combination tunnel on
these claims shows a well defined
and compact body Of quartz, carry
ing large percentage of sulphur
cts of a superior quality that give
an average assay of SIG per ton
The ledge is seven feet between
walls, and is a true fissure vein
cutting through solid mountain
of porphyritic granite, running
nearly east and west and dipping
south. Development on this claim
consists of a tunnel 175 feet Ions
and several ten or twelve foot cut
or holes along the ledge. This
group is about one and one-hal
miles east of Elk City.
CLAIMS ON MINERAL HILL.
East of the Myrtle and Patah;
Belle and on the same vein, tn,
Tacoma and Seattle Mining compa
ny own two claims, known as tn,
Mineral Hill and Continental. A
the point of discovery on the Min
eral Hill (and about 500 feet lowe
than the tunnel on the Myrtle) ;
tunnel has been run a distance o
300 feet, under the management o
superintendent ID. III. Summers
one of the owners. This tunnel i
run parallel with the ledge and OF
the footwall. The ledge is crosscu
in three places and shows an aver
age width of six feet. The ore il
similar in character to the Myrtle
except that it carries u little NOR
sulphurets. Here the formation
changes and syenite takes the lea,
MS the principal component part G
the country rock. The continenta
is the next to and between tn
Mineral Hill and Myrtle.
East of the Mineral Hill and a
bout 1900 feet higher up the noun
tain, N. B. Petibone and S. b. /,
win have located the April Foo
This claim, like the others on thi
ledge, is a very strong and well d.
fined body of mineralized quart;
highly charged with sulphurets
and assaying about sl6.50 per to
in gold. The ledge is cut in thre
places and shows an average widt
of five and one-half feet, with tai
streak one to two inches wide O
each wall. This tale streak, III
like the main body of the ledg,
carries arsenieal iron pyrites. TIL
quartz in this ledge has soft, m;
ternal and inviting appearance an
of IA flesh or rose color.
West of the Redstone mine an
on the same vein, Harry Poynet
and Peter Talbot own a clail
known as the Log Cabin. Deve
Opment consists of two shafts, Oh
% feet and the other As feet, an
shows about the same class of OF
as the other claims on this ledg
The assay value of this rock rur
from S14.O0 to S26.50 per ton j
gold. The ledge is about five fe,
wide, with the same well define
walls that we find in the Redstor
and Rowena.
THE FAMOUS :. BUSTER MINE.
Still further west on the san
vein is located the famous Bust,
mine, owned by S. w. Smith. TIL
claim, like the Blue Dragon al
some others, was found and locate