Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-03-17
will be independent of any railroad.

will be independent of any railroad.
They would not have to give up
One-half or more of their produce |
to some heartless corporation for
freight. This we know the farmers
of the Palouse country are doing. |
Some people may think this is a
wild assertion, but anyone that
knows anything about mining and
reads, knows the low price of lead
and silver at the present time, can
see that capital will turn to gold as
the safest investment. This being
so, it is no guess work to say that
inside of two years there will be at
least 1000 people in Elk City ba-
sin.
MINING MACnINERx EXPECTED.
Last season there was paid out
by the different companies and IN
dividuals engaged in mining in this
section, over $4,000 in hard cash,
for packing in machinery ,merchan-
disc and vegetables, only five per
cent. of which was paid the white
men, the other ninety-fve per cent
being paid to Cinnamon and In
dams. A stranger might ask was
this money all paid to Cinnamon
and Indians because white men did
not need it? No, there are plenty
of white men that need the money,
and that could do all this hauling
! and earn at least part of this
amount when the haying and har-
vesting was done but there was no
wagon road. Now this SO, 200
amounts to nothing when we take
into consideration the amount of
, machinery that will be brought in
, here when the road is completed.
The California Mining Company,
| the Seattle and Tacoma Mining
Company, the Lille May Mining
Company, the Idaho Consolidated
Mining Company, and the Cleve-
land Mining Company; will all put
: in quartz mills, and the Red River
Placer Mining Company will put in
three more dredges.
NEW ILACEN LOCAIIONS.
Since the foregoing was written
r there have been several hundred
acres of placer ground segregated
from the public domain and appro-
priated by both companies and in
dividuals, some of which. are as fol-
} lows:
= The Parker placer claim, ON Elk
!, creek ut Elk City, consisting of 16C
f acres, the Hillside, consisting OF
e 100 acres. The locators are A. f
Parker, of the IDAHO FREE Press
t Grangeville, Idaho, J. Parker, S
C w. Smith, r. Thomas, JAIME:
e Mitchell and others.
e The Saw-Mill placer claim, loca
n ted on upper American river a
|. Stuart's saw-mill, consisting of l6(
acres. The locators are B. b. Stu
j art, t. S. Racklif, A. c. Mclean
/ G. l.. Rice, II. w. Nickel, p. j. Sui
:, livan, George Blain and NJ. l.
). Murray. Also the Zero place
d claim, on lower American river, b,
|, the s, me parties.
It J. G. Young, 7. +. Donohue,
l. c. Litchfeld and G. V. Harrington
: have located several claims OF
g American river.
u c. l.. Rice and others have loca
It ted several claims on Buffalo gulch
5, And the rush for ground still goe
r on.
w A LAST WORD OF GOOD ADVICE.
1. Now that the wagon road appro
l. priation has been granted, l woul
Of suggest to the county commission
s. ers that when they appoint a roa'
rs commissioner that they instruc
10 him to endeavor by all means t
lie have the board of road commission
ers accept and approve the surve
as made by the county surveyo
u from Clearwater bridge to Elk Cit
70 and let a contract for building
as same Immediately after their frs
,e meeting, as by SO doing the roa,
n could be built and ready for trave
re- by the first of August. This woul
n give those parties contemplating
tv the erection of mills plenty of tim
er to get their machinery hauled il
and put in place before the ba
IF weather sets in to interfere wit
10 their operations. Surely we hav
IN waited for the road long enough, $
" let there be no unnecessary delay
or Give us the road as quickly as pos
~ sible, and give those parties tina
e. invest their money in the camp
40 show to realize something on the
al investment this year. A quick re
pa turn on investments this year wi
be bring the camp into prominenc
I'd and be the means of bringing jus
n so much more capital in next yea
We Push the road as fast as possible.
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