Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-06-09
SOME PROMISING MINES.
Chances fer Great Activity In Gam.
brinus District.

Chances fer Great Activity In cam.
brinus District.
Aoano City Correspondence Anaconda Standard.
There are hopes that the Gambri-
nus district will come to the front in
good shape this year. Strong hopes
are entertained that at least two sales
will be made before the SHOWS come
again. These are the Washington
and Gambrinus. The mines Of this
district now occupy the same position
among mining men a. the DeLamar
district did before Captain DeLamar
opened his now famous and wonder
ful mine. In the COS the Gambrinus
and Illinois mines were worked to
the depths of sixty or seventy feet,
when water was encountered and
work suspended. Strange as it may
seem, although worked but little be-
low the grass roots, each yielded sew
eral hundred thousand dollars, In
those days everything went with the
excitement, and rock that was not
immensely rich would not pay to
work. Ten or twelve years ago K.
P. Plowman relocated the Gambrinus
mine, which he gave the name of the
Surprise. After doing a sufficient
amount of work be had the claim
patented, since which time, not haviag
tho means for erecting the necessary
hosting works and putting in pump,
he has allowed the mine to remain
idle. The ground on which the mine
is situated is fat, and it will require
company with the means for put
ting in pump before sinking much
deeper. The property consists of
three distinct veins between two
walls. The northern vein is the Gam
brinus, which dips south at an angle
of As degrees; next is the Junietta,
twenty feet south and parallel; and
the third is tale ledge on the hang
ing wall, fifty feet from the Junietta.
This tale seam is two feet thick aud
mixed with quartz. No development
work has ever been done on this vein.
The deepest workings of this mine
are less than seventy feet, where the
veins are strong and prospect we'll.
The Illinois is south of Gambrinus
and about a mile distant. An east
ern company erected mill to work
the ores from this mine early in the
COS, but owing to high prices, swlnd-
ling and incompetency, but little rock
was crushed, although the yield was
| 100000 or 100000. Like the Gam.
brinus, work was suspended when the
water level was reached. 1t is stu
ated IN a fiat country, and pumps
will have to be put in before sinking
any deeper. The present owners
julius Linsteadt, Henry johnson ane
o. A. Duquette, will put in a pump
this year and commence the extrac
ton of ore. The last ore crushed
from this mine was by julius Lin
stead several years ago, and i
yielded $35 per ton in free gold.
A few hundred yards below the II
linois is the Blaine, owned by Bos
ton company, which is allowing it t.
lie idle, for what reason is a mystery
The ledge is ten or twelve feet Wild
and samples $40 per ton in free gold
Like the other mines in the vicinity
it has not been developed to an,
depth, although the indications for
fine mine could not be better.
A few hundred yards south of tn
Blaine is the Chickahominy, owne
by VIM. Libby, of this place, an
Geo. Chapman, Sr., of Boise City
Three years ago they milled seve'
tons of rock from the surface tina
Welded over $500 per ton in fre
gold. Last year another crushln
was made that yielded over 500 pc
ton. During the winter tunnel ha
been run to develop the mine at tn
depth of $50 feet below the surface
This tunnel is now in over 6OO fee
and they expect to reach the OF
chute soon. The Chickahomlny ws
also worked in the early days OF tn
camp. and 25-stamp mill was erecte
, tn crush the ore. The mill never ra
but half an hour, and it was reporte
and generally believed that the TIC
rock worked never came out of tt
: mine. MIR. Libby, while roamin
over the hills one day four or h'
wears ago, saw rock near the old sha
on the ledge that showed freely
: gold. Comparing the rock with th'
, exposed in the ledge, he became sa
;sGed that it really came from the