Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-28
SALMON RIVER COUNTRY,
several Important lrininr Distr,.,.
Described By One Who Knsws.
Kstchum Keystone.

xetchum Keystone.
Col. N. J. Sharp, prominent min.
ing man Of Custer county, who passed
through Ketchum sbou. two week.
ego en- route to Blackfoot, extended
his visit to Salt Lake in the interest
cf his mining affairs. He was inter.
viewed by Tribune reporter, and a,
ketchum is directly interested in the
subject matter we publish as follows:
N. }. Sharp. Of Challis, Idaho, is
spending few days in the city. He
came here for the purpose Of con-
tracting copper ores, and has been
waiting to see Mr.. Green, of the COP.
per plant. Bald Mountsin is one of
prominent landmarks of the Sawtooth
range. Its northern slope drains into
the head of Little Wood river; on the
east side is the source Of the East
Fork of Big Wood river, and on the
south the East Fork of Big Lost riv-
er begins its flow. 1t is in the basin
OF the latter stream that the Big Ba-
sin copper mines are located. The
group consists of four claims on a
contact vein having north and south
trend with dip to the west of about
65 degrees. The vein rests on lime
and is covered with porphyry, and it
ranges from twenty to sixty feet in
width. SO far no extensive OPEN
ings have been made, and yet in
miners parlance there is all of Is, 900
tons of ore in sight. In sinking one
shaft forty-6ve feet it passed through
the vein with good ore all the way.
This ore, Mr.. Sharp says, will run 20
per cent. copper, 20 ounces silver and
% in gold. To get this ore to mar
ket means a haul of thirty miles to
the railway at Ketchum. This haul
will be over good roads with down
grade most Of The way. The proper
ty belongs to N. J. Sharp, Abe
Pierce, A. Reed and Robert David
son, all of Challis, who have been
the property the past three
years. Mr.. Sharp wants to contract
1000 tons of ore per month, and says
that he can easily send out that
amount and keep it up indefinitely.
The district is known as Alder creek.
Regarding the mining situation in
Custer county Mr.. Sharp reports mat
ters Frightening up much about Bo-
nanza and Custer. The Montana
Company has six feet of ore running
from $500 to $40o per ton IN value in
silver and gold.
The Daniel O'Connell mine, the
property of John Carroll, is showing
up much better than ever before. In
fact all the mines of the Yankee
Fork country are looking we'll. Stan
lev Basin has placer mines which
have produced something over $780,
900 in gold. Most of this was pro-
duced by tunneling and taking out
gravel to be washed during the few
weeks in spring when the snow was
melting and running away. Mr.
Sharp has secured a bond on these
valuable placers, and is negotiating
with a company to make a ditch and
flume twelve miles long to carry Ba'
sin creek on to some three or foul
hundred acres of rich placer ground
If successful Stanley Basin will be-
come large producer of gold.
The Clayton smelter will make 6
hundred days run this summer to re-
duce the ores stored at the smelte'
and mines. They have at the smell
ter over one thousand tons of ore ane
enough coke and charcoal to make
ninety days run. This smelter re
duces between forty and fifty tons O
ore per day, and the run this summe
ought to work about 5000 tons. A
J. Crook, the manager, is now IN th'
city, and will 60 to Clayton as sool
as the roads are good enough to be
gin operations. The Bayhorse smell
ter will also run three months or NOR
to work up the ore stored at the work
and at the mines on Ramshorn hill
O. J. Salisbury, the manager OF tn
Ramsborn or Bayhorse mines AM
works, will spend part of the summe
there.
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