Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-02-24

Mr.. Greer has taken a bond on this
claim, which embraces about 400
acres of placer ground, with two
good water rights. The purchase
price is $40, 900, which is thought
to be very low price.
BUFFALO HILL.
The Buffalo Hill placer mines,
Immediately west of Elk City, are
owned by G. i. Rice, A. G. Mclean,
George Odle and b. b. Stuart.
These claims, like American Hill,
have been worked steady since 81.
There is over thirty-livc miles of
ditch on this ground and about
threc-fourths of IA mile of bedrock
humc. From the amount of gray
ell in sight here, the present owners
will have to leave some for the
next generation. A nine hundred
!. foot bedrock tunuel is being run
on this claim to tap the low ground
that is known to contain gold in
paying quantity, and will probably
be completed the present season.
At the head of Glasses gulch be
tween American and Red river, the
Ternan Bros. own some very good
placer ground which, like the 9th
er deep deposits Of auriferous gray
ell, has been worked every season
since 81 or 81
Innumerable smaller claims dot
the country for miles around where
the water season is short and only
lasts while the snow is melting on
the surrounding hills. Yet the
owners make from $500 to 81 900
r according to the water supply
, which is from two to four months
and varies with the fall of snow.
MOOSE CREEK.
Fifteen miles from Elk City in {
, westerly direction III. +. Heppnel
and Ii. Adams own what is known
!, as the Moose creek diggings. Or
: this property seventeen miles o
ditch cover about 100 acres of pla
Ger ground. This property, lik'
:, the others, has been worked stead,
since the early sixties, and promis
), es to pay well for working for sew
, cral years more.
n NEwsOME CREEK.
If Newsome creek is situated abou
:, eighteen miles from Elk City in ;
g westerly direction, and has beer
d worked a distance Of three mile
0 from the upper end of the canyon
If That is, the shallow ground on tn
sides has been worked, but tn
a deep channel never has been ever
IS prospected. The. shallow groun,
G paid big wages from 1861 to 1S6
5; by the pick and shovel process
II The main channel Of the creek wa
y too deep for the old-timers, and tn
Ie creek was considered too fiat to b
l. worked by a bedrock nume. Las
1t summer party consisting of p. II
1t McEntee, j. NJ. Anderson, j. NJ
r Nolon, Fred Weily, VIM. Bowma
IT and NJ. l.. Murray made a Garrett
rs survey Of the creek bottom an
rs found that it had fall of over fou
feet to the hundred, and locate
r six claims. They will put in
RS bedrock tlumc this spring.
a RED RIVER pLACERs.
II The Red River Mining Compan
- has acquired by location and pu
~ chase, about 800 acres of place
o. mining ground on Red river. Aftt
- thoroughly prospecting this in
~ mense body of gravel, which W.
70 done with great care and complet
;" ness by Mr.. c. ID. Calvin, WI
;, spent almost two years with
- small force of men sinking hol
~ ~ and washing the gravel until tho
~ oughly convinced that all or mo
~, :, of the river bed would pay to wor
II Mr.. Calvin estimates the who
=, river bottom at twenty to twent
~ seven cents per cubic yard. TT
~ ground being too fiat to work !
% bedrock tlume, the company pr
" ceeded to extract the gold by 9th
&c means. SO with this end in vie
y they erected steam shovel bred
a9 at total cost of $40 1000. I'll
al dredge is set on a scow fifty fe
az as wide by eighty feet long, and T.,
:, by 6o-horse power boiler and c
" CINE. 1t floats in about eight
az nine feet of water and the dirt
~ raised about ten feet above the W
II ter and dumped into large b
set at the head of, and connect
with string of sluices on eth
vn side. These fumes or sluices a
20. supplied with water by two ce
i'll trifugal pumps, which washes t
on dirt and drives it down the fun
ty where the gold is caught in riff
II set in the hume just the same
,e- any hydraulic placer mine. #
w. only drawback to this kind of mi
1T ing would be hard bedrock, viii
CHI is very seldom found in this S,
to ton. Soft micaceous granite
ell. gniess being the principal bed-ro
a. in nearly all the streams. a tr
nd test of the dredge demonstrat
in the fact that it can easily dig
ers from six inches to one foot of Il
IN bedrock, consequently saving
Die large percentage of Off not alb t