The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-02-04
The Future of 0wyhee County.

i It is now certainty that the popuIA-
4 tion of Owyhes county will be very
largely increased during tho present
year. Hero are number of rsasoEs
why more people are coming here
First-Opal mines are an established
fact. Gems of value are being mined
from them every day. Prospectors only
awakened to realization of their ex-
istence and Importance when it was too
late to get to work last fall. Now that
lit is demonstrated that opals can be
found over considerable area it cam
not be doubted that large numbers of
people will be engaged in prospecting
for those gems and many miners will be
working ia that newly formed district
II opaIs are not in the near future one
| of ths great productive resources of this
county the present signs will have to be
more misleading than the more conssrv-
alive people here now read them.
| Seeoad-Is another district, twenty
or more miles from the opal fields, where
| it is claimed diamonds have been found.
Many people here do not put any faith
in the reports circulated about these
-aandn, but there are deals being made by
msu who are above being suspected of
attempting to impose upon the public,
which would Indicate that these men
are in possession Of information which
they are prudently Withholding from the
public and which is of sufficient i'm
portancs to cause the organization of
company chiefly composed of Montana
capitalists, to develop and prospect this
district in search of diamonds and sap
phires. Asthese gentlemen are not ask
ing the public to take stock in their un-
dertaking, but are putting up their own
money, they cannot be suspected of en-
gineering fake, even if their charac-
ters as business men did not place them
above such suspicion. Whether they
are successful or otherwise when they
begin work, hundreds of others will
come into this district to prospect.
Third-The great Snake river dam
and canal enterprise looks as if it were
to be go. The surveys have been made
and the report placed in the hands of
the capitalists who are putting up the
money. This enterprise involves an ex-
penditure estimated at ST, 500, ,000. 1t /
means the reclamation of vast area of |
arid land and the possibility of employ
inc more men than there are at present
in the county, upon Snake river placer
mines.
Fourth-The Bruueau dam and canal,
now approaching completion, will open
up for settlement twenty thousand acres
OF as fine agricultural and fruit lands as
there are in the whole inter- mountain
region. This big and important enter
prise will also make placer mining prac-
ticable aud profitable on several miles
of the richest bars and gravel banks or
Snake river. This enterprise alone will I
add large percentage to our popula-
ton.
Fifth--If the Nampa & Silver City
railroad is to be built, and present indi-
cations look as if the enterprise will be
a success, that will attract many people
to this county. II will lessen the cost
of mining, open new districts and al
most reyolutionize this our chief indus
try.
Sixth--Our mining industry has not
looked or been as prosperous since 1875
as it looks and is just now. The ship
ments of ore and bullion from the coun-
ty are steadily increasing, and as soon
as spring opens there will be more min
ers employed in our gold and silver
mines than at any time in the past
eighteen years. The low price of silver,
while it of course diminishes the profits
of our mining here, is less lelt here than
in most localities, because the product
of our largest mines is from fifty to
ninety per cent gold.
This, under seve=al heads, gives reas-
ons for confident feeling that Owyh yhee
county is to be blessed with prosperity.
Each of the reasons briefly mentioned
would require columns to properly rep
resent them. To this purpose the pages
of the NUGGET will be devoted. We re-
spectfully ask all who are interested in
the prosperity of the county and state to
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