The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-20
lHE LATEST FROM IDAHO.
Quartz Mining Is Getting a Fresh
Start.
SOME OF THE LUCKY cNEs.
Deep Mining Is to Be Tested at
Warrens.
A Notable Strike in the Good Enough
How a Fe uu Was Made in the
Little ant-W-.rk on other
roperties = Note.

WARRE-,s, Ida, Sept. 17.-Quartz
mining is gettirg : fresh start in this
famous old placer camp, through new
discoveries and development made during
the past season. Two strikes of conse-
quence were recorded which encouraged
other CLAIM owners. Additional conf
dence has been given by the resumption
of work on the Little Giant mine.
This property, after producing $500, 000
in bullion. was reported to be worked
out. George Riebold, the principal owner,
expects to again catch the narrow but re-
markedly rich vein by deep sinking.
That accomplished, and Warrens will
have at least one big producing gold
mine. That fact established, and there
can be no question as TO what the future
will be.
For the first time, deep mining is TO be
tested here. Although there have been a
number of Eooms and cfazes over quartz
discoveries and strikes, dating back as
far as 1866 and beginning less than four
years after these rich diggings were
found, up to the time Riebold began de-
velopiug the Little Giant, little more than
surface scratching and gophering was at
tempted On any of the numerous lodges
that were staked off twenty-five years or
more ago and relocated time and again.
Extensive preparations made for prospect
ing the Little Giant to considerable depth
indicate that Riebold has faith in the per-
m6nency and regularity of the gold bear
ing veins and has reason to believe that it
will pay to sink below the point of dis
turbance and get out OF the region of
faults and breaks.
He has begun sinking, at about the
centre OF the ore body, and will go
through the old workings. For this pur-
pose he has ordered q 25-horse power
hoist, which will be freighted in before
the roads are blocked by snow. A skip is
now constructing in San Francisco from
specially prepared plans, and after a
mine, as the work will have TO be carried
on an acute incline. A short distance
down Smiths gulch from the mill build
lngs and machine shops, located at the
mouth Of the main tunnel of the Little
Giant, saw mill was built to cut timber
for use in Riebold's operations. This
mill, which is CT the plantation pattern,
with 50-inch saw and capacity of about
5000 feet day, has Just made its initial
run. At present it monopolizes the use
OF an elaborate power plant, which was
also established within the present
month.
This forms part of one of the most i'm
portant enterprises inaugurated in the
history of Warrens. 1t is the nucleus of
an electric light plant, which can be so
developed that power can be transmitted
TO placers in the district where hitherto
milling operations have been impractical
bic if not impossible. Mining operations
can likewise be conducted more cheaply
by the availability OF this electrical force
and energy. By taking a ditch out of
Warrens creek and bringing it along the
PERCEPTIONS slope of the noun tains above
the camp, and for a distance of five miles.
BOO inches Of water can be utilized for
power purposes. From the end of the
ditch the supply discharges into a ten
inch hydraulic pipe, ball-jointed and
rugged with a DETECTING nozzle, that de-
livers the water with pressure of $50
feet to segmoidal wheel. High speed is
developed and sufficient power assured to
drive a number of dynamos which would
provide electrical power for transmission
over a wide area and TO many
plants of varied types. One plan
discussed by Riebold, in connection with
this electric power plant, contemplated is
the Introduction of hydraulic elevator
for working over old placer ground, OF
which he has tract of fifty-seven acres
on Warren's creek. This has recently
prising part of the block of 12S acres he
expects to sell to the Chicago company,
OF which mention has already been made
in THE HERALD. In the event this deal
is closed, there remain other tracts, and
some bars not vet worked, on which
hydraulic elevator could be worked. The
fact that electrical power is available here
is likely to cause mining operators to
take greater interest in quartz properties.
Perhaps the most notable thing in the
quartz line that is to be recorded during
the present year, is a strike made on a
claim known as the Good Enough. The
property was opened &c so favorable a
condition and showing that competition
for it was excited in the way of bids for
its purchase. Work began on the claim
last March During the summer a cash
offer of S, 900 was made for it and re-
fused. Other tenders for bonding it for
larger amount have been declined. This
strike is more than an ordi-
nary incident of a mining camp.
A significance attaches to it,
because 1t recalls to old-timers discus
Eions and speculations INDUCED in during
one Of the early quartz crazes here.
The Good Enough is the second extern
sion of the old Rescue mine, located in
1868. The formation of the new claim is
said to be like that shown on the Rescue
and it is supposed to be on the same ledge.
Rich ore was found on the hill, three
quarters of a mile up the creek from the
camp in 1868. The Rescue, which was
located then, made a big surface showing
and the high value OF the ore made it easy
to incorporate a company to work the
property. A c-oss-cut tunnel was run
$50 feet, that gained a depth of $50 feet
below the surface. Large quantities of
ore were taken out, in the extraction of
which no powder was used. This output
was all crushed by ten-stamp mill, the
third quartz plant to be erected in the
camp. After the ore had been exhausted
in the Rescue tunnel, hoist was packed
in from Lewiston or Walla Walla and
erected on the mine. Sinking 90 feet
deeper, ground was worked out 200 feet
east and then another level was started,
which progressed 20 feet.
Work stopped then, when a chimney
for which the company was prospecting,
pitched away. Opinions We're freely ex-
pressed that the Rescue people quit work
Just when they ought to have been en-
cocraged to go ahead. That is what adds
interest to the recent strike on the same
ledge. The mill was burned and the
origin OF the fire believed to have been in
cendiary. The property was abandoned,
relocated half dozen times and fell in to
the hands of Ed Brooks, the present
owner. j. Bailey Chamberlain. another
old timer, owns the first extension on
the west, called the Idaho; the Good
Enough is the second, the Much Better
third and the American takes in the rest
of the ground down to Warren's creek.
Location of the Good Enough was acci-
dental or chance hit. A. prospector.
locally known only as ssHarmonica |
Jack, while rambling over the Rescue
hill picked up riece of rich rock. He |
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