The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-03-04

| The crying necessity Of the crest Owy-
hes mining camps IL . railroad. Mills
cannot be run - those hers are now
constructed unless they can secure >
supply Of fuel mines cannot bs dsvel-
opsd without timbers. These two im-
portant items arc growing 20 scarce in
this county that the end of their supply
from local sources 10 plainly in sight.
rhs demand for both Of them, under
the energy with which mine develop
ment has been pushed for the past two
years, is incrsssing in direct ratio to
their growing scarcity. To supply fuel
and timbws only to our present mills
and minss may not alone justify capit-
slists In putting their money into rail-
road enterprise. No thoughtful person
would make such claim. Bot, aside
from the tratic now In sight to support
road, IL the development Of other mines
and other camps which railroad would
insure. Now only the more prominent
of the free milling mines in the county
are being worked. These comprise only
. comparatively small proportion of the
valuable mineral deposits OF the county
and could furnish even lesser proper
tion of frsights to . road. Hsncs the
traffic in sight 10 only very small pro-
portion of that in prospect. Base ore
camps csR only be made prosperous
where frsighting out the products can
be done ct ; moderate cost. At the
present time none OF their products can
be shipped out of this county at mod
crate cost, aud hence, what might be
the greatest producing camps in this
county are idle.
South Mountain 10 the noat striking
illustration OF the necessity Of a rail-
road to base ore csmp. This great
mountain ia ribbed ead scanned With
vsins of copper and lead csrbonntss and
argentifurious gslenas. Many of these
veins are rich and their ores could be
cheaply concentrated If Sc G cisnt sup
ply of water could be obtained, bat in
he abssncs of both wstor xnd railroads
they will continue to remain in their
present condition. With railroad to
them the most fourishing camp in the
county would probably grow up on
South Mountain. Flint and Mammoth
.listricts are other examples of the Same
ch ,racter. A railroad reaching close
On ugh to the mines of those districts
could develop traffic sufficient to justify
its construction. But War Eagle Noun
tain, Florida Mountain, DsLamsr and
Cow Creek would all contribute immed-
lately and genrously in supplying
freigbts both in and out with enough
local trade in sight to put road upon
. paying basis and nany times ~ much
more In prospect, the wonder 10 that
the men who are trying to promote such
an enterprise do not succeed in readily
enlisting the necessary capital. Ifthsrs
10 good foundation for the report that
the Burlington will begin extending
their line to Portland, from the eastern
border of Idaho, and that the Great
Northern proposes to build to San Fran
cisco, there il probability that these
lines will cross in the nsighborhood OF
Nsmpa or Caldwell, and that line will
extending to San Francisco come nearer
US than the Short Line.
But this ia too uncertain to be consider
in our present straits. There is q rumor
that the projectors of the road from
Nsmps to Silver City have dropped the
parties in Psnnsylvania who have done
80 much talk to 30 little purpose, snd
have found men to take hold of the on
terprise. We hope the rumor may be
true.