Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-04-27

camp, for the placers seem to pay
from the grass roots and the quartz
is very high grade and the only
entirely free gold ore SO far found
in that country.
Work has commenced on the sec
tons of the State wagon road loca-
ted in this county, and pack trains
leave daily for the camps loaded
with tools and provisions. This
work will disburse about $4,000
in the county within three or four
months"
The publication of such false
hoods as the foregoing is positively
injurious and detrimental to the
mining interests of this section.
1t misleads nobody but foolish ten
derfeet and greenhorns. Practical
miners are not deceived, but dis
gusted, by such palpable misrepre-
sensations and grotesque exagger-
alton. Practical mining men dis
trust high assays, and quartz that
is "simply hunks Of gold" There
are good quartz and placer proper
ties in Elk City and Dixie which
are we'll worthy of investigation
by men seeking profitable invest
ment;but no good purpose is served
/ by publishing fake dispatches de-
signed to deceive and to impose
upon the credulity of ignorant
and unthinking people. The need
of this country is men with capital
to develope our mineral resources.
We have so many poor people here
now that private charity is strain
ed to its utmost to support the
destitute. Elk City and Dixie are
not "poor mems camps" and it is
an act of criminal folly to proclaim
otherwise. There is not the slight
est excitement in Grangeville, Elk
City or Dixie over these alleged
discoveries. 1t is falsehOOd that
"parties are QUILTING here almost
every day for the mines," and it is
not true that people are wild to &c
to the gold fields. The State wa
gon road contracts let in this coun.
ty amount to only $4,000, instead
of $75, 600, and not more than 2(
men are employed the wages paid
are one dollar day and board, and
there are q dozen applicants fol
each mans work.
Now if the wildcat mining boom
ers will quit lying about Elk City
= and Dixie we will develope those
districts on their merits on a larger
and more permanent basis thar
they would attain in Thousand
"stampedes" and "excitements'
such as are being worked up thi
spring by unknown fakirs. Thu
mines of those camps are, general.
speaking, large lodges of gold-bear
: ing, concentrating propositions, re
,, curing considerable capital t.
exploit them successfully. Th
ore is there, and the ore has tn
gold. There is water power in tn
, rivers for driving thousands G
stamps, drills, concentrators, saw
mills and other machinery, hoist
ing works included, when tina
stage of mining development
" reached. The finest forests in tn
. State are there, and with the ad
y vent of sawmills lumber will b
. very cheap. And the further fac
. that so good and great a farmin
l." country as Camas Prairie exists S
close at hand makes an aggregat
of advantages that do not go wit
q many mines /; and when these at
., vantages are utilised, as they al
Us sure to be in the near future, W
q have every reason to believe thu
t. mining for the precious metals wi
Sc expand in those camps into pro
l. porous and permanent industry.
N A wildcat boom at this time
1t the worst misfortune that coul
rs happen to those camps and to tn
SO county. Therefore we say to I'll
1T wildcat boomers, whoever they ar
ct "tell the truth, and quit lying"