The Anaconda standard., 1895-11-20
GOLD is IN THE LEAD
Idaho Has a Number of the Best Pro-
ducers on Earth.
MORE CAPITAL is NEEDED
General Write-Up of the Pros
poets i'm a District That Is Fa-
mous-Work Mapped Out
for the Winter.

Special Correspondence OF the Standard.
Idaho City. Idaho. Nov. 17.-Although
this district has been visited by a
great many men pretending to be min
ing investors this season no sales have
been made, and the people cannot
now hope for much in this way before
next year. unless those who have been
here this week. including Mr.. Hyde OF
the Virtue. in Eastern Oregon. and Mr..
Grayson. son of the noted mining man
of San Francisco invest. They have
examined two or three properties and
1t is hoped that they may interest
themselves here. The trouble with the
mines are that many of them have
not been sufficiently developed to at
tract the attention of large capital,
and are held at very high prices by
the owners. who will be made to under
stand by time that they cannot sell
prospects for prices that developed
mines would command. AS far as de-
veloped the mines are better than
those of Owyhee county-better than
they were with the same amount OF
work. Every one mas improved with
depth, and. what can be said of bui
very few camps. nine out of every tt n
are paying expenses while development
work is going on. Owned by poor
prospectors, these men pay their way
from the mines and at the same time
keep sinking on them. Several of the
most promising properties were dis
covered this year or worked on for the
first time. and not one of these has
failed to pay all expenses. The Wells
brothers have done we'll out of the
Summit mine. on the head of Deer
creek. A cleanup made a few days
ago from a run of II tons of ore WELD
ed SAL per ton. A run made a short
time before yielded s27 per ton. A
short distance east of the Summit is
the Lagraciosa, owned by w. II. Byrne,
James Farrell and u. =. Linville, dis
covered last spring. has turned a
crushing of splendid ore and con-
tinues getting better as far as sunk
on-45 feet. The owners have started a
tunnel. which will follow the vein and
open nearly 100 feet in depth of stop
ing ground. South of the Lagraciosa
is the Jupiter. which was discovered
about three months ago. No ore has
been worked from this mine, as ii con-
'tains considerable sulphurets, and will
be taken to the Boulder mill for re-
duction as soon as a road Is construct
ed down Wolf creek The owners Of
the mines in that section have ar
ranged to do that as soon as the snow
is off the ground next spring.
CdDt. j. ~. Cndnhell Is at Work ue-
veloping the Newark. between Wolf
and Elk creeks. He has struck good
ore, and is getting out a sufficient
quantity to have a crushing made at
the Boulder mill. This mine was dis
covered and located a great many
years ago. but abandoned after the To-
Gator had failed to find the vein from
which the rich float came. 1t looks
exactly like the Lagraciosa and is un-
doubtedly the east extension of that
ledge.
Thomas Barry sr.. has struck very
rich ore on the surface of the Olympia
mine. on Summit Flat a short dis
tance above where the ore that was
crushed was taken out. The ledge
has the appea arance of being very large.
but Mr.. Barry has not sufficient sup
plies there to Justify him in starting
up work again this year. Next spring,