Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-12-13
FROM NEW FLORENCE.
II is the Ell Dorado of the North
West.--A Blast for College,
Bred Experts.

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FLORENCE, Idaho, Nov. 25, '95.
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the doings of New Florence and
the Eldorado of the northwest. If
our boss at Washington was here he
would abandon the idea to issue
more bonds to replenish a depleted
treasury; one who will examine
our vast gold deposits. and future
possibilities of the camp as gold
producer, will not hesitate to say
our national credit will be main
tained and the Golfers of the gold
barons will be full to overflowing,
from the yellow metal taken from
our New Florence, the pride of the
west.
1t would take columns in the
Old Reliable to jot all the develop
ments now under way, for Flor
ence, like days long ago, is strictly
in it. History tells us of her rich
ness in '62 historians will write
of her great output of gold bullion
in '96. This is not a dream but a
reality. The incoming wave of
prosperity will reach us in the
spring, and fills with delight the
hearts of our energetic but much
vilified prospectors, for they have
labored under the oft repeated as
sertion of experts-there is moth
ing here. Their theory does not
stand practical mining test and
have come to the conclusion our
college-bred geological minerolo-
gist is nuisance to any camp. i
take the ideas of the practical pros
pector and miner and have made a
success, and advise those who con-
template a visit to this promising
gold field, to get knowledge as to
our great resources from some res
ident and practical man, one who
is schooled in his vocation. Pay
no attention to the college-bred
thoroughbred It and those who
have no pedigree. A simple asser-
ton is not fact. We, the hum
BILE prospectors, have proven by
practical test the richness of our
ore, the permanence of our veins,
the cheapness with which they can
be worked, and have exploded the
sophistry of the college-bred ex-
pert and we further intend to
show to the world-right here will
be developed some of our leading
gold mines of the northwest, as
we have faith in our prospects and
the muscle to develop.
We had an expert in our camp
some time ago. The green foliage
on the trees looked pale in COM
parison. He knew it all we pros
pectors were placed away back in
the dark ages. Why, he could
even tell us by inspecting a rock
when it was dislodged from the
towering cliffs and descended down
the mountain side-said something
about a rock from sulphurous re-
gion or time. (Mr. Ed, does he
mean hell p; said that large boul-
der came there by glacier remote
ages ago, for it had all the ear
marks-that it had travelled many
miles. We prospectors will bet
our best gold claim it never travel
ed twenty rods. The expert wax
ed warm over the journey the
boulder had taken, when one of
the boys suggested in his opinion
that boulder was thrown overheard
from the Ark when Noah was
prospecting for land near the place
where it lies. Whether the boul-
der came down from the north
pole or Noah threw it overheard
to tighten ballast matters not, for
we are more interested in our gold
prospects and are vieing with each
other to sec who will have the
most ore on the dump by May 1st.
In case no more experts take up
my time ! will endeavor to CORES
pond at an early date.