The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-09-28

In thissland Of need and day o.
necessity, brought about by The
strange and exacting policy of q
now EZRA" in American government
men are driven into tho remotest
Businesses Of the land and to the
severest tests of human ingenuity
and endurance in the endeavor ia
live and pay their debts against the
odds and obstacles which are set up
before them. by the present ''illus-
trious" administration. And % il
has developed that nothing but gold
has 4 value upon which American
industry can rely for just com.
pensation, why, of course, everyone
is in search of the yellow metal and
every old hero of the pick and fry
pan, who still has sufficient credit
left for q sack of -four and a side
Of bacon, is delving in the bills in q
last faint hope Of finding that much
coveted metal some time where the
eye has been less vigilant and the
hand less industrious than it might
have been in the days gone by.
The good news comes from the
Salmon of a recent great strike,
and now Idaho bids fair to second
Colorado in her remarkable gold
mining career of the past few years
and the hopeful promise of making
gold plentiful and cheap in COM
parison to other products Of Amer.
lean toll.
THE NEW STRIKE.
The new strike on the Salmon is
not the only one which has been
brought to public notice within the
past twelve months, but in point Of
extent and value it is doubtless
one of the greatest. The several
reports of this new district which
have come to hand are fully corrob.
grated by Mr.. James I. Cochran, a
well-known and reliable citizen Of
Wood River, who has been spend
ing the past two years over in that
part Of the state. Mr.. Cochran
reached Ketchum but a few days
ago and TO a reporter of the KEY
STONE he gives the following par
ticulars of the whereabouts, nature
and extent of the new diggings.
called the Alpine mining district.
They lie on Wilson creek, trib-
utary of the middle fork of Salmon
river, about twenty-five miles in a
northwesterly direction from the
famous Yellow Jacket district. The
mines were struck about the first
of August by company composed
of Mr.. Cochran, J. w. West, Peter
Ryan, c. N. Reason and J. B. Short.
The district is about three to five
miles in width and ten miles in
length, and contains lodges of from
four inches to four feet in width,
carrying free gold. They lie in dis
tinct belts or zones and run parallel
with one another at distances vary
ing from eight to sixty feet. About
thirty locations had been made up
to the time Dir. Cochran left, and
new discoveries and locations were
being made daily. The ore is all
free milling, and the results Of three
milling tests showed them to con-
tain from $62 to SO per ton, with
a trace of silver and lead, which is
richer than the average gold rock Of
the country by several multiples.
The above company is now max
ing preparationssto erect suitable
mill for the ores they have located
and expect to have same In opera
ton this fall. With this exception,
however, but little development
work is looked for in the district
this year, owing to the lsteness Of
the season and the iuaccessibility
of the region after the snow falls.
That part of the state is very
rough and mountainous, and snow
falls early and to q great depth. 1t
is not advisable for parties to go to
the diggings now unless abundantly
provided with provisions and pre-
pared to remain till spring.