Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-10-04
Il Year Of Notable Progress.

Well, the Indians have received
their $675, 900 from your Uncle
Samuel and have distributed the
same with a lavish hand through
out the several towns bordering on
the reserve; but if the average cit
izen of Camas Prairie has benefited
by the distribution we have failed
to notice it in our business.
And this recalls to mind the dis
NAL platitude-the same old harp
of one string upon when the f. p.
has played a thousand variations
of the one tune-that Camas Prai-
rie must work out its own saliva
ton by developing the natural re-
sources of it's own tributary back
country. This is being done dur
ing the present year to a greater
extent, on larger scale and over
a more diversified scope of country
than ever before. Let us look over
the field and see what is going on
in the mining camps of this county.
First of all and foremost, the hy-
draulic elevator plant of the Idaho
Mining & Development Company,
on American Hill, in Elk City dis
trict, is the largest hydraulic en-
terprise ever inaugurated in Idaho
county, and certainly the most
pregnant in its possibilities. Next
comes the operations of the Relief
Milling Co., in the same district
the pioneer enterprise in quartz
milling and concentrating. On
Deadwood gulch James Witt is
opening up the Deadwood basin by
means of a bedrock flume at great
expense. On Crooked creek, in
Dixie district, Blaine & Cummings
are also putting in large bedrock
flume. The value of the newly
exploited Moose creek diggings has
been demonstrated this year by
Heppner & Richardson while va
rious smaller enterprises through
out the camps in the Bitter Roots
are in process of development.
On the Salmon river waters we
find in Florence a discovery and
development of hitherto undream-
ed-of mineral wealth in quartz,
which has SO far progressed that a
stamp mill for reducing the same
is now in process Of erection. In
Warrens, the operations of the big
Philadelphia Dredge Company will
be watched with keen interest by
its stockholders, and if it realizes
the expectations formed of it, will
bring to our virgin placer fields q
steady stream of eastern money
! for investment in like enterprises.
In all these enterprises the pre-
liminary work has been practically
!. accomplished and the coming yeal
should witness results. Wha
these results may be is already
largely assured. There is no sub
4 stantial reason to regard any o
: them as speculative enterprises
r The Warrens dredge is somethin,
e new to these mountain camps, bu
) experience elsewhere has demon
d strated their value beyond cavil
# and there is no good reason t,
doubt their success here, if onl,
:, the gold is in the ground, of whicl
= there is no earthly doubt. There
, fore, with all these enterprises in
= creasing our gold output to a poin
y it has not reached in twenty year
= past, and giving employment to a
. least 100 men, all of whom mus
= be fed from the products of Cana
" Prairie farms, besides paving tn
way for new and larger enterprise
d of the same kind, why should nj
s. the coming year be one of prospel
t. ity to the people of Idaho count
lie in general and of Camas Prairie
e, particular?
e. All these measures are strict
ID in the line of development whi(
al your sold Reliable county pap
has increasingly advocated for Il
h. past ten years. The wealth is
g. our mountains, and it will be e
to plotted as surely as day folio,
or night. A marked advance h
or been made in this direction til
,d very summer. The benefit of o.
rn new wagon roads is already app
r. rent; and once we get the wht
,r- of progress started, there will
is no doubt about the ability to Ike
it revolving in ever-increasi
rapidity. Success in the ent,
prises noted above will turn t
en- tide of mining investments Il
~ way, and then the rest is eal
.or The work of the present year
zee @ pregnant with big results to I