The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-01
THE BOISE BASIN MINES
There Are Some Splendid Properties
in That Region.
MANY NEW MILLS GOING UP
When Spring Opens Work VIII Be
Pushed on Claims That Prom
lac Great Things for
Mine Owners.
MANY NEW MILLS GOING UP

Special correspondence OF the standard.
IDAHO CITY, Idaho, Jan. Ri. b. En-
cry. a merchant of this place, is now in
New York city negotiating n sale of sew
eral mines at the head of Baboon gulch,
four miles northwest of town. The group
consists of the Harrison, Gem of the
Mountains, Star, Gold Belt and lvanhoe.
The mines are owned 10y John keano and
j. n. Hall. The Gem of the Mountains is
fairly we'll developed by two tunnels, ono
$50 and tho other l25 feet long. II this lo-
cation there is a network of lodges, nearly
all of which carry gold. The vein on which
the short tunnel is run is from two To II
feet wide. Gus Schlosser owns a claim at
the southwest end of the group which is
included in tho bond. Some very rich orc
has been taken from the surface of this
claim and milled. He has run "A tunnel
175 feet, but il has not reached tho vein.
Although these mines are known to he
good. the owners, who are poor men,
believe that il is better for them to sell
than attempt to work them. as they have
no mill, and tho nearest custom mill is
several miles away.
A mile north of this group is the Buff
falo, owned by Charles and +. II. Cooper.
The mine was worked from 1863 to 1867
by a man named Middleton, but owing to
the high price of milling, wages and sup
plies, he failed to make a success. lie
abandoned the mine and l. remained Idle
until the summer of 1888, when tho pres
ent owners located it and went 10 work.
The first day n rich vein of FREQ gold ore
was discovered, from which they extracted
Ii or 10 tons of ore that mllcd over SlO0
per ton. After working the ore they COM
menced to develop the property by means
90 I,ny funnaI n fhiG fnnnal thRN a. -
pect TO reach the ore chute with but little
more work. No doubt the extraction of
ore will DO resumed within tho next two
or three weeks.
Four miles north of the Buffalo is a very
promising mine called the Summit. 1t il
situated at the head of Deer creek, which
was enormously rich IN placers. The
Wells brothers, who came from Califor-
MIA last May, were the lucky dlscoverers.
For many years prospectors had searched
in vain for il, but did not go about the
work as systematically as the Wells
brothers. They went TO work immedi-
ately after locating IL and sank n shaft to
the depth of 80 feet, and extracted some
ore west of tho shaft. Seventy or eighty
tons, taken from wall to wall, a width of
from three TO eight feet, yielded an aver
age of over SIG per ton IN free gold. They
are now driving drift from the bottom
of the shaft into tho hi,l to the west, fol-
lowing the vein. The ore coming out of
this drift is high grade. Last week u
within was put IN place at the mine and
sinking resumed. Four or five hundred
feet southeast of the shaft is another
ledge that yields very rich ore from tho
surface. When the snow is of IN tho
spring development work will be COM
menced ON a..
Work is going on IN the Charlotte mine,
four mics north OF PionceTvillc. Although
only discovered late last fall. this is con-
sdered one OF the most valuable of the
gold mines of this county. Tho owners
have ordered a iive-stamp mill.
Late in the fall Thomas Barry com.
pleted his five-stamp mill at the Olympia
mine. on summit fiat, but owing to
scarcity of water he cannot commence
crushing until spring opens. Several
men are at work IN the mine, running
drifts and opening up stopping cround.O
Near the Olympia Steve Smith is nj
work on mine from which ne has taken
large quantities of rich rock. lie has q
I0-stamp mill, which lac only runs during
the summer months.
The Banner ore being millcd in tho IL.
mira 20-stamp mill, at Banner, is aver
aging 90 ounces silver per ton. \ good
deal of the ore is very rich, but il Is i'm
possible TO assert IT, making it necessary
10 mill considerable ledge matter that j,
low grade.
Forty or 50 placer miners are at worl
under the lava on More creek, between
this place and Boise City. They are al
doing we'll, none getting less than gooC
wages.
Two men arc At work IN the Illinois