The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-30
IDAHO MINES.
Rich Bars of Placer Which Give En- ploy-
ment to Many Men.

specia Correspondence o. tas >.anlarI
Idaho City, Idaho. May 2S-Last
saturday evening "A heavy rain set in
/ and has continued ever since This
/ VIII give the placer mines n run Of a
/ week or two longer. which menas con
/ siderable for the country. Besides the
/ benent to the placer miners. the farm
I ers OF the valleys Of this county will
! he greatly benefited. as crops were be-
I ginning to suffer for want Of water.
William II. ByTne and James Farrell
| have struck some good ore in the
Snowbird free gold mine at the head OF
4 Deer creek. The ore comes from a
I vein from eight To 10 inches thick that
/ they had not before known existed
The rock is fine looking. and they he
lieNe that they are now on the main
vein They have several tons out. and
VIII Keep on extracting until they get
out a sufficient amount TO make good
run. when IL will be taken to the South
Africa mill.
The lessees Of the Mountain Queen
mine. above Pioneer. have now a force
Of Il men at work. Three or four DAYS
ago they opened up "A vein four feet
wide Of very rich ore. and the 2O-stamp
mill is kept running night and day.
The ledge from wall 70 wall is from Il
to IL feet wide
The Charlotte Crawford mill. on
Charlotte Gulch, near Pioneer. is run
ming.
Lee Bunch and a man from Buffalo.
y y. are building a double-bed aras-
ira on the Payette group Of mines,
above Garden Valley. They have pur-
chased and delivered at the ground a
l2-horse power engine and boiler II
the ore justifies. four more beds will
be added. as the power is capable Of
running six.
More than 20 men are now at work
in the Boulder. and the force is being
increased as rapidly as room can be
made for miners. The company ex-
poets 10 commence crushing in a short
time.
good placer mines on Boise river
above the mouth Of More creek. By
drifting in one claim a bed Of gravel
nine feet deep that yields l cent to the
pan has been shown up. Two men a
short distance above took out for the
seasons run SO per day with their own
labor IL is now a settled fact that the
bars OF the river will give employment
10 large number OF miners when wa
ter Is conveyed To them. To construct
a ditch necessary TO accommodate the
miners VIII require an expenditure Of
$4,000 or $4,000 and those owning the
bars VIII make an effort 10 get some
capitalists u construct a ditch for
them. The bars are several miles in
length, and during the past few weeks
they have all been located As IL re-
qulres considerable work drifting TO
prospect the bars. prospect0rs until
this year passed them by. The hard
times. however. have benefited the
country, as men were obliged TO take
desperate chances in prospecting. and
along the Boise river they have met
with great success. as they did along
More creek "a few years ago
Another very rich body OF ore five
feet wide was discovered in tho Illinois
a few days ago. The owners. -. 4.
Duquette and Julius Linstoadt. will
soon start up the Blaine mill on the
ore.
Ed Pierce and partner have discoy-
cred considerable float In their placer
mine at the head Of Deer creek. and
have hopes Of finding the ledge from
which it came. The rock shows freely
OF free gold.