The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-19

T. D. Waterman has returned from
Idaho, where he went for the purpose
of looking over the country and visit
ing a number Of properties in which
himself and brother are interested.
These properties are located near
Shoup and in the same locality other
Salt Lake people axe now operating
on an extensive scale, both IN quartz
and placer mining. Several new mills
are i'll contemplation or course OF con-
struction and the northern part of the
state Of Idaho is just now experience
ing i mining boom of no mean pro-
portions. Very naturally the major
pC3ion Of the attention of both IN
vestOrS and pTOSpectOrS is directed to
the gold proposition, although some
attention is being given to silver-lead
properties. People going into the sew
eral districts in the neighborhOod of
Salmon City, ShOup and GibbonSVilie
do so via Red Rock, Montana, the
nearest railroad station, and from that
point travelling must be done with
either wagon or on horseback. Down
\ 5 far as North Fork on the way to
Shoup and over towa~d the Yellow
Jacket, good progress may be made
with teams but at the point named
sadie horses must be taken and only
trails followed. All Of the freighting
is done with the aid OF pack mules,
some Of which carry 500 pounds of
supplies or machinery. On the day Of
Mr.. Waierman's departure for home,
forty mules were loaded at North Fork
Tor the Yellow Jacket, where twenty
new stamps are being placed in the
batteries with the thirty-fiVe already
there. These animals carry anything
and the freighting does not cost as
much as might be supposed.
Alex TopOnce of this city, is now
operating the ten stamp kaintuck
quartz mill near Shoup, on ore from
the Sherman group, which he has
bonded. He is making money. Owen
Long, well known here, has recently
struck il rich. He bonded a group of
sold claims in the vicinity of the
Sherman for So 900 and after spending
81 900 in development work opened up
a breast Of ore fifteen feet in width,
the average value of which is $40. 1t
IS a well defined vein and the owner
IS now extremely jubilant over his
good fortune.
on Hughes Creek, one of the
branches of the North Fork of Salmon
river. the Hughes Creek Placer COM
pany Qimited), made up of eastern
and foreign capitalists. Is putting in
one of the greatest placer equipment
in the state. The company has its own
saw mills and electric light plants and
several miles of heavy fuming are be-
ing constructed for the purpose of
conl.sEipg the waters of the creek
doNfSz 40 the placer ground, which is
10 ssSyashed with the aid of hydraul-
les over 100000 feet Of lumber are
to be used in the construction of this
f1ume and its approaches. 1t is esti-
mated that the company VIII eXpend
in the neighborhood Of a quarter Of d
million dollars in the placing of its
plant in proper condition for the work
ing of the property.
Quite a number of Salt Lake people
are now in the north, central and
northern parts of the state and all are
interesting themselves in properties
with splendid promises. One company
organized here in this city is putting
in a forty stamp mill in the very near
vicinity of Shoup. This plant will work
ores from some very rich properties
there.