Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-14
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Dixie, Idaho, Jan. 81, 1896.
FRIEND PARKER:-The weather in
this camp thus far has been simply
immense for us who have had out
side work to do. At this writing
the snow is % feet deep and the
weather throughout January more
like spring than winter, with warm
winds and rains. There is nobody
working on quartz at present, but
the spring will bring new life and
energy. We are pretty sure of
having a 10-stamp mill erected this
year, and then we need mail SER
vice. Dixie is all right, and in the
course of the next six months we
will be able to show the world
what we have. The ore bodies are
here and they have the values in
the ore. All we need to make
Dixie a second Cripple Creek is
little capital and energy. Those
indefatigable rustlers, Blaine, Cum
mings and Pritchard, under the
firm name of Blaine & Co., are now
finishing the riveting of their 1900
feet of seven-inch hydraulic pipe
and will have it laid in a short
time and be ready to operate.
They will then have one of the
best equipped pieces of placer prop
erty in the state of Idaho, and l
have no doubt, one of the best pay
ing properties as well. They com
menced development work last
June with crew of eight men and
have been steadily at it ever since.
An immense amount of work has
been done for so small crew,
which speaks highly for the man
ayers and for the crew as well.
They have completed three miles
of ditch, capable of carrying 500
inches of water, and which will
give them 1S5 feet of pressure
when they begin operations. They
have also completed + mile of 40
inch flume, on 24inch grade,
big portion of the fume being in
solid bedrock six feet deep at the
upper end. In order to manufac-
ture the necessary lumber for this
big flume they have constructed a
well equipped sawmill at point
under their ditch where they have
130 feet of pressure, the mill be-
ing run with a 4-fOot Pelton water
wheel, which enables them to turn
out 5000 feet of lumber per day.
When the water season begins
they will run two shifts, and hope
to keep everlastingly at it for four
months before the water fails.
They have ground under ditch to
last a dozen years, and have ex-
pended $4,000 in opening these
properties.
The Milhoan placers are in good
shape for a successful spring run.
Bollman and Turner are opening
up their placer ground and will be
ready when the water starts.
} Dillinger is taking it easy this
winter, as bcfits man of his age
who, after years of hard labor, has
secured the handsome "nest egg
which the Dillinger mine is sure
to bring him.
Thompson and Youngberg are
building commodious quarters near
the dump of their Comstock lode
on which they expect to employ g
number of men the coming season
, Reser and Asher are rivals in the
trapping business, and the price o
furs is expected to drop to the low
est notch when they ship their
winters catch. At last account.
one had caught fisher and pine.
squirrel, and the other a fisher
two weasels and a ,marten.
The FREE Press comes very
regularly and everything is drop
ped until its weekly budget o
county news is devoured. TIL,
camp notes with satisfaction tn,
efforts you are making for the de
qelopment of this part of tn
county, and may the day sool
come when success will crown you
efforts in behalf of the minin,
interests of Idaho county in gen
eral and Dixie District in par