Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-08-21

and are cleaning up from $500 to
s2500 per day regularly. The
Buffalo Hill Company, operating
on the same stream, are running
pipes, etc, and are cleaning up
over 800 day, while other com
panies are doing well all over the
camp. There are some new placer
claims just being opened up that
have great prospects, and will un-
doubtedly be successes. Among
them are the claims of Walter
Cook and Robert Brownell & Co.
This company have a water ditch
and right seven miles long on the
the American and Red rivers with
this water, and they most assured
ly have one of the most promising
placer properties in Elk City.
They are expert miners, and gen.
ial, honorable gentlemen.
OTHER CLAIMS.
Posey Mitchell and John DUFF
field are tunneling on their claim
on the south fork of the Clearwater
and have struck a large body of
rich ore.
S. w. Smith has a fine tunnel
run in on the Buster mine, which
reveals large body of exceedingly
good ore.
George Blaine has a fine tunnel
on the Blanche, and has exposed
fine body of ore.
Cook and Turner have ali ex-
ceedingly fine shaft, well timbered
up and run down 40 feet, on the
Young America, showing great
body of rich ore. They have bond
ed the mine to some Lewiston par
ties.
c. Litchfeld, Esq, has some
good quartz properties, and his
wife, an estimable and highly edu-
Gated lady, is the recorder of the
district, and an efficient officer.
There have also been some rich
quartz lodges located by parties
this summer, which may prove to
be some of the richest in the dis
trict, among which is the Gold
Bug, on Gold Hill, between the
American and Red rivers, This
mine has shaft recently sunk on
it that shows some extra rich ore,
and there are other lodges in the
district not yet located, and some
old ones which have been vacated
on account of assessment work not
being done, that are rich in good
ore, and only await the advent of
some enterprising prospector to be
located and developed.
| ELK CITY.
Elk City has not been very
lively, but is now picking up quite
rapidly, and it is expected the
place will have quite boom this
summer and fall. j. A. Whitaker
has a general merchandise store
and a hotel. Mr.. Young also
keeps hotel. There is butcher
shop, blacksmith shop, laundry
saloons, postofiice, livery stable, &
good school house and a number
: of dwellings. They have a lady
, postmistress, and some nice fam
lilies reside in and about Elk City
The altitude of this prosperous
little mining camp is about 36S(
feet, being a healthy and desirable
place to spend the summer months
and not being very cold in winter
, Snow falls to considerable depth il
} winter, but the miners work il
} their mines, very often, all winter
The mail into Elk City is semi
> weekly and is carried through owe
: the mountains all winter, some
| times on sleds and in very ba'
weather on snow shoes. There i
a petition now before the commits
sioners of Idaho county to build
1 wagon road from Elk City t.
} Dixie and surveyors and viewer
Q are now ON the line.
There are number of good sill
| yer lodges in Elk City district
r among them are the Gold Hill
e Last Chance, Silver Hill and Cal
: fornia. The Gold Hill, Californi
r and Silver Hill have tunnels ru
Q in upon the leads and they displa
< large bodies of good ore. The Las
r Chance has shaft run down o
r the lead.
v Newsome creek is also coming t
the front with some great find
such as the Iron Crown, located b
j. A. d. Dorm & Co. on July, l, 1885,
z This is one of the greatest pro,
t poets in the northwest and has ST
p the boys nearly wild. The exter
}, sions to the mine, made by Frenc
If Pete, Mitchell and Chesbro. al
y also very good. There are nun
l. Der of good quartz locations in tn
:. district. Messrs. Dorm, Petition
Y Ornith & Co. are opening up Oh
d of the greatest placer claims in tt
}. district. They have q large be
g rock tiume and it is expected tn;
d they will clean up large amour
e. of dust yet this season.
y J. G. Chesbro keeps the Ne,
/, some house. where the weal
l. traveller and his beast can obta
D. food and rest.
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