Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-06-11


NEwsoME CREEK NOTES.
A Mining Section OF Idaho County
Which Promises Great
- Things.
Amid all the excitement attend
ing the development of quartz and
placer in Florence, Elk City and
Warrens, the fact should not be
overlooked that good camp is be-.
ing built up in the NewsOmc creek
country. N. B. Pettibone was out
from there last week and gave us
some particulars of what is going
on in that neighborhood, which
makes interesting reading as show
ing the progress of that section.
The Iron Crown NJ. and M. Co.,
Of Duluth, Minnesota, are putting
in a 1O-stamp mill on the Iron
Crown mine at the head of Allison
gulch, ON Main Ncwsome. This
ledge was discovered last year by
A. ID. Dorm. Geo. c. Howe, of
Duluth, was speedily interested
and an association formed. The
editor visited the property last Oc-
tober, and while there was not
much work done on the vein at
that time, the indications were
good enough to justify further de-
velopment. Since that time the
company has erected substantial
buildings and run 500 feet of tun-
mel on the vein; they now have 400
tons Of ore on the dump and every
thing is ready to install the ma
chinery upon its arrival. 1t is a
blanket vein, situated on the
summit of the divide between
News0me and Beaver creeks. All
the work has been done on the
Newsome side. The vein runs
from 90 inches to six feet wide and
covers what was known in early
days as Allison gulch, which prov
ed to be the richest placer diggings
in that camp. So far as prospect
ed on the Newsome side the vein
shows up good values in free mill
ing gold ore. On the Beaver creek
side the ledge seems to pitch down.
ward, but not enough prospecting
has been done to determine this
point to a certainty. But on the
Allison gulch side there is a veri-
tOble bonanza. The orc is very
fine grained crystalized quartz
which brushes easily and the crush
ing capacity of the mill will only
be limited by the capacity of the
screen to pass the shines.
NEwsoME CREEK PLACERs.
Further down the creek, just be-
low where the wagon road leaves
the canyon to climb the Newsome
mountain, is situated the ground
of the Newsome Creek Placer Min
ing Co. This ground takes in a
tract ofthe canyon which was never
worked in the early days because
of the lack of dump. The ground
was discovered and located by
A. ID. Dorm and Harry Irwin in
1892. They finally sold out to a
company organized by Fred F.
Smith, and the ownership is now
vested in F. f. Smith, c. S. Gre
CORY, N. B. Pettibone and Mr..
Waldo, of Pekin, Illinois. These
gentlemen, under the direction of
Messrs. Smith and Pettibone last
year inaugurated a great work.
They drove a tunnel 21O feet
through a hogback of the hardest
kind of rock, and now have a grade
of two inches to IL feet. The tun-
mel was commenced in July and
completed in September Of last
year. A fiume AKA feet is laid in
its bed. They also built two
miles Of ditch, bringing in 300
inches Of water from Meadow
creek, with pressure Of 200 feet,
running through nine inch iron
pipe with a No. 2 giant for piping
purposes. The bedrock prospects
from 35 to 40 cents per cubic yard.
Mr.. Albert Hedger, the we'll known
hydraulic miner, who opened Buff.
falo Hill, American Hill and Ter
nan Hill in Elk City, has been en-
gagged to superintend the opera
tons Of the Newsonle company
this season and is now on the
ground preparing for a steady run.
They have a long stretch of virgin
ground to work and there is every
reason to believe that a big cleanup
will reward their enterprise.
Messrs. Chas Gelbach and Neil
son are enlarging their ditch from
Pilot creek to Newsome and put
ting in No. 2 giant on the old
Billy Grotts placers two miles
above the NewsOme house and ex-
pect to commence piping next
week.
Harry Irwin and L. A. Painter
have discovered a gulch
from which they PANIED 1910
from II pans of dirt. 1t is only
three feet to bedrock, and they
are rocking out a half-ounce per
day per man.
French Pete, a we'll known