The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-09-30

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forth in short order a wonderful
placer camp. v
This year Qs63) saw the ground
below Washington opened and some
wonderfully rich claims were opened,
many of them paying 81, 600 week
for several years. In this year Rube
Besse, Frank Osgood and o. L. Whit
ing bought up the whole of Summit
Flat, or what yet remained unworked.
The diggings here being shallow,
they finished working it out that
season. A cleanup after two months
work gave goldpan heaping full of
dust which they divided.
Jim Warren, the discoverer, whose
claim WIS blank, spent his time
mostly in gambling He handled
thousands but retained none and
when he went out to Boise that fall
he took no money with him. He
never came back to the camp, and
the last Rube heard of him was as
cattle king in Wyoming two or three
years ago.
VIM. B. Knott, the discoverer Of
the Knott mine, now one of the main
quartz properties of the camp,
brought the first potatoes into camp
and he accumulated a lot of money
in this traffic. Knott made the min
ers take the potatoes as they came
out of the ground, from the size of
marbles up. The miners used to take
some of these marble sized potatoes,
roll them in flour to make them
white, and place them behind the bar
labeled "Knotts Pills" This con-
stituted one of the main jokes of the
camp at the time.
At this time some of the prices
prevailing in Warren we're; II.
Flour, per 100 pounds, s36 90.
Bacon, per pound, 81 co.
Tobacco, per pound, $2. 90
Coffee, per pound, so cents.
Potatoes, per pound, 374 cents.
Wages, per day. Sc and 81. n
In 1868 the county seat Of Idaho
county was moved to Warren from
Florence. Afterwards in SO or '6s
it was moved to Mt Idaho.
Last week it was stated that per-
haps it was owing to the loyalty OF
the miners that caused Richmond tC
decay and Washington to flourish
but this is contradlcted by the fac
that in '63 jeff Stanford, a strong
Secesh democrat, was elected sheriff
by an overwhelming majority. Rube
! partner, Sam Connor, was the repub
: lican candidate and received only A
: votes. II
The Bonanza days of the camp
r as placer field continued until 1870
when the rich ground which coul'
be handled by the means at hand, be
gan to be "worked out.
In this year, the quartz discoverie
: caused new rush, ana this excite
ment brought some big men into Tn
camp, or rather men who have sine
made regulations in the world.
!. George Hearst, who afterwards be
came California millionaire senator
. came into the camp as an exper
ii They mad then not yet struck the ric
y veins they have there today in we
developed condition, and for varior
:. reasons Hearst pronounced the cam
to be no good for quartz mining
l. This, and the early SHOWS, cause
people to turn away and then TO
lowed the later period when the cam
= dragged its monotonous existen'
e. along, only stuck to by the few wi
IS were convinced that the quartz wou
bring it out yet. NJ
The rest we know. Those wi
STAYED with the camp through u
dreary period are likely to see Il
u camp all they pictured it. The ri'
ID veins from which natures quar-
re mill had, in centuries and centurie
ground out the gold which form
- the placers, are now developed ST
Je ficiently to put Warren on the u
ward road, and the progress of ca
o. season and the eagerness with viii
mining men now are gong all
he properties there vindicate all old til
ers claims for it
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