The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-10-02

Custer and other Mining Camps
Of tho 0a1n6on River.

Of subscribers on this side Of th
range, / will venture . few note
from our end Of the mineral bolt.
/ This has been . quite active sea
SON among the mining camps o
the Salmon River in Cuetsr county
and when mining il good . CORES
ponding activity 10 noticed in tn
farming and other industries.
Besides the immediate minins
work, teaming, freighting and wood
hauling give employment to many
men and animate; and this gives |,
demand for supplies Of every kind
and much hay and grain, vegetables
ETC., must be consumed. Were it no,
for the machinery kept going here
and there throughout the county
there would be little encouragement,
for farming, stock-raising or, in
fact, any other business. Where one
man is on . payroll in = mining
camp, at least Eve persons get some
benefit from his labors.
The Lucky Boy mill and mine
are running steadily. The mill
brushes forty-five to fifty tons per
day, and it will continue to run, it
is understood, until winter, when it
will be shut down for time, but
the mine will continue with q good
force of men. II is now explored
to a depth of about 700 feet. with
vast quantities of ore exposed. II
is in the main gold-bearing ore.
The wood contracts are about
completed for this season, and the
wood haulers are dispensing to the
outside.
The Black mine has recently
changed hands, and the new pro-
prietors are starting in to erect
10-stamp mill at the mine. Hereto
fore the ore has been worked in the
Fourth of July mill, a mile away,
at great expense. Mr.. II. J. Jory,
of San Francisco, who came over
from Ketchum q couple of months
ago to examine the mineral fields
Of Custer county, has charge of the
of the new Black mill.
He 10 an experienced metallurgist,
assayer and mining engineer, and
in his hands the work cannot fail
to be success. The Black il we'll
developed and shows an abundance
Of pay ore, the values in q great
measure being gold.
Mr.. Jas. McFadden got his mill
up on the Yankee Fork mine, a few
miles from Custer, and is putting
concentrators in at present.
The mine is being worked on lease.
Custer is quite town, and does
! good business in all branches. 1t
1as several stores, good many
saloons, q hotel and restaurants,
md gambling goes right along just
he same as though Idaho had never
lad a session of the Legislature.
indeed, the people over here appear
o be q sacriiegious set of folks, and
Imile q smile childlike and bland
vhen you refer to laws passed at
he late session. They speak of
he laws az fakes and the makers
ID fakirs.
The old town Of Bonanza, two
niles from Custer, has taken fresh
tart since George MCGOWAN, the
attle man, opened up q large
house in connection with
lis meat market. He has recov-
red a large percentage of the trade
hat had drifted to Custer. W. G.
sweet, formerly Of Ketchum, has
barge of the business. I
There has been more prospecting
DING on here this summer than for
ears past, and many new locations
ave been made in both quartz and
'lacers.
Frank Rapp and others, Of Stan
~, have made some valuable dis
overies in quartz and are develop
ng thereon.
Cal c. Clawson discovered a
lacer territory at the head of Jor-
an creek, six miles from Custer,
ocated lot of ground and called
the Klondike Placer Belt. He
ays it IL good GRUB" diggings.
nyway, and that beats the Alaska
klondikes at present.
The outlook, take it all round,
, favorable for the Custer camps
Or m indefinite period Of time.
The Clayton smelter is still run
ing successfully. Mr.. L. Green,
be manager, contemplates keeping
be works going for some weeks yet.
hey are on the 32nd car of bullion,
his season, and turn out on an
verage six tons day Of very ex-
silent grade.
Later on may be able to furnish
on more from this county as one
annot begin to tell it all in one
sitter.
Custer, Sept. q, 1897.
AL Griffith and family returned
afurdav from Pearl where he went