Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-01-08


her flood came and caused considerable
damage to the property The other bat
terv of five stamps will be ready to drop
! early in the year. when the present force
of eight men will be considerably in
creased.
The Daddy is reputed to be one of the
best paying properties on Pritchard creek,
yielding close to 100000 per year, and
working from 80 to 35 men.
Francis Jenkins has a 10-stamD mill at
Trail, just over the hill from Murray. 1T
was put up in the summer of 1895. every
thing being of the latest improved pat
tern 1t has run continuously for Is
months, paying well except for the past
few months. when a large body of sui
phide ore has been worked This gave
about the same value as formerly by as
say, but there was too little free gold.
During this time it has been worked by
the old employees as leasers. Thirty-five
men are employed continuously. A large
amount of concentrates are now being
produced which are worth $50 per ton at
the mill.
Charles Swaine has worked the Golden
King mill part of the time, but it can not
be worked to advantage until there is a
more convenient method of getting the
ore from the mine to the mill.
Mr.. Swaine also built the Golden Win
ME mill early in the season, only to have
it burn down a few months later.
The Golden Lion Is a little three-stamp
prospectors mill that has been run very
steadily during the year, but nothing was
learned as to results.
The Mother Lode was started up under
lease during the summer, the ledge being
tapped below the water level. Some very
rich ore was struck in places, but there
has been no work done on 1t for some
time.
The Granite or Kincannon, mill. five
miles east of Murray, has run irregularly
during the season.
few large placer mining properties are
being worked by hydraulic, generally with
good results, and hundreds of men put in
all or part of the year working on old
rims, high bars drifting in the creek bot
toms, etc. The Bank of North Idaho,
which handles the larger part of the out
put from these sources, estimates the
value of the placer gold taken out during
the year at $25O0O0.
In order to have a check on the smet-
as it is ready for shipment, and sometimes
to know if ore is worth shipping, the
larger part of it is sampled before leav-
ing the camp. This work is done by the
Northwestern Sampling and Milling Com
pany, a corporation having it's head office
in Spokane and principal place of business
about a mile below Wallace. The COM
pany has one of the most complete sam
ping plants in the world. The ore Is gem
orally hand-sampled. but there is ma
chinery in place that will do all the di-
viding which is capable of working a ron
minute or more in a day of 10 hours
than the entire output of the Occur
d Alenes at present. The almost absolute
eAactness which has characterized the
company's work has given it a high
standing both with the miners and the
smelters, the latter never hesitating to
honor drafts for every cent of the value of
the ore when accompanied by the sam
piers certificate.
General Results.
This shows that there are now en-
ployed or will be within 60 days, no less
than 100 men by the regular shipping
mines of the Occur d Alene district while
placer and development work utilize the
labor of 500 more. This army of 2200 men
are receiving about $1,000 per day, or con-
sderalbly over s., 100000 per year. The men
engaged in other lines of employment will
swell this to fully $3000,000. The number
of people, including women and children,
is about S000 and to feed and clothe this
people requires another army elsewhere.
The markets of the world are drawn on
for this purpose. Flour almost without
exception comes from Spokane mills, an
occasional carload being purchased from
some mill in the Palouse country. Hay
comes from the Palouse, St. Joe and Mon
tana, grain from the Palouse and meat
generally from the same source. Groceries
come from Missoula, Spokane, Portland
and the east in about the order named
Boots and shoes mostly from St. Paul ant
st. Louis; clothing and dry goods from
Chicago and New York. Paints and oil.
are from Spokane, Portland and Chicago
lumber from Cataldo, Harrison and Pu
get sound: sash and doors from Chicago
San Francisco had considerable trad,
with us until during the recent campaign
a number of bills were received stamped
payable in United States gold COIN
That settled 1t: the Occur d'Alene pro
duces silver, and the man who wants he
trade must not be too violent in his en-
deavors to ruin one of her chief indus
tries