Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-07-21
MINING NOTES.

new mill very shortly TO treat a large
body Of ore which runs S2s or better to
the ton The contract is already let.
The Gladstone mining company Of
Leesburg, Idaho, has Just erected
twenty stamp mill which is treating
about twenty five tons Of ore daily.
good saving of gold values is being
made.
The Orizaba No > mine, at Cripple
Creek, owned by the FL Paso Gold Min
ing company has beaten all former
records of this great gold camp, as it
has just marketedlo614 pounds Of ore
that carried values at Sl2. 81 in gold to
the pound.
new mining camp has been started
between Diamond creek and Wallace
creek in Eureka district. Idaho. Large
bodies of ore have been struck and the
new camp has all promises of being
one of the foremost in the country
1t is about twelve miles from salmon
City.
For the fun of the thing some of the
business men of Apex. Colo, rugged up
a sluice box in the principal street of
the town, deriving their water supply
from small stream near by. They
made their first cleanup on the l4th,
and besides receiving a nice lot of
amalgam, took out nugget Of gold
that weighed 10 grains.
DR.. S. j Bagley of Deseret, while in
specting an old and dismanted mill in
Nevada, accidentally found several
buttons of silver that had escaped in
some way from the plates and before
he returned to Carson City he had ac-
cumulated quite little fortune in the
white metal that had been lost through
the carelessness of the mill operator
Al the Sumpter placer mines near
Baker City, Ore, thieves extracted
considerable gold dust from the sluice
boxes. Two men were arrested ON sus-
picion, but as no one had seen them
while tampering with the boxes
their guilt could not be proven and
they were liberated.
A special from Fl Paso, Texas, says
that the gold mining property known
as l. 'Esperanza, situated in the Eloro
district. Mexico, is about to pass into
the hands of an American syndicate,
headed by c. p. Lane of California and
w. S. Stratton of Colorado. The price
is Sc, 900. 0oO
A Dixon correspondent of the Raw
Inns Journal writes that large body
of low-grade. free milling ore has been
found on Battle mountain, near Dixon,
Wyo., and that prospectors from all
parts of the surrounding country arc
taking up claims The ore body is a
blanket vein and is found in numerous
/ places on the mountain. The ore runs
from SO to S34 ton in gold.
Work has been begun on the Anchor
opal mine says the Boise Statesman.
Fred Bachman and Tim Shirley, who
opment work now under the direction
Of DR. Bartlett, its present owner.
! The former method of work resulted
in destroying the value OF the ground
to a great extent and the plan now be
ing pursued is to quarry the ground.
| The following story comes from
10. l.. l. : =.
/ The richest gold strike the world
/ has ever known was made in the Klon
dyke region last August and Septem
/ ber, but the news did not get even t.
/ Circle City until December IS, whcr
there was a great stampede over tho
300 miles intervening between ther,
and the newer fields On August L
4 George Cormack made the first grea
strike on Bonanza creek, and on Au
gust 70 seven claims were filed in tha
| region. Word got to Forty Mile anC
upon as a grub-stake rumor On DE
cember =, however, authentic new
was carried to Circle City by j. NJ. vii
son of the Alaska Commercial company
and Thomas O'Brien, a trader The,
carried not only news, but prospects
and the greatest stampede ever know
in this part of the world commenced
Those who made the 300 miles frs
struck it richest. of all the POO claim
staked out on the Bonanza and El DO
RADIO creeks not one has proven
blank Hundreds Of thousands of dol
lars have been taken ont and the rich
ness of the ground demonstrated. A sin
gle pan has yielded $50, and four con
secutiye ones over 1000 Fortune
were made in day. II seems strange
though, that il takes year for sucl
news TO reach the balance of th
world. A big county is Alaska,
The Yuba company at Atlanta, Ida
has resumed work on its pgopertr an
is taking out ore. The placer diggings
in the same locality are attractin,
considerable attention this season
The Boston & Montana Mining com
pany and the Montana Ore Purchasing
company are lighting over a watcl
ditch. There was pitched battle re
Gently, when $50 employees Of one com
pany were drawn up against TOO mor'