Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-01-15

King and others of Spokane.
The Waverly will resume in the
spring.
Active work is being done on
the Jumbo, Yellow ia cket, Tip
| Top, Candelaria and numerous
others.
The owners of the Blossom are
sinking on the property and have
some very rich ore. The outlook
for the camp is getting brig liter
every day.
The Dixie country has sprung
into considerable prominence since
the year 1894, when it was known
and fully demonstrated that quartz
of value was to be found in that
camp.
Sam Dillinger, unaided and
alone has done much to show W hat
this camp can do. His arastra
was grinding out $40 per ton from
ore that would run rich in sui
phides as well, all this past year.
The valuable properties formerly
owned by our friend Sam have
passed into the hands of the Idaho
Comstock Mining and Milling
company, who we hope will not
only make something for them
selves but thoroughly develop the
properties.
Various other properties in the
camp have been more or less de-
veloped and have a good showing.
The Milhoan placers were work.
ed to their fullest extent and paid
well.
! The Crooked Creek placers own
ed by Blaine & Cummings, far
exceeded the expectation of it's
owners. While the amount of
time run was short on account of
unavoidable accidents by high
water, the value of the output
doubled the prospective value given
to the ground by a thorough test
made in 1894 by San Francisco
concern. All danger from high
water has now been alleviated by
the proper strengthening of the
tiume and adding more boxes to
give additional dumping facilities.
This year it is expected clean up
of $15, 600 to 500, 900 can be made.
This company have a fine plant
and own 160 acres of placer
ground that has a prospective
value of So, 900 per acre, and from
the results on last seasons run
shows over Sc, 900 per acre.
| ELK CITY.
Last but not least comes this
promising camp. Years ago, in
1867, when the white man practi-
cally deserted the placer claims of
the camp to the Chinese, no one
thought that 80 years hence i'm
mense hydraulic plants would be
installed on supposedly worked out
and abandoned placers, and even
after the Chinese had the camp for
20 years these plants are being
installed and paying large re-
turns on the Investment. The
principal plant is that of the
Idaho company, Chicago concern,
on American Hill. The mode of
operation is on a gravel elevator
plan of Hendy type. Over $780,
OOO on xor1s Of mo far;o1 woo
raised 90 feet above bedrock by
this machine the past season. The
gravel is washed and gold saved
both in the fumes leading to the
elevator sump and in the main
fume from the elel ator discharge.
Two giants are constantly at
work six months in the year on
this property.
The Buffalo Hill Mining COM
pany made a good clean up last
season, and are largely increasing
their facilities for handling gravel.
A large crew of men have been at
work all fall on bitches, ETC., and
at this writing new fiume is be-
ing put in, pipe laid and giants set
for spring operations.
The Herman property is also
undergoing extensive similar i'm
provements and will be ready in
the spring to wash gravel on a
large scale. These two last men,
toned companies are backed by
Butte capitalists.
James Witt is installing giant
and new pipe line on his Dead
wood placers, and that valuable
property will give more gold pro-
duction this year than ever before.
1t is confidently expected that |
other good properties will be OPEN
ed this coming season. Among
them the McEntee ground on
lower Crooked river, and an i'm
mense bed rock flume on upper