The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26
S|oIc5M 5TEUNENBERC1P ~

The Boise basin continues to be one
of the main arteries of the great Boise
gold country, and the past year has
witnessed the Inauguration of several
very important enterprises. These in
addition to the steady output of the old
quartz placer mines, have given the
basin a period of intense activity In
fact, mining men say that not since the
early days, when gold was taken from
basin placers by the million, has that
section experienced such prosperity.
Among the leading operations to the
credit of 1897 is the development of the
Lucky Boy mine by company of Pitts
burg capitalists, with c. T. Reno, a man
of immense wealth, at their head. This
company selected the Lucky Boy to ex-
pertinent on Their plan is to develop
the property at greater depth than has
been attained on any mine in the basin;
to thoroughly prove it. If the results
are as expected, they will put in one of
the biggest plants in the state, first
having secured other adjacent proper
ties The company has capital in any
quantity for this work; and it may be
said that the future of quartz mining
in the basin depends on the result of its
operations.
Another 1897 project is the develop,
ment of the Summit mine by the Colo
RADIO & Idaho Mining & Milling COM
pany, with H. E. .Winslow as superin-
tendent He has been sinking a shaft
on the property to cut two veins. One
of these was reached at a depth of 125
feet The shaft will, he thinks, cut the
other vein within so feet further. A
drift on the first ledge shows nine
foot ore body which carries at a con-
sentative estimate, $3.50 in gold a ton.
Mr. Winslows assays run from $50 to
$3.50. The very high grade ore is d
streak three inches wide. So far, the
ore is fee milling and still above the
water level, with no indications of iron.
BY spring the development will have
proceeded far enough so the manage
ment can determine what kind of
milling plant to put in.
George w. Cook, one of the best
known mining men of Colorado, this
year took hold of the Black Bear group,
and his work is demonstrating that the
old placer workings of the basin will
shortly pale into insignificance as COM
pared with the quartz mining of the
near future.
The foregoing comprise the principal
new operations of 1897. The following
are the leading placer enterprises inau-
gurated in the basin during the year:
A few weeks ago the Boise Mining
company sold to Charles II. Souther of
Boston what is known as the bed rock
flume enterprise. The deal involved
the transfer of 900 acres of placer
ground. including seven miles of More
creek and one mile of Rock creek. The
consideration was $4,000 a large part
of which has already been paid. Mr..
Souther has already a number of men
on the ground, and next spring ex-
poets to install an immense dredging
plant There was lively bidding for
the property between Souther's repre-
sentative and the Harper company, op-
Grating at Bannock, Mont, for this
ground, which was represented by Mr..
/ Kirkpatrick The final negotiations
We're conducted by telephone from Ida
/ no City. The Souther man and Kirk
patrick had been raising back and forth
and the latter started post haste for
Boise. Before he reached the Half
way house, the next telephone station
/ from Idaho City, the property was
turned over to Southers representa-
tive. Later it was said the Harper peo-
pie would have gone as high as $780,
COO
But Mr. kirkpatrick was not shut out
altogether. He secured a tract of $50