The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-06
OPPORTUNITIES IN IDAHO.
Good Propositions offered In Gold
Placer Mining.

The World. of Idaho CITY. in COM
menting -ou the opportunities offered in
that section in the mining line, says:
Since Ehe. latter part of the COS
the People Of this county have been
building their hopes on the certainty
that at some future time bed
rock fumes in More. Elk. Grimes and
Granite creeks would be an accom-
pllzEhed fact and the good times Of
she days OF old ana the days of
gold" be brought back in adj their
pristine glory. At many different
times the realization of these hopes
seemed very near, but something has
each time occurred to interfere with
tbs practical Inauguration or con-
ttrlual-ic11 of the work. Osa COMPANY
pended several thousand dollars.
Through disagreement among its
mem bers no practical progress was
made, and the capitalists who Were to
firrisln sdlA money with which to per-
form the work that must be done pre-
Hfn9rary TO Iela realization of golden
results. withdrew and the enterprise
cola 9sed.
The creeks have been surveyed
ana the bedrock dume method of
working pronounced thoroughly prac-
ticslble by competent mining engi-
nesr5. With sufficient fan. album
dance of water in the spring and
early summer, and millions of dol
lars in the ground, any speculation as
70 the success of che enterprise is en-
TREY out Of the question. Late in
the season, when the water supply
dirrliCtShes. work could be continued
by constructing large TegarVoirs, the
topog1uDily of the country being ia
VoIoiola for the C1r-stCuction of innu-
nltra'ble such RESERVOIRS at no very
great cost It is earnestly hoped
frat the parties who row own the
beds of Mere and Elk creeks ON this
SIDE Of The Basin, ard rfla owners Of
Crimes creek. ON the other side. will
be able to convince CAPITALISTS of the
feasibility of the enterprise. ard of
the great amounG of gold tnat
is awaiting extraction. There is no
mining enterprise anywhere On earth
more certain Of big returns. The ele-
nlecr OF risk ard uncertainty is en-
tlreCy elm; Geted by the absolute GER
1adrI-y OF the existence Of millions upon
millions of dollars to be taken
CUT From what has been produced
by the primitive methods employed
in early times. ard q knowledge of
the amount OF rich unWCTked ground
covered with debris from the hlN
Gains, a clcga estimate can be made
III lIlS 1InUlIuI VI ssOiO llt1l S'lll JS7 ia
the So11 and gravel of these
creeks. Wren the truth is told cap
Fa'tsIts become inc~eiulous but a
talk wiea the cid timers of the Basin
would thoroughly convince them that
the facts hsre.n stated are correct.
II the simple facts were generally
known among mine investors they
world not have 20 be importuned TO
DE,. their money into a bedrock flurne.
They would come here wlth rush
and be eager to invest Ninety
millions of d5Gars IS the amcUn,. of
placer e,c1d. Carried cut of Boise Basin
by Wells. Fargo & Co.'S exprese
f1l-.n TIA discovery of the 9lacers in
the c1g Of 1862. w TO 1876, and .reis
6rcs rl-t rive cne-h1lf of the prc'duc-
t1-.a TIE amount oarrted out by
in6tV.5-,lls during Tne three years of
big prci3uecqca-1s63 1854 and 1s65-was
far greater than that carried By the ex
DEE=- Gum lILl-r.