Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-09-10
NEWS FROM WARREN.
The Camp Constantly Moving Up
ward as q Producer.

WafO as q PRODUCER.
weiser Signal.
Warren is looking well this sum.
mer and increased activity in min
ing operations are Indicative OF
what the camp will be when its
real value becomes thoroughly un.
derstood in mining circles, that is
among men who have abundant
means to invest in good paying
quartz properties. AS a matter Of
course, the rich quartz veins are
the future mainstay of the camp
and placer mining is simply incl
dental, though there are still en-
terprises of considerable magnitude
in that line to be carried into sue
cessful operation. 1t is the opin-
ion of Mr.. George Riebold that ten
or twenty stamp mills are neces-
sary to the complete success of the
camp, and his long experience
with tive-stamp mill renders him
competent to judge.
At the Goodenough and other
properties of the Idaho CONSOLIDATE
ed Gold Company, Mr.. Czizek has
a force of men at work on the new
mill. All the machinery, with the
exception of the boiler, has arrived
and is being put into position in
the newly completed building.
Track is being laid from the Good
annruh tnpna1 RI thn Oca 1,.>,,o
and if the boiler arrives in season,
the stamps will commence dropping
on September LIST. The mine is in
shape to stope and the mill will be
easily supplied with a small force
of men. There is considerable ore
on the dump and the visitor can
pry into it promiscuously and find
fine specimens sprinkled with free
gold. The vein in the breast is
about two and one-half feet wiAe.
The company's property has just
been surveyed for the purpose of
obtaining a patent.
At the Little Giant everything
is moving along in business-like
manner, and the hoist which Mr..
Riebold put OH year before last is
kept busily at work, raising from
the 200-foot workings where five
men are STOPPING. The new de-
velopment work this season has
consisted in sinking 81 feet from
the 113O-ioot mill-level tunnel,
and from the bottom of this hole Il
drift has been run 200 feet east, en-
conntering two fine ore clutcs.
The mill has made two runs on
ore taken out in the course of this
development work, turning out
$500. The mill will commence
crushing about the last of the
month and enough rich ore has
been blocked out to run it eight
months. The new work has dem
onstrated that the vein holds it's
strength with depth and Mr.. Rio
bolds property is constantly grow
ing in value.
Elmer and John Patterson are
at work on the Iowa in the lower
tunnel which they have driven in
475 feet with the ledge constantly
improving. 1t is showing up to be
II fine and valuable property.
They run their water power aras-
ira in the winter on $25 and $50
rock.
1t is an interesting sight to visit
the Warren Placer Mining Com
pany when the dredge or steam
shovel is in operation. This COM
pany has put pile of money into
its plant. The company has
put in over $500 feet of large flume
and Immediately at the mines 1900
feet of tlume is carried at II height
of 40 feet to the hoist from where
the sluices dump off down stream.
Several hundred feet distant the
steam shovel is at work in the ex-
cavation on bedrock about 90 feet
below the surface. 1t raises %
tons of gravel at each shovel-fuli
to the surface in one minute OF
time, and two shovels fill a car
These cars are hauled up by horses
to be loaded; when loaded they
are pulled along a track to the
foot of the incline at the hoist
where wire cable is hooked on
the big engine is turned loose and
the 5-ton car goes up the incline
dumps its load into the sluices and
is turned loose to return by gray.
ity to the level track below to be
hauled back for another load
About 200 cars day are put into
the slnices. The great twin boil
ers at the hoist also run pump
which raises the water out of the
workings. The last clean up of q
seven days run was s21OO.
Down on the Meadows james
Reardon, superintendent of thu
bedrock flume company in the alb
sence of Mr.. Alexander, is building
the frame work for the hoist pre-
paratory to the arrival of the ma
chinery now on the way. Sluice.
will be carried from the hoist
water being pumped to them from
bedrock. The company is not ex
pecting the present method o
operation to be the permanent on