The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-02-03

the country. Ii is admirably lOcateu
for convenience OF dump, grade for
bedrock race, fall for pressure and
abundance Of water. They have
worked here for ten years, taking out
a great deal Of money, and still have
hardly touched their grouud, as far
as exhausting it goes, but have dem
onstrated that every foot OF their 80
acres contains pay and that the ground
is good for $8,0 to $40, 600 for
every acre. For several years they
worked on the higher part OF the
claim. Three years ago they began
at the lower edge OF the bench, ON
which the claims lie, TO pipe cut
on bedrock 1000 feet to the Older dig
gins to better open the ground and
give race with fall to run of the
gravel They have opened the cut
with their canvas pipe to distance
Of 1000 feet towards the old work.
ings. In this distance they have tax
en- out the best Of pay right along
and have opened up bed of eight
feet of gravel on level piece OF bed
rock which yields from Is to 80 cents
a pan. From where they are now
working the bedrock rises more ab-
ruptly to where the old diggings are.
The ground is good to produce half
a million dollars.
On the head OF Grouse creek John
Clare has some interesting placer
property. There is not sign of
wash gravel, but between granite walls
Is and 20 feet high and S feet apart
is bed of soft ruby slate, fine pieces
of quartz which pay from grass roots
= to bedrock. Above the point Of op-
Grafton it continues up the mountain
side and below it pitches of deeper
and wider Water is scarce but Jack
has been able to pipe six weeks each
spring for the last three years. This
season he took out 5000 in 20 days
} and last year took out 800 in 25
days. Some OF the small pieces Of
quartz sprinkled through the mass
} are two thirds gold He has two
e claims-ssG Grouse Greek" aud 'sSum-
: nit. :"
+ Fred Ault has similar claim near
8 by and he has been engaged in fol-
n lowing the bed Of stuff up the noun
d tain in search of the ledge it has un-
/. doubtedly come down from. In do
: ing this Mr. Ault has gotten as high
: as 81 25 pan from the grass roots
+ in spots up the mountain side.
k At Miller's camp, which consists OF
500 acres of good placer ground pur-
chased by Andrew Larsen from Alex
johnson, OF Warren, three years ago.
o Andy is at work with another man
e clearing for next seasons work. The
timber here is so heavy that it is nee
|. essary each year to cut down and
:. burn the timber on piece OF ground
} large enough to last during next sea
y sons water supply. In 96 Andy
3 took out 81, 600, but we are not in
II formed on the 81 years cleanup, bu
it is assured he has fortune lying
there.
~ Still further up one fork of Secesb
is above the famous Warm Springs
lie more valuable deposits are found
es aud one substantial company has com
~ menced operations there.
This but poorly gives an idea o
the Great Mineral Belt of Wester
ut Idaho, or the variety and extcnt o
,h the minerals discovered, but the fat
mt remains that it is soon t., be one {
the most noted districts on the cont
nent AS it is now perhaps one of VI
IN most extensive, while the possibl
he ties Of the unprospected part def
in imagination.