The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-04
MINING At IDAHO CITY
Work of Retimbering in the
Morning Star.
AT THE BRUISER GROUP
A Five-Stamp Mill Going Up-Crushing
Will Begin Monday-A New Mil
at Work at the Twin.
Sisters Group.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Idaho City, Idaho. Sept. 1.-The work
of retimbering the 2,000-foot tunnel Of
the Morning Star mine. at Grimes Pass,
is progressing rapidly. Fifty or 80 men
are camped there waiting for employ
ment. 1t is the intention of Superin-
tendent Keegan to put them at work
seen.
The fve-stamp mill going up at the
Brulser group Is about completed, and
it is the intention to mmenC crush
ing next Monday.
Mr.. Kincaid, who Is cleaning out the
tunnels n drifts of the Elkhorn, on
Elk creek. preparatory to doing some
prospecting for a Denver company
holding an option on it. is keeping the
fve-stamp mill running.
The new five-stamp mill at the Twin
Sisters group. at Centerville, has been
running over a week, crushing over two
tons per day to the stamp. The ore
coming out of the mine is very rich in
free gold.
The 90 OO-pound boiler for the Basic
company's dynamo, to be placed ON
Grimes creek, went through the Henry
creek bridge. between this place and
Centerville, last Monday. 1t now lies
In a cut 10 feet deep, and considerable
time will be required to again get II on
theg grade and loaded. 1t has been over
three weeks on the road from Boise,
and 20 horses are used to draw it,.
An Eastern is doing some
development work on a mine on Willow
creek, four miles west Of this place,
owned by f. Burson. The vein is sew
eral feet wide, and prospects well in
free gold.
The dredge two miles below this
place on More creek is doing good work.
taking up and washing 100 cubic yards
of gravel per hour. Abou the end of
the week a night shift will be put on.
The Lucky Boy, in Gambrinus dis
trict, is still improving with every foot
of development. A mill has been or
dered and every effort will be made to
have it up and running by Nov. I.
Joseph French has resumed work on
the Jupiter at the head of Wolf creek.
Matt Graham and Pat sheridan are
sinking on a very promising free gold
ledge on Rock creek. a few miles north
of summit Flat. The vein is about
three feet wide and the rock shows
plentifully of gold. Forty or 80 tons will
be worked in the Wilson mill on sum
NIT Flat as a test.
Forty or so placer claims have been
located during the past two weeks on
Valley creek, east of Cape Horn. The
valley is two or three miles wide. and
10 or II long. and although there is gold
from the surface down no mining has
ever been done. owing to the fairness
Of the country. The only way to work
IT is by dredEes, and they would pay
well. 1t is the object of those who made
the locations to negotiate with compa-
MES doing that sort of mining.
Several placer claims located on More
creek during the summer are now
working.
John Mccarthy has resumed work in
the Mountain Ram. He has worked
considerable ore in custom mills, and it
has averaged from $3.50 to Sl7 per ton,
besides that which is contained in the
s%ulphurets.
Work was suspended a few days ago
on the boat for the Centerville dredge
on account Of the non-arrival of the
bolts.
Thomas Barry has resumed sinking
in the Olympia shaft on Summit Flat.