Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-04-29
BADGER.
The Coming Cripple Creek OF
Idaho.

Special Correspondence.
The quietude heretofore OBJ
served by the inhabitants of
Badger camp and the sur
rounding country would lead
one to believe that this pros
porous mining camp is too in
significant to make mention of
to the outside world; yet an
hours visit to that thriving
camp at the foot of Badger
mountain will soon Danish all
doubts, and the visitor is i'm.
pressed with the Importance of
this isolated, yet most promis-
ing district. Little has been
heard or said of Badger in the
newspapers, yet in less than a
year, Badger will take high
rank as a mining camp, and
its progress and stability evil
denced by the different val
liable properties in operation
will open the eyes of even the
most skeptical.
The fact that little is known
of Badger is due to two rea-
sons. One is, Badger requires
no newspaper notoriety to in
form the world and mining
men in general of its advanta-
ges, as it has in its place facts
and figures which count with
practical mining men more
than any newspaper talk could
accomplish. The other rea-
son is, Badger is possessed of
a class of people who are just
the right kind in the right
place. They are thorough
prospectors and practical min
ing men, who believe in Davie
Crocker's doctrine: "Be sure
you are right and then go
ahead;" but what they do not
believe in is fiction, which is
rather more or less the case
with some of its rival camps.
with their fabulous strikes,
etc, which invariably exist
more in the newspapers than
in reality. The people of
Badger do not believe in fic-
ton booms, write-ups, etc.
AS mentioned before, they
have something more substan-
tial to offer to prospectors and
mining men, namely, facts:
i. e., mountains of quartz and
high-grade ore; and figures;
thousands of dollars worth of
bullion produced by the differ
ent properties in operation.
The progress made in Bad
ger since last summer can
thus be summed up: Where
eight month ago there was a
wilderness in this beautiful
Crooked river valley, travers-
ed by only a lonely mountain
trail, there is to-day an excel.
lent wagon road, and where
solitude ruled supreme sur
rounded by mountains of grand
beauty and honeycomed with
free milling quartz lodges of
great size and value, there
is today represented in all
branches of business the thriv-
ing and prosperous little min
ing town of Badger, named
after the Banner mine of the
district-the Badger mine.
Where at the time above
mentined one could occasion
ally hear the sound of the
sound of the prospector's NOR
tar, now one hears the pound
ing of the ten stamps of the
Badger mill, situated about
two hundred yards from town,
reducing the valuable ore and
producing the precious yellow
metal. Indeed, fortune has
dealt very kindly with Badger;
where is there a camp in Idaho
that has made the same pro-
gress in the same length of
time that Badger has?
Amongst the foremost prop
critics is the Badger mine, To-
Gated July, 1896, by S. B. IT.
win and II. d. Poyneer. Said
gentlemen sold the Badger
mine when only prospect to
Spokane and Butte capitalists.
The chief purchasers were
Patsy Clarke of Spokane and
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