The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-07-28

The flood of twaddle about ina
ginary ways to open Seven Devils
country, which was sent out broad
cast about the time Issac Blake com
menced his pyrotechnical career Of
incompetency last year, has been com
paratively slack this year so far but
is beginning to break out again. The
following is from the Oregonian
The beginning of work on the construc-
ton of railroad from the city of Union
to the Seven Devils copper region of Idaho
has awakened great interest among the
people of Oregon in that promising min
eral region. aud many are the wonderful
reports of the richness of that new eldo-
RADIO, which, through the construction of
the Union. Cornucopia & Eastern railway
is to be brought into close touch with the
great state of Oregon and especially Union
county. Concerning the new railroad,
the Union Republican says:
The road is being built by New York
capital. and nearly all the mines OF the
camp are held by New York parties, con-
sequently the railroad people and the
mining people have mutual interest III
the road and mines"
.'The Peacock mine, though by nc
means the only valuable copper m'ne IN
that vast region, is by far the most large
ly developed of all the numerous proper
ties in that section. The smelLer, t.
which copper ore is steadily hauled by
teams from The Peacock mine. is located
midway between the mine and Ballard
landing, on Snake river, being 10 miles
from the mine and the same distance from
the river, and at 4 point near where th'
Union, Cornucopia 81 Eastern railway
crosses Snake river. The workings on th'
Peacock mine consist of n large 50 fool
shaft driven entirely through rich cop
per ore, and five or six big open cuts eX-
posing the copper veins. which is aoou
400 feet long and averages nearly ~
feet in width. At present tunnel OF 2VX
30 feet in size is being run from the Wagon
road To reach point about so feat lowe
Than that of the bottom of the 65foo
shaft. This huge tunnel is already l0
feet long and being entirely in copper ore
furnishes the present supply which
being hauled to the smelter
At the scientifically operated smete
ahere is smeIted every day of "A hours 81
600 pounds of copper ore, 800 pounds G
charcoal IL 900 pounds pf coke. l2.Ouo
iron. 1000 of slack and 26. GOO OF lm
This t,rns ont rhdut three tons of metal
lie copper ore valued at oooo "',,; To- ,
5000. This shows that from every IL
Is tons of copper. ore there is vle'ue
about 20 per cent or onedfth is weigl
in copper The June output from u
Peacock mine alone was 6000 tons. CoI
servative and competent men ess''pa p'
cnci, w;thpnt going anv deeper. is full
100, 900 tons. AS this at Sooo copp
nnr @ the % cost we,flth in the Seven Dew
section can be faintly imagined. o,
critics hein~ developed, and ali are shol
ing good bodies of ore. The able con
pan'es operating these p'ope'S 49, S,os the
more or less developed mines are Il
SouIh reacocN' o"ppeI ny ~ n,cor,,h
Quite a number of other properties
that section are now on Sne eNe ,,,noher ~I
capitalists about ready ty begin opf
ations'
Wh'ie a new rou'e he'e 'o'' y
the obove art'cie Is unoou''e''
pushed foreh iro" 'ne S"'ne 'o'' =
as last years crop Oh senS"''o"'
regard 10 Tue ho" "oinou' w y :
OH Snake river ioioe "'D =
johnson Is cohhec'e" "''n VIZ
% Il ads o'eu''y " ~ VI 0o'i
Inc art'cie ihOlina''o"' 40 W
possipu'e'es ol 'he oe'en D'"'