The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-18
SOME IDAHO MINES.
The summsr's Operations In the Vicinity
of Idaho City.

OF Idaho City.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Idaho City Idaho, July 15.-The 1000
foot tunnel of the Morning Star gold
quartz mine, at Grimes Pass. has cross
ed the ledge, and developed at the depth
Of nearly 200 feet a 12-foot vein of very
good ore. as many tests made during
the past two weeks shows that 1t will
mill about t14 per ton. The property is
owned by a company of Pittsburg, Pa,
men, who are arranging TO erect a large
stamp mill on Payette river, about a
mile below the mouth of the tunnel.
The tunnel cut several other veins that
are good.
The five-stamp mill going UP at the
Golden Fleece group. a mile east OF Gen.
terville, viii be ready for crushing by
next Monday. The shaft at the mine Is
down 80 feet. and when down a hun
bred the vein will be prosecuted for.
1t is only 20 or Is feet from the shaft.
The Basic company has all but two
miles of the ditch for power completed.
There is one tunne in the unfinished
portion that will be 200 feet long when
completed. The machinery for the
dynamo. which Will generate 500 horse
power. is now arriving on the ground. II
will furnish power for the dredge at
P~lacerville. and also for the one to be
placed on Grimes creek.
Ine uleuEe Oh MUTE CREEK, TWO mileS
below this place. will be ready to run
before the oath inst, the time agreed
on in the contract.
James Irwin and ~nephews, Archie and
Wallie, are working a placer claim at
the mouth of Deadwood fork of Pay
cite river that is paying handsomely.
The Twin Springs company has con-
centrated all of the water of More creek
on the claim on III west side of East
hill.
The Stevens Bros. have spent the last
six weeks developing a ledge on the
divide between More and Grimes creeks.
half a mile east of the Black corral"
They have cut Is feet into the ledge
without reaching the opposite wall. The
ledge is rich and the gold coarse. AL
though the ground had been Travelled
over for 35 years. no one ever suspected
the lodges cutting through those noun
tains were mineral bearing.
Several miles Of placer ground on
More creek, extending from the Cold
Springs, six miles below this place. to
the Sherman hill, has been sold by Con-
gresham James Gum, w. H.. Jacobs.
Colonel George H. Williams and b. r.
L. Poston to a Pittsburg company. Five
thousand dollars of the purchase price
has been paid.
The Elmira mill at Banner is crushing
a few hundred tons of silver ore.
Thomas Barry is running a tunnel to
open the ore chute of the Olympia, on
Summit fiat, at a depth of over 200 feet.
As soon as II is in a lower one Will be
extended, which will cut 1t between 400
and 500 feet deep.
Negotiations are now under way for
the sale Of the Jupiter, Lagraciosa and
two or three other free gold quartz
claims, on Little Wolf creek, five miles
north of here. The New York, a short
distance south of these claims, lately
bought by a Spokane company. is look
ing well in the lower works. A hoist
will soon be placed on the property
and a shaft put down 400 feet, which
will get a depth of 1000 feet on the
vein.
The raise from the tunnel to the up
per works of the Lucky Boy is nearly
completed. At the depth of 400 feet,
where the ledge was cut by the tunnel,
the vein is larger and the ore richer
than hat found nearer the surface. The
property is under bond to a Pittsburg
company.
Placer mining here is about over for
the season.
Smith & williams are making hand
some profits out of their placer claim
at the head of Deer creek.
The Old Glory company Is pushing
work in the long tunnel running for
the ore chute of the Blaine, in Gambri-
nus district. 1t will take some time
yet to get 1t in.