Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-11-03
THE IRON CROWN BONANZA
New Milling Machinery to DO Introduced
at an Early Date.

New Milling Machinery to DO Introduced
at an Early Date.
w. H. Walp, manager OF
the Iron Crown mine at New.
, some creek, is in the city, hav-
: ing closed down the mill for a
few days pending the decision
) of the directors as to whether
it will be to the advantage OF
the company to continue mill
work through the winter
months or not. The mine,
: however, SO Mr.. Walp states,
is in full operation and there
are eight men employed there
continuously. Mr.. Evilsizer,
as was stated heretofore in the
columns of the Press, is in
the city and he is the foreman
of the mine. To a Press re-
porter Mr.. Walp said: 81
came in with the retort which
will give us from $1,000 to
$I7oo; it represented only
what was not cleaned up be-
fore in the mill and does not
signify any particular times
run. The reason of our tenn.
porary shutdown was the re.
cent heavy rains which filled
up the reservoir and clogged
the pipes with mud, making it
impossible to continue opera.
; tons for the time, but we
have now cleaned it all out
and are in splendid shape. In
, answer to the question of what
ore there is in sight, why that
is hard to say, but on the basis
on which we have been run
ming, without making any new
discoveries, we have sufficient
to last us for two years or
. more.
> "What l am going to do
J for the future is to ascertain
if | can get different charac.
ter of mill in there from the
one we have at present. You
4 see, our company is out Of
debt and on a dividend.paying
basis and it is to our interest
to get the ore milled as advan.
f tageously as possible, and this
!, can only be done by getting
{, the latest appliances, and that
! we propose to do. Since we
D started we have, from one
< cause or another, been handi
t capped, and hence we have
9 only been able to run 100 days
!. during the past year, and yet
s even at that we have taker
out and milled sufficient ore tc
pay for handling, machinery
}. cost of mining and attendan,
IS expenses, in addition to divi
dend, and taking into consid
u Grafton the primitive machin
- cry, ETC., we have done won
,s derfully well, so you can ap
al preciate what we could dc
IN with machinery which coule
handle the ore to advantage
p "Incidentally l would men
x, ton that ]. R. Brown has
~. property up there known a
the Saturday Lode, which i
no situated between Wells
lst Judges property and the Iro
LA Crown, to the southwest an
ng it is certainly going to deve
opc into a winner if surfat
,at showings are any criterio
to Of course his present work
'er only in the shape of asses
"a ment work, but even with tn
it shows marked improv
ag ment. The Gold Crown
F, also a good property and wi
no | believe, with a little develo
r. ment make a great mine.
e. shall go in to Newsome ere,
tie again in a day or two and r
main there until the latt
e. part of the month, when | W
81 come out and prepare to go
!. Denver to make arrangement
of for the new machinery. M
i'll Evilsizer proposes to go ,
i, Beuna Vista, Col, where
or will remain until spring whe
A.. he will be ready to start up
~ good shape"
~ AT this time it would NJ
lko n Lcl 49, Il ~