The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-13
PROMISING IDAHO MINES
Many Prospectors Begin Active
Operations in the Hump.
A SCARCITY OF LABOR
Rod Leggat, Who Is Already Interested
in Several Largo Enterprises, NAV
Branch Out Still Further-some
Extensive Placer Fields.

A dispatch dated Grangevile. Idaho.
says that Rod D. Leggat, one of the
most prominent operators of Butte. is
here awaiting party Of friends. Michi-
gan capitalists, who are visiting this
section with a view Of investing in
placer properties. Mr. Leggat is al
ready largely interested in the Buffalo
hill placers near Elk City. and reports
a very satisfactory cleanup the past
season; in fact he is 50 well satisfied
that he has induced his friends to Join
him in a large enterprise here"
The friends mentioned in the fore
going are probably the same capitalists
of Michigan with whom Mr.. Leggat
was interested in the big hydlauic
mines in Highland gulch near Butte
Mr.. Leggat controls a valuable water
right in the section of Idaho he is now
visiting, and it is given out that this
water covers a vast acreage of ri h
placer ground, which is no doubt en-
braced in the enterprise Of which the
above dispatch speaks.
Among the many large enterprises
now being advanced in Idaho county
is that of an English company, that
in the latter part of 1897 purchased
ows placer fields, near Warrens, Idaho.
There are 600 acres of ground. for which
they paid $4,000 to Ed Brooks, Ed
Behnke and others. During 1898 they
thoroughly prospected the ground by
drifting, and while they HAD been of the
opinion that bedrock tlume was the
proper thing, the past season has shown
conclusively that dredees can be used
to great advantage. For tnls purpose
tHa m, hp n y,rir,
of California and has decided to at once
put in the new model dredge which is
now so successfully operated in that
state. 1t is also proposed to build a
large dam at the lower end of IS
meadows, which will furnish sufficient
water to overflow the entire property.
A floating dredge will at once be con-
structed, and it is proposed to build
several more. With ample carital
backing it the company will spend from
5000, 900 to $500, 900 in placing the propo-
sition in first-class condition. George
and H. B. Alexander very extensive
owners in the SLOGAN country, are the
managers of this big enterprise.
Lucian Eaves. consulting and exam
lining engineer for the Idaho Explora-
ton and Copper company of New York
city, has gone for a two weeks trip in
the Seven Devils country. The Idaho
Exploration and Copper company re-
Gently organized with a capital OF
SIS, 900, 900, and is composed of some of
the greatest financierS of Wall street,
and is backed blythe most powerful
syndicate of copper retiners in the
world. The corporation was organized
primarily for the, purpose of complet-
ing the work already begun in build
ing a plant for mining and smelling
the copper ores OF the Seven Devils
group, They are open, however, for
propositions to buy any great copper
properties to be found in Idaho Utah,
Oregon, Montana or British Columbia.
This is the company which is building
the Northwest railway from Hunting
ton to the Seven Devils to haul the
ores to the smelter already located
there. Il "a
There seems to be concerted action
on the part of a great many property
owners in the Hump to begin active
operations on their5 claims. No less
than is different outfits left Grange
vile last week, and it is daily occur
renee for supplies and men to be start
ed out. James Cameron of Norman &
Cameron of Spokane is authority for
the statement that it will be impossible
to secure enough miners in the Hump
for the work now on the way and that
contemplated and he believes that
quite a number of miners from the
outside could find steady employment
at fair wages. of course, it must not
be understood that there are no miners
in the country for there are at least
1900 Immediately around the Hump,
but they are all prospecting and do not
care for days work.