Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-05-05
At THE H|YU MINE.
The Mill Running on Ore Which is Said
to Average S22 in Gold.

III the mercantile business in Flor
enee, Idaho, for several years, has
sold out his business there and has
removed TO Lewiston, says the
Review. Yesterday he was in the
city, and from him statement of
the development in the liyu mine
at Florence was obtained.
''The program on the Hiyu has
been sink, sink, sink, all winter
he said, ''until the mine is the
deepest developed property in
the camp, and it has proved a
thing that has been doubted, name
ly, that Florence veins go down.
In this case the vein has widened
and has increased in value with
depth.
"The mine is opened on the 800
foot level now, and the vein is a
foot wider there than on the 200
foot level, and the values are
somewhat better. The Hiyu has
ore enough in sight for a years
mill run, and it will run not less
than $22 per ton on an average.
''The shaft is down 800 feet.
From the 200 level, drifts were run
east and west making a total drift
on that level of $50 feet. The
superintendent assured me that
the vein averages l-2 feet wide
throughout the level. Having
proved the vein there sinking was
resumed to the 300 level and from
that drift has been run east 12O
feet and west 100 feet, proving the
vein to have widened until it aver
ages 3 1-2 feet in width. From
this level a mill test was made of
as fair q lot of ore as could be
taken for sample, and it yielded
a little over S2l per ton.
"The development warrants the
statement that the Hiyu is a mine
and valuable one. The ore is
entirely free milling, saving over
80 per cent of the values on the
plates and leaving a percentage so
small that no concentration is
necessary.
"It is pleasure to tell of the
development of this property, for
it was the first quartz location in
Florence, and has been worked off
and on for 20 years. In the early
days it produced remarkably rich
ore from the surface, and its happy
go-lucky owners used to mill it in
an arastra, and as soon as a clean
mp was made would lay off and
spend the proceeds in Hiyu spree.
They left the evidence of many a
good old booze in the old Slopes OF
the mine, where dozens of old
whisky bottles have been found.
Only the day before | left camp
one Of the miners employed in the
Hiyu came to the store with g
bottle to add TO my collection OF
curios. II was Of glass, blown in
the shape of a log cabin, and was
labeled log Cabin Bitters, 1860.
Old timers in the camp identified
it as IL brand which was prime
favorite in the early placer days as
it evaded the revenue-tax on ac-
count OF bearing the euphoneous
title of 'bitters.
''rhe first stamp mill ever erect
ed in the camp was put upon the
Hiyu mine and it turned out n sun
estimated to run well over $780,.
900. But the vein faulted and was
lost in the upper workings and the
old-time owners had won gold toe
easily in placers to be tempted
to seek for veins which
showed disposition to hide. They
stopped work and the mine wal
idle until more enterprising mer
took hold of it.
cit was discouraging job look
ing for the vein for q time, but las
fall deal was made by which the
, capitalists interested in the Brusl
Electric Company, of Pittsburg
Pa, were interested in the min'
, and under their direction dee]
, working was started with the re
suit already mentioned. The com
pany has had ample funds and ha
employed ~ to Is men all winter
, paying all bills promptly and fur
: nishing in fact about the only pa,
, roll the camp has had this winter
s"The property is equipped wit
! hosting machinery sufficient t
work it to the 800 level, and tn
. shaft is a double compartment in
: cline. A five-stamp mill is on tn
: mine, and this was starting for
Q run on the ore as / was leavin
r camp. The lack of fuel will prof.
D ably not permit the mill to ru
0 until the roads are in condition fo
e replenishing the supply. Owing I
g late start in development of til
mine wood was not hauled when
9 should have been. The mine
e under the capable management I
!. A. ID. Wheeler, formerly of Ain
|, worth, b. G.
o eve have still eight feet I
snow in Florence, and it snow
6 every day. The Buffalo Hum
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