Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-01-14
THE Salmon River Strike.

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accepted in three states Idaho, Montana
and Colorado as guarantee for all
the money a mine owner wants to develop
his property, was i'll Lewiston Thursday
night. He has been i'll Buffalo and OH
Salmon river where the big strike was
made last fall. He is enthusiastic over
the Salmon river district. He SAYS the
country has ltle I.eadville porphyry for a
country rock which of itself is sign
that will justify the investment of capital.
The camp is i'll the deep valley of the
Salmon river. 1t is the same as develop
ed when the ledges are traced up and
down that mountain side. We have
practically depth of four thousand feet
when we take III the slope of the noun
tain. The Morning Star group extends
six thousand feet OIL the big ledge and
the lower claim is 1000 feet below the
highest point at which the ledge is ex-
posed. Here we have a body of ore
practically in sight that could hardly be
computed A tunnel at a point near the
river was run sixty feet OH the ledge. At
this point we found very high grade ore.
The samples that have attracted so much
attention were taken from this tunnel.
This assures us more depth than could
have been developed by years of work.
Our ore prospects in the pan from wall
to wall and the big ledge is as much as
100 feet across the face.
When it is claimed that this ore is
high grade no such assays as are report
ed from pay streaks in narrow ledges are
inferred. For big ledge however it is
claimed for this camp that the ore is the
richest in the world. 1t is not related in
the history of mining that ledge of
even fifty feet ever assayed as high as
$40 to the ton. We claim this
prospect to possess convincing proof
that this ledge of nearly one hundred
feet is the richest big ledge known to
mine investors.
Our camp is isolated it is true but it
possesses many advantages of location.
We have the advantage OF mild climate
light snowfall and we have the facilities
at hand to mine altogether with gravity
system. There will be no expensive ore
hosting machinery required, no water
to pump and only gravity will be re-
quired for power to transfer the ore from
the Slopes to the bins and TO the rock
crushers, mills and vats. We can handle
this ore for dollar and half ton.
The Treadwell mine of Alaska is the |
admiration of the mining world 1t is a |
gigantic quartz quarry. 1t is worked |
cheaply because it can be secured in end |
less quantities. The ore handled by
these big mills does not run four dollars |
a ton. In this Salmon river camp we have |
ore that can be worked as cheaply as the |
Treadwell ore and the quality is ap-
parently as limitless and the value is |
four times as high. There is no apparent
reason why there should not be a |
duplicate of the Treadwel OH Salmon
river.
The Buffalo camp is one of the
wonders of the mining world. Those big
ledges are perhaps richer than the ledge
that traverses the Morning Star group
on Salmon but we expect to rival the
best in that camp. That two such camps
should be discovered in that region in
one year seems to be marvellous. These
districts will be the scene of gigantic |
operations next year. Doubtless these |
two discoveries i'll one district will at |
tract more attention than any other dis |
trict in the world in 1899.