The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-17
FROM OVER THE BORDER
Quartz Mines and Placers of
Central Idaho.
CLAIMS NEAR IDAHO CITY
Dredges Doing Good Work-Lost Chute
on Elkhorn Option on the Illi-
nois-WorS of the Phila-
delphia Company.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Idaho City, Idaho, Oct. 13.-The Basic
company's dredges at Placerville are
still running and will continue in op-
GRAFTON until about Dec. /. What the
clean-ups are + am unable to learn,
but am assured that they are suffi-
GENTLY large to give handsome profits.
The New England company's dredge
at this place is giving a profit of more
than $500 per day average. The super
intendent expects to have the second
dredge, about mile below Idaho City,
ready for trial run in about a month
superintendent Kinkaid is getting
along rapidly with the Mountain Queen
tunnel, above Pioneer, which is now in
more than 600 feet. Within 200 feet
more the ledge will be reached
The new 'hve-stamp mill for the
Buffalo free gold quartz mine, between
this place and Centerville, has been
ordered and will soon be on the ground
The company will erect it Immediate
ly and commence crushing, as the mine
is thoroughly developed and ready to
produce ore faster than the mill can
crush it. The mine was purchased a
short time ago from Charles and f. Fl.
Cooper, through the work of Dell
Shearer, who held an option on it and
had spent two years in doing devel-
opment work.
Several men are at work cross cut
ting and running drifts to recover, if
possible, the ore chute from which
Hugh Turner took about 900 10
years ago In the Elkhorn, on Elk creek
This mine has in times past yielded
half million dollars. but was never
sunk on below the level of the creek
Two or three hundred tons of ore,
was crushed in the Boulder mill a
short time ago which turned out WE'LL
The owners, the Moriarity brothers,
are now getting out timbers and maxi
work.
Thomas Barry, ST., has several min
ers employed in the Olympia, on Sum
nit Flat. The ore body is extensive
and good in free gold.
Sheridan & Graham have packed sew
eral tons of rich gold ore from their
Rock creek mine to mill on Summit
Flat for reduction.
Charles Balbach, owner of the Wash
ington, in Gambrinus district, was here
last week. He says that as soon as
spring opens he will resume work.
There is a 10-stamp mill at the mine.
The Lucky Boy ore continues YIELD
ing an average of SO per ton for a.
. width of 40 feet.
The Twin Springs company has Sc
cured from o. A. Duquette and Julius
Linsteadt an option on the Illinois,
which is half a mile west of and on
the same vein as the Lucky Boy This
mine has turned out more than $780,
000 although the deepest point reach
ed is only rs feet. The company has
secured the, Gambrinus hosting works
and pump, which they are now moving.
Carpenters are now at work construct
ing bunk and boarding houses and
inc hay f,J. f1,n In,
! Work will commence in two weeks in
the shaft, which will be double COM
partment. 1t will be put down 500
feet with drifts to the ledge from each
level. 1t is the general opinion of
miners acquainted with it that the
company will have a great property
when it is opened, and as the ledge
is very large one a large mill will
undoubtedly be constructed next year
johnson & Somercamp will keep 10
men at work through the winter doing
development work on their free gold
quartz claims in Miller district, Is
miles north of Banner The lodges,
which were located two years afo are
very large and traceable for a distance
of four miles and contain gold on the
surface all that distance.
The Stanley Basin dredge made a
trial run of half a day last week and
cleaned up five ounces of gold. AS it
is situated in a very cold country, at
the base of the Sawtooth range. it will
not commence working until next
spring.
A wagon road to connect the Badger
creek quartz mining district and the
placer mines of Boise river with this
place is nearly completed.
Loca tors of mines high in copper
and carrying from SO to SIS per ton
in gold, on North Boise river, are now
at work sinking on them.
B. T. Kloppenberg has developed a