The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-02-09
Where the Agricultural Products of
the Fat Land Will Find
Home market.
FUTURE GREAT COPPER CAMP
Great Mineral Districts VIII Consume the Ner.
chandise OF the Field and Permit
aGreat Commerce within Cur
selvcs-It Means Great
Land Values.

The garden spot of Washington
county start from along the Snake
liver near Weiser and extends up the
w eiser to Council and Meadows, a
distance of 80 or 80 miles. The
whole valley is exceedingly fertile,
,he gradual elevation changing some
what the kind of agricultural and
products suited to the
SOIL Weiser has semi tropic
in which the most delicate
and tender fruits are produced at
their best The Weiser valley, as
we ascend it presents a graduated
climate in which tie natural products
the soil being equally rich-grade
off from horticultural to purely ag-
ricultural, from semi-tropic to those
suited to a temperate climate. Hay,
grain and all kinds of vegetables are
produced in the north end of the
county and find ready market in
the mining camps but a few miles
distant.
AS an instance of the value of
land in that region, 20 acres sown
in alfalfa produced 85 tons OF hay,
selling this year for 81 ton-$595.
If one had to pay 800 an acre for
such land one could get return on
his investment of nearly $50 per acre
each year.
We will in this article attempt
briefly to show the possibilities of one
of the many markets for the Weiser
valley A market whose consump-
ton is now important but which, in
the near future, Washington county
will not be able to supply.
THE SEVEN DEVILS.
Following the road from Council
up Hornet creek Ga rich fruit districD,
over q small divide, across Crooked
river, Lick and Bear creeks to Cup
rum, on Indian creek, and we are
within q few hours of most of the
principle mines located in the greatest
copper district in the world. The
Schley, Sampson and Dewey group is
about six miles north. Adjoining
them on the northeast in order arc
the Decorah, Blue Jacket, Queen,
Alaska, the Lockwood group Of foui
claims, the Lookout and the White
Monument; then further northeast
at short distance we come
to the South Peacock and Peacock
mines; four and half miles south O.
the Peacock-about seven from Cup
rum-is the Columbia group of thre,
claims on Horse mountain, and com
ing southwest, on this side of Hors,
mountain, is the Green Vale ant
Myrtle claims, within half q mile o
Cuprum. Again leaving Cuprun
and following the Kleinschmidt grad
southwest we again find the minera
zone evidenced in several locations
: the River Queen and others.
e Taking it in its entirety this gres
{ minereral zone extends toward
Weiser through Ruthburg to Minera
r so miles south, and 80 miles frol
Weiser, of which camps we hay
:, previously written.
It THE CHARACTER OF THE ORE.
S Which is rich is both gold and 81
ver and copper values, is, startin
with the Peacock in the northeast,
t. rich oxide of copper, varying, as v
= run along the string of locations ent
/ ing in the Dewey group, is silicate {
chrysocolla, then to copp'
8, sulphides-chalcocite, and lastly
3. an iron sulphide-bornite. The O
in the Columbia group and Gre'
,e Vale and Myrtle being principal
bornite and chalcocite or copp
glance. 1t must be remembered th
!, this great copper camp is as yet e
tirely undeveloped; for some -yes
:, the surface OF The ground in vario
a parts hns been worked for gold, a
" rich pockets of gold are every d
az being found in the copper ore as
L'Ss'pment work is being prosecute