The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-02-08


in trying to induce capitalists to
build a railway into the district, and
thus give them connections with the
trans-continental railway lines. In
the spring of 1899 their fondest
hopes were to be realized. The
Pacific and Idaho Northern Railway
Company was organized, and active
construction work began immedia
tely, and today the road is complet-
ed as far as the new town of Cam
bridge, situated in Salubria Vale y,
a distance of about forty miles from
Weiser Cambridge is building up
very rapidly and a town of consider
able size should be built up there.
The grading for the p. & l. n. rail
way is practically completed into the
Seven Devils camp, but the road will
not be finished until next spring, as
the company was unable to secure
rails to lay the balance of the track
During the summer of 1890, Mr.
Rogers, then superintendent of the
mining interests of Mr. Kleinschmidt
and associates took ditch out of
Copper Creek, and brought the water
on to the Peacock and washed off
the surface, thereby laying bare an
outcrop of igh-grade copper ore
covering an area of nearly five acres.
In the December issue of this
magazine was given detailed ac-
count of the development work at
the Blue Jacket mine, which is the
most thoroughly developed mine in
the district. Since that time the
company has been sacking more rich
ore land piling it up ready for ship
menD than they could get teams to
haul to the railway. The managers
state that they now have over 1000
sacks of ore, piled up ready for ship
ment that will average over So per
cent copper, besides carrying values
of over SO in gold They intend to
ship twenty-five tons of this grade of
ore per day this winter, hauling it
by teams to Cambridge, thence by
rail TO New York.
At the DEBORAH, the new diamond
drill is now at work testing the ex-
tent Of the ore bodies, and it is
understood that they are meeting
with very hattering success.
AT the Queen mine, development
work is being carried ON vigorously,
and very large body of high grade
ore is now in sight. The manage
ment expects to increase the output
and be shipping twenty-five tons of
ore per day by the first of next
month.
At the Mineral World mine
which is property that was dis
covered and located in the summer
of 1899, and in November was taken
under bond by Spokane syndicate.
which commended to develop the
property at once-they have already
developed a shipping mine, having
struck iive-foot ledge, two feet of
which carries values of over two
hundred dollars per ton (actual mill
and concentrating test of a sample
of 3O3 pounds of the ore,) They are
now sacking 500 sacks of the ore for
shipment to market.
Judging from present developments
in this region, there need be no hest
fancy in predicting that this district
Is destined to become one of the
main sources of copper production;
and, besides, the ores carry high
yalueS III the precious metals.
The large bodies of pine timber
along of the p & |. n. are attract
ing a great many people to this
locality. Several homesteads and
timber and stone claims have recent
ly been taken up, and there are a
number of large companies represent
ed here by their cruisers, who are
looking up and locating the choicest
tracts of pine. There have been
three saw-mills installed during the
past summer, and a Minnesota com
pany is figuring on putting in large
mill early in the spring.