The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-23

ent pointers also Indicate that
there will be a new gold mill put
upon a newly developed quartz
property on Jordan creek, IN the
Yankee Fork District. The NC
Fadden mine on head of Eight
Mile, will be a greater producer
this year than last, as the extern
sion of the working shaft anoth-
er hundred feet recently com
pleted, in very fine ore all the
way down, gives a long run for
the mine and concentrating mill.
At the bottom the ore vein is
about five feet in width, with
two feet of high grade shipping
and the remainder fine concen-
trating grade. There are other
mines being developed this win
ter in the district in which good
ore is encountered, some OF
which are rapidly growing into
mines. OF course the Old Lucky
Boy iN however, beyond per
adventure, with it's thousands of
tons of gold-silver ores in sight;
and with its quartette of com
petent supervisors-Mr. Ravenel
Macbeth, business manager; Mr..
M. Bamberger in charge of the
cyanide branch, and Ex-senator
Geo. Coryell at the head of the
mining department, with Mr..
VIM. Oster overlooking the man
ipulations of the milling depart
ment-insures a greater product
than ever for 1900.
The placer interests of Custer
county are also on the lookup.
The dredging for gravel gold
has given an impetus to the bust
ness of placer mining. The
plant at Stanley Basin has prov
ed a success and other boats are
said to be in contemplation, as
the field is extensive, and differ
ent parties have obtained ground
with a view of putting in dredg-
ing machinery. There r also
different other sections in Custer
county where the gravel beds
show gold in paying quantities
and could be worked profitably
by the dredging process. 1t is
said that Fisher Basin, head of
Warm Spring creek, is to re-
ceive the attention of a dredge
company the coming spring.
Nearly all the ground on the
Yankee Fork Flats from the
mouth of Jordan creek down for
q distance of several miles is in
bond to the Souther Dredging
Company, of Boston, and the
preliminary borings made last
fall were entirely satisfactory
and the ground found to be fav-
orable for works of that kind. A
local company has but recently
located all the ground on the
flats and bars below Bonanza not
already secured by the Boston
folks, and are prospecting it to
some extent this winter.
In brief (f you can call this
article brief, it requires no
elastic imagination to perceive
that Custer county's sun is rising
in a halo of prosperity that will
soon place her among the most
prosperous of the State. Some
of our best districts 1 have not
even mentioned, as Bayhorse,
Clayton, East Fork, Pahsimari
and others, in which are MANY
of the richest mines known in
the county. AS for instance, the
great Ramshorn mine at Bay
horse, with a true vein 5000 feet
or more in length developed to a
depth of 5000 feet and more, and
with, at a careful estimate, not
less than ten million ounces of
silver in sight by measurement.
In following the advancing
strides of the different industries
OF the county, l have almost
overlooked the recent enlarge
ment of the SILVER MESSENGER.
You now have, Mr.. Editor, as
good a paper as anybody's paper
large, neat, nice and newsv.
But there was no room for en-
largement of the editor; he al
ready has the field as the biggest
critter in the stall.
Respectfully,
MEPHISTO II.
BOnqnz0. Idaho lam Let 1000