Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-08-24
MINING NEWS GALORE
All is Activity in the Mountain
Mining Camps Of Idaho

John Nj. Shissler was in town
several days this week and gave
the old reliable news chronicler of
Idaho county lot of information
in regard to the doings of the
various camps in the Buffalo
Hump, Newsome, Elk City and
Dixie mining camps, from which
he has just returned. Speaking
of the syndicate wagon road from
Badger to the Hump Mr.. Shissler
said:
"The wagon road will be COM
pleted to Calender by the time
you go to press, as they are work
ing l05 men on it. Manager j. p.
Turner took in the magnates of
the Boston Buffalo Idaho company
in team as far as Concord last
week, and they are making
splendid road out of it.
"Jack Davis and his partner,
Kelly, who own the Wise Boy,
have lately made good strike
between Stussi's Spokane and the
st. Louis, close to the Jumbo, the
ore from which gives assays of $50
per ton. The same parties also
own the Puritan, which is showing
up fine. Frank Brown is inter-
ested in the Puritan, and it is
regarded as having the making of
a good mining property.
81 was at the Dewey mine,
where they have II better showing
in the way Of wonderfully rich
gold rock that beats even the
showing made on The L,moreanv
strike near Elk CITY last winter.
The claiu j. owned hy - g Jar-
ron, OF " ood river, and Mr..
Davidson The ledge S. aaou, ten
feet wide, nine feat Of wbcp ii
sulphuret ore. While there is from
a foot TO Is inches Of rock 9m the
hanging wall that is the richest
ore | ever saw. 1T is q sight tc
make ones eyes water to look at
gold all through it.
81 was also over at the Drum
Lummon mines on the west side
of Crooked creek. These claims
ore owned by Warner Bros. ant
Sanderson, and are now under
bond to Sam Silverman and Lou
Smith. A tunnel was driven last
! winter, and they are now putting
down shaft ON the ledge, and
are working two shifts right along
They are down 26 feet and have
a ledge seven feet wide.
A man named Toler owns .
claim called the Richmond, a new
discovery, which is looking al
right.
"Gallagher and Rowe are open
ing up some claims called tn,
Bluejay and Butterfly which ar,
also making uncommonly goot
showings for the amount of worl
done. They are located nea
the DrumLummon.
On the Vesuvius the syndicat
people are putting down a thre
compartment shaft and have TIVE
shifts steadily employed, and arr
now down to depth of 20 feet
The syndicate evidently think
lot of the Vesuvius, as they ar
putting up more substantial
buildings on this claim than OF
any of their other properties.
was not down the mine, but / wa
told by people who are well postet
that some magnificent ore is bein
sent up out Of the shift.
"On the Yale, which joins tn
Jumbo on the north, have smal
lead which is showing some ve.,
rich looking Gre,
"The Fortune is another prop
erty that is looking fine and il
. going to make big property.
"The syndicate sawmill is work
ing two shifts day and night an
they are using all the lumber i
the syndicate operations, and
8 was told that they would not sell
foot of lumber to anyone for an
purpose. About all, the bushes
! is centered at Calender and th
$ town Is building up at "a grea
. rate.
T. "a man named George How
dropped dead suddenly at Caller
:. der last Friday, August II,
, heart disease. He resided latel
near Stuart, and is to have bee
formerly a miner in the Coeur d
:. Alenes.
"On NeWsome creek there is M
0 a great deal to talk about at th
e time, as es erybody is OUT in ii
8 hills looking after their represen
IS alton work and doing developmeI
J. work. Bert Rigley has made VIII
/ | think is a ten strike about ty
N miles south of Newsome hous
% The ledge is quite big one al
u the ore is altogether different fro
'g the free milling ores Of the Ne'
p some district, aud it more near
y resembles the Hump ores, espe
III ally in the sulphurets. hear
" is making arrangements to sil
IN 100 feet and also do considerai
crosscutting ON the claim Il
winter.
EZRA Baird and George Stoi
ne breaker have also got onto a &c
ct big thing ON Meadow creek, fc
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