Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1902-05-15
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sit Is the Greatest Mineral
Belt in the West"


Among the present visitors to
growing Grangeville is Daniel
Greenwalt, one of the discoveries
of Buffalo Hump district, who left
here in the fall of 1899 after dis
posing Of his interests in the Al
banbra, st. Paul and Gem City
claims in that camp to Gildden,
Normao 4 Cameron, Of Spokane.
Since his departure Mr.. Greenwalt
has been prospecting and mining
in the southwest, where he has
copper mining interests at Bisbee,
Ariz and Silver City, N. M. His
present residence is at Denver,
Colo, where his wife is looking
after his business interests. Speak
ing of conditions in the southwest,
Mr.. Greenwalt said:
Chat whole country is dead,
and | find more activity, general
progressiveness aud enterprise in
Grangeville than in all that coun-
try put together. The country and
the people down there are too slow
for any use. There is no money
available for investments in mining
enterprises, and what new money
is coming into Colorado is being
invested in Denver and Pueblo real
estate and building operations.
The old-time capitalists who made
their money out Of mining enter
prises in the boom days are now
content to live in ease and have
lost their grip on active affairs.
So far as mining conditions are
concerned in Colorado the state is
not merely at a standstill, it is act
ually retrograding. The hostile
legislation against silver is, OF
course, partially responsible for
this, but the great gold camps Of
the state show no important move
ments, and ! am free to say that
in all my travels in the past three
years l have not found anything
down there that is half as good as
old Idaho county. Whatever Of
speculation is going on in Colorado
now is confined to oil, and the out
look for this industry is about al
the state has to look forward to, tt
hold its place rs mineral section
The prospects for oil are very good
| am interested in some oil well!
in Pueblo, and although more thar
200 wells have been bored, there
has not yet been a failure to fine
oil. There is a growing marke
for the product, and it sells at thu
wells for $3.50 per barrel. Thu
oil from this section can be used il
lamps directly as it comes from tn
ground, without refining, and give
a fine light.
"Idaho is regarded as the com
ing mineral state in Colorado, ant
there will be an enormous infin1
of prospectors and mining me'
this summer. In the train in which
| came every seat in every car has
three mining men who were com
ing to Idaho, and l was told tina
the same average of travel ha'
been coming this way all spring
In fact, l find that Idaho is jus
now about filling the sare position
in the public mind that was occu
pied by Colorado % years ago
when the big mining boom in tina
state set in. Cripple Creek is stil
an enormous producer of gold, bu
it has reached the maximum an
is now on the decline. I have don
u lot of good missionary work i
talking up the mineral resources {
this country wherever l have bee
and have probably conversed wit
a thousand men about Idaho count
and Idaho state. OF course l hav
talked up Buffalo Hump and Thur
der Mountain, and am now on m
way in to Thunder Mountain t
spend the summer in the hope c
getting on to something good j
that section. l have always .ha
unlimited faith in the 100 sqnar
miles of mineral country in tina
section, and believe it to be tn
greatest mineralized country on tn
coast.
"Although 1 have no interest
at present in Buffalo Hump l ar
confident that it is going to max
the greatest of all the camps il
Idaho, and am sorry that l let g
of my properties there. That cam
is all right and has good AM
growing reputation all through
Colorado"
| Mr.. Greenwalt has invented
drill shaper" which is simple
effective and durable, cheap, prac
teal and useful. 1t is just wha
the miner and prospector want, a
t shapes the steel either from tn
bar as it comes from the store or ~
a broken drill from the mine. Tn
Invention has been patented and i
now on the market under the nam
OF the Greenwait x Dawson drtl
sharpner, and the demand is !,
great for this simple tool that tn
manufacturers cannot begin to sup
ply tine demand Tao cost of III