The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-05-19
Several Mines May Soon Produce
Ores for White Knob.
COMMENCE RUNNING IN JUNE
A .Tip to Tourists and Pleasure Seek
h ers on Where to Spend a Pleasant
r Vacation this Summer. G. &
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"blown in" for another run, and it is
interesting to know that the White
Knob Copper and Development Com
pany have bonded the Phi Cappi group
of mines. OF course we are not able to
say what they are going to do with it.,
but when they work the Phi Cappi
group there will be other groups furnish
ing ores to be shipped or treated. which
they are unable to handle now..for want
of transportation facilities.
Every canyon up there has group Of
claims with big mineral deposits crop
ping out of the mountain sides. These
are about midway between Mackay and
Ketchum, and some of them have been
worked and the ores treated at Ketchum
before silver went down, and now if they
extend the railroad to connect these
mines with the Mackay smelter the
product can be handled cheaper than
it was twenty years ago with pack
horses.
D. E. McCallum, the president of the
Mackay Copper Company, which owns
Horseshoe group on White Knob Noun
tain, passed through town Friday on his
way to Mackay. He spent the winter in
St. Louis and disposed of some of the
treasury stock of the mine. When we
asked him what was going to be done on
the property this summer he replied
that he was not free to give out any in
formation, but his boyant manner spoke
of better things than delays or shut
downs. Their property is on White
Knob Mountain, between the famous
White Knob Group and the Columbia
STANDARD which we mentioned three
weeks ago as occupying favorable posi-
tion in contact between lime and
granite.
People who have been in the habit of
going from Blackfoot and Pocatello to
Beaver Canyon or the Port Neuf Can.
yon to spend their summer vacation
away from the heat and the dust, will
discover presently that they have missed
something very interesting by not going
out to camp in some of the canyons
opening into Lost River valley. These
localities afford opportunity for dozen
vacations without seeing the same place
twice. The canyons of Beaver and Port
Neuf are tame in comparison, and the
camping places in the shade of magnii-
cent forest, are gladdened by the pres
ence of game and trout. Every canyon
has notable group of mines in course
of development, or reservoir site which
will be turned into lake to be stocked
with fish and equipped with boats for
tourists. When you and your neighbor
60 out there with your families this
summer, you will see good propositions"
for investments, and in the shade of the
afternoons you can figure on developing
mines or reservoirs or power sites or
trout hatcheries, just as you like.
The Boulder Mine of Wild Horse Can.
yon is to be developed some more now if
powder and dynamite will do it. 7. L.
Gordon went out to the property this
week with force of men to continue the
work on the Independence Tunnel.
They have vein foot wide which car
ries S26.O0 per ton in lead, silver and
copper, with indications that it widens
with depth. Gordon has done some good
work locating mineral, and the manage
ment will back his plans again this sum-
mer.