Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-08-04
ABOUT THE
DIXIE MINES
Correspondent Tells About
Development Work Being
Done In That Promis-
ing Mining Camp.

About one and quarter miles south
of Dixie is Blowout Mountain, an irregu-
lar crescent-shaped mass lying between
Salmon river on the south and Crooked
and Rhett creeks on the north, with the
horns of the crescent curving toward |
the northeast.
Blowout mountain derives its name
from an immense quartz blowout that |
was discovered upon it in 1893 by S. w. |
Smith of Elk City. Mr.. Smith located
claim upon this blowout and kept up
the assessment work on the claim for
several years, but finally abandoned it.
Upon Mr.. Smiths quitting Blowout the
prospectors seemed to lose faith in the
lodges on it.
In 1897 C. H. Harding located the
Gold Hill ON the east slope of the north
horn of the crescent, and out of the de-
composed porphory got assays of from
Ss.8s to $1a. However, his feet got cold
and he abandoned his claims, which were
finally located by Louis Larson, who has
driven tunnel in rs feet with the strike
of the ledge and cross cut it As feet.
This group, the Gold Hill, consists of
three claims.
THE RED CROSS GROUP.
Just south of Perry Bros, Brown &
Hayes have located the Red Cross group
of 13 claims. On the Red Cross claim
they have driven tunnel 112 feet with
the strike of the vein, and have cross
cut 20 feet each way. The 40 feet of
prosecuting samples give an average
sample of $500 to $500. On the Red
Cross No. the south extension of the
Red Cross, Perry & Co. have an open
cut * feet deep and 20 feet long which
cross cuts the dixie or ledge. This cut
samples the entire 20 feet SIS. 90, while a
sample short distance from there
taken across rs feet of the Groupings
gives an assay of SO. 90 per ton.
THE MAJESTIC GROUP.
South of the Red Cross Group about
a quarter of a mile is the Majestic
Group of claims covering an immense
dixie claims wide. Assays taken across
: this dixie from the groupings for loco
! feet run from 80 cents to $7.ao per ton.
The writer broke rock for half day
three claims wide and every piece
broken was mineralized. Upon these
claims is the first place the writer has
= ever found rock of a phonolitic nature
! that is clinkstone. The gulch cuts the
dixie and on the west side of it the sole
rock shows for width of 1900 feet. Il
was not until Mr.. Davis, the manager
e of the Majestic Gold & Silver Mining
company, began work upon this groul
q last June that the immensity of thi'
proposition was discovered.
THE COMsTOCK PROPERTIES.
Across the west fork of Rhett creel
and north of the Majestic Group lie
K the Comstock properties, which are nov
t owned by the independence Consolidate
s Mining Co., of Seattle. Mr.. Richar
: Kleesattle is general manager. TIL
e water supply has failed, hence the mi
- had to be shut down until an engin
y could be got in. Mr.. Kleesattle state
e that the company has a 3s-horse powe
e boiler and engine on the road, also ao
f ditional stamps to increase the presen
G battery to 10 stamps. In the Dillinge
:, mine, owned by these people, Mr.. Klee
u sattle says that the present drift ha
W run IS feet in an ore shoot of high grad
ore, the width of the pay streak ave.
aging feet. Mr.. Thomas Prichard {
Dixie is mine foreman at the Comstocl
THE IRISH QUEEN GROUP.
le Other properties being worked a,
le the Irish Queen Group, one mile nortl
ID west of Dixie, owned by Frank Duncan
a. On the Irish Queen, the principal clai
g of the group, is shaft SO feet dec
ii from which drifts have been run eai
e, and west on the vein. The east dri
cuts an ore shoot. of high grade or
Mr.. Duncan is driving a tunnel alor
the vein to tap the east end of the sha
y and as soon as this is completed will b
gin to stope ore. This tunnel is
Y. seventy-five feet on ore.
D. THE AzIsCoO GROUP.
About mile and half below Dix