The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-10-10
AS OTHERS SEE US
What a Michigan Editor
Thinks of Emmett
and Pearl.

K. y. Shaw, editor OF the NeWay
go mich Republican, spent over {
week in this city and Pearl last
month, being sent here by Michigan
stockholders in the Buckeye mine
to investigate the property. He
gives his views of the two towns in
his paper, as follows:
Emmett has vastly improved since
our visit TWO years ago. Many brick
blocks have been erected, new
<brick depot, convenient to the bust
ness part of the town has been built
and on every side are evidences of
the thrift and push of her enterpris-
ing citizens. The prune season was
on and carload Of the luscious fruit
was being shipped every day. An
accident to the irrigating dam oc-
Cured last spring which deprives
the farmer of his usual crops of al
falfa, oats, wheat and corn, the first
two being the staple products of the
Payette Valley in which Emmett is
located and complaints are heard on
every side of the dullness of the
town; but work on the dam is rap
idly progressing and unless some
unforeseen accident occurs Emmett
will be busy, thriving town next
year and for many years to come.
Its people are sociable and friendly,
and a warm welcome is extended to
the visitor, if only he be respectable
and well behaved. 1t is situated on
the banks of. the Payette river and
at the foot of low range of pic
turesque mountains and is really a
beautiful little town. A large brick
central school building is one of the
late acquisitions, a new NJ E. church |
is nearly completed and Baptist, |
Presbyterians, Catholics, Mormons
and other religious societies have |
good church buildings. During our
stay of several days in Emmett we
made several very pleasant acquaint-
ances and were thereby enabled to
obtain reliable information in re
gard to the things we desired to
know.
The village of Pearl is a typical
mining camp, about three miles
long and three rods wide; being
built up and along narrow gorge.
1t is quiet, law abiding little tow
however. and promptly at the clos
ing hour the doors of every saloon
are locked and they are not open
ed again until the legal hour next
morning. Sunday is observed strict
ly, and those who want drink on
Sunday must prepare the needful in
advance. The buildings are all
frame, built close together. mostly
of rough lumber, but comfortable
enough for all purposes. There are
many mines in the district, some of
them in the village limits, some pro-
fitable and others Improbable; but
all with good prospects and all look
ing for cheap process for the ex-
tracing of the metals from the ore,
the expense o shipping ore and con-
centratts to smelters being almost
involving about thirteen
miles of carriage over rough noun
tain roads and six or eight hundred
miles of railroad transportation al
freight rates that are almost contis-
catory. Once this problem is solved,
and we presume that by this time
new process has been successfully
demonstrated by the greatest mine
in the district, Pearl camp will be
one of the greatest camps in the
west. The hills are full of low grade ,
ore, running in values from four :
dolAars to sixty dollars per ton, in
some instances running up into the ,,
hundreds of dollars; but the main
output will be low grade ore and
the supply is practically inexhaust-
BILE. Given cheap process, so that
The metal can be run into bars at p
he mines, and everyone interested h
TO any extent in mines in that dis d
.rict is bound to be rich, contingent o
,nly upon one other thing, and that Il
5 good, careful management, which
stands for good deal in mining as
veil as any other business.
Already mining is akin to manu- !,
'acturing, and as the time passes it !.
will become more So. There is pro- .
,ably no chance in Pearl for vein =
,r lode to be discovered that will :
make it's owner Immediately wealthy,
,ut there are hundreds of properties
here that if managed properly will
produce wealth enough to satisfy "
he-fhost avaricious. 1t is the honest 81
,elief of the writer that there is a te
wonderful future in store for the &C
'earl district. Several days were
pent in the camp, several mines
we're visited, and while the unsup-l
,orted belief of a "tenderfoc2' >,
mounts to but little, we were given :,
vhry opportunity to get reliable in u u
oKmation, and putting all togeth =
r, the above conclusion cannot, in %
ur Judgment, be avoided by any z
nprejudiced mind. There are /.
Their beside mining industries in
daho. be