Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-23

Immense Area of UndeyeIOpvd Prop
critics Near Mountain
Home.

Included III the immense country
lying north and tributary to Noun
tain Home, on the borders of an
uninhabited wilderness comprising
an area of over 1000 square miles
situated at the base of the main
range of the Sawtooth mountains
is the famous old mining camp of
Atlanta.
Gold was first discovered in At
lanta in 1868 and the production
has been about S31, 900, 900, but as
the expense attached to working
quartz mines at that early period
in the history of the west was, on
account of the difficulties of trans
portation and the crude methods OF
treatment, many times greater than
it is now only the high grade ores
were mined leaving immense bodies
of quartz that will now pay big
dividends to the owners and put
millions of dollars in circulation in
the process of it's extraction treat
ment.
All the companies operating in
Atlanta are well established corpo-
rations who follow mining as bus
mess and work on a scientific basis,
people who believe in taking money
out of the ground instead of out Of
the pockets of crcdulous stock hold
ers.
Minerva. Owing to the fact that
the Minerva is the only mine that
has yet reached the point of reduc-
ing orsc and paying dividend il
deserves first place as the most inn
portant property IN this portion oil
the state. Its rapid development
under the management Of w. ].
Keough has been record breaker
in scientific mining. Mr.. Keougt
took charge Of this property wher
it was grass root prospect Of &
very discouraging nature. He drove
long cross cut tunnel, developed
the vein, completed the erection oil
mill, built an arial tram -put the
property on paying basis in less
than two years. The property is al
present under the able management
of Mr.. Oden which means contin.
uance of its prosperity.
General Pettitt Probably the
best developed mine in the state
is the General Petit, now
under bond and lease by the Bag.
dad Chase Co. This mine has beer
worked on small scale at differ
ent times for several years but il
true vaule was never determined
until it was put in the hands 0
Messrs. Watson and Olsen in tn
summer and fall of 1904. The or
is blocked out in such manne
that ar expert can determine tn
value as accurately as a farmer cal
measure the wheat in 4 bin. 1t i
now in charge of c. E. Stevens a
superintendent and Mr. Olsen a
foreman. With this able manage
ment its success is assured.
Arrangements have already bcei
made for the erection of a mill of
hundred tons capacity and worl
will start on q large scale in a few
days.
Monarch. The Monarch, Buffa
10 and Last Chance mine have beef
the producers of the camp, Their
being millions of dollars to the cred
it side of their accounts. They ar,
now owned by j. N. Barnsdale o
Pittsburg and are in charge of Mr.
Kirby who has been working then
for several years.
After lying idle for 20 years tn
old Monarch shaft was rcopencd b.
Mcssrs. Conroy and Frankee VIII
made the deal between Mr.. Barns
dale and the ola company and t
whose energy is due to a great exten
the present activity of the camp
Mr.. Kirby took charge in 100
and has reopened most OF the oil
workings and done some new
work. Last summer a tramaw
was erected and a power dar
started which will probably be com
pleted this year. The machiner
for the new mill which has bee
erected under the able management
of Fred Ehrig will probably be o
the ground this summer.
Among other properties that sho
exceptional values are the Yub,
Jerico, Mollie Hogan, Washington
Baltimore, Big Lode, Jessie Bentc
and Chunk. Although there a
millions of tons of good ore in sig
in Atlanta it is as nothing compar,
to the possibilities of the 1000 squa
miles of undeveloped territory
which Atlanta is only the out pos
The best known portion o. this te
ritory is that lying to the north
Banner and to the south to Skeltt
creek. At and between these tv
points large veins carrying go,
values have been discovered as
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