The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-26
weimer Starts Ball Rolling.

From all that could be learned during
a yhaSty rum into the country. it is evil
deiA that the publicity given the opera
lions of the WeImer company has caused
the mining fraternity TO sit up and take
notice. Within the past week operators
from Butte. from Minnesota, from Cali
fornia and Utah have been in the cOun-
try. Properties all along the re,nge skirt
ing the Birch Creek valley on the east
from the Old Scott lead mines, a few miles
south of the Weimer mines, to the Gil
more properties, thirty miles to the north
and near the famous NichOlia Lead mines
IN the same vicinity, have been exam
ined. Some of these people are in there
VET others are going and some who have
boom is on and it is now certain that one
and possibly two or more new camps will
spring into real life and activity this
year.
Telephone Lines Building.
The Tsemhi Telephone company is now
building a line from Salmon City down
through the Gilmore and the Birch Creek
country past the Weimer mines and on
10 Medicine Lodge, nine miles west of Du-
bois. Poles and wire are strung along
the route. and II. S. Bagley, superin-
tendent of construction, promises to have
The line completed before the end of
June. This company's wires connect with
the Bell Telephone company's terminals
in both directions, so II Will soon be pos
sible to communicate with all the towns
through the region mentioned direct from
this city.
Electric Railroad Promised.
The telephone service is not the only
enterprise of a public nature that the
country is bringing 10 its aid. 1t is
learned that the Idaho Falls Power &
Transportation company is now figuring
with eastern talent prominent in electric
railroading for the building of something
like ninety-fivs miles of electric railway
from Idaho Falls to Gilmore. The entire
distance is through a country which at
no place viii present grade sleeper than
one per cent.
The promoters of this enterprise have
had their representatives in the field look
ing into the mineral and other resources
with a view to learning the amount of
business that would come TO the road in
case OF its building. Reports on this
phase of the proposition are said to have
been altogether favorable, and the finan-
cling of the scheme is now well under
way.
1t is proposed to make not only the
Birch Creek, but the entire Salmon River
region tributary and to switch the bulk
of the business now going north through
Red Rock. Mont, in this direction. The
road can he very cheaply constructed on
account of the level country through
which 1t will run and the ease with
which ties can be secured and delivered
along the route Solid men are behind
this proposition and the belief is that it
will be carried through within another
year.
Regions Wealth of Mineral.
The mineral wealth of the Birch Creek
country is just beginning to be under
stood. The Gilmore mines are now heavy
producers of extremely rich and desirable
lead ores. The old Nichona mines are
to be reOpened, according TO report, and
the influx of prOspectOrS to that section
insures the finding and opening of many
more in the near future
Thirty miles south, on the same wonder
Aful mineral belt are the Scott lead mines
and several prospects of more than pass
ing merit in the same vicinity. Just north
of the Scott mine and adjacent properties
is another fine lead property which runs
up TO within a short distance of where
the Weimer Copper properties are To-
Gated These properties show that lead
and silver predominant on both ends of
the great zone in which the copper oc-
ours and which is destined, in the near
future. to attract more attention to Birch
Creek than has been the case with any
new copper country, outside of Ely and
YeringtOn, in years.
visit to and inspection Of the Wei
mer Copper company'S properties is a rev.
citation to every person that goes there.
II is simply impossible to get the least
practical idea of its magnitude without
seeing it. The Herald has several times
recently called attention to the mines and
what was being done there and. strong
as some of the stories appeared TO be. IL
can be truthfully said that nothing has
been overdrawn. The cOmpany's ground
covers the monster contact for a dis
tance of nearly five miles in length and
for an average width of 300 feet. For
ests of pine and fir which must be worth
81 900 OeG, at least, cover a great deal of
the property. and there is every physical
advantage for the rounding out of one of
the greatest copper mining and smelling
enterprises ever launched in the west
Less than four miles from that portion
of the property, which includes no less