Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-11-10
NEW EQUIP MENT
Cold Scale Mine Now Thor
oughly Equipped for Run
READY FOR NEXT SEASON
Get Water From East Fork
American Creek

The ork Of equipping this proper
ty for operation as soon as the spring
placer mining season opens is about
completed. The pipe line is now be-
ing laid and the bedrock hume and
waste ditch is nearing completion.
In remarkably short time of eighty
days this company under the manage
ment Of Mr.. Nj. II. Sullivan have
constructed two miles of ditch, run
ming from Donahue gulch to the pro-
perty, built wagon road from Ameri-
can river to and partly across the
property, built a mess house and
cleared up the ground for next sea-
sons work.
The ditch is 3 feet wide on the bot
tom and ) feet wide at water line
with a capacity Of 700 miners inches
and is about two miles long. In its
construction some very heavy rock
work was encountered and in all
about 600 feet of fume was required
The property owned by this com
prises the Gold Scale, Gold Noun
tain and Baboon placers of total
acreage Of $40 acres, and is located on
the plateau between Baboon and
running from American river easterly
to the Kinks Fork divide.
The placer deposit appears to be an
old river channel and has an eleva-
tion ABOVE American river of about
800 feet.
The deposit as far as explored
shows depth of some go feet of pay
gravel and in some places indicate
almost beyond doubt that one Of the
old time rich pay streaks that made
the Elk City district famous in early
days will be encountered.
The richness Of this deposit has
been known for years and has been
worked in crude way with good re-
suits, but the problem has been, how
to get sufficient water for working the
ground at that elevation.
Kinks Fork was already appropri
ated and being used, leaving the East
Fork of American river as the onl,
available source Of supply.
The country between Donahu,
gulch and the East Fork is cut b,
many deep ravines running from
American river easterly several mile.
to the high ranges. This fact made
the bringing of the East Fork water
by means Of ditch onto the Cole
Scale placer deposits seem most for.
midable undertaking and has no doubI
heretofore caused mining men to pas,
the proposition up without investi
CATION.
With the energy and thoroughnes
that has characterized the operations
of this company from its start, Mana
ger Sullivan employed an experienced
engineer, and instructed him to fine
the shortest and most practical way
to get the East Fork water onto th,
Gold Scale ground.
\ careful reconnaissance showed thai
practically all the water IN the Las
Fork came from springs high up il
the range and that a ditch that woulc
drain nearly all the water she'd on The
east side of American river between
Kinks Fork and East Fork, could bt
/ constructed through system of low
saddles, discharging into Donahut
gulch near the head and with ample
elevation to entirely cover the i'm
mense placer deposits owned BY th'
company.
4 survey of the route proved it tt
be entirely practical for ditch con
struction, with no rock work ofany
| importance, the distance being ! miles
which is scarcely half what it wa
generally supposed to be.
The construction Of this high ditcl