The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-07-14

STRIKE GREAT
Simpsons Find on Anderson
Butte a Wonder-Draws
People to Camp.

OeFSOu DuLLo ndue ny WIZ. OlulpSOu
a short time ago, is even bigger and
better than was reported by this pa
per last week. Mr.. Simpson was In
for supplies again the first of the
week, and reported he had found the
other wall and that the ledge mea-
sures little more than 25 feet. An
average assay of the surface rock
gave better than $12 in gold and
about 26 per cent copper. A picked
sample gave $72 in gold.
Strike Creates Interest.
The Simpson strike has created
great deal of interest among mining
men In the district, and, as reported
by this paper last week, when pros
pectors come to the conclusion that
the cream has been skinned from
untaken ground in Ten Mile, pros
pectors, and many of them, will give
attention to the Anderson Butte coun-
try. That corner of the district, like
travel, but the Butte has always
stood high In the estimation of the
old-tiiners In the district
Prospectors Going In.
A number of prospectors have gone
from here to the new strike this
week. Jake Prichard, Ed Brown and
John Wells made up party that left
Sunday. Wells returned here Tues
day afternoon for more supplies for
his party, and when seen that even
ing stated he would pull out again
the morning. He said he believed
Simpson had located his claims wron
on the ledge. His party Is working
on ground alongside the Simpson
claims and had found ore that looks
good, but at the time Wells was here
he didn't know how much there was
of it.
1t would be hard to find more
thorough prospectors than the men
who make up this party They are
not of the excitable kind, and the
Simpson strike Is the first in recent
years that has called them out. Mr..
Prichard, who is the oldest man in
the camp, having placer mined here
nearly fifty years ago, believes Simp-
son has struck a rich thing. Prich-
ard found rich float In the vicinity
of the new strike a number of years
ago. and he believes the Occur
d'Alene man has discovered the ledge
that he and his companions worked
so hard and spent so much time to
find, but failed.
Ten Mile Man Goes.
w. F. Newton, who came last
spring from Nevada, and has put In
the summer In the Ten Mile district
arrived in camp Wednesday, and Ii
now QUILTING to go into the An
derson Butte country.
Both Mills Work on South Fork.
c. S. Batchelder, the new superin
tendent at the South Fork mine sine,
the Spokane men acquired the proper
ty. was in Elk City the first of tn,
week. He reports the quartz mil
and the saw mill both running, tn,
latter turning out timbers for tn
mine and lumber for new building
that are soon to be erected on tn,
property. A power plant is one o
the big things planned for the nea
future. The South Fork will be worl
ing full force in the course of a few
weeks.
Thunder Mountain to Mill.
The 10-stamp mill at the Idah
Champion Thunder Mountain) mine
on Crooked river, is expected to star
milling some day this week. 1t is re
ported the company is now financia
ly situated to push development /
the mine, and there is ore enoug
now to keep the mill running 80 day
comstock's New Mill.
Several freight loads of machiner
for the new 24-stamp mill at tn
Comstock mine, near Dixie, hav
passed through Elk City the pas
week. The stamps weigh 1900 poun
each and the mill will have tn
greatest capacity for treating ore {
any quartz mill in Idaho county
Elk City Mining News.
The Lewiston Trihune for paus