Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-04-27
TELLS OF TRIP
TOPLACER Mine
NJ. NJ. Fry Inspects Holdings Of Idaho
Gold And Radium Mining Co.
LOOKS GOOD TO STOCKHOLDERS
Company to Carry Out Several I'm.
provements This Spring.
LOOKS GOOD TO STOCKHOLDERS
WRITTEN BY NJ. NJ. FRY)


cent to Boomers Ferry, / took a
belated train on the Great Northern
for Leonia eighteen miles east of
Boomers Ferry, where I arrived at
late hour of the night. There I
had the good fortune to meet Mr.. ].
M. Schnatterly, president of the
Idaho Gold & Radium Mining Co.
who kindly furnished me a horse
and together we were soon on our
way to the camp, which, though
the company has not named, l
shall for convenience call Ruby
Vile. was soon ushered into a
building not unlike those used by
the Lumber Jacks" at the large
camps of the Puget Sound country.
Making friends with Morpheus
at this late hour was but the work
of moment.
When slumber folds her mantle
around the tired form, even the
poet has little use for rhyme, or
the painter for his easel. But the
sight that greeted my early waking,
the poet would travel far to see
men above me, men to the right of
me, men to the left of me, with
arms stretched aloft and with mouth
open as if gaping for the fresh
morning air. As life began to
sway their forms into action, was
forced into the belief this building
was a veritable human rookery, for
believe me, at the first sound of the
breakfast gong, men rolled out of
their hunks like gulls from their
arctic brooders. l was not long
falling into line headed for Hotel
de Rubyville" At the table l
met Mr.. Schnatte. ly, my genial
companion of the night before.
And My Twas not the man of
seventy, of the night before l was
fifty years younger, and again liv-
ing the glorious camplife of the
miner, But | must not digress, or,
like Josiah Aliens wife I may be
chargedwith "episodin",
Fully realizing how difficult it is,
as rule, to give an unbiased ac-
count of mining proposition espe-
cially when the narrator has
financial interest, yet one may be
justified in giving tangible facts as
seen on landing at the Idaho
Gold and Radium Mining COM
pany's camp, and then arriving at
conclusions, derived frcm what is
seen as to the possibilities of what
may be expected by development
of those conditions.
This property is situated on
Boulder Greek about three miles
from Leonia, station on the Great
Northern R. R. 1t consists of
about $40 acres of well secured
placer ground, through which
runs four we'll defined quartz lodges
carrying gold. These lodges are
in size 20, IS, II and 4 feet wide.
either of which will average over
ten dollars per ton. This estimate
has been obtained by various assays
taken by mining experts, | sam
pied the large ledge from wall to
wall and as result got twenty
seven dollars and eight cents per
ton. One can find colors by
panning the gravel of the millions
of tons on either side of the creek.
This gravel has been estimated by
mining experts to carry
values justifying the Company in
placing giant rams on the prop
erty to separate the gold from the
gravel There is at present on the
property, eight large work horses,
a sawmill of thirty thousand feet
There is also at the mill
10000 feet of logs ready for the
saw-the mill will be running in a
few days. They have a donkey
engine at the mill which weighs