The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-06-26
SOUTH IDAHO
COUNTY MINES
Their Character and Wealth:
Sale of the Well Known
Moore Bonanza.

State Mine Inspector Bell reports
the consummation big mining
deal which involves the transfer of
the Moscow group of mines, better
Known as the Moore Bonanza, at
Logan crek, Idaho county. in the Big
creek mining district, also the Gold
King group of mines and several
other adjacent properties in the dis
trict which have recently been op-
toned to F. L. Morris, a well known
mining engineer of San Francisco,
hacked by conservative California
mining capital, which insures the sue
cess of this transaction if the mines
do their part.
Mr.. Morris has already advanced
nearly $4,000 in cash in the deals
for labor and supplies and contract
work, including two developing con-
tracts aggregating 900 feet of tunnel
work, and he intends to install drill
ing machinery as soon as the road is
opened into the district and freight
teams can be gotten in there with
the necessary machinery and supplies
These deposits are of the fissured
some or sheer zone type and all are
Of immense size, and the steep pitch,
together with their favorable typo
graphic situation, presents exceptional
facilities for rapid preliminary tun-
mel development and drilling tests.
such as are employed in the big por.
phyry operations by (which the mil
Hons of tons of ore may be proven
and 1t simply remains for nature to
do It's share In the transaction by the
maintenance of the present known
values to a reasonable depth and
length to the already known ore
shoots to make Big creek district one
Of the most prosperous and populous
mining districts in the northwest. The
present surface showings indicate a
probable total resource of one hundred
million tons of ore, on which an OPP
Grating profit from 20 to 80 per cent
may be anticipated.
District Isolated.
While the district is unquestionably
isolated and is going to take an enor-
nous amount of capital, especially for
milling equipment, which will of nee
essity have to be of very large ca
pacity on such ore values, the natur'
al conditions for economical opera
tons and low tonnage cost when the
district Is fully opened up are excep
tionally good, and from numerous
tests shown as far as the ore is dew
eloped it is proven to be susceptible
Of very high extraction of values by
simple cyanide treatment and the
successful outcome of the develop
ment now planned by Mr.. Morris ant
associates In this field is likely tt
mean as much or more in a business
way to Boise and other south Idaho
towns as the Occur d'Alene distric
now means to Spokane and adjacen
territory, and will result in mining
boom and general stimulation of al
business at this end of the STATE
which will be worth.
The Big creek mines are about 81
miles east of the nearest railroad
terminal at Mccall with which the.
are connected by wagon road VII
Warren.
The construction of another wagol
road into the district is being pro
NOTED by Mr.. Blivens and associate
Of Portland, Ore, who are largely in
terested In the district.
1t is proposed to make this toll
road and the route is over the pres
ent Thunder Mountain road to John
son creek to Yellow Pine basin, u
East Fork and Profile gap to Bi
creek and Edwardsburg where it wi
connect with the present norther
route into the district and greatly e1
tend the wagon road haul season b
reason of the lower divides it has {
cross.-Meadows Eagle.