Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1913-06-19
E.,,ror MA CAPITALISTS TAKE
| cprroN ON MOORE BONANZA
AND OTHER CLAIMS.
GREAT BOOST FOR DISTRICT
r I. Moore, Representing Option Hol-
ders, Spends Large Sum in
Development.

Backed by California capitalists, F..
| L. Morris, well known San Francisco
mining engineer has taken an option
on the Moscow group Of mines, better
| known as the Moore bonanza, in the
| Big Creek district. Included in the
deal is the Gold King group and several
other valuable properties in that section
which ranks the transaction as one of
the biggest mining deals in Idaho
county in years. That future work on
the mines included will justify the tax
ing Of the option and mean the eventual
closing of the sale is the universal be-
lief of all the mining men who are
acguainte ID with the property involved.
Already Mr.. Morris has expended ap-
proxmately $4,000 ON the several
claims for labor and supplies and con-
tract work, including two development
contracts aggregating 900 feet of
tunnell work, and he intends to install
drilling 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.
The big lode zone of the Big creek
district On which the properties involv-
ed in this deal are situated presents i'm
mense possibilities for extensive gold
mining and milling operations.
Considerable Development.
Three properties on this belt have
been partially developed to depths
varying from so to $50 feet where ore
bodies are disclosed in widths varying
from so to 212 feet, which under cold
blooded sampling of some Of the most
competent mining engineers available,
show average gold values of from So to
s. per ton.
These deposits are of the fissured
zone or sheer zone type and all are of
immense size, and the steep pitch, to-
gether with their favorable topographic
situation, presents exceptional facilities
Ior rapid preliminary tunnel develop
ment and drilling tests, such as are en-
pioyed in the big porphyry operations
oy whle millions Of tons of ore may be
proven, and it simply remains fer ma
ture to do its share in the transaction
ioy the maintenance of the present
Anown values to reasonable depth and
length TO the already known ore shoots
10 make Big creek district one of the
most prosperous and populous mining
uistrcts in the northwest, as the pres
ens surf act evidences indicate a proba-
ole total resource of one hundred mil
non tor of ore, on which an operating
proflt Of from 20 to 80 per cent may be
anticipated.
District a Conner.
Mining men familiar with the district
nave !. for years joined in the contention
.nat WI tn proper mining equipment and
transportation facilities the Big creek
.'s'rict would come rapidly to the fore.
'front.' mong the actual producers of the
state and while the district is isolated
ana is going to take an enormous
amount of capital, especially for mill
,"s equipment, which will of necessity
nave 70 be of very large capacity on
.ocn ore values, the natural conditions
-or eco onomical operations and low ton
AAse cost when the district is fully
.pened up are exceptionally good, and
rom th" numerous tests shown as far
- 'ne ore is developed, it is proven to
:. sosc ceptible Of very high extraction
- -, .aip les by simple cyanide treatment.
me Big creek mines are about 90
miles east Of the nearest railroad ter
a. anai at New Meadows, with which
ey are connected by wagon road via
ayette lakes, Resort and Warren.
Inc Construction of another wagon
road into the district is being promoted
" MI Blivens and associates of Port
= ' y, Ore, who are largely interested
-. 'ne district. 1t is proposed to make
!. Toll road and the route is over
s Is resent Thunder Mountain road to
.0nnso :, On creek, from Thunder City on
~ sae ne " Idaho Northern railroad, thence
johnson creek to Yellow Pine