Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-03-26
REVIEWS WORK ON PRINCIPAL
PROPERTIES IN STATE
IN 1913
NINE NEWS TOLD BY BELL
Predictions and Comments on Worth of
Local Mining Properties Appear
to Ring True.

Oohslderabie authoritative and highly
interesting comment regarding Idaho
county mines is to be found in the
fifteenth annual report of the state in
spector Of mines, Robert N. Bell, Just
issued from Boise and copies of which
have been sent broadcast over the state.
The report generalizes to quite in an
extent in referring to the Elk City and
other districts of the county where rich
strikes have recently been made since
the compilation of the book and the
major comment is given over to the
mines in the extreme southern part of
the county and in the Salmon river
section. Some Of the paragraphs relat.
ing to the mines in Idaho county are re.
printed from Inspector Bell 3 report as
follows:
Idaho County Zinc.
Some remarkably interesting occur
rences of zine or that promise to de-
velop large bodies are being prospect
ed in the Resort District in the forma-
tion of gneiss that is traversed by wide
zones of clean, coarsely' crystalline cal
cite mineral in places several hundred
feet wide. These deposits in their shall
low surface prospect holes show va.
| riety of zinc ores, including oxide car
| Donates and sulphides, and while they
are remote from railroad transportation
at present they could easily be made ac.
cessible over easy grades from present
nearest railroad point at Mccall on
Payette Lake, fifty miles distance, and
may some day prove of sufficient capa-
city to induce, with the other interest.
ing resources of the region, that sur
rounds them, the extension of railroad
facilities to that point.
/, Seven Devils Range.
The Seven Devils Range, in Adams
and Idaho counties is richly mineralized
with surface showing of copper ore
along its western slope bordering the
Snake river canyon, for fifty miles, and
contains number of remarkably in,
teresting and attractive ore showings
Blue Jacket Mine.
| At Landore, the Blue Jacket and
Queen mines were operated throughout
! the year with a small crew of men and
shipped about 300 tons of 90 to 30 per
cent hand picked crude copper ore con-
tanning severel dollars per tor in gold
and silver This deposit is similar to
that of South Mountain from the fact
that the ore occurs in the contact of
zone of white limestone in diorite for
nation.
Buffalo Hump District.
The Buffalo Hump District, in Idaho
county, was the scene of quite mining
excitement in 1899, which resulted in
the development of number of veins
and the erection of several stamp mills.
his district is characterized by for
nation of eruptive granite traVersed bv
large goldbearing fissure veins Of
white quartz containing mixed sui
phides of iron with a little lead, zinc
and silver values in some instances
The gold values range from $500 to
$4,000 per ton, the richest ore being
found in the Big Buffalo vein, which
included some remarkably rich speci-
men ore containing coarse wire gold.
Most of the milling efforts in this
district, however, have proven un-
successful by reason of the fact that
the ore turned base at comparatively
shallow depth and did not yield readily
to the cyanide or chlorination methods
tried.
Marshall Lake Mines.
Southwest of Buffalo Hump 80 or
40 miles, on Bear creek, short tri-
butary running down into the main
Salmon river on the south side of the
canyon, the Marshall Lake Mining Dis
trict carries series of small gold veins
especially adapted for leasing opera
tions that contain some very high val
ues, and are noted for the production
of wonderfully rich native gold speci-
men ore in an intensely altered schist
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