Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-07-22
PARCELS POST AND MINES.
Postal Service Assisting Greatly il
Mine Development.

date printed an interview with j. I.
Ono who had just returned from the
Elk City, Dixie and other camps and
that gentleman spoke encouragingly OF
the section and its possibilities and
prophesied that a road will soon be
constructed up the Clearwater, 1t is
as follows:
Lack of railway or water Transports {
ton generally has been regarded as an 4
almost fatal drawback to quartz mining /
regions, but the Inauguration of the .
parcel post system is proving an inn
portant factor in development of isolat
ed properties, especially in central
Idaho, where the postal department now
has six four horse teams carrying the /
mails from Sites, the terminus of the
Clearwater branch of the Northern
Pacific railway, and the Dixie and
other camps intervening, according to
j. r. ONO, who returned recently from
an extended stay in that part of the
Inland Empire. The distance from
Suites W LIAM dpVu0 ~ iiiAhSSt eH'
the teams make about 25 miles each
day, enabling a regular schedule to be
maintained, a team leaving either end
of the line every morning carrying two
tons of concentrates, ore and miscella-
neous postal freight. The mineral con
signments go to the smelters at Tacoma
and Butte, Mont, the rate being $l.05
the hundred pounds to each point and
it is said the government is losing APP
proximately $4,000 annually on the
shipments, the contractors receiving
two cents the pound for the haul to the
railway. The contract formerly was
held by Franks Hye of Elk City, aud
since has passed to Phillips Johnson.
The postal department has recon-
mended the appropriation by the FEEDER
al government of funds to finance con
struction of an automobile highway up
the south fork of the Clearwater river
from Sites to Dixie, and the federal
forestry department has joined in the
recommendation, as the territory ira
versed and the districts to be served
lie in the forest reserve, which prevents
the county and state from making the
Improvement. 1t is estimated that the
cost would not exceed 100000 and
that the saving in operating the mail
service in single year would reimburse
the government for the expenditure.
T. al = 20 1avatnn-
ment on a greater scale an important
gold mining region, and would attract
settlers into the district, portions OF
which are ideally adapted to farming
fruit growing and stock raising.
The mining and business men of the
Clearwater valley have Endorsed the re
commentator of the postal and fores
try departments, and it is said an ap
peal will be made to the Spokane
Chamber of Commerce and the mining
men, club to secure their assistance
as the distrjc is supplied largely from
here. A number of Spokane men ar,
interested in mining properties in tn
different camps. Government engineer
are said to be in the region now maxim,
preliminary surveys.
More properties are operating nov
in the Clearwater regions than eve
before, and there will be several NOR
producing before the end of the year,
said ! Mr.. ONO. "Many of them ar
equipped with small stamp mills, an
while / was in the district | saw re
ceipts from the smelters for shipment
that ran from $50 to 5000 the ton i
gold.
with w. III. Stowell, and other Spc
kane men, / am endeavoring to financ
equipment and development of tn
South Fork mines at TenMile and W
hope to have the property in opperatio
by January |. We have about $50
feet of backgrounds now, exposing fou
veins of low grade ore and we are run
ming an upraise from No. 2 to No.
levels to ventilate the workings. TIL
distance is about 155 feet, and we e.
pect to have the connection in 80 day
The veins on the property run from
to go feet wide, and the ore is easil
treated, making possible the saving {
nearly all values. Already we ha,
taken out 100000 gross with fly
stamp MILL and the former owners, A
fred Adams, Jr., and associates of A
lantie City, n. J. took out about g
equal amount, We have had the CLAIM
about three years, but have been u
able to work them as extensively as v
intend to after we get the new equi
ment.
We are planning TO build a pow
station and 25-stamp mill ON the Sou
Fork of the Clearwater, from which Y
will secure water through $500 70
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