The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-11-30
Grangville Man Gives Interest
ing Interview When in
Spokane.
CLEANUP, SHERMAN
Mt. Marshall, Elk City, Ten
Mile and Dixie Show
ing Up Well.
Improvements on Black Diamond.

Sites Enterprise: In conversation
with Frank Windmaiser, who has been
foreman in the woods for Richard Klee-
sattle, of the Black Diamond property,
of Dixie, reports that during the sum
mer large force of men were employ
ed in getting out timber and lumber
for the construction of a boarding
house, bunk house, Office building and
residence for Mr.. Kleesattle.
The sawmill outfit was taken from
the Majestic property five miles dis
tant, and with this crew over 100000
feet of lumber was manufactured
this year. The men also put up 1000
cords of wood for use about the mine
property.
Besides the above improvements the
building for the stamp mill is well un-
der way, which is 100x50 feet and win
prove ample for the present until the
property will be able to handle a full
crew.
| Work has been started on the shaft
house and the hoist and accessories
left Sites last Thursday and will be
| installed as soon as possible. The
shaft will be sunk 1000 feet and drifts
will be made as fast as the ore strata
/ is struck. .ass.-.--
High grade ore was struck in the
face of the main tunnel last week, but
as Mr. Kleesattle had not completed
the assay of this ore we are unable to
state the values found, but the ore is
reported as carrying very high values.
crew of forty men is now being
employed, and the work is divided In
night and day shift, and every ad-
vantage is being taken this winter so
that by spring the mine will be able
to operate a full crew.
Mr.. Kleesattle has moved to the
property and is personally overseeing
every detail and pushing the work as
fast as the weather conditions will
permit.
The greatest obstacle in his way
seems transportation into Dixie, and
he, as all 'other miners, is boosting
for the government highway up the
Clearwater from Sites to Elk City.
The slow and uncertain road condi-
tion that confronts the people In that
section has greatly retarded the devel-
0pment of the mines as well as the
farming lands.
Sherman Has 100000 Ore Blocked.
'The Marshall Lake district, forty
miles southeast from Florence, Idaho,
has been brought into the limelight
through milling achievement on the
, Sherman group on Bear Creek by
,, Wolf Fox, a Seattle banker, and two
Alaskans, one named Holt" said Mat
, Gilbert, of Grangeville, Idaho, at the
, st. Nicholas last night. "'They remov-
ed $4,000 in the first seven days op-
Grafton with chilian mill. The .lean-
up was sufficient to cancel bond for
, 100000, on which $4,000 had been
, paid tht owner. John Fox, who is not
, related to the banker.
THE first Fox exposed shoot which
, the second Fox and his associates fol-
lowed until 100000 worth of gold
bearing ore had been blocked out
. Every one concerned experienced sur
prises of the developments.
High Values in 6laek Pine.
Exceptionally high values are being
found in ore undergoing development
! in the Black Pine, two miles east of
Elk City" said Mr.. Gilbert, who made
. tour of the central gold belt 1.-THE
body, which is four feet wide, was en-
, countered in raising from the 200-foot
, level. 1t Is so rich that rock from the
dump is mixed with it for mill feed
. "Ore in body from two to eight
=
> to a depth of 100 feet in the New York
| Values run SIS to $40, according to re-
3 suits with a mill. More would be
J heard of this property If heavy mill
| ing equipment was installed.
2 Leases South Fork Mine.
4 Martin Hickman has leased the
South Fork mine. which has good
record for production, and started OPP
erations with crew of four.
t "An ore shoot eight to ten feet wide
+ is undergoing development in the low
+ er tunnel of the Center Star by Tide
r man, Brown & Murphy. Twenty feet
+ of ore is reported by John Grindy and
S Dan Bennett to have been opened at a
y depth of 100 feet in the Gilt Edge.
t Joseph Wade and associates are devel-
e oping an eight-foot ledge in the Moth
/ er Lode Native gold has been shown
n in operations through two shafts and
t several open cuts. Frank Stechner
o has exposed conditions of promise on
tho Rlua Rihhan