The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-03-09
The New York Mine, Owned
BY Smith Bros, Steady
Producer.
PUSH DEVELOPMENT
Employed Twenty Seven Men
Blocked Out Large Body
Of Ore.

Fred Smith arrived In the city Sat
urday from the Ten Mile section
bringing out bullion to the value OF
some $1350.00, the result of an eleven
day run from four stamps on the New
York property. The brick was about
the incest one that has come to the
city in years. Boise assay returns
show that as depth Is gained the fine
ness and value increases The first
shipment of gold bullion made from
the property brought returns of $14.72
per ounce, and the latest figures receiv-
ed show $15.21.
The Smith Bros. have been doing
a great deal Of development work dur
ing the past winter and had q crew of
twenty-seven men at work for quite a
long period in an effort to ascertain
the volume of ore obtainable on the
New York group and as to whether or
not they would be justified In putting
! a mill on the property, and from the
results they have practically decided
to do so All the ore that has been
milled so far from this mine had to
be hauled two miles and a half to
the mill located on the Anaconda group
and during this winter has been a
heavy expense, running as high as 5000
being big item hay being $4,000 per
ton at the mine
Since arriving here Mr.. Smith has
been In consultation with his brother,
Coon" who has been spending sew
eral days In the city, regarding the In
stallation of new machinery, and left
/ yesterday morning for Spokane In the
interests of the business
/ The Smith Bros have been working
on their many properties in this coun-
ty for the past twenty years and have
now simmered their holdings down to
four groups in the Ten Mile country,
to-wit: The New York, Anaconda,
Georgia and Illinois The New York
group is developed at the present time
with two tunnels; one of 100 feet and
one of $50 and Slopes, from which
their mill is being kept running at the
present time, and numerous open cuts
The entire distance in the two tunnels
has been in good milling ore The
Illinois has $50 feet of open work
showing well defined ledge; the Geor-
gia has 1886 feet of crosscut tunnel,
while the Anaconda is opened up with
2O0O feet of tunnel and shaft
Joe Dysard of this city, has been
on the hauling job continuously and
of late has been assisted by George
Esh of Elk. About seven tons daily
have been run and it is estimated that
about go per cent of the values are
saved
The brothers, Fred, Coon" and
Charley, who are now in charge at the
mine, are certainly entitled to their
good fortune. They have stayed with
the industry in this county in the face
of adversitieS of every description,
and in some instances people who had
no faith in the district went out Of
their way to place obstacles in their
path. One by one they have each been
overcome and today they have in sight
sufficient ore to put behind them every
business worry, and soon place them
on easy street" They are boosters.
not only for their own district, but for
the industry over the entire county,
and not strike" is made in the coun-
ty but one of them is soon on the
ground to investigate its possibilities.
They also do their own surveying and
aSsaying, and know to their own sat
isfaction the value of the ore they are
milling.
Mr. Smith states that this county is
going to come to the front In the min
ing game. G. L. l.. Basket is ma
king good at Elk City on the Mrs.
Parr property, of which he is manager.
and south Idaho people have become
sufficiently impressed with the out
look that they have taken a bond on
the A. s. Johnson property in the Ten
Mile, at a good figure.