Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-02-10

Call Anthony mine under bond has a
crew of men getting out ore for ship
ment to Chicago. This anthony runs
sixty per cent and is a paying PROPOSE
ton from the outset.
Chas. Mahan and l.. l.. Rice of Spo-
kane have organized the Ramey Min
ing Co. and Mr.. Mahan has crew at
work driving long tunnel to tap the
ore exposed on the surface. Mr.. Mahan
is a capable mill man as was demon
strated last summer when ne with w.
A. Edwardsburg and Theo. Van Meter
made a test run ON the Sunday mine
and shipped concentrates to the Salt
Lake smelters.
Mitt Haney a well known trapper
has caught a genuine black fox and
now the Chamberlain country is look
ing for that kind of fur.
John Routson Jr. has killed eleven
bear and Dave Lewis will get out in
the early spring to see what he can do
in his section. The bear were very
plentiful last fall and were killed around
many of the ranch houses in the lower
Big creek country.
Freeman Nethkin is at work on his
ground up Logan creek and the first
of Feb will return to his cattle ranch
on Middle Fork.
William Mitchell who has given up
mining for ranching spent few days
at Profile the first of the year.
Joe Davis is at his Way Up mine up
Logan gulch but will return to Ed
harrisburg by the latter part of Janu-
airy.
Theodore Van Meter and Crosby
Brewer have been at work at the Cop
per Camp and will be be joined by VIM.
A. Edwards in a few days. This fam
GUS old mine is showing up high grade
ore in the Black Bear tunnel and will
be a producer yet. Copper continues
to soar and this gives renewed hope to
the owners of this mine who have, in
spite of difficulties continued to de-
velop their property. With the COM
pletion of the long tunnel the numer-
Gus ore bodies will be tapped and
enormous tonnage assured.
The Edwardsburg wagon road is in
need of repair especially the bridge
near the summit. Seven miles of this
road were built some years since by
William A. Edwards for the Eagle Min
ing Co. and in one place cuts through
forty feet of solid rock. If the county
will accept this road and put it in re-
pair or even help to do so the mail con-
tractor will consider putting on an auto
truck for the parcel post and the camp
will, at least, have good mail service
to say nothing OF the prospective buy
ers who would be attracted to this rich
section by the easy access this road
would furnish. Moneyed men don It
like nor will they often take these long.
hard trips over the summit but they
will consider investing in a section
where they are able personally investi-
gate their holdings.
For the hunter or the fisherman this
is paradise and during the run of sal
mon there could be no more delightful
sport than to spear them on the rifles.
At the head of Big Creek they spawn,
then die and the gardens of this section
are enriched by the decaying flesh that
is packed on burroughs for that pur-
pose. When hard head cabbage were
in abundance the South Fork gardens
were in their infancy and yet there
they have almost perpetual summer in
comparison to the long, snowy season
of the hills. In spite of the deep snow
and the hanging icicles there is touch
of spring in the air today and already
the dreariness of the winter is forgot
ton in the thought of the open season
when the days are long and the nights
all too short for the sleep that comes to
us who travel the trail over the hills
for work or pleasure.