Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-22

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One needs a windlass, cable and wooden
buckets to get the earth out after it is
thawed and IT he expects to prospect in
deep ground he should have steam engine
as well. They have here prospecting out
mt which costs about 5000 1t consists Of
tour-horsepower boiler, a hosting engine.
steam points, pipe and fittings and buckets
and cable. The outfit is compact and can be
carried on sled drawn by dogs. One of
the best methods of prospecting is with
drills, but the freight rates have been so
nigh that few have come in. There is
churn drill built here, which is sold for
$1,000, including therein complete pros
pecting equipment.
From the figures have given it will be
seen that 1T costs something to grubstake
man in Alaska Still much grub-staking is
done. Outsiders will furnish the provisions
and outfit, and the miners will agree to pros
pect and work for half what they find Stock
IN some of the mines is largely held in the
states, and there are many little PROPOSE
tons scattered here and there over the coun-
try that are kept going that way. Most Of
these are honestly managed. Now and then
one is not. They tell story here about a
miner who was working away in good spir-
its notwithstanding his output, which was
practically nothing He had plenty of mon
ey and seemed happy. Asked how he was
doing he replied:
"Finel Fine!"
Then you have reached the paystreak,
suppose?"
Yes, | struck that at the start"
But where is it? | don't see any gold"
ooh, was the reply, "the paystreak is not
here the paystreak's in Chicago"
How would you like to stub your toe on a
gold mine? That is how the Rhoads-Hill
quartz mine in Bedrock creek valley was
discovered. The mine has now more than
mile of underground workings and has net
ted its owners over S200OO0 The discover
er was l.. B. Rhoads, prospector who was
mushing over the trail He had made some
money placer mining, but fortune had gone
against him, and he turned his attention to
quartz. On his way down the hill to the
Bedrock creek valley he studded his too and
fell headlong. AS he got up he looked for
the cause of his stumbling, and found it was
rock speckled with coarse yellow bits Of
gold. He marked the spot, got an outfit, and
dug down until he discovered rich vein of
quartz He took out claim, and thawcd
shaft to the 50-foot. level, burning the rock
with wood fires. Every week he crushed
enough of the best rock to give him gold for
his supplies for the week to come. In the
winter he worked underground The next
spring he tunneled in on the vein; and, to
make long story short, he finally cstab
lished a mill of five stamps, out of which he
and his brother-in-law, Hail. have already
cleared almost quarter of million dollars.
In company with one of the forcmen,
went into the mine and strolled about
through one tunnel after another watching
the miners at work. A short distance from
the surface we came into slopes, or cham
bers of rock. They were as cold as ice, their
walls being frosted like the pipes of cold
storage chamber The rock is cut out Of the
ice. 1t is part of the great bed of prehis-
toric frost, which underlies this whole re-
gion. FRANK G.. CARPENTER.