The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-02-24
Special Reporter Cleans In
formation Regarding
County Mines.
INSTALL new DREDCE
Placers That Have Produced
Fabulous Wealth to Re-
new Activities.


lowing important news items again
proving to the local skeptics and pessi-
.mtsts and to the uninformed outside
world of the enormous mineral wealth
existing In the nearby mountains, that
Is slowly yet persistently being dis
covered and developed.
We have no boom to attract the
get-rich-quick investor nor the am
bilious stockselling broker, neverthe-
oSen' less the faithful prospector and small
at imFOperator Is keeping steadily at it and
ent Of some are beginning to realize the re-
,aano, ward or their many years labor by
pe either disposing of their properties at
none a fair price or in having the satisfac-
ton to own a property which some
day will pay them well for their earn
colo, est efforts.
Over 100 men are at work around
Elk City alone.
Let us mention but a few of the
lish aEmany more or less promising mining
made properties:
: that The Mineral ZONE group sometimes
costs called the Parr property, has con-
stant work going ON in further ex-
tending the already existing large bod
A.. les of ore, the ore thus taken out Of
y tne the mine being ample to keep the three
10 cal stamp mill a running, handling six
teen tons of ore per day of two shifts.
The mill is in charge of the we'll
known mill man, Gus Gustafson.
WCN Last year before the mill was in
place, Shipments of high grade ore
were made to Butte that went $500 in
s***t geld per ton of ore
Sixteen men are employed by G. l..
L. Basket, the managing owner.
nj The South Fork mine on the Clear
water river, controlled by VIM. H.
V1It Stowel and J. T. ONO of Spokane,
Vs has been leased by Martin Hickman,
who has five men at work, the force
to be increased as needed. Mr.. Heck
man has been fortunate in recovering
-- the ledge in the lower tunnel that had
4 the rich ore in the upper tunnel that
II netted over 5000 to the ton when ship
ments Of ore were made some years
ago by the former owner, Mr.. Espey.
The tvestamp mill is now in Oper-
ation This mine has several lodges,
one OF them monster over 40 feet
wide but with lower grade ore than
the smaller size lodges.
On the Center Star mine, owned
by Murphy, Brown & Tiedeman, the
lower and main working tunnel is be-
ing extended in order to reach the ore
shoot that has the high grade ore in
the upraise.
After this is accomplished the own
ers propose to purchase a small mill
to treat the free milling ore, the prof
1tS tuCItlTOHl eudDllIS the OWNERS 10
push ahead and do more extensive de-
velopment work.
The ]. ]. McKim Company, who have
bond on the Grangeville mines own
ed by w. w. Brown and associates of
this city, have already $50 tons of
fine ore ready to mill when weather
conditions are favorable. In the
meantime more ore is being taken out
of the mine
On the large holdings of the Black
Pine Mining company of Philadelphia
III. b. Supplee, manager, work Is go
- ing on steadily with the 200 foot con-
tract to extend the tunnel into the
rich ore shot opened up on the sur
face for some distance and on which
assays as high at $4,000 have been
had.
This company has made good start
and will certainly be a good divident
paying property after the different ore
bodies are sufficiently opened up to
warrant the steady operation of the
h no mill
llVV Frank Steckner, Ed Brown and Ed
:, at Comeley have bonded their Hercules
dIlI mine, IA miles from Elk City, to Can
. adian company at a good figure. This
, mine has four foot ledge averaging
in values from $500 to $1,000 in fret
AVS milling gold to the ton of ore.
The tunnel is in 400 feet
,c The Cumberland mine on Red river
- is being opened up by the owner, Jas
= 90 A. McKinnon, who expects to reacf
IUV a promising ore body with a 120 foo
tunnel at $50 feet depth, that has 6
six foot ledge exposed on the surfac,
with shoot of ore traced for 70t
feet, all having good commercial value
Work is to be revived this year OF
the well known Buffalo Hill placers
for long time owned by the Hon. Jas
Witt, and now in possession of Mr.. Roc
Leggett, Of Butte, Mont.
This mine has been idle for years
1t Is one of the first locations in tn,
early days when gold was discovered
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