Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-11-29
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From the Enterprise,)

The Ten Mile district of the Elk City
is likely to bring the attention
of the mining world to this section
shortly if present indications count for
ANYTHING. More than $500, 900 has been
spent in the purchase of properties and
machinery for development in this dis
trict during the year just closing, and
some of the most experienced mining
men of the northwest have become in
terested in the various properties of
this region.
The Buckhorn mine, of which W. +.
York is superintendent, IS getting road'
for active work with an increased force
| of men for the winter. Their recent
| shipment of machinery will be installed
and 700 feet more of unnel will be
| driven this winter. This will give a
depth of 500 feet to the ore shaft. Two
hundred fifty thousand ton of high
grade ore is now blocked out ready for
milling. The New York and the Won
der are each installing ten stamp mills,
while the Gold Hill is operating "A Glib
son mill with the intention of adding
up-to-date machinery in the early
spring. The New York is working
thirty men and has tho mill about ready
for occupation. The New York has
lately cut through a large, rich body of
ore in the tunnel.
The Lone Pine has a five-stamp mill
in operation and there is a current
rumor that this promising property will
shortly change hands and new machin-
cry be put in to bring it up to the
capacity it's showing warrants. The
McCav has lately been taken over by
Seattle men, and is now in the hands of
a management that will bring the prop
crtv to IA high stage of development in
the near future. w. G.. Peterson, its
new a visited Sites recently
purchasing supplies and said that from
twenty to twenty-five men would be
employed the coming winter. This
property will be equipped with a Den
yer mill of large capacity. The mine
has two distinct leads about 400 feet
apart. The high grade ledge. with an
average of $40 to the ton in gold, has
more thar 100000 worth Q. ore blocked
ont for milling. The lower tunnel is in
800 feet, showing a ledge Mt the face of
the drift which has been cross cut forty
feet wide, showing IS to the ton.
Dean Roberts of the mining depart.
ment of the University of Idaho has
Just returned .om an inspection of this
and other property and is enthusiastic
over future prospects of this district
as n gold producer. He believes the
Denver mill process will save a greater
percentage of the values of the ores il
this district than any other process
He is now engaged in making tests OF
! these ores in his lahratorv at the Uni
versity and reports the ores of the Me
Cay going as high as S945 to the on.
People of Sites have occasion to lon!
+, remember the night of November 81
when their patriotism reached the over
flow. enriching the Golfers of the loca
Red Cross in the sum of $50. TIL
! occasion was a musical followed by
/ basket social. and was under the per
+ sonal direction of Mrs. II. NJ. Villains
( who. as n worker of the Red Cross, ur
+ dertook the success of the entertain
( ment.
! I. c. Mincrt of Red River Hot Spring
. made final proof on his homestead
that section Wednesday before L.
IS Commissioner Butler. George Ecke'
accompanied him here and with W.
X Gibler acted as witness in making tn
proof.
id Albert Rcynold and family have i,
" moved to Whitcbird. where Mr.. Re,
nolds will enter a bank as cashier an
to hookkeepcr. Mr.. REYNOLDS and famil
had resided here for many years.
Among the los men who have r,
ccived commissions in the aviation SCI
" tion of the signal corps after a thre
months course at the L. S. t~rainin
ne camp for Officers of the reserve corr
'e. at San Francisco, appears the name c
On William f.. Farr. well known minin
man, of Elk City, commissioned as cal
N tain.
Oh Have car of alfalfa on hand. An,
w one wishing ton lots call City Fee
Store. 49,