Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-10-04
M'kN|CHT GOES TO
DIXIE; Will Open
BIG MINES
WASHINGTON d. c. MAN PLANS
EXTENSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF
THE MAJESTIC PROPERTIES
WILL WINTER IN INTERIOR
Eastern Man Declares He Has Sincere
Faith in Future Of Minerals of
idaho County.

A. Ill. Mcknight of Washington, d.
g., was in Grangeville this week on his
way to Dixie, where he is interested in
gold mine properties. Mr.. Mcknight,
who is enthusiastic over the mining out
look in the Dixie section, plans to spend
the entire winter in the interior country.
into which he has made numerous trips.
He will start work on the Majestic Gold
Mining cVnpany's claims.
Miner for Ten Years.
Mr.. Mcknight has been in charge of
development work at this property for
the last ten years and during that time
has expended 100000 in opening up
what is considered to be one Of the
largest bodies of ore in the interior
country. Some half dozen professional
engineers have examined the property.
and while all agree that there is an
enormous body of ore, no two of them
agree as to the best methods of handl-
ing nor can they agree as to whether
with present known values and the dis
tance from railroad transportation, the
property can be made to pay.
Whole Mountain Mineralized.
81 have the sincerest faith in the
property said Mr.. Mcknight, "and L
believe there is a large body of very
rich ore near some of the workings
we have prosecuted and | am going
in to the property to prove or disprove
my theory, or rather to demonstrate q
positive conviction. Where the new
work will be begun, | took samples of
very rich ore, in fact, by long odds the
richest yet found on the property and
the last mining expert we had to ex-
anime the property gave it as his
| opinion that small amount of work
| would uncover the ledge from which
| these samples came. The whole noun
tain on which we have our claims locat-
ed is mineralized, but heretofore we
have done development on the larger
veins, irrespective of values obtained,
to find out just what the property
amounted to. Now we are going to
open up some of the smaller and known
rich lodges and l am sure we will soon
have mine there of which we may well
be proud.
| Buy Penn Dixie Works.
I'VE have just closed deal for the
mill and personal property of the
Penn-Dixie property and this will be
moved on our claims. | hope to have
it in running order before the spring
opens up. Some of the stockholders Of
the Majestic company were discouraged
with the report of one engineer, which
resulted in myself and few associates
being able to secure bond and lease
on the property for two years for the
sum of $250,000. If we didn I have
faith and if we were not almost certain
of results, we would not go to the ex-
pense the new venture is certain to
entail. But | have prospected all the
claims, and in fact located all of them
and am as familiar with the property
as perhaps is no other person. We are
going ahead with development in a mod
est way, but several men will be put to
work at once and before long / hope
to have story to tell which will be
founded on more than belief or good
Indications
For eighteen years Mr.. Mcknight
was employed in the government print
ing office at Washington.