The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-03-14
Ore Body Twelve Feet Wide
Assays up to $500 Per Ton
at 100 Foot Depth.
CLAIM IS UNDER BOND
Holt Mine in Marshall Lake,
Taking Out Over $1,000
Per Day.

The central Idaho gold field, I'm
which interest has languished In re-
cent years. is the scene of a strike that
has aroused the widest enthusiasium,
according to report from the field,
says the Spokesman Review. The re-
port is confirmed by a mining engi-
neer and mining man. Professor George
Bancroft, mining and metallurgical
authority of Denver, Colo, Is among
those in the field. A New York syn
dicate is at work.
Ore Followed 65 Feet
"The strike was made at a point IA
miles south of Buffalo Hump" says
George McGregor, a mining engineer
of Elk City, Idaho, in letter to Raj
ston McCaig, of this city. The shoot
has width of IL feet and assays $500
to $500 to the ton. 1t is lead-copper
god-silver ore, in which gold pre-
dominates in value. The body has
been followed by drift for 65 feet and
crosscut every 80 feet at a depth Of
100 feet
The property known as the Billie
Boise owned by William Boyce and
partner was bonded by Mr.. Bancroft
last fall. He gave contract for $50
feet of drifting. The strike was made
in the performance of the contract
THE property lies within few
miles of the Holt gold mine, where
Holt, an Alaska miner, has been taking
out more than $1,000 a day with a five
foot Huntington mill.
May Mean Something to Hump
The Billie Boise strike means more
to the Buffalo Hump country than
casual inspection would suggest, ac-
cording to George Pelikan, a mining
man of Spokane Mr. rPelikan AYERS
there Is geological connection be-
tween the mineral resources of the
Hump and the Billie Boise strike. He
says the Billie Boise is 1000 feet lower
than the mines of the Hump, which
suggests to him that higher values will
be found III the veins of the Hump
when more depth is attained on them.
Most of the ores of the Hump carry
some lead and very little copper, in
dicating that possibly with depth the
character of ore may change and the
itad and copper values may inclease,
but. of conlse. that is only spec:Iia-
i've" sail Mr. Pellkan yesterday
This theorr is ba'ied largely upon
what has be- n discovered very recent
ly in the new section on the Salmon
river slope, just south of the Hump,
but In the same district. where three
different properties have been opened
during the last winter, and where hope
of phenomenal values have been dis
closed carrying as high as 80 per cent
in lead. In another property ore In
body IA feet wide has been opened in
the breast of Il tunnel at a depth Of
$50 feet. 1t will average over $3.50 to
the ton in gold, silver, copper and lead.
4 This is no hot air nor a mid-win-
ter boom proposition. Five assays
from this property showed values aver
aging from Is to 80 ounces in gold and
from 96 to 1856 ounces in silver, 33 per
cent lead and 2 to per cent copper.
Denver Engineer in Charge.
"One of these properties is under an
option to eastern people, whose engin-
eer, George Bancroft. of Denver. is In
charge, having left for the property 10
days ago. There has been a disposi-
tion to withhold news of the strike.
but it is becoming known, and If its
real merits were generally known at
this time | believe that, notwithstand-
ing the depth of snow, there would be
stampede, because the district is
from seven to eight miles in area and
has the appearance of being well de-
fined mineral zone, the character of the
ore resembling that of the Hump.
Mr.. Bancroft has taken up a power
site on Crooked river, about four miles
from the Hump, from which, he says,
he can develop at least 5000 horse
power under a 2500-foot head That
means that there are other power sites
available on the same stream"