Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1920-01-04
FUTURE Of MINING
INcENTRAL IDAHO;
EFFECT ON CITY
Developments in Various Fields
Indicate. Industry Will Soon
Rival Agriculture in This
State.
By JAMES H. HAwLEY.

Bl JAMES II, HAWLEY.
Indications surely point to a great
revival in the mining industry, and 1t
is time for us to consider the effect
this full exploitation. OF our mining re-
gions will have on Boise, and endeavor
to trend the accruing benefits in this
direction,
That the rockribbed mountains
comprising the entire central portion Of
our state, and until the past few years
almost inaccessible to the ordinary
citizen, are scanned with veins not only
containing In paying amounts both gold
and silver, but much of the more use
full metals. il well known to every old
resident of the state. The time Is fast
approaching when these storehouses OF
treasure will be tapped and the accru-
ing benefits realized by our people.
DESCRIPTION GIVEN.
Commencing a few miles above
Huntington the developments OF thu
last five years show for hundred
miles on the Idaho side of the Snake
river a succession of copper deposits
that promise in the near future to RI
val the great copper mines of Utah,
Arizona and Montana. Extending
east and embracing practically all the
mountain area within the water shed
of the Salmon and its numerous trib-
utaries and also the head waters of the
Boise, Payette, Wood and Lost riv-
ers is shown a succession of rich min
eralized areas that transportation fa-
cilities will develop In the near future
into important mining camps, and in
which the profusion Of wealth already
showing is unequalled in any mining
section of the world.
The future of this great mining Sec
ton seems assured. Recent develop
ments in the old camp of Warrens
have proved. past preadventure, the
continuance of the small but rich veins
of that camp: the rich veins of Bay
horse. Clayton and other Custer coun-
ty camps, long idle for want of trans
portation facilities are being again
worked, as the present high price of
silver renders profitable mines that
few years ago by reason of their re-
moteness from railroads, could not be
successfully worked. In all of the old
mining camps. the veins are being ex-
plored and put in working shape; in
the nearer mining regions development
work is being extended and the min
ing properties opened up. The quick
silver discoveries in Custer county,
overshadowing the new Almadem
mines of California, are proving to the
world that metals of all kinds will soon
be successfully and profitably extract
ed from our mountain regions.
Low GRADE ORE BODIES.
The big low grade ores bodies of Big
Creek and the Thunder Mountain sec
ton again attract the attention of in
vestors who feel certain that railways
will soon tap those sections. Almost
at the door of Boise is being developed
a rival to the great gold mines of the
Transvaal the recent developments of
the Gold Hill and Iowa Mines company
at Quartzburg demonstrating that the
great minerapzed zone in which tho
mines of that company are situated,
and extending from Canyon creek
northeaster to Summit Flat un-
doubtedly is the source of all the mil
lions of placer gold taken from the
western half of Boise basin, and when
opened it's entire length with the same
intelligence comprehension Of it's OPP
portunities that has characterized the
developments of the Quartzburg COM
pany, will make the immense gold
production of the past, but fraction
of the sums realized in the future.
Looking over the mining field one is
convinced that in the very near future
the mineral production Of Idaho will
rival in Its value the products of our
farms and orchards, and mining will be
second in its importance only to agri-
culture.