Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-26

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to 20 feet the entire zone being
mined"
The Idaho Gold Corporation
Mountain Goat property, which ad
joins the Vishnu, boasts of a produc
ton record in the early days of Ida
hos territorial history of in the
neighborhood of $2,500,00O. While
in the case of the Vishnu and Ida
Elmre and Ada Gilmore, mining op-
more years ago because of high costs
failure of primitive methods, lack OF
capital and proper management, in
the case of the Mountain Goat it may
BE- said that operation here ceased
primarily because the important pro-
ducing vein faulted. Ordinary fault
ing of any vein was, in those early
days Of minig geology, an almost
unavailable mining problem. This
will probably be found by the Idaho
Gold Corporation, according to the
e6mpany's experts, to be a simple
tied Investigation by competent ge-
ologists and short study should make
clear The company expects to locate
the faulted segment off the rich pro-
ducng vein at an early date.
he companys two and one-half
miles Of placer ground are virgin
/ territory, and as described by expert
mining men who have made an ex-
/ animation Of it, Dis of great value.
About eight miles below the two
streams on which this placer ground
is situated, the South Park Dredg
ing company, controlled by the no.
ted Harmon people of San Francisco,
owners of the Yuba Consolidated
Dredging company which has earned
according to reliable report $685.
100000 in California dredging oper-
atoms, is installing a 50-mile powed
line, two gaint dredges and camp
equipment sufficient to enable opera
ton for a period of fifteen years.
Their initial investment for equip
ment and supplies is upwards of
100000. A sample of less than a
cubic yard of selected ground at
bedrock of the Idaho Gold Corpora
tion's placer field is said to have
yielded the astounding return of
5000. If the average is only 80
cents, it should prove highly pro-
fitable
Rocky Bar is situated sixty miles
northeast of Mountain Home, Ida
no, on the Oregon Short Line rail
road, with which it is connected by
an excellent automobile road and
tri-weekly mail service. Electric
power will be available at Feather
vile, eibht miles distant, within
ninety days. However, the Idaho
Gold Corporation owns rights to
more than sufficient water power to
generate its own electricity at
minimum cost. The elevation of the
mine workings is 1900 to $500 feet.
The altitude is ideal for excellent
weather conditions. Mining opera
tions may be conducted the year
round.
The Idaho Gold Corporations ex-
tensive area is situated in a great
and promising high-grade gold-bear-
ing zone which continues along it's
strike for a distance of fully fourt-
cen miles, or until it reaches the old
banana gold camp of Atlanta which
has a production record of upward
Of $50,0O0,00O.
The Idaho Gold Corporations
Immediately adjoins the
town of Rocky Bar. An automobile
road reaches to the very portals of
the Vishnu and Mountain Goat tun-
nels.
The ores of the property are con-
tanned in system of true assures,
veins averaging in width about four
feet. The ore is free-milling. Inter
mittent operations off the properties,
from 1862 to 1885, failed to reveal
the presence of any refractory ores
of any kind whatsoever.
The records of the companies of
fifty years ago which operated the
Vishnu, Mountain Goat and Gilmore
properties are conyiencing on the
point that the mines were asked to
pay for their development and
from the grassroots
down, in times and under conditions
that made this most difficult task.
The companies were poorly financed
and the mines were oprated in a
nor or less haphazard manner, at
an early period in American mining
history when railroad transportation .
was 700 miles away, freight rates
we're so high that cost Guild not be
1eld down to anything even distant
" approaching reasonable levels, and
many other difficulties in operation
made it impossible to handle the
properties proftably even with a