Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-07-27
CLUB 0. K. PUT
ON COAL MINE
SOUTH Of CITY
Committee Visits Property and
Reports Conditions Are As
Represented by the Officers
Declare Prospects Bright for
the Development of Paying
Industrial Enterprise Here

Faith in the mine of the Grange
vile Coal & Development Co., on the
mountain south of Grangeville, and
recommendation that local people aid
in development of the enterprise were
embodied in a report made to the
Grangeville Commercial club Wednes-
day by special committee appointed
to inspect the mine. The report was
adopted by the club as follows:
We, your committee appointed to
investigate the property workings of
the Grangeville Coal & Development
Co., would respectfully report that we
visited the property on Friday, July
81, and found conditions to be as rep
resented by Messrs. Neal and Lyttle.
A tunnel has been advanced on a
generally westerly course for a dis
lance of 1926 feet, with traces of coal
combined with sedimentary deposit
containing fossilized vegetable and
animal matter for a distance of 300
feet.
VEIN 20 FEET WIDE
AT the face of the 325-foot tunnel
the formulation faulted and developed
into floor of what is termed black
diorite, heavily mineralized with spec
ular iron and pyrites, with occasional
blossoms Upon this floor tests the
vein twelve feet in width as far as
developed, with covering of gray sand
stone. The fault extended downward
to depth of twenty-eight feet, ex-
4 1x-o ~,
with desultory prospecting continuing
to a further depth cf ten feet, thus
making vein twenty-five feet in
width.
The total depth of the workings is
now 1875 feet below surface. The vein
at this point shows fully twelve feet
in width in the face.
Local tests of its burning quail
tiles have been made from time to
time by local people in coal and wood
stoves and the fuel has been found to
yield fierce heat with surprisingly
low ash content.
The company owns 760 acres of pre-
sumably coal bearing lands adjoining
and contiguous to the present work
ings, upon which no prospecting has
vet been done. Buildings ample for
development purposes are erected.
PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT
From our inspection, your committee
is of The opinion that the prospects
are bright for the carly development of
coal mine, with all that follows from
the establishment of large industrial
enterprise, with large permanent pay
roll in our immediate neighborhoid with
corresponding increase of population
and local business, besides enhancing
the values of local property and afford
ing a market for local labor and pro-
duce of our people.
We have therefore no hesitation in
recommending our local people to aid
IN the development of this enterprise.
The work thus far done has been
financed by . few local people as
strictly local enterprise. Under exist
ing financial conditions throughout the
country it is practically impossible to
raise funds on the outside for devel-
opment of any industrial enterprise,
and our local people should do all in
their power to further the work and
exploration of this promising prospect
and thus develop local enterprise
with local money.
The report is signed by M. B. Geary,
I. E. Edmundson. Frank VanDeventer,
Frank McGrane and A. f. Parker.