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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- N MINING REVIEW. 5 DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN IDAHO. going on at the time of his death, with the view year the reserves of known ore were consider-o- f having nim arrested and extradited for trial ably larger than they were at the beginning of for his part in that most hellish of crimes. As the year. For new An Reminiscences. machinery, replacements the girl was murdered in the early 50s it is pro- - and other work not directly chargeable to bable the wretch had been in hiding at Fraser mining the sum of $360, 931.08 was expended on Orrcspomlenco Mining Review. mines the Boise, December 28, 189G. river and in northeastern Washington from the these mines. On the time of that atrocity till his death in 1862, but it sum of $355,434.54 was expended for machinery As a general rule it may bo said: When is not probable that such a character devoted and development, the largest item being winter is on mining is off in Idaho: but it may time to prospecting, or discovered any 011.99 for the Camp Creek mines, situated some be that the rule depends for its existence upon mnesmiles south of the mines at Butte. twenty-fiv- e a custom founded in error. Miners have alBut coming down to 1859, 1 am able to present All these amounts have been charged in our ways been in the habit of holing up when a perfectly authenticated account of god having accounts to the cost of mining, winter comes, until a tradition has grown up been discovered and worked in that year. One There was received at the reduction works with us that outdoor work must be abandoned Mel Chandler, with others, discovered and k276,156 tons of ore, of which 20,282 tons were when that season arrives. But an experiment worked mines on bars on the Columbia river, the remainder coming from the is being tried and an example set this winter near lort Colville, in 1859, and Mr. Chandler purchased, mnes 0f e company. There were shipped that may revolutionize public sentiment in recontinued to work there until 1868, when he from Anaconda 107,036,697 pounds of copper, gard to winter work in the mines. During our came to Boise Basin and was killed. They 5f308,955 ounces of silver and 18,300 ounces of coldest weather a man named Anderson started worked with rockers which they improvised gold, contained in either converter bars, cast oat from this city in charge of a gang of nine out of rawkide3 and puncheons, and met with a an(j refined men to begin the construction of a ditch to copper, or bullion. The stock on success of that stimulated advenother hand of these metals at Anaconda was larger mines belonging to his company on the Middle degree turous spirits to enter the field, and Ora Fiqo, the end of the year than at the beginning. Boise river. The ditch when completed will be disPierce and Elk City were successively The yield of copper compares not unfavorably 3 miles long and will carry about GOO inches of covered. After these Florence, Warrens, and with that of the preceding year; but there was water. Tools, teams and a saw mill were taken Boise were added to the list, and Idaho became a considerable falling off in silver and gold along; the former to construct about 12 miles of noted for her numerous rich mines. percentages. During the year, the converter wagon road, which work must be done before The writer of this was personally acquainted was enlarged and improved, and new ' plant the point at which they intend to divert the with Mel Chandler; knew his restless and ad- water of the river can be reached; and the latmachinery and renewals carried out at the venturous disposition, and knows that he con-smelting and concentrating plants, involving ter to saw lumber for iluming and other purtinued to mine on the Columbia river till the an outlay of 6518,643.11, which was charged to poses, there being no saw mill in that section of fall of 1862, when he came down to Walla Walla reduction expenditures. The capacity of the country. If this enterprise succeeds (and the with $800 in fine gold dust, which facts seem a refining plant was doubled so that now if pleasant weather we are now enjoying is very sufficient corroboration ofhis claim ofbeing the 0perated to its full pounds of favorable to it) winter will be changed from a in discoverer of gold Idaho; especially copper can be refined in a month; the cost of season of profitless waiting to one of active pre- original when it is remembered that no actual mining is this enlargement was $540,507.37, which has our which by gold mining industry parations authentically reported in the region in 1854, or been charged to capital. The reduction works will be greatly advanced. are now in more perfect shape than ever T. J. Sutton. Prospecting and development work are probefore. gressing at Willow Creek, in Boise, and in the The Anacondo Copper Co. Abstract of Recent Mining Decisions. Black Hornet district with, generally, very results. Col. Dewey, who purchased In its annual report of operations, just from for the Mining Review by George the DeLamar group at Willow Creek last fall is the press, the Anaconda Copper Company of Prepared Salt Lake City, attorney-at-law- , Westervelt, : colossal the one lodes on of and a his Montana, following figures gives driving sinking shaft Utah. a tunnel on another, the tunnel will be 500 feet During the year 107,036,697 pounds of fine Mining Lease Royalty. S. leased land to plainfrom in were Anaconda the a at will and vein the when shipped copper tap completed long tiff for the purpose of mining iron supposed to or converter form of 250 be finished This bars, will feet. of anodes, tunnel electrolytic depth but which had not been developed, same sales the The bars. March. period middle of the during by fif-to 85,476,795 pounds of fine copper, the le3SC0 have the right to mine ore for amounted I have been recalling histories of Idaho, of to pay !xty cent? a to? far 5B0 fine ounces of silver, and 14,384 fine teon ycar8' he 4,408, the vigilante days, etc., of late, and find so ounces of On June 30, 189(1, the stocks of tan of oro sold from tbe Proml8e9 danS thf gold. many conflicting statements in regard to the copper, silver and gold on hand were valued at time, to be paid month y, leamoun o e pai first discovery of gold in Idaho, that I desire .the lessee, these stocks have in any year not to be less than Since date that 4,888.022.20. n mined on the hereby to add my mite to the general con- been all sold, realizing a larger hwovor, in case tho royalt.es practically fusion. in any year d,d "ot amouat to .tbe ?400t? amount than its' valuation. to have the privilege of tak- said in . year, One claim advanced is that gold was first paid The total expenditures at the mines vere to make up the out ore in another discovered in Idaho, then a part of Washingexincludes about which 35o,000 71,077.61, therefore assigned lease to amount plaiutiff ton, by one E. D. Pierco as early as 1854. This and developing non-prin who agreed to pay to S. the royalty claim I regard with distrust. There were a few pended equipping def(Jndanti maducing mines, and about 30 1,000 for new of sixt ceuts per ton, and to fulfill all of plain- trappers and squaw men in the region at that chinery and plant for the producing mines. j;(p8 covenants, and to pay to plaintiff an additime, among whom was Tim Goodell, and possiThe total expenditures at the reduction Uional sum of 171 cents per ton on all ore mined, bly Joe Meek. 1 was personally acquainted be paid monthly; defendant to mine and pay with both of those pioneers. They, like their works at Anaconda, exclusive of the co3t ofthe electrolyie refinery, were $5,616,- for not less tian ijoo tons of iron every year; class, were neither prospectors nor given to ex- doubling cessive industrial exertions. They were con- 516 78, which includes about $519,000 expended he to pay a royalty of 17J cents per ton on 1,000 tent with a blanket and a piece of venison, and in improving concentrating, furnace and con tons per annum, whether he mined that amount or not. Held, that the ore being exhausted, dewere not disposed to let a longing for gold dis- verter plants. turb their habitual serenity of mind. There During the year there was shipped to the fendant was not bound to pay any royalty. was also a Captain Pierce in lliecountryinlSGO, reduction works at Anaconda 1,255,874 tons of Boyer v. Fulmer, 35 Atl. Rep. 235, (Supreme 15, 1896.) and possibly earlier, but 1 never met him, and ore, of which 529,368 tons came from the Ana- Court of Pennsylvania, July Failure to Find Ore Lessee's Leac Minin' tons from and 720,506 of conda him. Another mines, group know practically nothing about Liability. A lease of land for the purpose of is This mines other and the name of the Pierce, Syndicate group party masquerading under for, taking out, and removing thereexploring was killed at Florence, in 1802, by one of his a very much larger product than ever before, from the merchantable iron ore which is, or This fellow exceding that of any previous year by some which hereafier may bo, found on, in or under fellow criminals called Crottv. at a specified annual rent, presupwas believed to be one of the murderers of the 350,000 tons, and was produced without any said land, existence of ore, and if, after reasonthe poses mines. of the and maltreated forcing girl Ellen, who was so foully able efforts on the part of lessee, no ore is found deamount of unusual During the year an butchered near where Ellensburg, Oregon, now the fails, and no rent can be collected. Estate, 68 N. W. Rep. 427, (Sustands, and tlio place derived its name from her velopment work was done oil the producing Blake v. Lobbs Oct. 6, 1890.) misfortunes. Investigations into identity were mines, with tlio result that at the end of the preme Court of Michigan, I Old-Time- rs non-produci- ng I $158,-mu- ch 1 - I I ) I I I 1 I I limit-6,000- ,000 en-courage- ing I ery ,- o- le-'s- |