| Show I EICH IDAHO PLACERS I Good Diggings Discovered in an Ancient I i An-cient River Bed cent I Gore W Morrison of Lswiston was i j over from Crooks corral diggings last week says the Free Press of Granger rule Ida and gave us some interesting interest-ing information about these claims It appears that himself and Fred Hallett purchased the ground from Frank and I James Perkins of Rapid river for 12 0 There arc 140 acres in the tract and it is situated on the high divide between Salmon and Snake rivers They nave built two miles of ditch commenced washing on April 8 and I hope to continue until July The gravel Is > from 12 to 20 feet deep and prospects i all the way down with no large wash j I or boulders and they hope to strip 100 I I 000 feet of bedrock with tnis seasoVs I I work The bedrock itself Mr Morrison I was una > be to locate with exactness but he thinks it is a decomposed slate In places where it has been exposed by the slulclngs it is common for the nuggets nug-gets of waterworn gold weighing ten and 15 cents to b picked up and Mr Morrison himself had a phial half full I lof them The pay gravel runs from 50 cents to ft per pan and Mr Morrison j feels confident that they have there some of the richest placer 1 ground in the 1 country Jake Crooks also informs us that his j new diggings on the summit of the di j vide between White Bird and Skookum I chuck are identical in character with I those in the Crooks corral region I is j I therefore probable that an ancient ion j river cSiannel ran from east to west Ion I-on the elevated table lands in Idaho and Oregon ages before the Snake Salmon f Sal-mon and Clearwater rivers cut their present beds The evidences of this old I river channel are plainly discernable I at points on the wagon road to Florence I Flor-ence It has Ions been 3 settled conviction enC con-viction in our mind that the Moose crek clon sold on tOte other side of the from said ancient Clearwater come frm rivet bd The development of these I new diggings to the westward tends to confirm this theory Further discoveries I discov-eries at points between the known eastern east-ern eres and western limits of this ancient golden stream may yet afford honest glden and pro tahle employment to thousands I thou-sands of placer miners during the brief water season I Ore and Bullion The ore and bullion receipts yesterday yester-day were as follows McCornlck Co Bullion 2330 ores 1150 T R Jones Cores 3000 bullion bul-lion 5500 National Bank of the Republic Cyanides J Cy-anides 8987 ores 1275 < = Commercial National Bank Ores 6830 I Bamberger McMillan Ores 72iS Silver and L ad The silver and lead quotations yesterday yester-day were a follows Bar Silver 60 cents Lead Exchange 32o3SO brokers 12 Copper Exchange 10SO1225 brokers 1100 casting 1012 Mining Notes and Personals J B Thomson the well known stockbroker I stock-broker and mining promoter returned Tuesday from a visit to home folks In Iowa At the Treasure Hill lease near Silver City a station is being cut on the 300foot level and a pump will be installed in-stalled in the shaft within the next few days Secretary R E McConaughy of the Sacramento who returned Tuesday night from Mercur stated that the mine is looking well and that the mill is running run-ning nicely I Is understood that it is the intention Inten-tion of the Monte Carlo company to begin work at an early day in the operation oper-ation of its property which is located in the old Star district In Beaver 1 county John W Young the vicepresident of the Bingham Placer company will leave for Lemhi county Ida this morning where he will join President Theodore Bruback who Is now at the I diggings i I is reported that a rich strike has I been made in the workings of the Cre ole In State Line district and that I I recent developments have uncovered a i fine body of ore that shows free gold through and through I Sacramento was a ready seller on the curb yesterday at 22J2 cents and Gey serMarlon was in good demand at 135 Northern Light was also quite active at the quotations made at the exchange morning call on the floor of the mining The Dexter was in the market yesterday yester-day with a 92pound lot of cyanides that showed asay values of 9000 ounces silver and 1265 which at present prices would make the consignment worth over SSOOOO to the ton The lot brought 1400 l00 Superintendent Dean of the Silver King Extension will try to get aS load I of provisions and supplies up Big Cottonwood Cot-tonwood to the mine the first of the week and if the attempt is successful work will be resumed in the operation of this promising property The Scotia which has been idle for I years is starting up again and will probably soon start shipping ore Over 13000 tons have been marketed from I this west Tintic property in years gone by A contract has been let for the further development of this mine Mammoth Record State Line district is slated for a boom this summer Some of the mine owners of the camp are putting in arastras It has been demonstrated that these can be successfully suceessfuly operated oper-ated there and this being the case there is no reason why a custom mill should not also prove a success It Is stated that the Hercules mine at Stockton is looking better than ever and that the men are sloping on a large chute of fine ore The Hercules is owned by Messrs Zerbe Benipn and others of this city and another consignment I con-signment of mineral from this property is expected to arrive within a short time Attorney E G Rognon will leave today for Redding Cal where he has been retained as associate counsel in a case between a railroad corporation and mining claimants After the case is tried he will make a visit to the property of the North Fork Placer Mining company in which he is heavily heav-ily interested Bishop L G Hardy the superintendent superin-tendent of the Jennie mine on Connor creek Cassia county Ida in speaking of this property says that the men at work in the mine are breaking ore from 1 two and 0 half foot body of solid mineral The shipment of ore received from the mine yesterday was sold on controls showing values of 4S per cent lead 12 ounces silver and 2 In gold to I the ton The Flagstaff mine yesterday sent In I I II a neat cleanup being the second during the past month The outputs from I this new producer are not mad public at present but it is to he hoped that I this it not continue I long l fgege the E I practice a the products of our mines fare r their best recommendation and they do much to advertise this promis m district JDemociat of JtSaHcr Cuy OreRichfield taY1 I Richfield Advocate One of the Holland Hol-land placer force T F Gilan has left Gold mountain for one of his quarts propositions In the Horse Heaven fraction frac-tion of the Maryevale country Mr Gillan and J U Sargent own the Out of Sight a 16inch well defined ledge of ore going 870 in gold and showing 12 in silver A 20foot shaft is all the work done there to date and this is to be extended on the vein ven What gives signs of proving a new gold dirtrict of moment is 2 tract of ground between Goshen and Santa quin near the Rio Grande Western railroad Rich quartz specimens from a lime country rook were shown the writer said to be taken from the frt discovered 11 Three vein on May 1 days later there was a stampede and all the nearby region was staked The samples quietly shown in Salt Lake carry rusty free gold and if a tenth of what is reported proves true Utah has another geld camp Salt Lake Ocr N Y Engineering and Mining Journal Jesse Coulter manager of the Syden ham syndicate owning the largest hydraulic hy-draulic mine in the stale at Murray a In town Monday and left for the north Tuesday Mr Coulter ha been looking over Florence Elk City Big Creek and Dixie for Investments for his associates and was surprised at the extent cf the mineral wealth he saw in the Bitter Hcot country He said to us I that Elk and Dixie would eventually i prove the greatest source of revenue to this country and state and promised I to invest in quartz in Dixie 2 soon as i the wan read to the cap is built i Free Press Grangerville Ida I 1 Word was received the first of last week that a pipe or chute of ore had I been encountered in the Hot Stuff ground In north Tintic and yesterday the officers of the company In this city I received word from the superintendent superintend-ent that he had crosscut the chutes or ore body for a distance of 30 feet and had not yet found the other wall I I is stated that the mineral is a heavy copper ore carrying encouraging gold I values A big chunk of the ore will arrive in the city today or Wii The company Is feeling I highly elated Irc the discovery and hiths good I reason to believe that the Hot Stuff is I the making of a heavy producer of the precious metals I The directors of the Dalton Mining company held a meeting yesterday afternoon af-ternoon and it was decided to begin work in the operation of the mine under un-der the general management of O R Young who wll leave for Marysvale some time next week with a force of men who will work under the supervision super-vision of Superintendent Snell The company still ha funds in the treasury ury resulting from the last assessment and it is believed that ore shipments can be made at an early day Frank Dalton who has been working the mine under lease during the past winter win-ter Is now at Marysvale Mr Dalton desired a position with the company and u on the arrival of Mr Young at the Vale the matter will be talked over between them Mr Dalton it is stated claims to know where bodies of highgrade ore can be found in the I mine A special from Aspen Colo says I that Charles Anderson who is leasing I from the MolHe Gibson company a block of ground between the first and j i second levels has struck it rich the ore being of such a high grade that it is said to be impossible to drill it j I is impossible to state at this time just how large a body of this high r grade ore has been uncovered but It extends across the entire face of the drift about four feet wide Just back of where this strike was made I Is thought that Anderson has uncovered a large body of this ore The point where this strike was made Is near the place that H B GIHesple made a big I strike In the early days and from which he Is said to have taken In the neighborhood of 60000 or 70000 Around the hotels this evenfng the Anderson An-derson strike Is the subject of much comment and discussion C W Miles writes from Newton mining district in Beaver county that the recent strike In the Ute mine owned by the Indian Creek Mining I company Is showing up well as work progresses in its development and he states that he Is satisfied that this is the making of the greatest gold producer I pro-ducer in the south Mr Miles also says that a parallel ledge has been discoveV ed in which the ore carries good values val-ues and shows free g 1t and he Is I of I the opinion that with depth the two I ledges will join together in which event the deposit of gold bearing quartz will be something Immense Mr Miles has begun the sinking of a 100foot shaft on the original discovery This work has been retarded on account of the scarcity ot miners In the district I and he was obliged to send over to IblAg Gold Mountain I in order to get men to fill out his force Ore is being pileU on the dump and it is expected that a shipment will be made within the next month or six weeks 1 i The advantages offered to homeseek i ers at 1 Nebo are attracting a great deal of attention at the present time and this beautiful tract of land is King K-ing rapidly settled up Three families from Colorado and two from Iowa tock up their residence there last week and several parties from Kansas are now looking the ground over Next week a special excursion from Cripple Creek Colo for I Nebo will arrive and a series of excursions from several of the eastern states are already bookfd The lIt Nebo company has male this tract of land very attractive Last season sea-son I put out 12000 fruit trees of various vari-ous varieties and this year 5000 additional ditional were planted I has been demonstrated that the water supply Is abundant and the big reservoir is I now any full This reservoir ns is well known by Salt Lake people was stocked a year ago with black bass and now the lake is lively with fish h that are all of a foot in length This feature of the enterprise will prove very attractive to the disciples of Isaac Walton i |
