Show 0 BIG STRIKE ON THE BUTCHER BOY inter mountain bute mont one of the mining sensations of the day is the fabulously rich find made by schumacher and oleson butte men on the butcher boy claim at af the head of carmen creek in lemhi leahi county idaho the strike consists of a pay streak 18 inches wide which runs well into the thousands in values the news of the find has spread over the city and caused a ripple of excitement to rustle throughout the mining element sampler of the rich ore were brought in by ed schumacher who has just arrived from the head of carmen creek and they do not belle belie the report of the rich pay streak the ore looks something like that exhibited recently in the hennessy window by the cable mine only it carries a deep copper stain and some galena wherever the ore has been exhibited it has caused the gold fever to break out in a malignant form and a number of parties are preparing to leave for the scene of the discovery as soon as possible the butte parties have about acres located including a farge large placer tract and a where a mill can be operated by water power with little or no expense and will develop the property this summer by placing a concentrating mill on the creek near the mine the streak which shows the great values is 18 inches wide and the gold is literally shot through the rock in nuggets some of which amount to several dollars in value and from the amount of rock in the possession of mr schumacher there seams seems to be plenty of it mr schumacher has been spending several weeks in the new camp and was compelled to snowshoe it out part of the way as the claim containing the rich find is located well up in III the hills the owners of the rich strike are poor men working at their trades and they feel highly elated over the prospect of developing ve one of the richest producers of idaho the find was made in a tunnel run on the lead about twenty feet and the dyke containing the mineral is fet wide and is supposed to be an ex of the famous montana ajax lead which has produced such great values on this side of the range it is the purpose of the owners of the claim to drive a development tunnel close to the ano and take the 0 ore re direct to the concentrator later hauling the concentrates to red rock by wagon road now being built the excitement at red rock J is S in intense 1 tense and everyone who can get into the district is doing so as rapidly as possible J W kirby a pioneer mill man who is identified with the early history of the Drum lummon mine has the contract of erecting the concentrating mill and the machinery will be sent in as soon as a road can be built to the mine the route to carmen creek is by way of red rock then to salmon by stage and by trail up salmon river to carmen creek thence up carmen creek to the headwaters the distance from salmon to the new diggings is IS 18 miles and snowshoes are necessary during the winter months as the snow reaches a depth of several feet on the level mr ed schumacher in speaking of his strike stated that the location of the claim is convenient to carmen creek where a fall of feet in 2000 can be secured and a head of water averaging one cubic miners foot per minute the topography of the country and geographical formation is different from that of thunder mountain in that the leads appear to be fissures rather than blankets the gold in the quartz Is scattered throughout the rock and also jr is in the form of layers along the seams enquiries are being made at red rock by a number of prospectors and others for stage accommodations lifto into salmon and the price of horseflesh at that point has raiseh per cent owing to the demand there are a number of Alon montana tana men aca scattered throughout the district said mr schumacher today and at the rate they are coming in there will be a large camp there within a few months supplies at salmon are reasonable and a man can get almost anything he wants there we will not attempt to ship any of the ore unless it is sorted into high values we have come to the conclusion that a small concentrator is what we need at present and will get this in as soon is as possible I 1 will remain in butte a few days and then possibly return to the district |