Show NEW LIFE 1111 IN AN IDAHO UMP salt lake men engage b in extensive operations THE LUCKY BOY PROPERTY it includes tho the custer and it its 3 group tile the I 1 charles dickens and the custer mill great creat output of pay ore getting salt and wood tor for a big run barnett mccornick i in a charge maj foreman the yankee fork country once a cicat producer of precious metals arid and which has lain almost idle tor for 3 scars cars has lately taken 0 on n new life ike and there is now more activity and er hopes than for a number of years year 5 past these ren renewed elved hopes tire are th tho e result of operations of well known S salt all lake men have but recently taken told hold in earnest t to 0 develop and mine their valuable properties pro bertles arid and op orate crate tile the old custer mill which Is also part 01 0 their holdings here what they haie at 1 l already dono done has had to the town of cutter custer much the effect of raising tile the dead flom the grave and clothing it knitli the habiliments ot of lire life but beffie telling of this it may be well to recite something of the history of tile tho yankee fork country loon creek twenty miles north of 0 here was one of 0 the earliest and ilch est placer blacer camps in idaho in 1870 2870 1 loon creek had bad over 1000 men ilion arid and it was a very lively camp in spreading out jordan creek which empties into the yankee rork fork just above bonanza was discolored to be also a fair but smaller placer district this brought heie a stampede pede and later result resulted cd in the discovery of good quartz lodes of which the general custer became the file most important as well as one of 0 the most remarkable iron from tho the tact fact that its great deposit was largely exposed ly y ans in on its with the hanging wall carried away by erosion and gravity which caused it to at sill 11 down the mountain side thousands of feet feel to the gulch below with hundreds of thousands thousands of tons of I 1 left ilch sill aller er ore re in sight the property passed into h hands ands well uell backed by capital and soon a mill was in 0 erabio I 1 this mill turned out an average of woith of bullion per month the first alel eleven en months after slat ring after which the value of the ores ran down so go Is aa to lessen the product one fand yet it was always a paying proposition as long as the mill ran from the custer unknown and summit rallies aloes this mill produced about in bullion ni chile bile in after years it milled ores orca from the lucky boy and badger to a large extent while these operations operation were going on and partly prior to the starting of the custer mill other were mere sending out silver and gold among alch were the montana which chich has produced over tile the charles dickens the morrison Morr lson pearson properties ST the yankee fork summit these with nith the lucky boy and badger and sonic some ethels helping to swell the grand total up lip to over produced in tho the district within the past eighteen deais the placer product aggregates probably during this period there being some rome good placer ground but nothing like what loon creek once was this district sprang into prominence pretty rapidly in 1878 1678 and and the ihal I 1 IN at towns of bonanza and C custer uster wre re then indeed lively with their several hotels many saloons dance houses great stores and all features common to a prosperous mining camp then the nearest railroad was 20 miles away the wagon roads roade connecting with mith the base of supplies lead had to be built over different routes of precipitous cip elp itous mountains rough treacherous streams and dense forests but tile the country well warranted the costs and amply repaid all and much more tile the hotels mere so crowded lit in thoe days that we who came to look on lend had to take lake our turn to get meala n beal arid and foil ourselves ouie elves selves more than fortunate in securing a room and bed how different then to tile tho past three years with mith the towns almost deserted hotels without guests buildings going to decay and a sleepiness almost equal to an uninhabited wilderness coming down to the present we find custer culler with sonio some new additions to old buildings the lately vacant houses repaired or in process of being fixed up arid and business housos again a an getting in supplies or else opening up new LUCKY BOY REVIVAL the cause of this new life as before stated is due to the operations of the lucky boy gold mining company this company in 1 composed of the foll follow persons N president and manager A hanauer nice co president josiah barnett treasurer C T stevenson secretary and these with AV V S mccornack McCorn lck form the board of directors maj W A stanton Is foreman at tho the mine and mr la Is assayer foien tan of the mill and local accountant the company onn oma tile the lie lucky C ey boy mine the general custer MI mine n and its group the charles dickens I 1 nine mine and the custer mill the mill Is equipped with avith thirty stamps and complete amalgamation machinery ollices shops boardinghouse boarding house stable table s a 31 3 too 00 foot wile rope tiam nam having a descent of 1500 feet and capable of handling mole ore than the mill can wol woi k work was slopped on oil I 1 these hese mines in the spring of 1390 arid and the enst working of the mill va was as in wa standing idle these years caused ca used much damage in both mill and minis milles the mill Is id fast being put in good shape still and nall soon be running french worst and stanton arrived ai rived here about the last of june and leave have made good use of the time since the mines have been re timbered in part the steam holet on the dickens has haa been removed and bet up on the lucky hoy boy and already about 2000 2600 tons toni of ore have been extracted arid and ol 01 cathri I 1 he stored in bins or sent down to the mill over tho the tram train A stock of salt must be laid in and this thin la is boiar biln accomplished by hauling from tho the railroad and other places the edit which has been lying at ai the ILo columbia lumbia mill so sawtooth for several years being brought here soon SOOIL there will bo b tons of salt in ill store at the mill contracts have been lot let for about cords of wood and delivery Is now being made bitile n alle the hills are swarming with woodell woodchoppers and teams about forty men are employed in the the companas comp anys in mine ine with about one dozen men at the mill getting it lit in shape the dickens mine Is teased eased to parties who ire are out ore the company will start up with the old amalgamation poc as and continue some tests which they have been making toward extracting metal through a chlorination chloal nation process of leaching leach tanks are being put in for tills this pur pope tho lucky boy anne mill ill furnish the ore ob lefly for milling this mine in 18 well opened and its ores orea run about two thirds in value in gold counting silver at oll old prices till THI MINE As rood good as Is ii the work of the lucky boy company the operations of tile the black file ing company adds murli much to tile lie remnal renival of this camp the rho black minin I 1 lack back of the badger next to the lucky etoy are abid running parallel lilt fth it slid and Is IN about 1001 ft routh it lit ill r F d ir ill till hi i 1 till gold anu mill mill ul r 0 pr IF lull 1111 M T L clare ciaffi a fornaci formerly for meily y superintendent n t of tho fai G nera anital I 1 cust custer g property has been dv developing eloping this mine for several years it Is 18 developed by tour our shafts t alio 1 lo 10 anil first rs t I 1 near e the grast grass roo roots is by a t tunnel u 1 1 in n fi 60 car fo fm et 1 next 71 0 feet it in 50 feet next 7 5 feet lower in 00 feet anil fourth IZO 10 fret fort lower in i wi 6 f daiv fee t the IL last it two tunnels were driven e n during the past two years year mr crafts carno here only a few days aro ago to puh work in putting in a ten stamp mill wot wet prows the amalgamation to he be in pans pan after A which aich tables anil and bu burlaps claps will mill b 0 used to finish ith 1 sir I r C crafts before coming coining in ili purchased the machinery for the mill along will walh ft A raw mill all of which lie expects to arrive 2 in a few days day thin new enter enterprise kill add much toward the pros perit of tile camp THE washington james A steen siren has h the morrison pearson pio property perty known as the ington on which Is a ten tamp stamp mill the mill his has been operated occasionally during the season with rood good results resul to partly on tailings tailing and r partly on n ore taken from rich streaks in the mine A NEW STRIKE an imp important octant strike has INS insely lately boon made ori on tile capit capital a 1 on the hide of capital mountain a few miles up p jordan crook creek this Is in the form ot of many thousand tons toni of ilna float t a aal I 1 c lay clay or dirt from a lode and C covers ive ra the side elde of the mountain making it baay y to handle this stuff will mill aleast about 10 per ton in gold fold at cont coit of in hlll III ing ine and as estimates place the deposit at about tons it promises great since the estimate catl mate of reduction Is placed at 3 per ton this tille discovery covery avi IV t q ma made le by the two dye brothers and allon on from oregon and or d tho the lode Is an all extension exten ilon ot of the Els bisma marck ck A mill Is to bo be erected to work this ore NOTE AND PERSONAL on rates mountain there Is no present activity tile Alon montana tann mine la Is under bond to an eastern company till november and the price at which it Is placed ought to mike make the sale pale sure I 1 mcfadden Is in chicago to complete lit the 0 purchase of machinery for a mill on tile yankee fork group and results of if negotiations by the company are an anxiously awaited bellamy boer who own the north extension of the yankee fork have a tunnel in on their property and m which Is near the yankee fork find and will tap that property at a depth or of feet considerable work Is if being done on chalm 1 all over the district to comply with the law on OIL ase work and no one hane haling claims here now wish to tone lose them through neglect in depre relating at loon creek fifteen or twenty men old bitners hang on to the camp and make it a comfortable living by placer mini nir but the aggregate product from this thin source egui ce cannot be I 1 learned ea no I 1 I 1 I 1 the miners in sta stanley alle lost basin have done better than usual this season I 1 bonanza ida sept |