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Show GOLD BELT KOAI). A RICH IDAHO MINING DISTRICT TO WHICH IT MEANS MUCH. Two MiIU In the District Which Hava Not Dropped a Rtamp for Several Yeara FourCulehei Thut Promina Much Klclt (Ira. Wood River News-Miner. There is a section of country that has so far not been alluded to, that has always al-ways been considered a part of the great Wood Kiver mining district, that will bo greatly benefited by the llailey, Gold Belt & Western railroad, perhaps more so than any other, unless it may bo the Smoky and Atlanta districts; which section is the Sawtooth mining district, which, for some years, has been, with the exception of the work done on the Vienna mine, virtually lying idle. It comprises within its limits over fifty patented claims aud nearly 100 locations loca-tions on which, in the aggregate, over $1,000,000 have been expended within tho last decade. There are two mills in the district, , one of 20 stamps at Vienna, and one of 10 at Sawtooth, which have not dropped a stamp for several years. The ores of the district are mostly antimonial silver and black sulphurets, carrying ruby and native silver, of high grade, and most of. them gold. The first-class iron ore shipped from the Silver King, when last worked, which was under a lease of eighteen months, terminating in October, 1889, averaged 340 ounces of silver per ton. The oro from the Pilgrim mine, which is located about three-fourths of a mile above the King, Beaver gulch, is of tho same character and high grado. Shipments Ship-ments from the Atlanta group, located in Eureka gulch, made by leasers this fall, averaged for tirst-class, 300 ounces per ton, and from the Kidgway in the same locality, this season, over 2 OOoun ces. In Smiley gulch are situated the Vienna and Solace groups. The latter has produced some of the highest grade ore in the district, running way up in the hundreds, and is now undor lease to C. J. Johnston of the Vienna Mining company, who has just taken hold of it and will go for all there is in it. In the next gulch there are some valuable val-uable locations of heavy galena ores, carrying GO to fiO per cent lead, and 40 to 100 ounces silver per ton. These four gulches all head on the divido between the headwaters of the South Boise and Salmon rivers, and will not average over twenty miles distant dis-tant from the crossing of the South Boise by tho lino of the railroad as surveyed. sur-veyed. On the South Boise side of the divide are a largo number of locations which, with the exception of the Emma, have only been worked by prospectors prospect-ors doing annual assessments to hold them. This railroad, by lessening tho expense ex-pense of freighting by teams to Ketc h-(um h-(um which now costs more than by cars from that point to Salt Lake,-Oinaha, Lake,-Oinaha, Denver and other localities, when the ores can be worked enable their owners to seo something more than bare expenses, and to furnish in the near future thousands of tons of freight, and to develop what is bound to bo one of tho largest bullion producers produc-ers in the state. . |
