Show I BAY HORSE DISTRICT I The Fine Outlook in This Old Idaho Mining Section New Business New Ulines and a Season Sea-son of General Prosperity The Famous Rams Horn Group With a Production Now of 3000000 Special Correspondence DEMOCRAT BAY HORSE Idaho June 2GthTho mining min-ing season has fairly opened in Bay Horso District and tho outlook for prosperous business and heavy mining operations is quite promising During the past winter win-ter a large amount of prospecting and development work was done upon operating mines and many prospects heretofore almost al-most unknown have been opened up sufficiently suffi-ciently to enable the owners to extract oro in paying quantities With the disappearance disappear-ance of the snow the mines arebeing I worked with renewed activity prospectors have BUSTLED A LITTLE GRUB STAKE And have struck Out into the mountains i freight teams come in daily loaded with goods for our merchants new business men and a large number of the floating mining camp population from the outside world are coming into our prosperous mining towns hotels are running to their full capacity and our merchants saloon men etc are doing a healthy business There is considerable consider-able complaint of hard times but it comes principally from those who do not know how to appreciate prosperity and would always be broke under the most favorable circumstances circum-stances Many new buildings are going up and the sound of hammer and saw is heard everywhere C E Taylor Co have built quite an addition ad-dition to their store and carry the largest stock of general and mining supplies in this county H D 1 Jaquish has built a large stone store in the place of the log structure which he has occupied heretofore and has a fine and extensive stock of groceries miners supplies sup-plies etc F Grautwauld has built a large lodging house in the lower part of town and will soon be prepared to do a big business TIlE RAMS HORN SMELTEB Is running steadily upon ores from tho mines of that company and teams that como in loaded with supplies for their mines and smelter are readily loaded on the back trip with bullion and matte This smelter is situated sit-uated at the junction of Bay Horse creek and Beardsley gulch and the mining town around and below is called JEtna The town of 2Etna is a verycompact little place tho canyon being so rough and precipitous that only one narrow street worms its way between the houses Towering limestone cliffs hang almost over the town and detached de-tached masses of rock sometimes come tumbling tum-bling down upon the houses causing a panic > equal to that of a fire or snowslide Last fall the smelter was greatly improved by the addition of an engine the water power in i use before having proved inadequate an engine en-gine room refinery and a capacious ore shed were erected at that time and with their two furnaces tho Earns Horn Company are now able to put through from 55 to Ui tons of ore per day Only one furnfico is running at present owing to tho scarcity of suitable lead ores and n limited supply of charcoal Nine kilns with some additional purchases of coal from pit burners furnishes fur-nishes the coal supply The erection of tho refinery will soon place the company in an independent position in relation to the supply sup-ply of lead ores and by adding a few more kilns the coal supply will be equal to their wants A flume four or five miles long with branches into side canyons brings the wood within a few yards of the kilns at a cost of about 3 per cord The principal mines owned by this company are THE hAMS HOBS OBOUP Consisting of Rams Horn Utah Boy Post Boy and Montreal and in which are embodied embod-ied nearly 8000 linear feet with an average width of GOO feet A Halliday wire tramway tram-way 15700 feet long carries the ore from the lower Rams Horn tunnel to the ore house at the foot of the mountain and from there it is hauled by teams three and a half miles to the smelter The Rams Horn has been producing pro-ducing large quantities of highgrade ores for several years has been worked to several sev-eral hundred feet in depth by a series of tunnels tun-nels driven into the mountain on the vein and bids fair und r the present management to become a gre i i c cproducer in the future fu-ture than in th prs > t In the lower tunnel the ore rein has been nearly continuous for over 1000 feet in length and the stopes from that level to the apex of the lodey1700 feet have produced the major portion of the ore aggregating in the neighborhood of 3000000 worth which has been shipped out and smelted there during the past eight years THE RAMS nOBN IS AN IMMENSE MINE And developments of the past winter from the workings of the Utah Boy which joins the Rams Horn on the south show that the ore goes down several hundred feet deeper that the workings in tunnel No 1 The Utah Boy Post Boy and Montreal have furnished fur-nished their quota of the ore production and from 100 to 120 men are employed by the four mines forming the Rams Horn group The Earns Horn is worked under the management of O J Salisbury with D Shoemaker as mine superintendent THE BEABDSLEY MINE Is situated in Beardsley gulch about half a mile above the smelter and is owned principally prin-cipally by the same company having purchased pur-chased it last winter for the sum of 45000 from Messrs Johnson Spaulding Hogle and the Th irdsley Brothers The Bpardsley is opened by several tunnels and inclines but the main works arc situated a short distance from the south end line of the claim Some immense bodies of oro are insight in-sight and the lower workings over 300 feet from the surface show a body of ore thirtysix feet in width which is worth on an average over 30 per ton and can be shoveled up like so much gravel Other parts of the mine show from two to eighteen j I feet of the samo class of ore all of which carries 3G to 15 per cent lead making it a very desirable ore for smelting A part of tho most valuable ground is at present under litigation and if the decision is favorable favor-able to the Beardsley Company an unprecedented unprece-dented yield of ore will be the result The lore chutes stand on an angle to the northeast north-east The walls are principally lime with I occasional dykes of hmo shale underlying tho ore chutes Considerable ore has been shipped to the smelter this spring but everything with the exception of tunnel work is closed down pending the decision of tho court J W Hamilton is superintendent superin-tendent and part owner of the Beardsley Down Bay Horse Creek about one and a half miles from tho smelter is I THE BIVEBVIEW j Owned and operated by Gilmer Salisbury i A force of six or seven men are employed I extracting ore of about tho same grade in silver and lead as that encountered in the I Beardsley which is brought to the Smelter I by pack trains Bill Smith a well known I I old time Utah miner who froze his feet I while lost in the mountains east of Alta I several years ago and had parts of them am l putated has had charge of the Eivervievr I I off and oh for two or three years and in t I that time has made some extensive ore ship I ments OLD TQTEB j |