Show I BAY HORSE DISTRICT No Advertising1 Done But a Stonily Production for Years i lUg Mines Which Have Paid From the j Grass Roots Down i i A Dig Belt of Mineral and Numerous Good Prospects Special Correspondence DEMOCRAT i BAY HOUSE Idaho July 2In a former I letter from Bay Horso I merely gave a description de-scription of the mines owned and operated by the Earns Horn Smelting and Mining Company so now I will endeavor to give a I further report of the other mines in this I vicinity which although last are not least in importance in value and development Knowing full well THE WORm AND EXTENSrVEXESS Or THE MINES In Bay Horse district it has always been a matter of surprise to mo that no bona fide mining boom has ever struck this portion I I of Idaho Wood River and Montana have received all the advertising that would make or unmake any country while this section which i prolific in good mines has been sadly neglected by correspondents and newspapermen news-papermen although the output of our mines has excelled many of those that have been lauded to the skies in other camps Bay Horse has never received a black eye through the sala of wild cat properties I proper-ties for with a few exceptions the mines I are worked by the original locators I speaks well for the richness of our ores and II the easy development of our mines when we investigate the matter and learn that most I of the properties of this district have I I PAID FEOM THE VERY GRASS BOOTS ITo I I To several hundred feet in depth and weio j discovered and successfully operated by men who had nothing in the start but their own II labor to back them in their enterprises The most serious drawback that has been encountered is the jagged and precipitous j nature of the country and the almost super I human efforts and large expense necessary I to open thoroughfares for travel For years our roads were narrow pack trails our conveyances con-veyances the hurricane deck of a saddle horse and our freight wagons the backs of i mules and burros With the making of I wagon roads this manner of general locomotion loco-motion and primitive freighting has been materially lessened but many of our best mines still ship their products to the smelters by packtrains and receive their supplies through the same medium Some of the consolidated packtrains have more than 5 mules and the owner will contract to pack anything from a 400pound bale of hay to lumber eight feet long To see a stove in its entirety perched upon an aparajo Mexican packsaddle on the back of a mule is no rare or novel sight here Stamp mills have been carried on mules into countries where carred the outlay in building roads would have exceeded ceeded the worth of the mines for which the mills were ordered the machinery having been made in sections no piece exceeding Gr 0 pounds in weight In the mines of Bay Horse district THE EM3ELSIOE MINE tanks among the best The mine was orig nally located in 1878 by Samuel Staples and J D Wood The interest of Staples having been purchased by Wood and Fred Phillips a few men were employed in development work on the property in the fall and winter of 1879 and 18bO Some ore was shipped from the mine during those years and in the winter of 1881 the main ore chute was discovered In the summer of 18S2 ore ag regating some 53000 was sold from the line and much development work was done Small lots of ore were shipped in 883 and in the spring of 1884 the present Bonanza was discovered and 10 > 4 tons of ore footiug up an aggregate value of 897 000 was shipped to the Clayton Smelter in i i I which Wood Co own a onethird interest During the past winter the development I work and driving of main tunnels and cross cuts has been pushed to the utmost having I been done principally by contract with three I I ighthour shifts and in that time some 250 j I I tons of ore have been extracted and is now lying in the ore bins chutes etc of the I I mine pending the decision in the suit brought against them by the Beardsleythe I adjoining claimfor alleged trespass and i i extraction of ores from within the Beardsley i I ground I gound counter suit instituted by Wood Co the ownership of twentynine feet of j the immense ore body of the Beardsley is i claimed to bo on the Excelsior and the I issues are now being tried before Judge i Morgan at Challis From advices received i since we received this communication we i learn that the first of the abovenamed suits i has been decided in favor of the Excelsior I ED DEMOCRAT The Excelsior Company has the Beardsley Extension and several i i fractions in conjunction with their main property but up this time no great amount of development work has been done on them A few hundred feet south of the Excelsior is the EAGLE flOCKs A valuable prospect from which considerable consider-able pay ore has been extracted The veins vein-s quite large some thirty or forty feet qute lies in kidneys and i TOde and the pay ore les kdeys chutes in the vein the developments consisting i sisting principally of one tunnel 140 feet long and a few short inclines The Eagle Jock is owned by Riley and Newman of j Aetna and Win Scott of Challis IOn I-On the opposite side of the canyon from the Excelsior isTHE THE HOOD MINE From which some 500 tons of ore was taken 5 Fom whch Bay Horse Smelting k Mining the sale of their smelter I Co in 1881 Upon smeler this mine was to the Rams Horn company thic closed down and nothing but the yearly assessment work has been done since The Hood has all the indications of being of as great value as either the Excelsior or Beardsley if prospecting were pushed upon Beardley it with tho same vigor as that of her sister mines The Hood as well as the Excelsior Beardsley and Eagle Rock are in the main limestone belt of this district Early last all the Dougherty Brothers opened up TIC GUY C BARTON And sold an interest i the prospect to C E Taylor for the sum of 400 Shortly after by Taylor a fine the interest was purchased inches to from eighteen of ore ranging body ilg oo rn three feet in thIckness was uncovered on the surface and several small shipments were made the ore being worth from 3 > to GU per ton During the past winter consider able development work was done and sev shipments made Through some oral ore erl not generally known the mine has almost cause al-most entirely ceased operations and the cause assignedseems to be based on no the want of confidence in lack of ore or confdence mine Near the Barton is THE JABVIS Which was discovered last fall and owing to its fine surface showing and close prox unity to the smelter was conceded to be one of the most valuable finds of the year Since that time considerable ore has been shipped if the property was in and wa smelter to the propery o smeler with capital erect the hands of a company H S works it would no doubt hold concentrating work under 5fTr different place than it occupies far a management of the present owners The the feet in width to thirty ledge is from eight is widely disseminated the ore and as is plant concentrating whole n concentratng the through advantage Several to work it to Sveral necessar leased to different dierent mine were parts of the mie winter and considerable workingmen witer ore was shipped by them Jams Co are the owners smelter mile above the Rams Horn smeler and Half within a a few hundred feet of Bay Horse creek lies lesTJ SILVER CHEEK E Dunphy and worked by AVhich is owned i main works consist of n tunnel S Son The work feet and 250 200 vein between ad 25 driven on the twothirds of that in length and for over and distance shows a fine vein of Ialena ditance ore considerable of WhICh assays copper 150 to 600 ton The ore ranges from per from six inches to three feet in thickness to from time made have been and shipments l1 i 5 r 1 timo duniig the past two seasons huviiig paid the owners halidsoinu profits The formation in which lies tho Silver Creek Jams and Barton is slate of the argillaceous I order and the vein ganguo is principally I white and irony quartz The belt lies to the west and is entirely distinct from the lime I belt in which are tho Excelsior Beardslov etcThe 13eardslc I The Martin Brothers have a apropeity called Tin CEMETERY I Which shows a vein of highgrade ore some of which runs several hundred dollars I ton I is in the slato belt and an extension per I i of the Jarvis and Barton vein but not i I enough work has been done upon i to thor I oughly determine its future as a mine r Aside from those already mentioned there arc many good prospects in the abovemen I tioned belts but as they have assumed no prominent features so far I will not mention them in detail until they do OLDTIMER |