For their machinery, opening the mines, and for other necessary improvements, the company have expended over one hundred thousand dollars in gold. Six <b>Nike outlet months' run, however, with the ores they now have on hand, will put into their treasury this amount, besides paying expenses, and a handsome percentage besides. The second mill erected, known as the "<b>tiffany and co Moore and Fogus" mill, commenoed operations about the first of November last, crushing rook taken from the "Oro Fino" and "Morning Star" lodes, in both of which this company own an interest. The ore on which.
they commenced work was that taken out all the way from the outcroppings to a depth of fifty feet, and the yield of gold and <b>discount pandora jewelry silver to the ton of this rock is the most extraordinary, probably, of any ores ever worked on the Pacific coast. Let <b>pandora bracelets it be borne in mind that, in the working results here given, there have been but the commonest means used no smelting or roasting of ores, but simply amalgamation with quicksilver. What, then, will be the result when these ores are treated <b>tiffany jewelry more properly and scientifically? The third mill erected here belongs to Minear Co., has only <b>pandora Charms on sale five stamps, and was put up for custom-work.
It is <b>tiffany outlet now crushing rock from the "Allison," "Home Ticket," " Whiskey," and other <b>nike store ledges in the vicinity and the yield from the rock worked at this mill, as well as the ores crushed at the "Moore and Fogus" mill, is shown by the following extracts from Idaho, <b>Nike Shox Oregon, Washington, and San Francisco papers, dating from the first operations of these mills, to the latest advices received thence to date. The extracts that here follow are of special value, and may be relied upon as the best authentic evidence now published Daily Oregonian, Nov. 16, 1864. Owyhee Still Improving. We are shown a private letter from Idaho City that relates some facts given hy Major Holland on his return from Jordan Creek.
centage of gold, but after being sunk upon, silver is found to predominate. This is the case particularly with ledges which, low <b>tiffany jewelry down the mountain, come near the water level, as will <b>tiffany outlet be seen by the following assays of surface ores from two certain lodes named, the one, the " Oro Fino," being well up the mountain, while the "Morning Star" is some one thousand seven hundred feet below, near to, and crossing Jordan Creek. "New York, <b>Nike outlet Nov. 8, <b>pandora bracelets 1864. "The sample of ore marked Oro Fino, Owyhee County, llaho Ter., assayed, contains "The sample marked Morning Star, Owyhee County, Idaho Ter.
, contains There are now three mills in the Owyhee district. The first one put up is known as the "Ainsworth" mill, and is the property of some gentlemen of <b>pandora Charms on sale the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, of which Captain J. CAinsworth, its late President, is one. The mill is of ten stamps, with every thing complete, and of superior workmanship, being built at one of the best <b>nike store machine-shops <b>tiffany and co in San Francisco. It was at the mine in <b>discount pandora jewelry July last, and was intended to be run by water-power, being located on a fine bold stream but on further consideration this plan was changed, and steam-power substituted instead, looking to an increase of the working capacity of the mill hereafter.
This change involved the necessity of sending to San Francisco for engines, boilers, etc., which arrived <b>Nike Shox on the ground last fall. Meantime the stamp went up, and was run with water-power, crushing considerable ore with the most satisfactory results. Operations were commenced on the company's mine in June last, which includes portions of the " Oro Fino," "Kirkpatrick," and "Navigation" ledges. Work was commenced on the " Oro Fino," on which a shaft has beeu sunk over one hundred and twenty feet, and drifts run on the ledge. Several hundred tons of ore have been taken out, and the mill will be ready for vigorous operations early in the spring.
<b>discount pandora jewelry Meantime a party from Oregon, led by a Mr. George Grimes, had crossed the Cascade and Blue Mountains, and pushing north had entered the mountain region of the Boise River, where, on the first <b>nike store of August, they discovered the famous placers of "Boise Basin," one hundred miles south of Salmon River, which have proved the most productive and probably the richest and most extensive placers on the American continent, outside of California. A few days after this discovery, the prospecting party were attacked by Indians, and the leader, Mr. Grimes, was killed.
His companions buried him on the creek where they first discovered gold, and which is <b>tiffany jewelry now known as "Grimes Creek." The spring and summer of 1863 found the gold-hunters pushing <b>tiffany and co their explorations for gold still farther to the south. A party of some thirty men, led by M. Jordan, leaving the "Boise Basin" trail where Boise City now stands, and crossing the Boise and Snake Rivers, soon struck a tributary of the Owyhee River, now known as "<b>tiffany outlet Jordan Creek." Here the party <b>pandora bracelets found rich placers, but the gold is Dot of as <b>pandora Charms on sale high value as from the <b>Nike outlet other placers of the Territory, much of it being worth only twelve dollars per ounce, having a large per-centage of eilver.
Jordan Creek flows through a narrow valley, Hanked on either hand hy broken ranges of mountains, known as the dividing ridge between the Great Snake or Lewis fork of the Columbia and the Owyhee Rivers, in which mountains have subsequently been discovered some of the richest and most extensive silver QUARTZ MINES on the continent. These mines may date their discovery from November, 1863 but not until February, 1864, were any <b>Nike Shox special steps taken to further ascertain their extent since which time over three hundred well-defined gold and silver quartz lodes have been discovered and located. The outcroppiugs of these ledges contain a great per.
Several years later, Captain John Mull an, of the army, now a resident of Washington Territory, was directed by the Secretary of War to take charge of the construction of the military road from Fort Benton on the Missouri, to Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory, a distance of six hundred and twenty-four miles. The construction of this work, passing as it did over the mountain region of what was then all Washington Territory, was naturally <b>Nike Shox an opening examination of the large mining fields now lying in Idaho and Montana Territories, and which owe their chief discovery to Captain Mullan's explorations and researches, while constructing the longest continuous line of military road in the United States, from the head-waters of the Missouri, which drain the eastern side, to.
the navigable waters of the Columbia, which drain the western slope of the continent. Soon after the completion of this work, steps were taken to more definitely ascertain whether the precious metals <b>nike store existed in sufficient <b>tiffany and co quantities to pay for working, which fact was ascertained in October, 1861, when the PLACER DIGGINGS OP THE TERRITORY were discovered by Captain E. D. Pierce, an old Californian, but then an Indian trader, who had been for several years in <b>tiffany outlet what was then the northeastern portion of Washington Territory. He had found gold in several localities, and had attempted to work for it, but the N"ez Perce Indians, owning the <b>discount pandora jewelry country, had forbidden any search for gold.
At last, however, Captain Pierce succeeded in gaining the consent of the Indians, and with <b>pandora Charms on sale a small party commenced examinations which resulted in finding placers that would <b>tiffany jewelry pay, at the mouth of <b>Nike outlet the Oro Fino Creek, a branch of the Clearwater River. Thousands rushed to these new diggings in the spring of 1862, which resulted in the finding of rich placers on most of the tributaries of the Clearwater. Once <b>pandora bracelets the precious metal found, these adventurous spirits extended their explorations farther to the southward during the sum. mer, and discovered the extensive placers of the Salmon River, sixty miles distant from the Clearwater.
very doors in the shape of huge bricks of bullion brought down from Idaho to Portland, Oregon, and shipped from that point by ocean-steamers, and which could not possibly have come from Washoe or Reese River by that <b>tiffany jewelry route, has very gracefully " caved in," and now acknowledges the mineral wealth of our Territory, and is making <b>nike store ample amends for its former seeming incredulity, by publishing established facts. As Idaho is a terra incognita to the people of the Atlantic seaboard, it may be well to state briefly some few facts incident to the discovery of the precious metals in <b>Nike Shox the Territory.
This may date back to 1853, the year of the Northern Pacific Railroad Exploration and Survey, conducted by Governor (late General) Isaac I. Stevens. In traversing the vast region of country, then all embraced within the boundaries of the Territory of Washington, and lying between the Rocky Mountains and the <b>Nike outlet waters of Puget Sound, and drained by the great Columbia and its tributaries, the exploring party discovered gold in the beds of small streams at various points. A <b>tiffany and co year later, the late General F. W. Lander, who was connected with the <b>discount pandora jewelry railroad surveys of Gov.
Stevens, as <b>pandora bracelets chief civil engineer, conceived the idea of an exploration from the Dalles of the Columbia, striking diagonally across <b>pandora Charms on sale the lines of the main surveys, passing through the region of country between the 46 parallel and the southern boundary-line of the Territory, and entering the Rocky Mountain region, by crossing the Malade and Upper Snake River, and Sublett's cut-off between the "Old Crater" and the Wahsatch Mountains to Fort Bridger, for the purpose of examining the passes in that direction, with a view to the construction of a branch railroad from the California line of survey to the navigable waters of the Columbia. In making this reconnoissance, General <b>tiffany outlet Lander noticed the same indications of gold over the line of his march west of the Mountains, as were noticed by the party making the main surveys the year previous.
This business has been rapidly enlarging for the last few years, and being very generally successful, with an unlimited field open before it, we may look for its further if not rapid expansion. That the <b>pandora bracelets inducements for investing money <b>tiffany outlet in it are fully equal to any elsewhere presented, seems undeniable while as a home interest it has peculiar claims upon the support of our own people. The <b>Nike Shox following article, <b>pandora Charms on sale prepared by Mr. "Walker, was intended to be published by him but on learning of my plans, kindly turned this and other material over to me, to be used at my discretion.
Future developments will furnish material for abler pens to write a gold and silver history of the "Gem of the Mountains." At this early day a preface only to the future of her mines can be written. The brief period which has elapsed since sufficient of the precious metals were known to exist, to warrant the working, and the difficulties with which a sparse mining population have had to contend with little capital to develop their interests, added to the persistency with which the press of San Francisco.
had discouraged emigration from her borders to these new gold-fields, has very greatly retarded the development <b>Nike outlet of the rich and extensive placers, and the hundreds of gold and silver bearing quartz lodes, the value of which it is a part of our present purpose to establish beyond doubt or cavil by such evidence as we have <b>discount pandora jewelry been able to <b>nike store gather, not only from the local press of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington, <b>tiffany jewelry and reliable correspondents in the mining region, added to our personal knowledge and observation, but the eleventh-hour testimony also of our ancient enemy, the press <b>tiffany and co of the Golden City, which forced to do us justice at last, from the undeniable proofs presented at its.