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THE WEST SHORE.
duoed some remarkably rich ore. Twenty miles eaut of
Hailey are the roinos o( Little Wood River, chief of
which is the Muldoon group, owned by the Wood River
Mining and Smelting Ooinjiany. This company also
operates smelting and sampling works.
Warm Spring Creek mining district, of which Ketch urn
is the centre, embraces all that portion of the great
Wood River mineral belt lying from a point six miles
aonth to a distance twenty milne north, and is about the
same width. Contingent and tributary to it are the
Sawtooth, Wood River (proper) and Smoky district
Within iU boundaries is one of the busiest prospecting
scenes in the world Innumerable good ledges and good
ore bodies have been discovered, and, although like all
other new mining districts that invariably feel adversi
ties and encounter disadvantages, not a few fortunes have
unquestionably been made. Many of the best mines lie
within a radius of five miles of Ketchum, and within
this limit the most flattering discoveries are constantly
being made, though heretofore it was thought the pros
pector had "done up" the country. Blind lodges apjicar
in the most unexpected places, and three or four of these
have developed into bonanzas in the past year, creating
renewed euthusiasm among prospectors in those parts.
Close to town may bo poiuted out half a dozen dividoml-
pnying mines that have netted from ifcM.OOO to 2TiO,000
in the Mist year, one of them having mado net div (lends
in the pant three years of nearly $-100,000. This showing
does not Include other district, great mineral wealth
lieing doveloed in point diroctly tributary to and de
eiident ukiii the town of Kctdium.
The grim output from mines, smelters and samplers
last year, togother with private shipments not roxrted,
amounts to fully $4,000,000, and that shown by statistics
over H.OWI.IXX).
The ores of Warm Spring Croek minim; district -chiefly
lead ores, accompanied by iron oxiil.-s and car
bonatee-are either reduced at the Philadelphia smelten
in It nl.nt.iitn n a.vl.1 1.. I. .1.1 tl I' lit .
wit vu fruu kvm-iiuiu rmui)uug orits or
private buyers, who ship them to Omaha, Denver or
Kansas City. The Philadelphia Mining and Smelting
Company has extensive works at Ketchum (seeengrav.
ing on another page), and owns fourteen mines on both
forks of the river. The company also purchases ores
from other mines. From 2.V) to 300 men are employed
in the minea and works. There are five furnaces, with .
capacity of 200 Urns per day, from which ton car-loads of
HQ bars of bullion each are shiped weekly to Oiimha
nw reunemenu lne works are run bv water i.r..r
which is prevented from freexing in the winter by the
hot spring whose waters run into the ditch a short dis
tanoe elmve the smelters. The company has tO.OOO
invested in it plant The officers are James M. Rhodes,
rresidcut; Sydney L Wright, Vioe.rresi.lent and Treas
urer; 1L J. iiaMeaa, nuiterintendcnt
Ketchum has a populaUon of 2.000, and is one of the
most beautifully located towns in Idaho. The natural
oenery surrounding it is grand. It is situaUl .i .
oonfluonos of three mountain streams, has abumlance of
rich, level ground, pretty drives, and every natural ad
vantage. The hills are a complete shield against wind
storms and blizzards. There la an abundance of timber,
and the mannfnetnre of lumber is a thrifty industry.
The town contains two churches, a weekly newspaper
(the Keyslone), two banks, a good school, fifty business
houses, and in addition to the smelters two saw mills,
two planing mills, two breweries and a busy brick yard.
Twenty-five miles west of Wood River is the Smoky
District, with ledges of galena carrying from twenty to
fifty ounces of silver. There are numerous producing
mines, some of them carrying gold in the ore with lend
and silver. The Smoky Bullion Consolidated Mining
Company are the most extensive operators and have one
of the largest concentrating mills in the Territory. At
the head of Wood River is Galena District, in which is
the town of Galena. The Senate Mining and Smolting
Company own the best properties and operate a thirty-
ton smelter. Just across the divide from Galena, at the
headwaters of Salmon River, are the Sawtooth mines, of
which Vienna is the business centre. The ores of the
numerous paying ledges of that region are essentially
different from those of Wood Riuer proper, but it hns
been customary to include them in the list of Wood
River mines, chiefly because they find there their nearest
and most accessible shipping and supply point The old
and celebrated Atlanta District is situated on the Middle
Boise River, and is in Alturns County. It finds a ship
ping point at Mountain Home Station, on the Oregon
Short Lino, but will soon lie connected by a good wagon
road with Boiso City, eighty-five miles distant
The ores of this region are of various kinds, ranging
from free gold to very base and refractory. This neces
sitates a variety of methods of reduction, such as gold
mills, silver mills, roasting furnaces, smelters and con
centiators. Tho daily capacity of the various mills and
smelters is as follows:
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Making a total daily milling and tnatltini rapaoity of . .. li
Smelting requiring much capital, many companies
prefer to concentrate their ores and sell them in oion
market For this reason concentrating works have been
constructed. These works crush the ore and concen
trate the metal-bearing particles of from throe to ten
tons of ore into one by separating them from the waste.
Following are the best known of these:
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