A historical, descriptive and commercial directory of Owyhee County, Idaho, January 1898 . ts themines with the mill, which is a pan-amalgamation plant, equipped with fortystamps, twenty-eight pans, etc., and has a capacity of treating 150 tons of oredaily. Connected with this mill is a fifty-ton plant of the Pelaton-Clericicyanide process. These mills are run by a Corliss engine of 250 horse power,and for about three months in the spring of the year the water power is utilizedby means of a six-foot Pelton water wheel. The plant owned by the company is the most complete one in tliis sectionof
A historical, descriptive and commercial directory of Owyhee County, Idaho, January 1898 . ts themines with the mill, which is a pan-amalgamation plant, equipped with fortystamps, twenty-eight pans, etc., and has a capacity of treating 150 tons of oredaily. Connected with this mill is a fifty-ton plant of the Pelaton-Clericicyanide process. These mills are run by a Corliss engine of 250 horse power,and for about three months in the spring of the year the water power is utilizedby means of a six-foot Pelton water wheel. The plant owned by the company is the most complete one in tliis sectionof the country, consisting of hotel and oflicc buildings, store houses, departmentshops, mill, assay buildings, bunk and boarding houses, tramways, etc., and iscovered by an insurance of fully $125, The company also carries a largestock of wood and other material, and duplicates of machinery, in which there isa large amount invested. 60 HISTORICAL DIRECTORY OF The mills and mines give employment to about 200 men, there being nointerruption to the work, except on prominent De Lamar Mining Company, Limited, De Lamar. The energy and perseverance of the local managers, together with theliberal support of the home management, has placed this company in the fore-most rank of the best mining properties of the West, and the gross output sincethe organization of the company to date amounts to over $5,000, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO. 61 Mr. Dwight B. Huntley, resident manager of the De Lamar Mining Com-pany, Limited, at De Lamar, Idaho, was born in Utica, New York, January17, 1850. In 1852 his parents came west and located at Grass Valley, California,where he spent his boyhood. He received his schooling in San Francisco,California, and graduated in 1875 at the University of California, and subse-quently, two years later, took a post-graduate course at the same university, inmining, metallurgy and chemistry. For several years he was engaged in sur-veying, assaying and mill
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