Show IDAHO halley hailey times major stanton arrived from salt lake today to push the work at the modoc chief in lees gulch he will immediately begin the erection of hoisting works salmon herald frank bricken has come out from arnett cre creek ek where he has been working the del monto and little chief lodes he says they are full of promise se and are sure to develop into big payers payers council advance J lucas of madrid iowa passed through here yesterday en route to seattle wash mr lucas is a millionaire lio mine owner and has a bond on some valuable properties at warren and big creek silver city nugget james farrell W V rice and W H dark clark salt lake gentlemen interested in the trade dollar extension property were visitors here during the week they spent several days looking over various properties propertied in the surrounding camps and went home expressing themselves much pleased with the general outlook boise statesman judge J B randall postmaster at roosevelt is in the city he is more confident than ever respecting the future of the district the developments ot of the year have borne out his earlier predictions for the camp and he said yesterday he was willing to go on record as saying that after time for development and erection of mills should have elapsed thunder mountain would be the greatest producer of low grade ore in the united states of the town of roosevelt the judge said it was prosperous he anticipated that men would winter in that immediate vicinity while many more would be at work at more distant points in that section of country judge randall spoke particularly of the work done in the district by C J perkins this season the latter he said had gone to work intelligently and with great energy and had fully proved his properties to be of great ivalue value those interested with him had been so well pleased that when they visited the camp they bought the H Y and other good properties boise capital news C B holmes returned yesterday from grand view where general weavers big dredge is located he said the dredge is working right along though not up to the limit of its intended capacity the plant is intended to use horse power but the castings are too light so that only a little over horse power is used the work of the dredge he said is very satisfactory to the management and appears to be quite profitable A very rich streak of gravel was struck about eight feet below the water which is being worked along with the surface ground mr holmes did not know what it would go but understood it went several dollars to the yard five more dredges are to be built at once and one is now nearly ready for shipment it has several improvements over the dredge now in use and is equipped with heavier castings the company now owns several hundred acres of placer ground along the snake river in the vicinity of grand view which mr holmes said it would take a score of drudges to work out in the next ten years boise statesman al H jacobs while hile on a visit to the basin within a few days made in an inspection of the mary jane ming mine being operated under the management of major george A williams he states it is the best property he has seen in that section an ore shoot feet in length has been developed it has been opened to a depth of 85 feet by two inclines and a tunnel the average width of the vein is five feet and a conservative estimate of the val valin alus in i 4 me ore is 10 a ton thin the essays assays indicate a greater value and it may go higher but mr jacobs feels satisfied the figure will not be below 10 the new shaft which is vertical has attained a depth of 90 feet and will reach the vein in about 60 feet more A hoist is being erected over the shaft A fine mill has been erected having a capacity of 30 tons a day it will be ready to start in about a week this mill is equipped with the new style of stamps having quadruple discharge there being but three of these |