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Show AROUND ABOUT UTAH. A Positive Boom Predicted on the Camas Gold Belt Next Year. Rich Placers at the Head of the Snake and at Biff Hole, Montana. The Golden Wealth of the Coenr D'Alene Will Yet Stagger the World. The Camas Gold Belt. The Wiswell mill ordered for the Donovan group of claims in the Camas Gold Belt, says the Hailey Times, will be delivered in about fifteen days. If this mill works successfully, it will give a great impetus to the development of the Gold Belt, as it will be the second in successful suc-cessful operation tile experience of the Camas No. 2 Company having been so encouraging since it started up its mill, about three months ago, that it has already al-ready doubled the original number of its stamps. Started up last July with 10 stamps, two more batteries of five stamps each are being put in place. This will give the Gold Belt an aggregate daily capacity .of 50 to 75 tons. If, as there is every reason to believe, the works make a . good all-winter run, there will be a positive boom on- the Camas Gold Belt next year. Placers at the Head of the Snake." K. P. Plowman,- of Hailey, says the Inter-Idaho, who has been to the head of Snake river with a prospecting party, and returned last week, saya he thinks the mines in that vicinity are good. The bars average in depth of gravel from three to fifteen or twenty feet and prospect very well. He thinks it will be a large mining locality. - The low bars are easily covered with water by ditches. He says there is a good natural wagon road nearly all the way to the mines. About twenty-two miles through the Teton Pass will require some grading, which, once completed, wagons can get into the mines. There is a vast quantity of cement gravel in these mines that prospects well, but Mr. Plowman Plow-man says it will require crushing the same as quartz to make it pay. He thinks the mines can be worked from the first of May until the first of November. The climate, he thinks, is about the same as that of the Boise Basin. The Big: Hole Placers. The new placer diggings which have caused some excitement and a stampede recently are located about three miles from the Gibbon battle ground on the uppeiiBigllole, says the Dillon (Montana) Tribune. The discovery is called Hughes' basin. The discoverers are Barney Hughes, of Alder Gulch notoriety, and George Orr. A large number of placer claims have been located and recorded in the new diggings. The diggings, as far as prospected, indicate good pay. No bed-rock has been struck vet in the main creek,which is called Trail Creek, but ten feet of fine washed gravel contains gold in sufficient quantities to pay with a hydraulic hydrau-lic and bed-rock flume. "Nine claims of twenty acres to each claim have been taken up in the new district. Prospecting is still going on, and the prospectors expect ex-pect to strike bed-stone with good results. Lumber is being sawed to put a flume in in the spring and the present indications are that the new diggings will prove a valuable find. Coenr D'Alene's Gigantic Enterprise. The Murray Sun, in speaking of the great work now under way in the mines ofCceur d'Alene, says: "The bedrock flume now being dug on Prichard Creek is the most gigantic enterprise ever undertaken un-dertaken in the history of placer mining. There has been nothing to approach it in California, Australia, Colorado or Montana, Mon-tana, and, as it develops from dav to dav, all previous methods of gravel' mining are dwarfed into puny insignificance. To the old '49er, whose attachment for water ditches and hose is almost second nature and who mined from Mexico to the British Brit-ish possessions, the project is incomprehensible. incompre-hensible. But the men who have interested inter-ested themselves in this enterprise evidently evi-dently know what they have undertaken. They have new ideas and new methods which will completely revolutionize the systems handed down to us by the argonauts. argo-nauts. They mine on the broad-uae principle, using modern appliances, and m the places of the expensive ditches will employ steam power to move the earth and rob it of its riches. It is the dawn of Cceur d'Alene's prosperity, and the golden wealth that will be uncovered will stagger the world." Another Judge Wanted in Idaho. There is a move on foot to get the Idaho Delegate in Congress to work for the appointment ap-pointment of another District Judge, says the Inter-Idaho, as the work is getting "to be too much throughout the Territory for three Judges. The move is a good one and the fourth Justice, with four districts instead of three, would shorten their terms, and not only lighten their work but prove of much benefit to litigants and all concerned. The West Feeding the East. Enormous shipments of grain will be made this fall eastward over the Northern Pacific Railroad. This year's phenominal yield of grain in the Pacific coast countries, coun-tries, and corresponding shortage in the crops m some Eastern sections will cause the transportation of thousands of bushels of gram this year from the West to the East, and from the fact of the large grain-producing grain-producing sections lying tributary to the Northern Pacific it is inferred that the erreat hulk nf fViQo d -i. ., . - ; " c o"ipiueuis win pass over this road The Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. have now all they can do m handling the immense quantities of gram pouring in on them, and the Northern North-ern Pacific is now concentrating its box cars m readiness to receive the grain which will soon be delivered for shipment rn ?nEtSt- be a pVtan item to the company, and will no doubt have a perceptible influence upon the earnings of the roadjor the fall months! A JfeTada Man in Pine Creek. A letter to the Tuscaora rTMW t.-.. v-.v,.., Jlevicw from State Senator John Powell after giving a lengthy and rather favorable favor-able idea of the mines of the new Pine Creek district, in Union county, Oregon hS: "T has his day'rK be applied to these mines, nearly muted development enjoyed a local re utation as a bonanza. There is but litfe IS " ibSmteIy n mine working which employs men on wages. There is a httle building, and a few men find em Many TiZ- tog. Many of the mine owners are leaving fnr the season, and will not return to d0 aSv work upon their prospects until next S 8on. This camp is like all new carmU the coast. Owners of location !?P 0n wealthy in their minds J rulVS tSsCVht t? tionsand JSS number. Many of these locations are owned by men who never owned a claim before. This is one of the misfortunes the country is laboring under. There is no field for prospecting. Locations are piled up on top of each other in some places." ; , The Dempsey-Campbell Contest. The forthcoming Dempsey-Campbell fight, says the Portland News, still forms the subject of considerable discussion for many Portlanders. Campbell is in active training, and yesterday, during a little playful practice with his trainer, Duncae McDonald, is said to have floored that athletic gentleman several times. Two or three ambitious visitors, who are no ; novices with the mitts, donned them for j a friendly bout with Dave, and were knocked into all sorts of shapes by the Oregon champion. Dempsey is working hard, and will be in prime condition when the "unpleasantness" between he and Campbell commences. Several large bets have been made without odds either way. One bet of $500 was made that the fight would not last for eight rounds. Unfavorable Un-favorable comments, however, are heard on every side because the fight is not to a finish with bare knuckles. It is to be a genuine, square old-fashioned fight, but many doubt it, because it is not toi a finish. Minor Mention. And now thecity wiseacres of Butte have passed an ordinance making profanity profan-ity on the street a punishable offense. A t five-dollar fine for each and every offense will not only make Butte the wealthiest city in the West, but the "cops" will be dandies if they "scoop 'em" all in. The early closing movement is being agitated in Butte. Yesterday afternoon those interested in the scheme met at the Amphitheatre to decide on some measures meas-ures to be taken in the matter. Judge Hays, the new Chief Justice of Idaho, has just finished his first term of court at Salmon City. He showed himself him-self to be an efficient and honorable Judge. |