Show FT thunder mountain tain news special correspondence roosevelt idaho march 5 A severe snowstorm followed by warm weather and rain caused snow slides that caused the death of two men anery henderson started for town and was caught in a wide slide six gix miles above roosevelt aug dallao was killed in his cabin two miles above town the roosevelt relief association has been organized to afford prompt service in case of emergency jack cassell is president and L A wayland is secretary superintendent E L abbott of the sun mine says that the tunnel on the burr oak mine is now in a distance of 1000 feet the bore is now in granite with quartz stringers coming in twenty five feet per week is being made with a force of seven men it is expected that the ore will be reached in feet more the treasurer of the company says that it is the intention of the management to make the sunnyside Sunny side one of the best equipped mines in the west the expense being justified by the immense bodies of milling ore in sight disclosed by the tunnels and drifts general manager writes that he will give his personal attention to the completion of the wagon road as soon as spring opens and push it to an early completion campli ebion the dewey mill has been constantly running this winter and superintendent E harry says no loss of time has been caused by frost the december and january cleanups were the best realized for many months about forty pounds of bullion were sent out each month the proceeds of milling with ten light stamps the thunder mountain pearl AT M company organized in pittsburg pa owns nineteen claims extending on both sides of holy terror creek three tunnels have been driven and feet respects lively in the longest tunnel the values have increased at seventy feet assays essays showed per ton and at eighty feet some bunches of ore gave very high values the principal tunnel will be extended to feet this winter the ore is light colored quartz porphyry in places very hard C M decamp of denver colorado is superintendent the planet group of claims owned by W 11 padgett and thomas shayre lies on the monumental side of the divide towards little indian creek at an elevation of about feet the main trail frail to boise city passes through the group three tunnels of thirty five forty five and sixty feet have been driven in the sixty foot tunnel as says show values for the last five feet of from 4 to 36 per ton the average value is about 12 all free milling gold ore the width of the ore body has not been ascer bained the ore is quartz porphyry ir in all degrees of hardness and in color from white to blue and black in driving the tunnel on the georgia holt claim for hendricks and bernard on divide creek john pearson says that ore was sent out every five feet for assay every seventy five feet returns received give an average value of the whole length of the tunnel of 3 gold the development of the ore body in the fairview property has disclosed a deposit of at least sixty feet wide for the length of two claims running north and south that will average 10 a ton several tale talc seams were crossed in the ore body one of them is three feet wide and assays essays 56 to the ton in gold the tunnel in the first national at the head of trap creek is being steadily driven by brown and graham and some fine looking blue quartz is being taken out B D R L poston and partners have driven a sixty foot tunnel on their group overlooking the town they report values up to 4 and plenty of ore samuel kimmell and thomas richardson own a group of three claims opposite the saw mill on monumental creek A tunnel of twenty feet has exposed good ore and some charcoal similar to that found in the dewey degeyt work will be continued this spring bartholomew and choate in developing ve loping their group of three claims on cin a branch of sugar creek on the side of rainbow mountain have exposed a fine body of quartz carrying iron sulphides sulp hides giving the high assays essays of in gold to the ton A E BORDWICK |