Show LOST RIVER MINES I I They Will Yet Make a Great and Prosperous Camp JIST ESS I EASTERN COLORADO sny of tho People Will Have to Depend on Charity This Winter A Desperate Attempt At-tempt to Suicide I BELI Idaho Sept 20fSpecial L telegram to TUE HERALD Houston on I Lost river is destined to be a copper mining min-ing cap Of course there is no direct possibility pos-sibility of its equaling Butte or Anaconda but reports from that remote camp of Logan county are most encouraging The I general understanding is that the Houston smelter will be started shortly after the 1st of October The newpurchasers of the Houston mine have contracted for the delivery of sixty tons daily at Blackf oot the nearest railway point Those who are I familiar with the five tdalms which comprise com-prise the big copper group and Know the extent of the ore bodiesare not backward In declaring that one of the greatest mining camps o the west will spring up in Lost River valley within the next three years Houston is no longer a dead town but a bustling little place with the ring of the hammer and the buzz of the sawin all directions The citizens have taken steps to secure titles to their lots under the townsite Jaws Lost Raver valley is an excellent agricultural agricul-tural and stock growing region and the ranchers with a good market right at hand will do their part towards the develop m eat of the country Next year will see avery a-very great increase in the grain area as well as large additions to the alfalfa fields with big mines with extensive agricultural and stock interest with large quantities of accessible timber and with an abundance of water Lost River valley ought certainly cer-tainly t be one of the most prosperous portions por-tions of Idaho within the next three years |