Show Salmon City District The Yellow Jacket is employing about fifty men Good gold prospects are being found in the bars below Salmon city Morton Freuln a mining expert of great repute direct from New York city arrived ar-rived In Salmon Tuesday evening and went 1 U > J < > r i f > i < over to Leesburg this morning to expert some properties there Mr Ambrose is going ahead with work on his properties twelve miles north of Salmon and reports his prospects as looking look-ing fine Tvith an improvement in quantity and quality of ore as depth is gained D N Clark returned from a prospecting trip down the Salmon for the past two weeks He reports having found some fine properties and illustrated the fact by panning pan-ning out some of the rock this morning a John Miller and J H Leopold came down from their workings on Geerston creek I today to spend the Sabbath They are building houses putting in flumes and otherwise getting ready for suitable work on their placer properties It is estimated by good judges of placer mining and expert calculators that the territory ter-ritory owned by the Lemhi Placer company com-pany is exceedingly rich in gold more so to the yard than the Dutch Flats of California I Califor-nia ana will yield better resultsBy I draulic I Frank Brown who is now prospecting onI I French and Fish Trap creeks just over the Bitter Root range from Salmon reports re-ports the discovery of rich placer ground and some fine gold leads in that section The country is new and the prospects exceptionally ex-ceptionally good |