Show DREDGING IjIAO The ManimothPlantBeing Installed By the Basic Company The heavy generator casting for the Dower house of the Basc company which left Boise on Aug 9 for the Basin and which went irough the Henry creek bridge on the 28th nearly killing one of th men In charge of i say the Boise Statesman crossed the Grlmelleek brdge safely on the 31st the Granite creek bridge on the 2nd and on Saturday evening last was within six mIles of its destination nation wIth no valicular dangerous r int ahead of It tosUrmount Early this week it should reach the end of its long and periQusjourney The cap piece ha already arfed The armature arma-ture had assed the summIt on the Hawkins tool road onj the evening of the rd and will catph UD with and pass theblg piece to These three great cstngs weigh together to-gether 4400pounds a whern assembled assem-bled and boled donton the broad concrete foudaton that was lad for them in lower Grimescreek in the early part of July wlUconsttute probably prob-ably the largest Dlece of mechanism yet set UP in Idaho and one of which the state may well b proud The Pelon whelwhich is to run thIs machine has been in positIon for a month The eight and a half miles of ditch and fume was cmpletedearly in August The steel pipe to carry the water from the canal to the wheel was Dlaced in position and ha leen carrying water ever since the 23rd and the big dredge at Placrvie has been ready ever since the middle of last month for the lfegvIng energy which the great genera r will send to it I will not be malY days therefore before the great digging machine will be at work And when Mr Kirker the COmDanyS electrician turns the current from his netloose and the chaIn of steel buckets on the boat begins be-gins to revolve a new era will have opened for the Basin which will witness nESS i revIval of the good old times of G266 when the yellow dirt was more plentiful in PlacervieJtan it ever has been on the Klondike The Centervle dredge is also rapidly rapid-ly assuming shaDe and attaIning dl menslons Its machinery wi begin arriving by Oct 1 I the fall should be an average one it will get in a few weeks work before the snows fly But in any event I will be ready for operation oper-ation in the early spring |