Show > > i IN THE SEVEN DEVILS f Jplm Lamb Is Enthusiastic Over > the Country I r I 1 GREAT COPPER DISTRICT l lf f = HPTiT BACK BY aUNING AND I RAILROAD PROMOTORS rO I The Discussion Regarding the Opening I I ing of the Indian Mints In the Xootenai Country Placer Discoveries I Discov-eries In Idaho Latest News Prom the Camps Notes and Personals t John Lamb editor of the De Lamar Id3 Nugget has recently visited the A Seven Devils district and in writing about jt in his paper says h Our conclusions about the Seven Devils were That it is the greatest copper district dis-trict ever yet discovered that i is more easily accessible than reports have made it that every essential necessary to make i one of the greatest mining districts dis-tricts in the world is at command but that tho course pursued by the men who i own the most prominent of the mines is t holding back its development Men sof large capital have for several years owned the largest properties and have not found it to their interest for some reason rea-son to develop them A lot of mine or railroad promoters without apparently either capital influence have been playing I play-ing with the reputation of the mines r When what Is plainly practical has been dene a railroad built south to Welser or I Peyette and one or more of the mines opened and worked on their merits this I district will become trreat But when will this be done There are plenty of properties outside of the big bonanzas to justify the railroads and the owners are anxious to develop them but you or I or any owner of a property would dislike to build roads and make improvements which others would profit by more than f ourselves That is about the way many i property owners in this district feel and they are quietly awaiting the time when the promoters of impracticable railroads roads and impossible Snake Tver navigation naviga-tion schemes have played their day and the big owners are ready to do something |