Show GREAT PLACER MINING Idaho Company Diverts Pay te Riv River River River er and Runs it Through Tunnel TunnelLe J Le Lee ee Bunch one of the original origin l lo locators locators of or the Oxbow placers placer and who conceived the te idea of or turning turnIng Payette river liver through trough a a tunnel below Deadwood fork for the 10 purpose purse of rendering least fei bled comparatively com inexpensive the working of the te bed of the river and utilizing the water wate for power purposes has ha given the Idaho City World a 3 num number number with wit ber her of the Interesting enterprise Items In II connection The water will wi have a fall tal of forty ort eight feet at the mouth of the tunnel but a pipe line lne will wi carry carr it i to Pine flat fat of a mile mie below giving an additional fall faI of feet The tunnel will drain two miles mie of the river rIer bed and the pipe line lne will wl give over of a mile mie more of the river bed be to be mined This pipe pipeline pipeline line lne will wi be five feet in diameter to be Constructed of strips strIp of Umber timber meas measuring measurIng measuring or inches incho to be securely secure 1 fastened wih with iron bands The cost coet cst will wI be less than that of iron pipe and andi it i ia is estimated that a line lne made of wood will last twenty years yea Two lines will il be 0 constructed so that that in case cas of ot accident to o 0 one the th water w ter will wil be turned turne through the other thus Insuring a con continuance of or power The company wIl will nIll begin be in this spring on a wagon road to be construct constructed ed from Garden valley to the Oxbow The cast cat will wil be between betwee and 2000 The electrical machinery machine will willbe wf willbe be b taken in about next net August but the company c does not expect to be able to t furnish power pow before the spring or summer of 1906 The tunnel at first made fourteen feet wide ide nine feet high on the sides and twelve feet In 11 the center it t being arched arche and afterward widened to twenty feet as originally planned planned is isnow isnow isnow now being widened idene to feet The company compan expects to turn the wa W water ter of P ette river through this tun tunnel tunnel nel net in about six weeks wee ItS Miners liners wi will then be put to work extracting gold from the tre bed of the river Somewhere between loO and 30 men will be em employed employed The cost of the tunnel when com corn completed completed will wi be about The esti estimated est estimated mated cost before the work was wa start started stat stated started ed was dimensions then to be benine benine benine nine feet high and twenty feet wide The extra ext cost was wa due in a great geat measure to hot springs that were tapped t ppe It I was almost almos impossible for forthe forthe the iii men m ta to endure it irit 5 S so n A Mif h 5 S v a heat het Severa Several were overcome and had L to be carried out Thirty tons of or giant gian powder has been L used to date In driving the tunnel From Prom to pounds have been used for each ech round of ot holes The power that will wi be f furnished dur ing low water oter will be about horse hors and the te electrical machinery will wil be e of ol that capacity The cost of the plant together to ether with wih freight expense of or in installing Installing stalling construction of pipe line lne road and other expenses to be incurred be e fore lorethe the plant is ready red to to transfer pow power power power er to Boise Boie and ad vicinity and Intervening points will wi be about Ten I thousand horsepower has already been L spoken for in Boise This includes pow power power er e for the proposed electric road from I Boise to Pearl Fearl |