Show IDAHO lewiston teller A message was received in the city yesterday stating an im fc strike had been made in mining ll 11 j properties located in the vicinity of koos kia ida the exact location of the properties es m is not known but engineer J H jones loft left this afternoon for kooskia Koo Koos skia lda and will be met there by the owner who will take mr jones to the mine for the purpose of makins making an investigation of the strike weiser signal G ray boggs superintendent of the old peacock mine in the seven devils arrived in this city wednesday eve evening ning and will remain in the lower country for several weeks mr boggs stated that he would not return until new nev f machinery was secured and installed at the mine because without it work was impossible k rew i ew pump will be purchased and put up ji just aist as a soon as the weather permits of active operation weiser signal henry drawyer is home from the seven devils where he has been for the past few weeks working for the old peacock operators mr drawyer stated that there was a great deal of snow know in the mountains and that when he left it was still falling it is several feet deep at the mine and in places in the mountains fully twenty feet of the beautiful is on the t round ground all operators opera tons at the mine have been suspended pending the return of good weather wallace times reports from north fork the division point on the idaho side ol 01 the divide on the milwaukee railroad indi cate that preparations are being made for a season of unprecedented activity next 1 spring james nicholson of the st joe mining company was in north fork last week to complete arrangements to get ma 1 chinery into its properties at the earliest 1 possible moment the pearson mercantile company of st joe has opened a fine new store at north fork cougars are said to be exceedingly bold in that section and to 1 be making inroads upon the deer which are f more numerous than usual this winter wallace times manager george ustin returned thursday from a trip to the property of the rainbow mining milling company located three miles from wallace and in the vicinity of osburn he states that the men have just completed a contract foil feet of drift work and that he has given them another contract for as much more mor I 1 Junn tunneling eling the lower tunnel a drift is 1 1 now in feet said mr austin and this is the tunnel in which the development is I 1 being carried on the upper tunnel is in fifty five feet there is a good showing in the face of the drift of gray copper talc and iron we are driving to get under the lon capping |