Show EASTERN OREGON NEWS special correspondence baker city ore feb 11 11 thirty three miles of the railroad from huntington to the iron dyke mine are completed and the trains are running down the snake to the mouth of powder river the work of bridging powder river is being rushed and 2000 men are employed between there and the iron dyke driving tunnels and grading for the ties and steel at the ox bow bend about five miles above the iron dyke men are employed in the construction of an electric power plant was a capacity of horse power both the power company and the railroad company are putting on all the men they can get and things are humming along the border line of oregon and idaho in the vicinity of homestead there is where the iron dyke mine is located and will be the terminus of the snake river railroad for a time at least it is said there are worth of copper ore blocked out in the iron dyke mine awaiting the arrival of this road this ore is reputed to average over six per cent copper with a product byproduct by in gold and silver sufficient to pay all costs the farrell group abutting the iron dyke on the same ore body is being developed to supply a large tonnage also the same is true to a lesser extent of the rand mccarthy the chipman the murphy smith the mcdougal and many other properties in that immediate section on both sides of the snake the hottest mining camp in the whole country will be in and around homestead by june of this year at which time f the railroad will reach there the greatest copper deposits on the continent have been shut up tip in that neck of the mountains from homestead to the seven devils awaiting transportation and now that transportation is insured already the rush is on samuel newhouse of salt lake recently took over the controlling interest in the rainbow mine here this is a free milling gold property in mormon basin the contract price is said to be another free milling gold property of promise is the timber canyon mine on which a smal mill was recently staled installed in with good results this small plant is said to be putting out bullion at the rate of a day and the intention is to make it develop and equip the timber canyon mine on a large scale keep your e eye ye on oil eastern oregon this year |