Show BIG PLACER SCHEME mining news elk city idaho W F newton a mining man from spokane late from nevada has located a power site on the south fork river just below where Sant sangiam santiam larn creek flows into that stream and by running a tunnel 2000 feet and building a dam he will divert the water from that stream to develop horsepower and will make a placer mine out of a mile and a half of a river bed which in other places where it has been mined has yielded to 5 per square foot in the early days the water was diverted at other places along the stream and those placed mined the reason the section mr newton intends to mine has remained virgin is that a box canyon defied the turning of the water by the method used by the pioneers mr newton figures there will be square feet that can be mined the power part of the proposition is a secondary matter philadelphia parties interested with mr air newton were expect expected ted to leave spokane monday of this A week to look over the ground |