Show IN BOISE BASIN more creek gold mines company to R resume esome 1 active development statesman boise idaho it was reported finally yesterday that ahat the more creek gold mines company operating on jupiter mountain in the B boise olse basin would in a very few days start stait operations on this property the owners all of them boise men are very much enthused over the showings which have been made and look to see the property on a self sus basis in a short time mike johnson who is president of the company and alid who has been very sanguine of its ultimate success in discussing the mine stated that he was satisfied that it was one of the best things in the basin country and not only are the surface indications of the best but it is not a new property by any mean and high grade ore has been shipped from the property in the past years to the salt lake valley smelters shelters sm elters 1 I am going up to the property said mr johnson yesterday the first of the week and will start the development work for the coming season I 1 am very much enthused over the prospects and it looks very good to me right now it is one of the first discoveries on the hill and has been worked considerable some few years ago a great deal of pay ore was taken out and shipped to salt lake the returns were very satisfactory although the freight charges were considerable and the advantages for economic mining and for getting the best results were not as good then as now our surface showings are the very best and in fact are as good if not better than any other proposition in the basin country the recent strike on the jupiter gold mines company property which adjoins us on the mountain has been welcome news to us we are satisfied that we will strike this ledge on our claims our tunnel which we drove into the hill last summer will be continued and the disclosures in the face of the tunnel when we were forced to stop our operations would indicate that we were in mineralized ground at least we will continue driving this tunnel and we feel that we will strike this rich lead in about feet further the lead is well defined on the surface and dips towards our claims when the disclosures were made on the jupiter I 1 immediately figured that we should locate it further in on the hill the more creek has the same ledges of ore and of the same character that was found on the group adjoining the ore is an oxide and contains much free gold it runs from 10 to to the ton and the indications are that there will be a great deal of it we are going up this season equipped and a d prepared to do a great deal of consistent development work our surface equipment is complete though small and we will first start driving the tunnel to tap the ledge of rich ore which we know is there this body of ore will wi 1 I probably develop into one of the biggest ore bodies ever disclosed in the district when discovered on the jupiter group the ore was found tobe very rich and the possibilities of the ore body widening out and increasing in value were very good while we of course cannot tell what a mine will develop into or what will bs be its yield I 1 am willing to state that I 1 have never in all my years of mining experience seen such an excellent prospect I 1 think that the basin country has not begun to be de and that the next few years will see a big difference in the sentiment towards mining in this district one hears a great deal about jarbidge harbidge Jar bidge and the excellent showings there but for my part I 1 would rather take pot luck with the mines in the basin we know that there have been some good properties there and that the ore has been very rich we will do a great deal of hard and sane development work this summer and the results will be satisfactory |