Show STRIKE IN THE KITTIE BURTON herald salmon idaho the kittle burton gold mines company has developed a mo most st remarkable property on indian creek and the fortunate stockholders of that company has glorious reason for self congratulation last week the miners made a strike of ore in the kittie burton claim that is the best ever seen in the mine and assurances are given by this recent uncovering that the mill will be k kept ept on running for many years to come manager R L edwards of this company was in salmon last week the company is doing no advertising and has nothing but bullion bosell to sell but mr edwards told the herald that all parties of interest felt good at the hopes of that property they have machine drills and an excellent equipment for economical mining and milling by means of developed water power last months report said mr edwards showed the greatest profit of any month in the history of the property they have had months giving greater gross returns but in those months there were more than correspondingly high expenses the kittie burton vein was cut off by a fault which necessitated the opening of a lower level for easy access to the deepest ores this level has cut into the ve n beyond the line of faulting and it exposes a 30 foot body of milling ore better than anything previously encountered the company has just ordered a plant for steam operations to be used in the winter season often snow slides interrupt their water flumes blumes and lee ice troubles them in winter but they are fitting up for an all the year around run and the new equipment just ordered includes two boilers of 45 horse power capacity each and a 70 horsepower hose power engine these will be set up in time to harness on oil to the air compressor and mill this fall |