Show IDAHO boise statesman R W paris faris left last evening for american falls where lie he has a force of men at work on the construction of a hydraulic plant boise capitol news A H butler and archie edmond left overland for the payette lakes this morning they expect to be on oil the road three days going in by marsh and squaw creek mr edmond is the proprietor of the hotel at lardo mr butler has had the charge of building the big dreda dredge e for J 0 blood and associates on gold fork mention of which was made in these columns some weeks ago A dispatch from idaho city says A fine body of ore was struck in the main tunnel of the tha mineral hill mine feet from the shaft which has been drained of water ore better than the mine has ever before produced is now being taken from both the shaft and tunnel the tunnel tapped the ledge feet below the surface the mineral era hill is situated half way between placer ville and pioneer boise capital news A rich strike was made in the payday mine at ab neal yesterday at a depth of 14 feet a vein of rich ore 18 inches wide was encountered which easily pans from 12 to 15 per ton about 40 pounds of the ore was brought to boise this morning and an average assay from the same is being made this afternoon the payday is owned exclusively by boise people and john W cage is president of the company idaho city world the mineral hill company has struck a fine body of ore in the main tunnel something over feet from the shaft which has been drained of water sinking has been resumed in the shaft where work was carried on when the sale was made ore as good or better than the mine has ever before produced is now being taken from both the shaft and tunnel the tunnel tapped the ledge feet below the surface landore standard arthur david owner of the splendid great eastern group of mines lying about two miles east of landore came over from his property last sunday mr david is pushing developments on the great eastern mine as rapidly as possible with excellent results the tunnel which has reached a considerable depth has exposed large quantities of high grade gold and copper ore the outlook for these properties is highly satisfactory and the great eastern bids fair to soon rank among our leading producers in the seven devils boise capitol news what promises to be a most important strike has just been made in curfew gulch not over three miles from town the property is owned by mr C W pearce the barber on ninth street the ledge shows strong and is about three feet in width and is apparently widening as depth is attained fifteen assays essays have been made on this thip ore with an average of per geo george rge W pa pack ck ton the last assay by the ore is a tellurium shows a value of and not found frequently i in n this section weiser world tom neighbors and wm win wolfe well known men of warren arrived tuesday from thunder mountain where they have claims and have been prospecting 11 for several months they came through direct without difficulty in four and one half days to weiser and their trip to boise only took them five days the gentlemen will probably dispose of part of their holdings r before they return mr neighbors is a cattleman on the south fork of the salmon and mr wolfe has been interested in thunder mountain as mine foreman the fact that the road is so good and the time made so quick is only another attest that the weiser coun cil route is the only way to travel |