Show STRIKE ON PROFILE CREEK sam wilson better known perhaps as profile sam arrived in the city yesterday morning from profile creek with late reports of mining operations in that section he reports an important strike on the crown group which is under bond and being developed by H H hunter and associates socia tes in a tunnel which is being driven into the hill along the ledge a splendid body of ore has bas been encountered which is fully as wide as the breast and carries values averaging a little over 30 to the ton in gold assays essays from picked samples have returned values as high as in the precious metal the driff arif has been extended a distance of between and feet and the vein along which it has been driven carries uniform values at present an immense ore body has been blocked out ready for treatment as soon as a mill can be erected to reduce it this is practically assured next year in the meantime development will proceed in order that the extent of the shoot may be determined to a moderate degree of certainty A force of fifteen men is employed on the property mr wilson has prospected in the big creek smith logan profile and government creeks country for several years and was the original locator of the dundee and glasgow claims situated on profile creek this group is under bond and lease to H M holl ater and associates and is bein being by a force of men under the 1 de diorec tion of mr wilson rec work on the property is confined to daiv dring a tunnel which has exposed a ve vera strong ledge of ore twenty feet in wid width carrying splendid values the entire a di tance of the drift a little over forty fe t t streaks of the ledge run very ery high ii in gold god mr wilson will leave tonight by way ay of warren on a return trip to the canid camp where he expects to remain for some time jiin he said the trail was jn in pretty fair shape the snow being only four feet deep on the level statesman boise idaho |