Show THE LINCOLN MINE the boise statesman gives the following interesting account of the lincoln mine in pearl district tributary to boise which promises to make wealthy men out of john T hodson captain H stallings and david kennedy formerly of salt lake city the statesman says W P carter who located the lincoln mine at pearl is in the city from his home in nampa mr carter sold the group of three claims to the company that is now low operating it and has received all but one payment which is not yet due but he still takes a very lively interest in the mine in talking of t the he mine mr carter said it was showing up wonderfully well the company had sunk feet below his workings making a total depth of feet the ledge had been drifted on and a large amount of ore blocked out there was nearly fifteen feet of ore said mr carter and three feet of it was sufficiently high grade to stand shipping the remainder was all of good milling grade to show the extent of the ore bodies and the amount of work done mr carter said tons of ore worth had been extracted and was lying on the dump this had been taken out in the course of development the amount of ore blocked out ready eady for extraction was very large the company had erect erected a chilean mill with a capacity of tons a day and it was about ready to start it was equipped with difley tables mr carter narrated a very interesting story of his discovery of the property it was in the fall of 1902 that he found the mine for some time he had been prospecting through that section that was before anything was known of the riches of the hills there but from what he had observed he was satisfied there were mines to be found at one time he examined the ground on which the checkmate was located but did not succeed in getting at the key to the riddle there the next day he went a mile south and there found the lincoln he found float but the pieces were small working up the hill he picked along and found these small pieces of float as he moved forward sometimes he had to sit down and sort the dirt over carefully to see if the telltale tell tale float was still to be seen finally he came across what seemed like a large chunk of float but when he tried to move it with his foot he found it was solid then he used his pick and discovered the ore was in place in the ledge in digging he found more ore but there was only the one projecting boulder subsequent development disclosed the fact that the ledge like all the others on belt from pearl to neal was narrow on top but widened as depth was gained mr carter developed the property from time to time for several years at last he accepted an offer from the present owners and the property passed out of his hands to be extensively developed and madcone made ma deone one of the finest mines of the state |