| Show THE RO ROANOKE MINES the roanoke group of gold mining claims five in number situated on cottonwood creek in bannock county idaho has been purchased we understand by chicago parties and a company organized under the general laws of south dakota systematic work on the mines will commence soon after the of the present month and a cyanide plant will be erected on the creek near the mines in the immediate future these claims are remarkable from the fact that they are all located on outcropping cropping out hematite of iron extending through the five claims the ore consists of fine fragments of angular white quartz mixed with oxide of iron which assays essays by ton lots I 1 about in gold rendering it an excellent cyanide proposition ion the claims are located on a flat mountain spur and the vein dips into the hill at an angle of about 20 degrees and although an incline shaft chaft feet deep has been run into the mass it still continues soft and neither powder nor timbers have been found necessary in the workings the purchasers are to be congratulated in the acquisition of the property for it should be all things considered a bonanza whitelaw and halfacre colorado men engineered the deal and it is understood own a large block of the stock |
