Show WORKING THE MONTE CRISTO AL 11 1 1 coffin has returned from the monte cristo mine at the head of indian creek says the statesman of boise idaho he states everything has been made ready for the winters campaign and work on the tunnels had been begun before he left one of these tunnels was started some time ago on the north side of the hill it would be continued so long as there should be no danger of snow slides A tunnel on the south side was started before he left and work on this could be continued all winter the latter tunnel mr coffin said would be driven as a crosscut tor for about feet and would follow the vein after intersecting it atwould it would open the ledge some feet deeper than the work on the other side mr coffin said he had visited all the claims in that district on this trip and had become convinced the section lying about the heads of indian and reardon creeks would become one of the best in that entire section he secured a bond on the baxter property and brought in a fine specimen from one of the ledges found on the group there was another ledge he said from 25 to 30 feet wide which it was claimed averaged 9 in gold if it ran that high he said it would prove one of the bonanzas |