Show THE SURE THING AND ELTON herald nampa idaho herbert M richards returned a few days ago from the head of profile creek in the thunder mountain region where whery he has been for the last three months working out the assessment work on some mining claims owned by the richards brothers the showing on the sure thing and elton groups owned by them is very good considering the small amount of development work as say returns showing from to mostly gold in doing the assessment work on the yellow jacket in which the boys own an interest a six foot led ledge geLof ot white quartz carrying a great deal of sulphides sulp hides was uncovered two samples one of the quartz and the other of the sulphides sulp hides were sent to pack the boise assayer assay er the returns on the quartz showed 44 ounce gold and 1072 ounces silver a total value of 1530 the sulphide ore assayed ounces gold and ounces silver a total value of there is also a twenty oot foot vein of the same character of white quartz which was uncovered last year although it does not carry as much sulphides sulp hides as the six foot vein still it is a promising vein and gave good returns last year the yellow jacket adjoins castle no 3 one of the famous castle group on the east and the sure thing claims adjoin the castle on the west and come within feet odthe of the dundee property owned by parsons and johnson of boise and sam wilson of salmon meadows 0 mr richards believes a mistake was made in locating the route of the state road as in his opinion it should have been built so as to give access to tho the big creek and profile creek section a mineral belt 25 miles in length which would draw all of Us its supplies from nampa |