Show THE MINES OF ROOSEVELT J statesmen boise idaho J 13 whitlock of the H Y mine arrived last evening from roosevelt he came out in corn company pany with lee lisenby and it took thern them six days to make the trip leaving roosevelt on tuesday morning they reached reardon creek that night wednesday night they spent at johnson creek the transfer yas was ya s reached on thursday night and thunder city on friday evening they made ola on saturday and by hard driving they managed to reach boise last evening mr whitlock said the mails were going in regularly and the road was open there had been five snow slides between cabin creek summit and the cutoff cut off but it was possible for teams to get through beyond johnson creek no attempt had been made to keep the road broken all the while but this could be done whenever necessary the climax shaft on the H Y was down feet when mr whitlock left they did not expect to strike ore in quantity until they had reached a depth of feet or more the shaft shaf thad had passed through strata of pay ore but these strata had not been explored mr whitlock said the H Y company would continue work on the climax shaft shaf tand and the dakota tunnel regarding the strike in the standard mr whitlock said it had not been overstated he made a personal inspection of the property shortly before he left roosevelt and found that the strike was just as represented the standard people were driving a tunnel to strike a ledge which they expected to cut at about feet about 20 feet in they struck a ledge 60 feet in width the first assays essays they obtained were in the neighborhood of 20 a ton and the values increased to the middle of the ledge where an exceptionally rich streak two feet in width was encountered when mr whitlock left roosevelt the standard tunnel in which the strike was made was still in pay ore but the formation was changing he said the vein was fully 60 feet in width the tunnel will be continued until it cuts the ledge for which it was started no drifting has yet been done on the rich vein but there is every reason to believe that the vein is permanent the strike in the standard has greatly encouraged those who hold property in the vicinity mr whitlock said the dewey mill was running to its full capacity in good ore work was being continued in the burr oak tunnel on the sunnyside Sunny side floyd barnett who 0 o has a promising group of claims on divide creek is working six men on the prop erty ty and the showing already obtained is very ry encouraging roosevelt is well supplied with provisions there being plenty of fresh meat in camp although a large number of men have gone out of camp for the winter the town is not so quiet as might be supposed quite a lot of contracting is being done and there are indications of great activity in the spring |