Show IDAHO halley hailey times thomas miles left today for the argosy group of mines at muldoon that he will take charge of as foreman he will have eight men under him at present and the force will be increased soon silver city nugget george W westlake one of the purchasers of the ruth mining property recently sold by the administratrix of the estate of the late bart russell and who is a partner of jack lewis who owns adjoining properties is over here from halley hailey af arranging ranging with mr lewis for starting work on the ruth weiser signal fires were started in the furnaces of the nampa pottery tuesday which will burn the initial kiln of this concern after about forty eight hours of burning the furnaces can be cooled and the wares put upon the market it is stated on good authority that a second kiln will be built at once which will be much larger than the one now in use boise statesman L A choate has returned from his trip to the oxbow tunnel on the payette he reports the tunnel has been driven feet and is being advanced at the rate of sixty feet a week the work iball is all being done on the lower end as it has been impracticable to control the water ali above ove As the river rose the water found its way into the work and efforts to shut it out proved unsatisfactory so that end was abandoned until the river shall recede silver city nugget R 0 facer manager of the golden opportunity property went over there this week to see how work was progressing on the contract he had let J W W menefee one of the old time prospectors and miners with an experience since 1853 extending all over the pacific coast accompanied and went over both groups of claims with him on their return menefee said to nugget if some man like captain de la mar had that golden opportunity property he would spend money on it like he did on the golden gate at mercur utah and would make a mine worth several million out of it it is an immensely big low grade proposition |