Show GREATER THAN CREEK herald nampa idaho prof E M ray the noted mining expert who accompanied the purdum party for the purpose of inspecting the dewey mines in the interest of mr barnsdall was astonished by the results of developments and pronounced the thunder mountain country greater than cripple creek the development assures the camp a place among the richest in the country I 1 feel fully justified in saying so much as that and I 1 might add that in my opinion the district is likely in two or three years to be better than cripple creek is or has been continuing mr ray said he had biad been attracted on his first visit by the fact that the entire mass of porphyry surface e of thunder mountain where the dewey mine is located carried gold he could not find a place where it did not assay it was his opinion then that where such an immense body of rock assayed better ore would be found in the vicinity that has been proved true by the developments there are channels running through the mountain the grade of which runs u pas high as 20 a ton in gold it is not known how many of these channels there are but the one developed is of great size of the general mass of porphyry mr ray said it averages higher than the ore of the treadwell mine I 1 have hav e taken a 2 great many samples and find the average somewhere between and it ills Is absolutely free milling and can all be bandied at a good profit with sufficient mining capacity mr ray added that the entire mountain could be mined in the summer the ore could be quarried out from the surface but in winter the ore supply would woul have to be secured underground |