Show GOLD SEEKERS IN THE PINE CREEK 7 COUNTRY enterprise priest river idaho the interest in the pine creek minin mining prospects still seems on the increase the convenience of the locality to the railroad at priest river makes it attractive to those having limited time at their disposal as I 1 it f is possible to leave spokane in the morning visit the mines and return in the evening evenin ta of the same day some of those who have staked out claims lately have found good indications of the presence of the yellow metal every body is catching the fever priest river is beginning to take on the airs of a mining center the country around while not easy owing to the abundance of brush is sufficiently covered with rocks and ledges of all kinds to keep up the active interest of the prospector one of the remarkable things about it is the fact that some of the very best prospects the farmery Farmer jones jones for one showed at first almost an utter 1 lack ack of promise of profitable returns G C sutton returned from spokane wednesday he said that his partner had sold his interest in the mine to a company of spokane capitalists who were already interested te in other claims in the neighborhood it if is now proposed to push the work as rapidly as possible putting in a drift for a considerable distance to determine the real value of the mine and to put to flight at once all talk about the body of ore being limited work on the tunnel will be begun in a week or two and it is fairly certain that a flourishing camp will be established before the snow enow flies again |