Show IDAHO elmore Bull bulletin tin junction bar will boom this summer from reports there will soon be twenty five or thirty men at work on the placer place r diggings which are being operated by a scottish company A dredge is now being used and so far i is a success there will also be soma building done in this camp a hotel butcher shop and several dwelli dwelling nr houses soon to be constructed so we are informed by a private letter boise statesman the birthday mine at willow creek has been sold to frank W hale of boston the deal which was closed up in the office of hawley puckett satur day was engineered by major brown twelve thousand dollars was disbursed the property belonged 11 to the hurt estate and brad hurt this mine has long been regarded as one of the very promising ones of that section it is the intention of the purchaser to develop it extensively and his operations will be be on a large scale all developments in the district have gone to show that it is one of the very best in the state and the indications now are that thai there will be great activity there owahee owyhee avalanche mining men have long been puzzled to accod account nt for the porphyry cap rock of florida mountain and the theory has generally been accepted that it came up through the black jack ledge this impression has been proven to bearon berrong be wrong the trade dollar company is now driving a big crosscut cross cut tunnel west to open up its alpine and harrison ground and recently cut a porphyry dyke thirty feet in width which clearly explains the presence of the porphyry cap rock the same tunnel also cut a fine ledge of ore lying t between the blaine and alpine ledges which does not appear in the porphyry formation nearer the surface the treasures and secrets of this wona wonderful erful ore bearing mountain have just begun to be known |