Show IDAHO GOLD MINES rich klch results obtained in willow creek district edse dolse statesman A M f coe the well known creek miner was in the city yesterday ile he pave gave the statesman reporter jamea sorno facts in regard to that df itrice willoh which go glo far to indicate the important place that section Is destined to occupy in tho this mining history of 0 idaho parn aps one ot of the tn richest gold coil helges I 1 ever opened up in idaho 13 scaled in ke fee willow wallow creek k district it la Is it at besent besent held by D 13 levan of caldwell tint but in ia view of the fact that hat he it and that hat the development he be has done has shown it to be ot of such gre great a t value there will be a bitter leg legal tl fight before the ownership question Is settled the ledat which la in a decomposed formation has been uncovered for a instance ot of feet feel and its average width has been found to bo be two and a half balf feet A cfaft sunk ten or twelve feet falls fails to show any amy falling off on in the value ot of the ore mr fr cox states stales that chunks of the ore wore taken from the ledga led ledge gp and pounded up in a small annall hand mortar in seven hours 7 in gold was cleaned up by this method sir mr cox says rays the ore will assay between 1500 and 2000 a ton experts have bave pronounced the cedie to be one of the most remarkable abey ever encountered sir mr cox and ills big brother have been wor working icing an lamastra lar astra nearly all summer they cleaned up 23 to the ton but axe ara they only saved about one quarter of the gold eold robertson and PrU pritchard chard are running a foot tunnel on oil the ked ailed warrior which will tap the ledge edge feet deep inq tunnel Is now in abe about lit loo feet the surf surface aoe ore Is tree free all ing ine assaying W 40 a ton in gold hartt cox and 11 hiardon have tho the tunnel on the owl run feet and expect to strike the ledge in a few days some of the ore care picked from the surface was ivita assayed running ci a ton gold eold and tsoo silver the tunnel on the seedon she ilon and mcdonald mine la Is in feet the ledge will be tapped in ia about feet further ane sedge in 13 large land and the ore assays essays tab to a ton the gold and allver being about equally distributed ore from the Dirth birthday day mine owned by the cox Ll brothers was recently as bayed giving returns of gold per ton sir fr cox states the willow creek district will shortly have glave ci a DAN alm in ark operation opera Uon the mill has been ordered by mr carter and will soon arrive A move Is on foot to consolidate e all 11 the principal c claims wan 1 I lit in the district and sell them to san francisco cap capitalists about thirty claims ere are in the owr proposed deal experts have made mada a thorough examination of the ground and seemed well pleased |