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Show The Lost River Mines, Montpeller, Idaho, Observer. Houston, or Lost River, is destined to be a copper mining camp. Of course there is no direct possibility of its equaling equal-ing Butte or Anaconda, but reports from that remote part of Logan county are most encouraging. . The general understanding is that the Houston smelter will be started shortly after the 1st of October. The new. purchasers pur-chasers of the Houston mine hare contracted con-tracted for the delivery of sixty tons daily at Blackfoot, and nearest near-est railway point. Those who are familiar fa-miliar with the five claims, which comprise com-prise the big copper group, and know the extent of the ore bodies are not backward in declaring that one of the greatest mining camps of the west will spring up in Lest River va'ley within the next three years. Honston is no longer a dead town, but a bustling little lit-tle place with the ring of the hammer and the buzz of the saw in all directions. direc-tions. The citizens have taken steps to secure titles to their lots under the town site laws. |