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Show THE SEVEN DEVILS MINES. The Snake River May be Navigated to That Point From Huntington. Poktxand, Or., Oct 20. A. J, McMillan, Mc-Millan, who was sent out by Captain . Symons, United States engineer, to make a preliminary examination of the Snake river from Huntington down to - the Seven Devils copper mining region, a distance of sixty miles, has found that , the river can be improved at a reason- ' able cost so as to be navigable for the greater portion of the year. f A steamboat 160 feet long has been ' built, but has not made the trip on account ac-count of the low stage of the water. j The copper mines of the Seven Devils district are claimed to be second only , o those of the Lake Superior region, and there are 1000 acres of the finest kind of fruit lands along the Snake. t now almost inaccessible on account of bluffs from 1200 to 2000 feet high, which will now be reached by boats on the river. - ...... |