Show I OLD SPANISH IINES Believed to be Discovered in Vicinity of Hell Hole k Dr C E Watkins returned last Wednesday from his trip of Investigation Investiga-tion of the reported find of an old Spanish mine between here and Ka nosh He was quite enthused over his In Investigation and after sending out I some men and supplies returned The discoveries are located in the vicinity of the Hell hole a vertical cave more than 100 feet deep which has been generally known and has excited much curiosity and interest One of the discoveries is what Is apparently I an old tunnel and tho others are evidently I evi-dently old shafts One of the shafts had been refilled The mouth of the tunnol l was concealed by a big pile of boulders and the open shaft by a rough rock masonry The shaft was uncovered and an examination made It Is about 130 feet deep and has two landings in the side one at fifty and one at 100 feet down A vein of quartz can be traced down tho walls to tho dirt which has accumulated In the bottom Quartz crystals and stalac tites are found In places Mr Watklns will have the shaft cleaned out ao that an examination can be made of the bottom and If the find warrants It will havo the other shaft cleaned out also Tho tunnel will be opened and explored R Mr Kccne who first called Mr Walkings attention to the discovery supplied him with float whllo the doctor was East which came from the holes and In It was found some excellent values running from SC to 38 In gold Somo of the crystals worn broken off and gold wn found hi their base It is believed this Is an old mine dla covered and worked during the Spanish fxploratlons of the West morn than a century ago It was not rich enough however for the greedy fortuneseek ers and they abandoned It after concealing con-cealing their openings The country han been prospected considerably but not until Dr Watklns was apprised of the recent discovery was It given any particular attention Dr Watkins will also make a thor ough examination of the famous Hellhole Hell-hole Dr Watklns returned from the scene of discovery yesterday and is more satisfied than ever I that he has found a rich property Two more shafts have been discovered and the dirt dumps at tho mouth of those are positive evidence evi-dence that the holes have been dug by man Some excellentlooking ore has been taken from the open shaft and the tunnel which he Is confident will assay high Richfield Reaper I I I Mining Notes Ollle Young leaves this morning for Park valley to do some assessment work on claims he has there W A Graves will leave today for the Stat of Chihuahua Mexico where he takes charge of a mining proposition proposi-tion Superintendent John KIrby of the DalyWest was In the city yesterday and reported affairs at the mine In a most satisfactory condition A R Carter who went to Nome In tho spring with an extensive machinery plant for a Salt Lake syndicate Is I expected ex-pected to reach Salt Lake within a few days dayOlto Olto Gramm president of the Laramie Lara-mie iron works at Laramie Is a guest at the Knutsford en route to California Mr Gramm has extensive mining investments I in-vestments In Utah and his stay htre is for the purpose of attending to matters mat-ters connected with his Utah holdings I From Neighboring States Baker City Democrat Mr and Mrs R S Howard of Salt Lake City came down from Grant county Monday evening even-ing They are owners in the Great Northern mine near Canyon City and have been at the mine for the past six weeks Then went on to Salt Lake WInnemucca Silver State It Is reported re-ported that the Lathrop mine at Spruce which has leen Idle for many years will shortly be started up full I blast The ore is rich In lead and assays as-says as high as 35 per cent copper There Is a big body of highgrade ore insight In-sight Halley Times Thorndlke and Richard I Rich-ard owners of the Tyrannis group of mines In Little Smoky arc visiting a group of claims in the Germania basin I and hunting In that vicinity On their return to Ketchum they will deckle I whether to remove the Carrie Leonard mill to the Tyrannis dump or walt until next spring A coast paper says Capt Dc La Mars mill at Gold mountain San Bernardino Bernar-dino county Cal has started up and has the full battery of forty stanfps now In motion Tho proposition promises pro-mises to become a most productive one fQr although the grade of ore Is around 3 It occurs in enormous quantity Halley Times The Elkhorn mine promises to prove of great benefit to Wood river in general and to Ketchum In particular Since Messrs Gun alcer Ely and Ormsby bonded it they have done much development worlc and with the result that the longlost Elkhorn lode has been rediscovered and found to carry much paying ore Boise Statesman Next Monday the big mill that has been installed on the North Star the Shaw mountain property proper-ty of the Yar Eagle Consolidated Mining company will be started up for its Initial run There Is plenty of ore and experiments have given assurance of the success of the mill so the future of the enterprise one of the bigst of the kind in the State indeed appears to bo bright The Jordan gravitation I process has been installed In the mill It is the first quartz mill of the kind over built In the Northwest The experiments I ex-periments that have been made with the process satisfies the management I of the company that the operation of i the plant will be signalized by the greatest success |