Show I West Mountain Placers I This group ot placer claims which was consolidated Into one company two I years ago extends 7600 feet up and I I down the main Bingham canyon below I the railway depot and being from 400 to fiOO feet wide between the rims of the canyon As the property now stands I there is the old Watson tunnel 1600 feet long beginning at the lower end and running up the canyon and terminating at tl foot of an Incline shaft 100 feet beneath the surface Near the upper end of this placer group one shaft was mink 100 feet mostly in bedrock 1 At n depth of ninety feet a crosscut was mad11 100 feet to tap an old channel where there Is rich gravel Another I crosscut from the shaft ut a depth off JfiO of-f lt was 1 > her ISO feet to another channel seventy foot wide a lien It was found that they wore twenty feet under thin channel and It was raised to In the bed of this channel 1 there is two and a hill feet of dirt that yields from 75 cents to 51 In gold With these openIngs open-Ings and the water from above coming Into thee crosscuts it can be pumped to the surface 125 feet above thus making mak-ing the ground down stream dry This ground Is I beIng mined out sQuare sets of timber taking the place of the good gravel sent to the surface to be washed I Is proposed to have seven incline shafts running down to bedrock and theme will b about 1000 feet apart At each o thee there will be an electric I hoist to briny out gravel on cars or skips Three of these Inclines are down I 00 foot each and other will be sunk HOOn Tho company In this preparation 1m hetiii employing from fifteen to twenty men ami hll number will be inor asad as the a jrnctlon und wash lug of gravrt Kdvnnr Tit fompany hJ xl ntrt inuih ion < In thie pivpTrations and non th o1 pure of rlh rwnrd In the near future The I work progresses under the management progesses of C W Watson an old placer mIner 1 |