Show TO MINE IN RIVER BED I I Payette to Be Diverted by Seeker After Gold TRIBUNE SPECIAL 1 Boise Ida Nov TIt Is announced urranBCiicnls have been made to dig a tunnel through the famous OxBow of the Paycttc for the purpose of diverting the river so that tho bed of the stream may be mined throughout the two and a half miles around the Bow The proposed tunnel will be fourteen by sixteen feet In the clear and SCO feet loig It Is thought It will require about Ire months tlmo to complete the tunnel l during dur-ing which time employment will be given to about forty menThe men-The diverting of the water at the point where the tunnel will bo driven will expose ex-pose two and a half miles of the riverbed river-bed An expert recently sent out by the company In submitting bin report said that the promoter had considerably under estimate the value of the ground A careful estimate ao to the richness of the gravel bed would be J about 52iXO000 to a nile or a total of WOOJOOO of the entire distance Jhe company proposes Introducing Intro-ducing the very latest appliances In placer mining |