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Show Saw Big lines ifl Sawtooth Raoge Salt Lake Talent Acquires Another Bargain That Promises Most Genorous Returns. Upon tho Sawtooth range, Custer county. coun-ty. Idaho, W. G. Pago and his associates In tills city havo acquired a group of mines, tho characteristics of which arc Idontlcal with thoso of the Cocur d'Alcnc country and that hold out possibilities as great as any in that region, says Edward P. Jennings, who has Just completed an examination of them. Embraced within the locations aro as many as four lodges running parallel with each other, said ho, the ores consisting of silver and lead, occurring oc-curring In a galena and yielding readily to concentration. Indeed, the averago contents aro such that a smelter market might bo afforded were the haul to trans-potation trans-potation not so long. Thoso ledges havo been punctured at Intervals for nearly a mil.?, while erosion has expoucd the ledges along tho walls of a canyon for 1S00 foot vertically. In his conclusions, Mr. Jennings Jen-nings has recommended that a tunnel be driven in upon the strike of tho mnln ledge and that tho proposition bo equipped with a concentrator. Over It ho Is quite enthusiastic and with development ho has no doubt that every Interest will be enriched. en-riched. Some of tho lodges, said ho, show a width of fifty feet between walls and on a baste of five tons of crudo into one of concentrates tho product should compare favorably with any that Is coming to this market- Among Mr. Page's associates are several prominent railway men with headquarters In this city, and that tho recommendations of Mr. Jennings will be approved there Is no doubt. ' Came In to Vote. Frank G. Janney, superintendent of tho Utah Copper company's big mill In Bingham Bing-ham canyon, camo in from enmp yesterday yester-day morning to vote his preferences and having done so will return to camp this morning. With forty tables and fifty van-nt-rs now In continuous operation and with evcy unit In a faultless plant which has gone up under his supervision, responding re-sponding to tho minutest thing required f It, tho output of November will undoubtedly undoubt-edly oxceed that of the previous month. There will bo reduced In November not less than 20.000 tons of oro containing copper, gold and silver, whllo In a short tlmo tho matter of enlargement will be brought up for consideration. Ores nnd Bullion. In tho oro and bullion markot tho day's settlements made on metal quotations of tho previous day amounted to J07.400, McCornlck Mc-Cornlck & Co. reporting them as they follow: fol-low: Gold bullion. $3500; gdld, silver, lead and copper ores, ?33,000. |