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Show I IDAHO PROSPECTS. Developments in Big1 Properties of the Sister State. The King of Pine Creek Mining com-l com-l .ny is. developing a promising group of live claims along Pino creek, three and i'r.e-half miles fcouth of tho Pino crcok spur of tho O. R. & N. railway. For a ulstnncQ of over ten miles along thla i -"eek Uio ground Is well covered with lo-(iitlons, lo-(iitlons, on many of which development wma Is under way. Among these are tho I Douglas, Highland Chief and Boss Gulch. Trom tho Bobby Anderson near by, on which thero Is a 300-foot shaft, there haa i i ecn extracted consldorablo shipping ore. yuartz is the predominating formation, inn toward tho upper end there appears I (.onslderable slate. To the east, distant about three miles, are tho mines of the 1 Punker Hill & Sullivan company. Tho 'i dges appear to bo numerous and well defined and the abrupt hills afford good lunnel sites. Thcro Is an abundance of timber for mining and fuel purposes. " I rora PInc creek and Its feeders thcro la t mple water supply available. Four -well I defined ledges arc traceable through the B King of Pino Creek group, three clalmc 1 i overlng tho east-west strike of tho leads. One ledgo Is being developed by an adit 1 now In about 200 feet, vMJi a surfaco I ii pth of over 100 feet. In the face of I 'l.Is tunnel tho edgo is ovor eight feet i in width, with fairly well defined quarta- I to walls. The gangue is a quartz and E c iiartzlte, associated with more or less I I yritic and arsenical Iron. Through tho I uartz as well as the Iron, thero are I i umcrous stringors and bunches of ga- I li-na. Near tho portal there was broken I through some hlgh-grado carbonate ore, I csaying as high as -IS per cent lead and I vo ounces silver. t I 'flit Sunset mine In Northport hns sunk I " 100-foot shaft and Is now In 6rc that I runs $75 In gold and silver, tho principal I lluo being gold. I Tho Big Buffalo. In the Buffalo Hump I .-trlct, has encountered much hlgh- r i rado" oro In tho new tunnel now being I driven, which Is in 1000 feet. Tho stamp I ir ill of tho company will be removed to P iio mouth of the tunnel on Sheep creek I within a few months. I The Sunnyslde mine at Thunder moun- I tain, Idaho, Is tho scene of a i;rcat deal I of activity at the present lime. More I man 200 men aro employed thoro. Tho I e ompany has expended many thousands 1 if dollars in building roads, and the nine Is now being oi-.ulpped with a fcrty- H stamp mill. H The prop-arty that the Guggenheim JEx- U I'.orntlon'company is openitlng on Boyle I i ounLaln Is opening up splendidly. After eloping the vein in the upper works, I it tt showed a body of zinc-lead ore four fiet thick, a deep adit was begun. After niivlng this about S00 foot, ore was op- oiinterod and the drift oon cut into a Mlld body of zinc for fifty feet. Then a cross-cut was hegur. This cross-cut Ih In between forty and fifty feet, all 1 in ore, and with no indication of a foot I w.ill The width of oro is therefore un- i'-certalned. Preparations are making on the surface for a much larger force than I now employed Only fifteen men are at iork at present. |