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Show JOYS OF MINING IN MOUNTAINS OF IDAHO Robert Francis Gives List of Pleasures That Destroy Lonely Tcndeueies. In spito of tho fact that it is a lone and hard pull from the railroad tracka lo the Lost Packer mine and smelter up Loou creek, Tdalio. tho works of thia company lie in tho heart of one of tho most ideal couutrics to bo found auv-wherc auv-wherc on tho face of the fjlobe. Thia was the burden of a slatcmout yesterday yester-day to The Tribune from Robert Francis, Fran-cis, the foreman at the Lost Packer. Mr. Francis was talking about comine to Salt Lako for tho rest of his days, and when told of tho Utah cliniatoraud reneral conditions that 0 to make Zion tho ideal home city, ho said: "Nothing cuu bent the climate ve havo up the mountains at the Lost Packer. And ivi havo the purest and swoetcfit drinking watT Ihnt ever reached tho lips of mon. Our nioun-taiua nioun-taiua are so filled with great, pine trees that you must lie on your back to seo their tops; our streams are overflowing with trout; our hilla aro filled with fat deer,, shcop. mouutaiu goats, congers, bear and sage hens. Thore is not a bettor bet-tor placo to live anywhere, but a person per-son accustomed to tho pleasures of a city may got lonoly ouco in a while." Mr. Francis says that COO or moro horaea arc being used in hnuling cok' to the furnaces and matto from the plant to the railroad. The smelter is working work-ing like a charm, handling 100 tons of crudo ore daily. Coke is rather a scarce article at present, owiug to restrictions placed on railroads haulinrr their own products out of tho State in which they are manufactured, yet Idaho is wondering wonder-ing why such a contention should exist bo needlessly. The Lost Pncker compnivy is now driving its tenth tunnel, which will servo, not only to opou tho ores at better bet-ter depth, but will bring I hem out to the smelter on a level with the furnaces. fur-naces. These tunnels arc about 100 foot apart vertically, aud have developed tho ores splondidly. "Sir. Francis says that the Golden Sunbeam company six miles from Custer, is making the fur fly with tho now mill. Seventy tons of oro daily aro being treated successfully, much of which rock comes from an ore body forty feet in width, which averages aver-ages from $20 to $25 per ton gold. |