Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-08-29 | Page 8 | A Rich Gold Strike on Salmon River

A RICH GOLD STRIKE ON SALMON RIVER Special to The Tribune. SALMON CITY. Aug. 2S. The Duluth & Lemhi Mining company, owning fifteen fif-teen claims adjoining the Dark Hor.se mine, has Just struck a fino body of gold-bearing gold-bearing rock, two feet wido, on the foot-wall foot-wall of an eight-foot vein. Assays run from $25 to $75 In gold to the ton. In another vein a great body of copper oro has boon uncovered, averaging bettor than S per cent, with some gold. On the head of Wlmpoy crock, in the same district, a syndicato of Butte capitalists capi-talists are locating and prospecting ground of the same general character J. F. Nettle Is in charge of tho work there. At the Yellow Jacket. Manager Hastings Hast-ings has twenty-five mon at work getting get-ting things in shape for operations on a larger scale. Ex-Governor Claycomb of Missouri came from .Tonlln and went out to the Bluck Eagle mine properties. In which he Is Interested. Considerable development work Is being done on these claims. For days past tho atmosphere has been full of the smoke from tho forest fires In tho Salmon river range which are endangering en-dangering the many mining properties In that region, among them being the Gold Ridge. Lcesburg Mining company nnd Gold Dust. Some of the best hunting country in this neighborhood has been destroyed.