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Show LEMHI UNION PROPHRTy OF IDAHO PURCHASED Special to The Tribune. SALMON CITY. Ida.. Oct. 20. Charles yat5on. from St. Anthony, has taken over tho ' Lemhi Union" croup of seventeen c-laims on n. lease and bond. Work will be continued on tho 1000-foot crosscut tunnel, started several years ago. It is expected that the cutting of the most important im-portant vein, at a depth of -100 fect. will give good results. This property Is in the Hahn district, five miles from tho Gilmoro branch of tho G. & P. rallroarl. The Virginia. Mining company, at Sandv Creek, ten niilon from Suhtleld. report breaking into a gooil vein, also into four feet of copper-gold oro at a depth of loO foot below surface. It Is said to be a high grade shipping proposition. There Hr wu5 'oad. live miles to the G. & P. railroad. V. A. Bycrs of Salt Lake Is president and manager. Yearn ago a considerable amount o'f gold was taken from this property by an arastra. I'urthcr work on the recent gold strike on the Allic property at Gilmorc shows that the ore body is twelve fect wide, averaging $12 per top in gold, with small silver values. Tlw ore Is an oxide of ron. panning freely. A crosscut is being be-ing planned to intersect the ore body. t 150 nolnt- on the lower tunnel, n the rtcscur mine, a blind lead of ore txvo feet thick and heavy in lead has been struck. The Hcpcuo Is one of tho several properties In Lemhi county which develop . and produce almost at the surra sur-ra ce. Deeper development work is being done on this mine. " |