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Show 1H0 PLACER HIS Ml CUIUS . lUiaiins Ire Interested in the Boise River Gold Placer Section. j Special to Tin Tribune I .MORGAN". Oct. 22. James Vouckam of j Morgan, l.'tah. with heabi:artora at Ug- den. litis recently returned from BOlsd j river, Idaho, whore, as general ayem ot i tlx: Boi.fo King- placor property, he has been making a personal examination of I the Dlaoer grounds, now altrucllHS --o!i- sidcrablc attention here among bis home friends, ot thi-! proper, he states thai Ilia company owns ii0 cres In a solid' body, located on the middle fork of the 1 Boise river, to which excellent wagon ' anii auto roads have been built. He also , reports the location the best he has cv. r 'seen: that he found all buildings and equipment In nrsticlass condition; iimt the Boise King claim in it.. If, of Ifltl acres, is com para lively a low bar. lying level, with an aM'i-.iffe of thirty feet of I wash ami pay gravel, and thai he baa no reason to differ with A. W. Stevens and other engineers In regard to amount per cubic yard this gravel earn. - in gold in all ins panning he did nol rail to develop de-velop several colors in free gold In each pan Witt his personal tests, he asserts. J tin-re are no reasons why this property will not bo a great success, as all of I he Bve natural conditions are present, that Is, water, dump, grade, timber, and not less than lTn.0(O.Oiri cubic yards of gold - bearing mound Surrounding this property are some of the largest placer mines In the state, namely, the Atlanta, Atlan-ta, the Rocky Bar. the War Kaglo, the Black Jack, the Poor Man b mine, and others, each of which have produced their millions, end in all totaling not less than two hundred millions. Mr. Youckam's verbal report is very interest in-terest ing. which, when added to photographs photo-graphs brought Imck with lllm, Would make columns of Interesting reading mat tT. |