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Show FATAL SNOWSLIDE AT EL PRO MINE, IDAHO A telonhone message from Soldier informed in-formed Fphraim Daft of .a disastrous snowslido at El Oro mines, up Bear creek, forty miles north of Soldier and seventy miles northwest of Hailev says tho Wood River Times. Henry "Wells, who lives on his placer thrco or four miles below El Oro at tho mouth of Bear creek, went there a couple of days ago to see how Jim Haynea. the watchman, watch-man, was. On arriving at tho mines ho was surprised to see no buildings or man. Where the power house, boarding board-ing house and bunkhouses wore was nothing but snow. From all indications about forty feot of snow had oiled up in tho gulch or ou the flat whero tho buildings wero. It is not known whether or not tho mill has been destroyed. It was on tho side of tho mountnin, not over 200 feet from the boarding house. There is a foot of fresh snow on top of tho slido. Tho slide must have happoned about thrco weosk ago, during the heaviest snowstorm of this season. Thero is no doubt that the watchman is dead, as ho had neglected to fit himself him-self a stopping placo in tho tunnel, stocked with provisions, as inBtructea to do last fall. Ho was nu old mountaineer moun-taineer and prospector who had lived hore.siuco 1871) and therefore tho kind of a man likely to take desperato chances. Metal Prices. Melal prices posted In yesterday's market mar-ket wero aB follows: Silver, D7Jc; lead. $4.06; copper. $M.r7i. Ore Shipments. The Utah Oro Sampling company r-Iciiscd r-Iciiscd yesterday cifiht carloada of oro from Utah mines and two from Nex-ada |