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Show GUGGEIIIffi III mopes Secure Land Paralleling the Proposed Right of Way of New Railroad. BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 12. The Guggenheim Gug-genheim intorosts are now in possession of a largo area of the rritrato and potash pot-ash lands in the vicinity of Succor creek paralleling the proposed right of way of tho Boise-Winnemucca railroad, having quietly bought theni up since the recent discovery of these valuable deposits. When the new road is built these deposits will furnish it with heavy tonnage. This is the information informa-tion "that bus been recoived from authoritative author-itative sources in Boise. Kailroad men close to the present activity in railroad development in this part of the state a-sfiert it is for this reason that tho Guggenheim Gug-genheim interests will furnish financial backing to the Boise-Winnemueca. The discovery of potash and nitrate in the Succor creek country created unusual un-usual interest because of the rareness of the deposits. 2sTewa of the discovery was carried back east, it ia said, and placed in the hands of the confidential agents of the Guggenheims. who lost no time in ordering a scientific investigation inves-tigation made of the deposits. This investigation has been in progress since a short time following the discovery, with the result that a large amount of the land was staked out. The Guggenheims are now said to have in their possession a strip of land containing the deposits from four to six miles wide for a distance of fourteen four-teen miles in the Succor creek country and close to the proposed right of way of the new railroad. The deposits will furnish tonnage for the new road from the day it starts operations for a number num-ber of years. The investment of the Guggenheims, as claimed by those who purport to know, is looked upon with unusual significance. sig-nificance. It is said that they lost no time in securing possession of the land. t as potassium deposits are very rare, but two fields now toeing in operation, one in South America and the other in Germany. Ger-many. Samples from the Idaho field were" sent to the Smithsonian Institute and the report on the deposits is said to have been moat flattering. Succor creek ha-s its origin in a lalce west of Sheaville, Ore,, at a point north and west of Jordan valley, and flows north and west through Sheaville and Rockville in Malheur county to a poiut west of Ifomedale. Idaho, where it crosses the Idaho-Oregon line and flows into the Snake river just west of Home-dale. |