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Show i GOLD EXCITEMENT j I IN CENTRAL IDAHO, Rich Ores Carrying Tellu-'! ride of Gold Cause Revival Re-vival in Mining. FIELD NOT NEW ONE Old Mines Now Being Reopened Re-opened Have Produced About $30,000,000. Clarence E. iCddy, the well-known western prospector, who discovered the Hig Carbonate mine at Carbonate, Death Valley, California, and also the well-kmiwn well-kmiwn Lost Packer mine, in central Idaho, is again In Zion. Mr came direct from the Bonanza Cluster and Lout Packer regions In central cen-tral Idaho, and says that they are on the verge) of a big revival that will electrify the west; that will beat Buffalo Hump, Thunder .Mountain, Death valley, Rhyo-tfte, Rhyo-tfte, Tonopah. and even GoklneTfl. To The Tribune he said: The Lost Packer region, on the headwaters of the Salmon river, in Custer county, central Idaho, is not ale together a new fie Id. as it has a record of about $30,000,000 produced and has long been tributary to tialt ' Lake. New Strikes Made. I lowever, a new situation has arisen in central Idaho that should make that region one of the greatest great-est gold camps of the west. During this season new strikes have been made and prospects under development develop-ment have become mines on, a basis oT millions. This is notably true of . the Montana group on 12s tes mountain, moun-tain, near Bonanza. Famous ore was struck on Estes mountain in ' earlier days, and two old timers, Amos Franklin and Jimmie Hooper, got aa high as $22,000 at one shot in tellurium ore. Fully $1,000,000 was taken out of and adjacent to this mountain by meager workings until less t ban one year ago, when the property came Into the hands of a Colorado syndicate, headed b-V W. H. Fitts of Colorado Springs. These men paid $30,000 on their bond with W. T. Oster, George Baldwin and Others, and proceeded to expend $76,000 for work and equipment upon the property. Deep tunnels have proven that the ore heretofore mined there was merely from chimneys, pipes or vents from the great main body or solid mass of ore that lay In tbf depths of the mountain. Buy Near-by Property. The new workings, at a depth of 500 feet, are said to be seventy feet Into solid ore. much of which is high made, without any present sign, of walls or limit. Those on the inside of this situation are trying" to buy 6r acrmlre all the adjoining rights and grounds. However, this Colorado syndicate has acquired a mill and electric power plant and Is putting them In commission, with 100 men and aim to put on 100 more by the holidays In mill and mine. Tills mill was built at a cost of $250,000 by C. E, Gable (now deceased) of Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, Pa. It has four Monad nock batteries, that crush 300 tons per day, and the dam Is capable of I 3000 horsepower. The situation on Custer mountain, Ave miles from Estes peak, is far more Important even than on Estes. The fiOO feet of new tunnel, also being be-ing driven by Colorado capital. In the base of Custer or McCornlck mountain, moun-tain, has struck the old General Custer Cus-ter ledge. Tt was this ledge that first made the fame of that region years ago. when $18,000,000 was taken from about two acres of ledge that lay exposed ex-posed to daylight on the hillside. This ledge lay solidly In place at Its original origi-nal dip or slant, but being cut off by a ravine it chanced that no systematic syste-matic work was done to define the ore in place across the ravine or In the base of the mountain. However, this new tunnel has now entered solid . formation and I have seen from it a one-ton chunk of steel-blue ore that assays $2100 per ton in gold. This is either the old General Custer ore or something just as good, and if the main ledge is opened there Jt will mean tens of millions. There will be 2000 feet of direct stoning depth from there up to the old works. Rich Tellurium Strike. As a further reason for a great and substantial revival in that locality there is Bachelor mountain, on which hundreds of feot of tunnel have opened a great tonnage of ores carrying car-rying telluride of gold. Some chunks show $50,000 per ton. Bachelor is a close rival of the Big Custer and BJstes mountain, but, added to this, is a new gold strike on Red mountain moun-tain a lone pea k that looms 1 1 ,000 feet at the head of West fork, t welve miles from Bonanza. W. T. Oster and associates have struck a forty-foot free milling ledge Uiere and have started work with a good force. The Lost Packer has just added to Its 1 00-ton smelter a 50-ton daily capHc.it' notation process. The company com-pany made only a three days' smelter j run this season, taking out $3-1.000, and is now blocking out ore with a force of twenty-five men. ThiB mine is down 1000 feet by tunnel, and has twenty miles of underground workings. work-ings. Next Great Room. The new mill of forty tons dailv capacity, driven by a 40-horsepower . gasoline engine. Is just now complet-I complet-I , f ed on the Bonanza. A. large reser-1 reser-1 voir and one-ha If mile of ditch for placer mining purposes is nearlng completion on the Wall Street, and we now have over 10OO feet of workings work-ings on the Cash Box. I also ac- quired some good new groups, In-Cludlng In-Cludlng the Golden Giant. South Cash Boy, Orlena and Lucky Bov. A fever of locating is now on in that region, which, however. Is so big that it is still practically open, but on the snlondid showings they nlready have ; It should be the scene of the next great mining . revival of the west. |