| Show Till TIAILEV tHJIlImLT A n Old Thor l T1k of I h Mine In TimE Scott if Country E W Johnson proprietor of the Overland takes a very lively Interest In the development ot the gold belt west ot Halley Pays the IVilsn Statesman States-man He Is I Interested that section and the developments that arc taking place there add rapidly to the aluo of his Property He Is J one of that kind of men who would take a lively In tere1 In the development 01 any one nf the states mining districts even though he owned no property In It r r hin 11 II trh 1J lint the fact that Mr Johnson Is I the i ONner of the oldest clnhn on the hlt gives him a special Interest In that section and moreover in I the means of bringing him a great deal of Information In-formation as to what 10 going on there Talking about the district last ejen Inlf llr Johnson Paid lie was one If four men working on the hlt IC yen ra ago His partner was George Stride The located tile Alaska In which Mr Johnson Is still Intrusld The other two men there were Captain Ounn anti his partner working the Vnlcott property Mr Johnson said lie took ore down to Halley und was laughed I at by l the people there He was assured there was no gold In that pat of th country The Alaska ledge Is 1 from 10 to 100 feet In width on tin surface Ills In granite with well debut nncel mils There are Porphyry dykeft but these do not cut off the ore The some year that Mr Johnson located lo-cated the Alaska work was begun on the Cnmlls No2 Up 10 n Year ago the only hoist on the gold belt was on tile latter property There are now file running N lIh a proslocl or more being I put In operation very soon J 11 Frank of the A merlenn Cjnnlde onnny Is nl tile heM of the enterprise enter-prise nt Cnmns No 2 tow working the tailings lie his succeeded In treating these tailings nt a coil of from SI to 12 3 per ton and they are Vic Iding from S3 tn S7 per ton Captain Look manager of tho TipTop Tip-Top speaks of that property Pays Mr Johnson In I the cry hlghul to ins lie ban tuun1 ore In every drift Ile lens run and ho 00lders the mine one oC tile best gold properties Iu tile West Two hUIIlre1 1 Ions oC ore rccnllv shipped from the Little Camas Yielded II J t > PM ton In short Pays Mr John > < h < dlMct Is rnpldlv forging to tho front It has been demonstratel that It Is one of the richest gold re glons I of the West nnd Mr Johnson believes that In a Cry few years It will bo producing n a much ns Cripple Creek u 111P bell I Silver CSV lead S3 50 It was currently reported todiy that n strike of Sis MIS ore had been made In tile lleav er Lake 1 mine Missrfl John Tern nnd i 11 Alrla went out to Bingham tolay to look over their placer ground there Mnsen W Taller a prominent local flock broker has bern voted tin hand aliment nnn In the Nineteenth ward The Buckeye tunnel nl Tlntl Is saltl 10 lie l rapidly Hearing eompletlon nnd In n shot limo work INIII be resumed In the property I The Infest Advicer from the Wnhn kip In Castile county Idaho indicate 0 very encouraging huing I A that property As work progresses the ors or-s Gen 3 natty gaining In vuluc At the Pacific companjs ground In Tlnllc all Is stir and activity Just now arid the miners are sacking a very rupcrlor grade of ose The Reaction claim Is I being iorked In 10 places In the running of n shaft and an Incline A shaft houie has been erected and the boys expect to keep pegging away nil winter Boise Iallllnn The prospect Is I there will lie great aClhlty ut War rens during the Intr months The 10stamp mill that recently arrived at Wclscr Is 1 for Captain Moore and Cap lain WooI mlics rIrea 0 vindicate that 10 purchasing And dCloplll mine al Wnrmn nd Tlo nee The irlll Is to be taken Into Warrens al Once IL contract ban boost It lu transport It to The Meadows A numhr lOt freighters al The Meadows have hn employed ill take the plant h it and to kp the road open nil win Ir |
