Show WK BIN mining in hor corthern thern idaho there to la intense excitement over the discovery of rich placer dig digging gloge on santa creek about twenty live five miles east of tekoa wash in idaho the discovery was waa made by the ty sons brothers three farmers in a a gulch which runs loto into santa creek about eight miles above the creek a confluence with the st mary I 1 irom rom a piece of ground 40 by 15 feet they took to in coarsegold coarse gold their apparatus was crude and Is estimated that they got less lesa than a thaid of tile ilia gold cold as the bedrock was not cleaned at all I 1 alio llio lie new camp Is on the divide between the old hoodoo district and the coeur dalena it Is in said bald several million dollars was taken out of the hoodoo district in early days |