Show DESERTED TOWN TON IS ALIVE LVE ONCE ONGE MORE Galena Region in Idaho Shows I Many Signs of Renewed Activity OLD OLO MINES AGAIN RUNNING Long Louig Overlooked O Pat Part of Wood l River S Se Section tun Shows T Lively i 13 Scenes Like the time Olden Days lale Halley Ida Ila Ila Sept 25 The Thc The yoot Wood River IU district time the center of or which Is the time almost ted deserted town of Galena Seems likely to to tom regain some sonic ot of- of its Hs former fOlmer prosperity In the time early carl SOs several sc crl companies operated near there and between the town and tho ho mines mine there was a population lation laton of over o 2000 souls soul The Senate one of the thc operating companies had hada a smelting furnace that thal llis dis custom work and the dl district prospered But the tho growth groth of or the American Smelting Trust put the furnace out O of ot commission com coin mission sliver silver si er and lead fell fel to prices that ceased to be he remunerative c. and tho the district was actually abandoned and only visited b by occasional prospector prospectors pros pros- or others to do annual holding work work About Aboul two years ears the Carbonate Hill Hi Mining company compan a corporation of Portland ole Me having a a capital of or In 51 Ii shares purchased the tho Gerard group of or 10 claims situated on oum Cherry rl creek crock about two miles mies east cast of Galena and determined to test the ground gound in depth Deposits c Experts E To Tn this end nd it i began to drive an aut adit to tap the vein ein at depth This adit is now In feet and aumI aHl has cut the time vein at a depth along the dip of 1000 feet A raise mise from froni the thc end of this tunnel tunnel tun tun- nel nob 10 feet high on an angle ansle of or 15 Hi degrees has de' de eloped de clop ll a vein In carr carrying ing omit from 4 I l ti to 4 oJ A feet of o solid sold that has a value o of and amid 62 per ton respectively 03 North anti and south drifts on oum the ledge 15 feet feel each wa way show that the ore ole continues Ore al also o shows sho's up above aboe the time feet o of raise e and down below leloss' tho tile tunnel level Besides silver siver and ani lead the vein eln carries considerable iron and amid a a little lite zinc The gouge gouse of either wall wail Is from one half one hal an inch to two inches thick the vein is er very strong and amid well well- wel- wel de- de This discovery I Is of great reat Importance Import Import- ance It I may prove to bo be another Minnie Moore loOe At any trite rate It J is o of value as Indicating that time the veins there continue in depth Boven men men are at work vork there hero now But C C. B B. Dunton the manager manager man man- ager vho ho left lef for fOl the time East yesterday will wll order ordel an nn air all compressor of 10 or 1 12 drill capacity and amid If I It can be got ot otIn In this tills fall fal quite a u force will wi bo lIo kept kepton leelton on oil development work all al winter Otherwise OUt Oth only about 10 men inca will wil winter ther there I Companies cs c's Started The Idaho Alabama company has hilS also begun operations in that district It I owns own von seven claims all al of which show ore The secretary of the company com corn pun pany who was here this week made arrangements to drive ive a tunnel this winter anti and he lie intends to gome omne ome out next Apri April to plan operations upon such a scale as the developments de will wi Justify The he Gladiator and amI Senate is another roUp grouf sro p which operations win will soon be L c resumed This property properly a a part port portor of or which lays las under a a perpetual glacier gla gia- cier which the time owners tunneled tunneled tunneled tun tun- to reach time the vein eln opened so favorably that a smelting furnace was built buit for fOl it at the junction of or Cherry creek with wih tho the Wood river It I was then lien owned by the Moores 1 prominent California millionaires who are re dead death It has since to New York I passed parties par pal ties lies who have ha awakened to a realization tion ton of the time fac falt t that this valuable property has been neglected nes too long And the they mo may resume work tork there this fal fall If I not they the certainly will wl In the spring nr uig As other othel companies are also preparing pro pre paring to operate there l i Ie is evident that hut the time district will wi actually boom lIoom in tho Limo spring |