Show COUER D ALENE VALENE MINES what an owner says of them last evening the HERALD re res porter orter met mr G E benton who aas has lately arrived from the couer cotter d alene mining district and from him learned that there was little if any difficulty either in getting into the mining district or in con can baying sufficient cent provisions for a winter camp air ir benton said he had just arrived from there and expected to return inside of three weeks and was confident lio lie could do so as a trail leads from spokane falls to the camp that is always passable except perhaps during the spring month months when the melting snowa snows swell the streams to the size of rivers at present most of these streams aro extremely email small and old settlers say that in the district the rainfall is so slight as to effect but little even the smallest brooks in deep ravines in reply to a question as to tho the rich ness of the discovery air benton said 1 I consider they arc ato the best mines found during 1883 at least and I 1 am not alono in tho the opinion that they will prove not only the richest but the most extensive found in five men lien aro are making from 10 to perhaps 50 a day under tho the most adverse and unfavorable circumstances and of course with better arrangements they will largely increase their results I 1 would advise parties to wait until spring if they have no claim selected as there is no doubt fi plenty 1 e of good dirt there and but little t tle if any further prospecting will be bo done lone until april I 1 only return this fall as I 1 have interests to look after that demand my im mediate and constant attention aar lr benton is an old miner and IBS been antho in the majority of good camps on the tile pacific coast and appears to have i made nade it pay as he s interested in several mines that ire are turning out well he ile was connected in the copper discovery in oregon 1 which was sold to michigan Iichi gan for a large sum mr benton ex expresses himself as believing hat that the cry about being unable to each reach tile place was started by par ics s who have no aroun ground d yet and ire are afraid that competition would make them losers |