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Show OWYHEE COUNTY MINES. Overlook Mining and Development company of Walla Walla, Wash., ot which J. W. McCaw Is president, has required two full quartz claims in Owyhee county, idano. and will begin in April to develop the vein, said to be 20 feet wide. Neil Campbell ot "Walla Walla, is manager. President. McCaw says the company has owned throe claims on the ledge and two carrying timber an da mlllslte since 1907, "and," he added, '"as our tunnels tun-nels were developing the Fourth ot July claims as rapidly as our own, we bought the half interest and expect to erect a 15-stamp mill there the coming com-ing summer. There are 1.500 leet or tunnels and drifts, the greatest depth being 275 feet. Assays show the gold values to run from 510 to $6'.5o. The claims are in the gold-bearing re-glon. 70 miles south of Boise. We expect to drift 200 feet farther on tho vein, which has been crosscut 400 feet rrom tho portal, and connect with a shalt, time giving ventilation." |