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Show BURKE, IDAHO, MINES. Plans by the Little Butte Mining company to drain Lower Glldden lake to develop Its properties east of Burke, Idaho, bring up the interesting ques- 1 lion of the status of the water power rights or the Tiger Poorman com-I com-I any's power plant. . M. J. Maher, one of the ow ners of ihe property, say a the drift on the Little Butte Is lu 200 feet and within 200 feet of the. lake.. The eln, now JO feet wide and carrying high values in copper and lead, runs directly beneathed the bottom of the lake, in the direction of which the drift is being. .driven and where it is expected to And the richest ore. By stoolng to the bed of the lake It naturally nat-urally follow that the water will come in. and as a result the lake will be drained into the lowlands, already I Interwoven with small creeks and streams. Should the development continue con-tinue until the lake Is drained. It is believed that litigation will rollow between be-tween the owners of property on the lake and tJiOBe owning water rights cn one hand and the Little Butte people peo-ple on the other. As this is the first t!me a question of this character has been prsented in the panhandle of I Idaho, there is much discussion as to thc rights of water power owners, but tho preponderance of opinion is that a miner has the right to follow his lead. |