Show THE SNAKE RIVER PLACERS They Will Scon Glvs Steady Em ploy men t to Thousands Tboumn1o of Miners ExCounty Recorder C B Fox has re turned from the Snake river placer fields HEreDorts frt IIt nl1 L o v t uu ung Iue river but especially along the bar be tween the upper and lower Salmon falls On this bar about 100 faIs men are now at work of which about sixty are working for a New York company of which Mr 1Ir Blanchard of the Erie is Railway one of the leading spirits This company has over two i of Rmn 1 1L1 mie the ditch carrying 3000 uu miners uuu WLCllng inches of water It is working thise machines which yield from 15 to G er day This year the company is only experimenting on a practical working scale but next year it will start out in the wi least six machines Spring with at On Mr Foxs lf claim the survev is made for a twomile ditch which will be wii com pleted by Christmas The claim will then be put in shape for active operations in the opertions spring as soon the weather mits Mr Fox has per 5r Fox been a year and half a hal getting this property in shape to pro duce and he expects to summer make it by next The Salmon Falls bar Mr Fals Fox be leves will leves next il year give steady em ployment several hundred placer miners and the miner placers along the Snake must in time furnish profitable furnsh profitable ment to thousands proftable employ I upon thousands II I The I hPhVn0 6 with this region P heretofore has been the lack of a cheap method saving the gold This method of metod they now 8th undoubtedly have JVood River Times |