Show INVESTMENTS ON WOOD ItiYEIl Charley Popper Bays up a Group cf Fine Prospects i Charles Popper of Salt Lake City who has been on the river since Friday says the Wood River Times of Monday went up to Bullion today to start up work on the Bates Boyd group of claims Mr Popper recently purchased a halfinter est and the control of this group but the amount paid is unknown although it must be a round sum as the owners refused re-fused 60000 cash for the property last year Messrs Bates it Boyd also want up with Mr Popper to turn the claims oyer to him they having come in from Salt Lake yesterday for that purpose Thomas Gibbons will he put in charge as superintendent Mr Popper intends to go to work with a will and while keeping development work ahead to extract every pound of ore that he possibly can He expresses surprise at the shortsighted policy heretofore here-tofore pursued by mining men in extracting extract-ing the ore in sight while neglecting to keep well ahead with their dead or prospecting pros-pecting work and does not propose to fall into the Fame error Mr Popper is one of the heaviest owners own-ers in the Queen of the Hills mine and he has entire confidence in this region asa as-a country He says that the Queen is shipping an average of 30000 worth of ore per month with such large quantities quan-tities in sight that the output can be kept up to that figure for an indefinite period The mine shows up better the deeper it is worked and in its lowest level there is a width of six feet of solid galena insight in-sight besides a considerable width of carbonate or jigger ore This Mr Popper Pop-per says will he the experience in Colonel Col-onel Walls tunnel as in all other mines They will be found to be richer in depth Since the above has been in type Mr Popper and his wife have purchased the other half of the claims which are now owned solely by them Mr Gibbons bus been put in charge and will begin work tomorrow cleaning out the 1 tunnels drifts etc This will take about one week after which men will be put on as fast as they can be employed to advantage Mr Popper states that from this time on all work done will bo on the basis of cash every 10th of the month and that Mr Burkitt will cash all orders on him at McCornick Cos bank Hailcy The property will henceforth he known as the King of the Hills Mr Popper being induced to adopt this name because of the great success he met with in his venture in the Queen of the Hills which he controls Tie will remain here two or three days longer and will leave for New York where he resides as soon as he has had work resumed on the Overland onethird of which he owns |