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more & Pittsburgh Railroad Co. Gilmore which we are developing in
shaft a depth of 220 feet where it in- which is now about to build from the face of almost Inaupereble difficul-
Armatasd. Mont .. solo this elty. He Lles brought about by absolute lack of
Is aleo meeretery and Leossurer of the any adsousto scansportation facilities
the biggest speratoe in the Gilmore
sbead under contract and promises profitable resulta
Tad dietriet. Here is his letter.
Pittsburgh, February 27tb, 1006 Ed-
ond to any lead silver property in the
properly which will out long he etc. dueta. Saraly this is an end worthy the efforts of everyone and w which ali should bow lend their hearts. their hende, and their pocketbooks
country. You also know my personal efforts to bring transportation to your deors, and should appreciate whet the Withing you all success lo your pres- It short and bespeaking the lumit at bureest er failure of these efforts will
I shall still need your support ip mean to the entire Lembi Valley. For energy at all times and in every way in the great work which should
this project bet in asking It I know
Yoors traly. be vary ovar to all con hearia, 1 om,
just inherilange, you of course feal ou place in the country today which
W A MCCUTCHEON.
thet but interest is with you In any has wuch magnificent outurs! mdrabt-
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CAMP OP GILMORE IDAHO ,
+ bseats in bive limestous, |works and 800 feet of Tunnelshave fast wide with other dimentoso much veldenes of the depth ind pormantney lors ahead of them, It belongs to W.
Quiweep perellel dyane of diorite. It |bean delven, and they orw now doing grester. Here la & show shoot ta Is opened by s varticul shaft 400 feet 200 fest additional tunnel. There Is open up sonther Vlole deep sterling in . Cruspeut tuenel | on the ground . 100 foot lowlien shaft, LEMHI LEAD COMPANY. which saturseta the vous 76 feet be- i the resistione of wbleh show conclus- low the surfers. The most Important Ivaly that with depth the mins Im- ora budy espused la between the 200 provas. The Lomhl Lead company le stirring the subsoil about eight miles south- emul of the Viola, with # good crew and the 300 font levele, where the Upon oom vein they found # fine, vein averages 16 fest wide and the |highgrade copper ord near the surface, blues of mineral surrounded la antles- s considerable pocket of it being en- of mon. They have a body of lead warbonate, and iron oxide 100 fmel wide, and the Important showing of higber grade lend is supposed to be still some- distanen thend of them. This chows on the surface . vein E
sted to be worth $500,000. The ore countered la prospecting Mr. Row shout is known ts be 400 feet in mays be hes Jesthed thet to . find the length There are cumserous other beat yaluse on the ground be mart at- stung mineral outcrops ou thin prop. taip [raster depth. Other veine esq. fast wide of it to 00 per sul tead, erty, and the total development L tela rich alver-land ore,"Mr. Rosa and It is believed to be the opening af about $000 trel, and family will spend a portion of . valuable mine. this summer en the ground, and .und-
A amali, home-made concentrating plant le in operation, which reduces erground work will be continuoua. the ore te 60 per cent lead concentrate He bas another gidup of five elsims with prospecting dumpe oway inte Fremont county, where the Waimer
with . half ounce of slivse to the unit clean by upon which :'ba . expecta' to
ut lesd. The ore is shipped by trac- «bow something of value. \ He has in- [Copper company hes been making . tecenta le tha P. . & I. Co.'; and charen Enoise like a big shipper.
tian trale and by wagon boul, a diet. sort of 86 miles tu Dubale, whence it with othere a very optimistis vlew . of
goes by rail to the market. The gross value of marketed ore Just your was problem ia, tettind.
about $120,000.
Two miles north of Gilmore Thon. Grudine owns the Dumoerat group uf silese- lend claims, in which orm ##-
Junction Mercantilp Co. .. is propelator posed thousands of Lens of good one If the Silver Moon . ming, mouth of on a vein 10 to le fset in width.
W. A. MeCutcheno la secretary and treasurer. It la mainty through the agency af W. A. MeCutchaon that
Gilmore, which je, hated for ita chow- ing of highgrade slivet .ore. : , There are several hundreda feat of de- The Lambl Unico company in aper- ating je. Dry canyon still fmether velopment on tpie geoup . It is en immense showing and offers most fist- tering induramente to the work of the capitalst
the present railroad project into Lerhi
county was set upon ite fest. Sucaly
an lehane shaft \.Sevorul,curs of the ort heve been shipped the past year
Frank deGroot have four elalma situat- ed Beat the head of Geonm'a guleb,
with fine resulte in gold, allvar and which show extra fine allver-lead val-
potential feztor In loritamint to trans- porting roterprima The Kows Broth- .N. E. C., Jas. H. and A. S., *** In South Spring mountain. Winale, Excelsior and other silver. lead mines are being opened with Importeet factota in the propulsion of these movements. A thriving camp has grown up at this mios. hopeful resulte. J. D. Wand and
splendid properties bare, puribored not long ago from B. Q. King, the orty is the Tecumseh lode, belonging
to Gray L, and Mark Purcell and G.
W Yearlan. It baa don oru of both lead and allvat In a good ateoog YeiD.
of the ora bodies, and the werk te ha P. Stone. J. H. Rom and ntbera. done during the present your elll
bald attractive showloga in the vicin- ity of Junetien
have done bul little, but they are preparing this spring to elest by sink-
wss thet of the Leadville when the
Imiter wee first teyuiend, and peary-
thing indicatse that the Walkerellle will develop into oa large . property
HIGH GRADE COPPER ORE, on Dump mi Hidgowty Pack Mines.
to # depth of 300 fest render the hang. Ing wall, and has savetral hundred fsat
of shefte, levels and wereescuta The
development has espoised large nre shoots af steel gajene ard carbonate eres, wbleh cheote vare contioucus from the upper to the Blower workings It in the purpose of the manage- ment to erumsent from the lower workings, No. 3, east drift, to the footwall contact, and minh the theft through the vain 100 feet De farther to the foot wall contaet, giving the
UN. W. A MCCUTCHEON of efort along thet lica Pittsburgh, Pa., upon hearing thet the Herald was prepering ta lenge this special number, wrote thia offles
vantageously located fne taiping fruite and vegetables and graina It is in- comparable in every natoral, wealth.
producing resoaree, and all It needs is
You sleo koow the success which has ] the faith and energy to develope it and give temnaportation fre tus pro- met our efforts until now we bave #
Ne attempt bes both made to e-
tract ore, but the regular course of Itar Hereid, Salmon, Idaho
development has yielded stvatal cora
Dear Sir. It gives ma piesmore
Lo seknowledge your farse of January
Knowing nur sbounding foith in the future of the Lemhi valley as you do. and cor work to the end of more
of second clame ora which has been planed on the dump.
everal quickly bringing that rolley to Its that you agree with me that there is
depth of 460 lent below the onterop. This development is omrw being carried Pittsburg & Idaha Co., Ltd., which is
the west. This company has also in- ite. It was 1200 feet long and wsa
from which they werd derived, ar encountered.
way, Pa Mr Roma is the manager The Viels ore body was . mam of
nearly clean sund carbonate of lead
ty, which he is care will become the and sean in a shaly limestoon ebere & tersecte the footwall contect at a
Leading tend and mlvhs producer of pronounend contect of numive quartz-
À Chapter Dn LEAD MINING In This County
THE LEMHI
HERALD
af Salmon, Inba
CAPITAL. .40.000 00
This ors Hank Is equipped to serve ilà pa Uoss promptly to any capaciiz where Live ervices of a bank are required Your business to respectfully invited .
A J MACDAL
J C. SINCLAIR # 1 4DREWS W G KING
Ruth vein is 4 feet wide and has been eminently probable that an long se prospected to a depth of 136 fset. the fissure continues well mineralland Average meseye of thia vela during | with emidited ort ite valuebin second-> Co., has been opened from the apes
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LEADVILLE GROUP MIHES. 1. Shaft Roues, Trestle and Damp of High Grade Ore. 2. Difice Japetion Mioes Co
Several other properties erw being Frank J. Hagenbarth and Interested lo
drewa, H. S. Waters, Q.' B. Queeles and others sled have good ground Two miles acath of Groom's prop-
Thon. Tearien, John Beddington, place this district among the large Ed Patton, Jas Turnbull and otbere lead-allvor products of the weet. ADJACENT PROPERTIES. Lying upon this Leadville contact, adjacent lu and west of the Juortica Minas Co , la the property of the Ide- bi rivor. @ silver-load distriet hos ba Consolidated Ca As yet they come lote prominenes and much in- ceptive mining and prospecting is the casult, with a strong likelihood of de- vsloping here a second Leadville, In- asmuch sa the geological conditions of the district beur atrong similarity to those of the famous Celerade camp.
developed in the vicinity of the Gil- more, come of which promise to work loto beomosa. The Oriele groop has banker, of Salmoa. the same tystem of veios as the Gil- A 100 tam walter for Spring Moun- more and presente moat Mattering itain ia now in course of Installation,
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this county when ' the transportation
This mina is owond by the Pitte- Jahn E. Rres, . president of 'thp
vorgh & Idaba Co. 1.td of Pittabugh, of which A. S. Rost la president and
south and w opening up by i means of Thoa. Pyeatt, J. H Psdghem and
a nice showing sueb a colossal tonnaga
af shippable oru would constitute #
Jead. Hors the Spriog Mouotein dis- telet begina. ues This property le seid Lu be an promising nh anything else In the GII- more country.
In the same vicinity. H. t. An.
Ing . shaft on the costset, and run # tunnel from the feet of the bill In 700 fest to crosscut the contact at a depth of shout 800 fest below the apes. The Duelezu sbeving to the Idahe Con. 'a Ths formation abows the presence of | Walkerellle elsim ts far better than & queeumion of contacte with numer- ous evidentes of thinerallastien. The same geological features see plainly ip pvideore throughout the Junction district which covers an scan of al. moss 200 square miles.
The most promising contact vele In the district is known as the Leadville contset, situated on the first baneh above the Lend Fists of Lemhi roun- ty, about two miles north of Jopetas. Ics strike In east and west with & dip to the south of 34 degesta from quite curd thel the furnecce will be ) the horisontel The ecoiset is about Mo feat in width with a lime hanging blown In the coming summer. On Willow ceonk to the east, a Salt Leke company is engaged lo develop- Ing an important presentation of con- centraling land wall and a quarta-porphyty foot wall. The mineral is associated with a cat- honate lima gangue. This is pon of TRE VIOLA MINE. the most Interesting and promising contacte in the district, and It has been The Viels mins on the opposite side of the valley from the Gilmore pro- duced Bve millioca dollars worth of lead allvar ore twenty youre ago. No Important bodies of galena were ever found In the mies, and according to located for a distance of sovou miles. Humorous prospects and properties have been lorsted and opened in vari- sus sesLions of the Junction dintelet, most noteworthy of which is the buld- ing of the Jucation Mines Co., Joested the serepted theory of erd deposition on the Leadville conteet.
BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN LEMHI COUNT
Lhe handa of W. E. Stone of Junction as administrator, with John H. Podg- ham of Salmon as attorney for the Bruce laterest, and it is probable that something will be door with it s1 dm monumentel outerop. 100 feet wide by distant day
Froms she Tempest claim ut thla greqp a rot, of :je was shipped widen ylotded 10 per cent copper and @ im volna en dineite-lima contacte contain- gold par ton. & 1000 foot Mangel ing good valuee In peacock copper. It is belsaved thet with depth the
This district does cot termioste at the Lamhi county line, bat Is dotted
IN cTomeutting to the lead, whleb at MAMMOTH COPPER-IRON DTKE. Bruce-Stone I'roperty, Spring Mountale
as the Leadville
shipped by long wagon beul and
dications here and among the best
the rich leed ces has not been found
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THE LEMHI HERALD
SOME MINES ABOUT THIS CITY
U P. AND BURLINGTON. GREATEST GOLD MINE IN IDAHO
Nine mies northwest of Salmen The Queeo and Crescent groop of
eity the U P mine Is ruccesefolly minge, now owned by the Copper Selmon elty is a group of Interesting operating . 20 atemp mill provided | Queen Mining and Smalting company elsime called the Sunnyside, which The Tendoy Mining Company has with concentrating tables. This mine of Duluth, 19 situated shout miven belong to W. J Brown The pay | done much work on s group of claims
is opened on a fissure vein in granite, containing ribbons to matgive quarte perfy hos ochlavad s ootable bullion
with good milling valute of frea gold record, and la perhaps the making of mill, and mining timber 10 abundant. The The Rad Crows group of cision, owned by H. 1 Andrews, Geo. Bock ; They will work again this oneon, and considerable money in development with # mtil. The Gold Reof Mining company. M.
The ore shoots are from 3 to 16 foot the greatest gold mine in Idaha, thick and of considerable length. The main vain as developed by m shaft 260 wein is traced on the surface for 5000
A series of adit tonnels rob on the
vein demonstrate the rentipuity of the | been etatscted and treated la the 10 ore for more than 1600 feet The stamp mill. Last year the operatore started # bardrock tuncel down the hill, which two principal tunnels on this property aggregate about 1700 feet In length,
for puter and other purposes and have | good again, They have plenty of water three feet wide and Ite values are On the Shno Flv. . 6-stamp mill was once erected and worknd for foor
The Comalock M & N Co owns . soars un Host, during which time the
the Gray Eagle group of claims on bullion prodoct amounted to $140.000
Wallarn creek, which is being de-
veloped in a quiet way. C B Com. valus, but the vein of ite origin has steck of San Diego is one of the prin- [ never been found If it is over die-
At the hand of Jesse creok, west of cipel owners They have a good covered its output will eclipse Johan-
nemburg. 40 16 paid aboot joh to the showing of gold milling ors.
Lon
Adamson of Chalhe and Judge J. M
The Midlund Dello group is right : Stevens of Blackfoot are the ownern.
miles north of this city. It Is de- There are some other peomining
equipped with a 3 stamp prospecting erected a find mill. Last weneon they
worked a good force of men and spent
good vein of pay ore It Is equipped
QUARTZ MINES
OF LEESBURG
The qoarts mining properties of Leesburg are tully as interesting su deep has 7 foet of pay ore in the bot-
net work of veins are beckoning for where showing ore, umally of high the advent of capital, and promising . paying value Opened morn exten- monficont retorna At prevent there sively, the Bertel will surely unrich is not moch doing in Leesbarg. bat the operators. The ore ls free teilt- the 1000"con mill and 1000 ton cyanide ing
ULYSSES
of men is employed tois summer in the search for hiddeo wealth. # M. of # railcoed. la resened by the line
Edwarda of Houghton, Mich., brother of the coperintendant, Is one of the
besvieat stockholders of the company.
Tend the ciein offre is in Hougthon. In America In-coming ponsengues
Other claimants of valuable mining greand in the vicinity of Ulysses are to Redrock, Mont., where they make
H Buchanan, J W. McCoon,
N. O. Naring and Frank Lawla of distance of 70 miles tu Salmon city is
Ulysses, Chas. Bahm of Caldwell and
Ed. MeCorrigir of Salt Lake city.
made in a comfortable cancard coach, Over good roads, ceorting the main divide of the Rockies, though come of the cost majestic scenery to be found lu the scanle west. W. B.
Horn Is the traffic manager et this the gold. Severs! levrea beve heen By roferanew to it, the reader can the people the best of accommodation. process wbich will more fully mvp creeks and trasie 1s feand in this Issue, company, and he Is noted for giving granted un the ground, and the com- fully mcqumint himself with the J. Areh Herndon la the lorel agent.
pany la endeavoring to discover and forel geography and the location of They employ the mereice of 16 con- each district to which reference le cord ousches and harly 100 bend of made The map is drawn on u seale horses. To ride over this line in & lese exist, but have been overingked of 15 cailes to the inch. Study the luxorieva trest. Tho oom pady car- In the comsation of deed work. R
L. Edwards is superintendent of map In connection with the grephic risa passengera, mail, freight and operations, sod & cchalderable forca i descriptioo. express.
GOLD QUARKY, ULTSSES, IDAND.
THE PROSPECTS OF A RAILROAD
THE TOWN OF JUNCTION, IDAHO
THE LACK DF FACILITIES of Gibbonsvil's, on its way to Butte no questico of the volume of traffic transportation bas undoubtedly City. Substantial man sre beck of wapreseed hy the following Agures,
retarded the county's development. the entarprint, and the prospect is wech Items representing the ampquot ef Hauling by wagona tur o distance of that the road will be bollt at wo dis- | business we would give per annum 50 to 100 alles over the continental tabt day.
In costemaistion the extension of # rlly binders the development of branch te Salmon, either from Mack- many resources lo spite ut thesa
conditions, however, Lerubi county bas medo marvelous progress. Lat . ved by three railroade, and by fovor- rallrosa resch as, and ste consequent able connection will be the meet cen- tide of immigration, then add to the
trally located city in the state of yast importation of morebendies the |idaho.
1200 cars of ore, trut. 400 cura of hay out. 300 cere of merehandies, Jo. 100 care of espressage, in and out. 1600 care of coal, odl, 600 cara of cool und coke, o. 800 cers of lumber, out. 100 eurs of luciber, in. 300 care of cattle, oot.
366 care of condriss, otell, ete 600 care of machinery, grein, etc ..
Increased traffic of the stockman and The varind resources of Lamhallo and out.
farmer, to this add the lonnege of our county, which would be Immediately | 7600 passengers
tribatary to a railroad line ore mo ex- which add the immecze total of abip- tensles, and i perfectly msoifest to
The forngoing representa an sg- gregate of more then 6000 freight ments of mining mechinary, supplies, .il our people thet the subject, co care, or 3000 cars wach wey which is- ora, coal, etc . and come vague ides may be obtained of the industrieun quires on fasthar sieing And yet che far as bor eitiesos are concerocd tre- pures the road of s daily train of future wbich owsite the railroad that wonder Is often espressed that no will sovada this Meld. compooy bos ever coderteken to meet about 10 cars of local freight alooa We feel masured that the bossoves Already the company is et work the osigengies of the situation would be higher, because the consider- which promises to lostall the line. Salmon doge mot nand a calledsd mors It is keown as the Gilmore & Pitte- than the railroad needs Salmipe and ation bas been overlooked that not only all Lambi county, bot the border distrieta IDeluding Thander moonteln, burgh Railroad Compeny, of which Lemhi county, Yet foc uesecoont. Mr War. A MeCutebeon of Pitts- Bble resecos the people who build tba Custer couoty and parts of Montens woold become tribotery to the line, borgh is the president and chief pro- C'est arteries of commerce have not whirs economie fact would reore mutor, sod Mr W E. Bione of June- been brought to view the mosttes in the sma ngat in which we view il.
tion, this county, oos of the Incorpor- ators. For more than a yoor they have been working on a proposed route from Artusiend, Mont , to Salmon,
Much of the argument bearing bare- It in o signifeent fact thet the poo-
un may uselly he put into figures, " ple of this county pey yesely s total covertheles. there are many import-
of not less than $150,000 on the items of wagen freight alone.
With all the foregoing wray ot argument favoring the transportation
line, the wonder ot our procent imala- tion is natural. By an mecident of political geography, wi lis in a cone of ea called neutral tereitrory between the routes of twu reain transcentineo-
tel lines There is absolutely do
local opposition te the road, but the
ery for help is aelvitte! throughout
the district. A tulleced for Lamhi they will stert the meill foc m per-
manent run. G. C. Wegele of Ner-
Loin, Kons . 14 president and Wm. Wegele of Lacsburg 11 manager. G.
W Meltsoir of Selmen is sing a
Fred Brough hos a fine cisior on Moccasin creak below Lessburg which bas bean patented It in rieb la cop- per, lead and silver.
the oceans, but which particular read the rallepadl hullder himself. charges en the stage line from Salm- : sloch holdet. does not appear, and on this point, An ettemipt has been made however, on to Leesburg will be advanced. HOOSE GROUP. Other elmmante in the Leesburg
it from the owner and turnier operator, of some of the others to market ores Mrs. Stayhanson. W £ Stone, coun. on scerunt of the pannleby cunditlen ly commissioner, has a large general of the metal market, there is, bevor- merchandise hould, and the Junetien Mercantile Co . J E Rees, president, also has an excellent general store.
Interior of the Stone store in illus-
You can get entre copies of thie tons railway. projected. hos surveyed
vading railroad e
il upon as & will be 12. Owing to the condition
roada get In good condition. JOHN E. GREAVES, Proprieter. Romajoe
trated herein,
paper for 1bc. Better get a fne, oht | through this county vin Salmon and |Inningsa certain
would be lol the roade this rete is made neces-
ITALIAN MINES.
Four miles went of Leesburg. on Arnett creek are the old Italian al enterprises Into wesith produsing | mines, now the property of the Bitter Root Gold Mining company, of which
S. S. Van Horn of Fremont, Neb ..
The Gold Flint Mining company hes w president. This property bon # precties! 10 stamp mill and has pro- doeed more than $100,000 in bullion from ore which averaged about $20 & ton. It contains five claims, or there-
four claims, two of which are petent- ed, lying nerth of Leesburg postoffice. Judge Jno W. Borton of Salt Lake Is the president, and U E. Kirkpat- tick is resident director. There are seven directora in the company, three of whom are stockholders of the 11- linois Central railway, and John G. Drennan of Chlengo Is treasurer.
about and is regarded as rich property. An excellent water facility is present, smeple to run the mill during the open Mason, Other machinery comprimes & fine bolat. They have developed . vein 2} to 4 feet in width with about 2,000 fast of work, Ineinding a shaft 900 feet deep.
The veln is a contact 25 feet wide between granite and syepite. It has
been opened by 2200 feet of tunnels and shafte and is trared on the surface
for a distance of 0000 [wet. It contains
sheets of ore runoing at high te $100 to .
The Brigham property, just below' 0 " the Italian, has a true fissure in gran the ton, but the average value Is only ito with 16 joches of high grade pay. medium grade. Considerable ote hat it has produced several thousand rfol. heen taken out They own a 14 mile , lura of gold, and it is only scratched. diteb and ample water right and moill The ore mevea about $25 on Lse platen, site. The directors hove beso zon. It lo oow werking by E S. Raululph templating the erection of a reill, and the time may go in this year
GOLD DUST PROPERTY. Amail eriek has 2000 feet of develop-,
The property of the Gold Dust lies meat work wod = 20 ton Buntinigen louth of the Gold Flint and comprises eight lode claims, two of which ar mill It oslungs to the estate of Gwo. L. Shoup and ethere and ber patented. It Is on the mois velo en produced duch bollien.
the Gold Flint, which here averages
There are several other quarts prop, an e900 gTester width, perhaps 40 ortime In the Leesburg or Mackinaw Tuet. It has several hundred feet of district which warrant the attention" development work and much ore.
They have a modern 30 stamp mill,
The Abandoned group of tous claims, north of Artest's creek, hes good water right for milling purposes
sod lote of timber seceselbla. Robert
700 feet of tunnel work exploiting
Harmon ia president and B. A. Hes- . fres-milling vein froot & to 18 feet brouck manager, both of Salt Lake. wide. There Is lote of good are In
GOLD RIDGE MINE. 1. Bischsmith Shop, 2, Boarding House.
GOLD RIDOE. this olmit, which le the property of The Gold Ridge ground consists of | W H Sboup. W. H Blebardeon and Sve elsimon, twe patented, lying south | Thomas Pope. of ond adjoining toe Gold Dust. It hes 1200 feet of developtowet Do # The Gold Bug lode In Werd's ruich, belonging to W. H. Richard-
very large body of low grude gold ore. It Is equipped with an up to date 10-
ean, Is worth a look-to by anyone la search of . promising gold prospeet. Geo. Smith owns the Bloodhound groop of three elaina which he hea been developing single hended for the past decade, and they give moch peam.04.
it le successful They hate plenty of
for the batteries the year
arcand, end for a part of the 768 400 cen furnish water power to tua the mill. Their made of treatment la by amalgamation und cyanide. It is ex-
The Betsy Jave lode, owned hy Palmer A McCormick has a strong ledge with four fest of high grade silvar-leod ors currying gold, which will become a persistent shipper when the railroad reaches Salmon,
which is rapidly sarending inte in zouoty during 1907 enjoyed a wason dusteisi importsore. Here is a fine of more than yous! activity In new $15.000,000 wherewith to build it. the experience of mvery tarlecad yat wheel bouse and one of the best development, and while the total | The survey her thus for cost the Oll- constructed through the mml-arid public schools in the county. Thay mineral output for the year is alight- | more & Pittsburgh Halleond company wilde Moet of there have been pay-
have a good hotel, e view of which ly under that of 1906. ewing to the about $120, 000, and the persistence of
eppesra in this issue. It is run by closing down of Ite principal producers Shelley & Sletor, who recently leased early In the messen, end the inability that it is backed by one of the main
trunk railways, in an effort to connect
misent af it w ulter truthfulness than in On and after April 16, freight
by a number of leading eltizene ta From Salmon to Laweburg the rote
tabelste fram present knowledge . will be $1 50 per 100 pounds and fcom
#bet as le- Selmon to Forney the rate for name
wzy. and It will be in force till the
in number, belongs to Henry J. Bag- ley and Geo. Swen of Dobec. It lies Joining the Gold Filnt buut 24 miles worth of Leesburg It has 700 fest of derslopment on a strong vein, which bcara the brand of a minney- maker. It haa s good water right and plenty of timber, and is all told very promising holding.
BERTSAL GROUP.
This group of 3 claims lite about & mile east of the Gold Flint, and be- Jonge to Thoa. Pope, H. S. Waters and Horre Pope. It contains a series of strong fissurrs In granite, containing gold ore of excellent value The main vein is opened by a tunnel 125 feet long, at the fare esposing 12 feet of good etm. A shaft 25 fect
Ing good things in miors On both properties the week reveals good ore
io plece, and the asseys are most po-
coura ging. The close proximity of
halong ta Geo. Cronkrite, David At- about p8 to Ibe ton.
this ground to the town is one of ita 'bogest and Mre. Shenen
principal attractiona.
The Beuns Viste lode, at the bead about 14 miles north of Salmon Is
opened by 2000 feet of tonnal work.
The Gem group of mines, four of Walslee erech presente s favorable
miles north of the U. P. is the pro- , showing and belongs to W. B. Mc- The vein Is 12 to 20 feet wide and the party of lieu. Smith. The vein is KinDie valoes are mid te he good.
This country, pending the arrival
At Uly sses, the Kittle Burton Geld
M. Co. Is working on o rether net-dip-
ping vein of sugary quarts carrying gold The property is equipped with . 15-stamp mill and a gresity tram- way. and ban produced a largo scount of hellion. As work bas advanced upon it, the or has turned more to- ward the tulpbide form, and the suv- able proportion of the value has grown A GOOD MAP.
lesa The company is still laking ool milling ore however, and at the mmse time considering the plaos of a
and the lowest tunnel, projected, will in the fell cut the vein at 1038 fest, etford in apex depth of 660 [wet where the ore was found to be is feet open up new temtrees, which doobt-
The mill la connected with the month wide Orifta wers at once atarted. of this tunnel, affording an ideal oom. both north and south on this vein, and bination for crooomie extraction and the fore depth in theut dritte In 400 treatment of the ore, which has al- and $50 feet cespertively. The ore In ready proved Its pechtable character the north delft mestures ]] feet In width, and amays show it to he A small gis-lal lake furnishes arople supply to the mill, and the thriving WORTH $123 PER TON
young camp which has been built up In gold. In the south drift they bave about it. Gay Frank R. Gooding and Angocities owe the most of the steck
10 feet of ore, averaging better then $101 to the ton These statements of the Burlington A U. P. M Co .. are marveluds but arn well Butbenti- operatore, and R. W. McBride el cated Tho ore la quarta In cad oalde. Balmon is the manager in charge. ]of iron, containing little sulphide sod Chas. Schults has charge of under- Is quite free. There are other good ground operationa
weins on the property.
The owners are now engaged In
You can get extra coples of this moving the mill to s plare below the paper at the office. Help to sand mouth of the main tunnel, and when them out. this is done, ore treatment will begin
JUNCTION NOTEL Sbally & Biator, Props.
One of the historic little towns of | The M. E. churen is established et divide, talying upon wagons for the The Oregon Short Line railcoed, « this cuunty Is Junction. It was lo Junction, with Rev. O. E Soyder moving of all freight and espres |part of the Uniso Pacide system, kas early days se importeet station on pastor in charge. which comes into the valley nocess4-
the route from Salmon te BenDach, The Amsosen Ricos, end E. B. Ed- the speient capital of Meatand. To- wards, jr., hold come lead elsime co day It is a thriving ranch community, | Little Eight Mile crock, which ought with a rising hope of becoming a great , to develop into good producers.
miniog center It is silusted ebuul Afty called south of Salmon city, oo the Leinhs river Ita people are: thrifty and generally prosperous
Bell on the Miniog Industry
Junction is the headquarters of the Robert N. Bell, in bis lote report Junction Mines Co , and of weversl; as stele mins inapector, referring to almost limitless tioiber supply, ta
other mining concerns It is the cen- ible county, wys:
ter ul s famous Ined mining helt, "The mining Indostry of Lomhi
INTERIOR VIEW, W. F. STONE'S STORE, Jecetico.
masimom gradient of 46 feet to the voloma of traffic upen ite completing
wolle. something hitherto unknown, and readingse for operation. A esil-
end It is said they have the necessary raad created humness. Sach bes been
ing propositions frora the very begin- | would be received anon with juy.
the peojectors gives strung Indiration ning But It is useless to dupli upon
this fact, because oubody is more cog-
FREIGHT SATES ALIVANCED.
A CHAPTER ON
GOLD MINING
Continued from 2d pege.
It in promised that future ' operstiens | S. Sewell, conagor, la engaged in will be continuous
The Metfinley group of claims lies
near the Moose erech commit In
developing the Siions group of claims 12 miles north of Selmon. A Merrill
stemp mill of 36 tens capacity bne
Eureka district. They bava a large been erected and the ore in being sur- the placers evet wete. A dozen tom. The harures have been followed and promising vain of gold ore and cessfully treated. The ore glewe groupe of claims, on a magnificent and exploited by open cute, every.
The Andbird mine, Doar the river
of the Mentano & Idaho Stage & Fer- warding Company, oow of the mort efficient and punctual alege services
take the Uregon Sbort Lime rollway
connection with a daily stege The
ITALIAN NILL.
plant are among the future probabil- ities, and the advent of a farleoed in- to Saimon is going to set the cellos-
operation,
GOLD FLINT MINES.
SHIGHAM MINE.
one of Ite owaers.
The Hsides mlos over the head of.
of investors
than doubls tos tonnage of freight mapresented by the above
end tes pojset comprises the opening
up of the Salmos rivet canyoo to the
ast items which must needs he omit- ted, because of the fuet thet & ralf- road elweys heilde up . country,
Snake, and thence cut to the Pasife coast. Under direction of Engineer T.
Increasing and magolfping ite sende and opportunities, uetil there it prec-
vey over the continental divide with e
N Bacon, they have established i but- tically no limit to what might be the
thalesa, e bright prospbel for future the prumotors are making a nuise like
Improvement end increased output ** a ogft shell clam,
The San Francisco, Idaho & Mon- conservativo estin
38
The ore was free and sensational in
en sir compressors and power dralla Geo. H. Crosby of Duluth is prest- dent of the company and Emermin Hill 18 the resident inanaget AND THERE ARE OTHERS.
feet deep, In the bottom of which la 14 feet of een. Lecigia have been cun from the sheft and much oet hat
and others, and the J. T. group, owned by Joo. T Pugh, just north- west of Salmon, sro smong the com-
callea north of this city. This pre- fore is 4 to 7 fret wide The mint la on Wallses crech, where they have
veloped by shafts and drifts and hus a | prospects in the womde district
This group of altenctive claims, 7 wirinty who can show yoo something in the mineral lios are Daniel kanley. Gos Busch, Jes. N. Nockersmith, Dan Fry, E. B Randolph and Wm.
starop mill, which, owing to ita bav- ing been completed lete in the last Posean, hes made but a small con, but
period that in the appcoaching spring
ay, er Dubois, and when these peo- jects materelize, Salmon will be ser-
A gord map of Lmht county show- ing post offices, wagen coeds. camps,
QUEEN & CRESCENT MILL AND SHAFT HOUSE
Butte
MAP OF LEMHI COUNTY
IDAHO.
Gibbonsville ' :
Ulysses?
The Lembi Herald.
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Dillon
Carmen .
Leesburg
Salmon
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Fort Lemhij
Blackbird
Grant
LEMHI
Red Rock
INDIAN 1
Yellow Jacket
RESERVE
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Junction
Three Forks
Eilis
May
Patterson
Bannister
Gilmore
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Nicholia
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HECKMAN BINDERY, INC Bound-To-Please"
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N. MANCHESTER, INDIANA 46962
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