The Western news., 1903-10-21
Outline of Plans.

Outline of Plans.
According to the plans outlin ed to
The Western News by Mr.. Cross, he
proposes to start a tunnel on the
| Morning Star at water level on Bear
| Fork, about 1000 feet from the sum
init, and where the ledge makes a
magnificent showing. From the mo
ment pick is struck in the ground at
| this point solid body of ore will be
encountered. He proposes to slash a
road up Owl Creek, distance of
about six miles, to connect with the
Boulder road. Next spring two or
three hydraulic placer plants will be
placed in opel alton, a saw mill will be
built and work is to begin on SO
stamp mill in the spring as soon as
machinery can be gotten in. The
cyanide process is to be utilized. A
telephone line to connect with Darby
will be constructed as soon as possible
and application will be made to the
interior department for right of way
across the forest reserve Tor an electric
trolley line to connect with the near
est Northern Pacific railway terminal,
which by next spring will be Da, by.
This line will be operated by power
generated by the falls of Owl Creek
which can easily furnish 1000 horse
power at the lowest stage.
Company BEING Incorporated.
Meanwhile Mr.. Rahe is busy at the
New York end forming and incorpor-
ating company to carry on the work.
Associated with him are Senator
George E. Green of Binghampton, N.
Y, and other capitalists, who repre-
sent $50, 100000 in capital. Not dol
lars worth of stock will be placed on
the market as it will all be subscribed
by Mr.. Rahe and his immediate asso-
ciates. Mr.. Rahe proposes to incor-
porate the new company with $5OO,OOO
in the treasury. Between $1,000 and
S1O,O will be spent in preliminary
work this winter. While Mr.. Rahe
was on Owl Greek innumerable sam
pies of ore from all points on the
ledges were pounded up and the pan
nings showed gold everywhere. When
he went east he carried with him 500
samples taken from all points on the
lodges and which will be subjected to
exhaustive assays. In his presence
paintings from the rim rock were TAX
en- and nuggets worth from Is cents
to so cents were found. About eight
pounds of free gold ore, taken
from rich streak, yielded between
$40 and $50 when pounded up.
Other Locations.
Mr.. Cross and the miners with him
estimate that there must be fully 5000
ledges in the Owl creek district. Up
to last Saturday when The Western
News representative came out not
over 100 locations had been made. Of
these the New York syndicate held 81.
Messrs. Robert Forbes, Frank Mayer
and Julius Wei1ner, old time placer
miners, who have operated in that Sec
ton for seven or eight years, each
have secured number of good claims.
Byron Castner and Pat Shannon,
we'll known throughout the Bitter
Root, were among the first to hear of
the Owl Creek discoveries. They i'm
mediately quit work on Indian creek
and fastened in. They had secured
seven fine quartz claims, including the
great Climax ledge, and the Early
Bird and Barefoot locations, besides
some placer ground that prospects
we'll. These boys had the pick of the
creek after the New York people.
D. A. Bishop, DR.. Fred Ellis, DR.. E.
G, Ellis, J. E. Totman and C. G. Vim
cent of Hamilton have a group of
promising claims.
A company of eight, consisting of
Byron Castner, Miles Romney, J. r.
Rawlins. Matt Blindauer, Peter Bin
dauer, ]. E. Totman, Pat Shannon
and Forbes Buchanan have taken r.
900 feet of placer lying along Owl
creek, between the New York syndi-
Gates property and the site of Joseph
& Groff's arastra.
Messrs. Totman, Rawlins, Blindauer
and Romney have also located two
promising ledges known as the Apex
and Butte quartz claims.
Numerous locations have been made