Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-18
Idaho Mining Camp Will Have
Communication With Outside
World This Year.
new MILLS TO Be BUILT.
One Hundred Stamps to be Added TO the
Dewey Plant--R W. Purdam
Visits the City.

Thunder Mountain Is to be connected
with the outside world by telephone.
This assurance was given today by
President George Y Wallace OF the
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone CON-
pany, to r.. w. Purdam, manager Of the
Bell Of Thunder Mountain Mining
company, who has been active In
providing capital to develop that great
interior Idaho region.
The fact that the construction OF the
new telephone line will commence in
the very near future will be indeed
gratifying to the mlneowners and resi-
dents OF the district President Wal
lace Informed Mr.. Purdam the line
would be built and In operation by the
time the state road Is completed TO
Roosevelt.
This road" said Mr.. Purdam this
forenoon. will be about rs miles long
and starts from the Warner ranch In
Long Valley. All but 30 miles was con-
structed last year and Gov. John T,
Morrison has assured us that no time
will be lost In building the balance
that 1t will be finished In time for the
several companies who propose TO erect
mills 10 deliver the machinery to their
respective properties during the coming
summer.
There are at least three milling
plants going up Ia the Thunder Noun.
tain district this year" continued the
visitor The Bell OF Thunder Noun
tain company will build plant with 40
stamps. install air compressor equip
ment, erect an aerial tramway 10 de-
liver the ore from the mine to the mill
site. The whole outfit Will weigh up-
wards Of 10000 pounds. c. j. Perkins
who own the II. Y. and Climax mines,
Will take In two mills, while the Dewey
company, which already has plant In
successful operation, viii add 100
stamps and other machinery Weighing
at least 100000 pounds"
Mr. Purdam has always been an en-
thusiasiic supporter of the Thunder
Mountain country. He has insisted
from the time OF It's dis
coyery up to the present. that
II Is destined to become one OF the
greatest mining camps the world has
ever known. He IL more convinced
of this now than ever before for the
reason that wherever legitimate mining
has been done the results have not
been disappointing
In the Bell Of Thunder Mountain, or
otherwise known as the Sunnyside, de-
velopments have progressed for the
past two years, and q body of ore has
been opened up there which Is known
TO be Of the width Of $50 feet. Drifts
have been run on II for a distance OF
600 feet and cross-cuts run 100 feet
apart. have developed an enormous
quantity OF ore.
The ore Mr., Purdam says, (. entire-
" free milling This has been fully
demonstrated at the Dewey mill, where
a saving OF So per cent OF the gold on
the copper plates was made; this was
the record for March on the Dewey
ores. The operations Of the Dewey
sompany has fully demonstrated that
stamps and plates make up the correct
process for the treatment OF the ores
OF the camp at this time
At the II. Y. and Climax some big
ore bodies have been developed and II
is safe to say they will average 81 IN
gold to the ton.
II will be necessary for the Bell
Telephone company to construct 100
miles Of line to connect Thunder Noun
tain with the outside world.
Mr., Purdam lives at Nampe. He
says that town was never more pros
porous than now. II II building
up rapidly, and Boise. likewise, is
sharing In the prosperity.
The government has taken hold Of
the irrigation problem and proposes TO
expend something like 100000 in the
reclamation of the arid lands In the
vicinity OF Boise, Nampa, Caldwell and
other points westward.
Governor Morrison and f. II. John
nesse, who are operating property on
Thunderbolt mountain, SO miles this
side Of Thunder mountain. have been
quite successful. They have opened
up four fine lodges and every indication
points to the development Of a big pay
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