The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-10
THE SALMON REGION
IN CENTRAL IDAHO
Fatal Accident and Fatal Shoot
ing; Many Mines Being
Worked With Profit.
SpecIal to The Tribune.

Crushed to death by a fall OF rock. the
body of John Doyle was found yesterday
by a party OF prospectors on Big
Deer Creek, twenty-five miles northwest
Of Salmon City, Idaho.
Doyle was about so years of age. He
was well known in this district where
he had been prospecting for many years
He was working alone when the ac-
cident happened. and the fallen rock
showed that he had just struck rich
lead Of gold copper ore 1t Is not known
how long he had been lying dead among
his new found riches, as 1t was quite
by chance that his body was discovered
Daniel McInerney shot and killed Peelcr
Foster at Gilmore, south of Salmon CITY
at o'clock last night. Foster was shot
In the abdomen. the bullet passing out
through his spine.
McInerney is in the custody OF Sheriff
Waters OF Lemhi county, Idaho The men
quarreled over a mining claim.
There is great activity among the mines
in the Salmon City district. With the
recent completion OF the Gilmore and
Arms tead. on the Oregon Short Line. old
properties are being worked with profit.
being hitherto retarded for lack of trans
portation facilities. Electrical plants are
being Installed to furnish power TO sew
eral of the claims.
The Salmon City district is rich in a
variety OF minerals. North of the town
lie the gold and silver mining districts:
west there is gold, copper. nickel and
cobalt; northwest and down the Salmon
river there is gold. and to the southwest
there Is a region rich In silver and lead.
Several coal prospects are being opened
up In this vicinity. Within two miles
of salmon City Is mine which has
furnished 90 per cent Of the total Goa!
output Of the state of Idaho, The coal
occurs in fiat dipping sandstone, clay ano
mately five feet In thickness
Brick clay. OF quality suitable also for
tile and sewerage purposes. and quanti-
ties OF fine building stone. are found In
the neghborhood a company has re-
Gently been formed. capitalized at
So 600 600, TO work the aluminium beds.
two miles from town. a plant will be
installed to extract the aluminium from
the clay, afterward using the tailngs
for brick.
Mines Working.
Among the principal mines now work =
ing in the district are the following:
yellow Jacket Mining company has a
siXty-stamp mill. which is being replaced
by 100 stamp mill The ore Is low
grade This property is owned by a New
York syndicate.
At the Italian mine, owned by the Lees
burg Mining company. there is a thirty
stamp mill, and a $4,000 electric power
plant will shortly be Installed there.
The Ulysses mine. owned and operated
by r. l.. Edwards, is good paying
proposition. low grade. free milling ore.
Mr.. Edwards also owns the Musgrove
sold placers. a cyanide plant will be
erected here.
The Blackbrd district is said by cx-
perts TO be the richest IN copper In the
west, destined TO become second Butte
AS soon as the Gilmore and Pittsburg
railroad is built down the river an cleo
trIc line Will be constructed twenty-eight
miles up Big creek to ship the high grade
copper. nickel and cobalt These
properties are owned by the Duboise syn"
dicate of Pennsylvania, who also own
copper properties In Arizona.
Tho Richardson placers and the placers
on Napias creek, working in the old Lees
burg placer belt. are taking out plenty
OF dust. Both are good dredge proposI-
tions. but have, hitherto been unable 10
The Moose Creek dredge recently
changed hands for 100000 This com
pany has been on paying basis for the
last two years. an electric dredge will
be Installed on this property,
In the Junction and Gilmore districts
are several lead-silver properties which
now on a paying basis, since the
G.. e. 7. railroad touches that part of the
country.
Much interest is being shown by out
side capitalists i'm the Salmon City dis
trict, which experts have stated to be
the richest mineral belt In the west
At present trains on the c.. & ?, run
from Armstcad To Salmon on Mondays
Wednesday and Fridays. returning on the
following days. The distance from Arm
stead. on the Oregon Short Line is one
hundred and twenty miles.