Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-25
A short VISIT Up Elk Creek.

Last Saturday we boarded the hur.
rIcane deck of glass-eyed cayuse
I'd wended our way up the trail to
the head of the Channel ditch. The
first thing Of note on the trail was
about nine miles above town, where
we came to Mike Wallace's camp.
Here Mr.. Wallace has done consid-
cradle work in the way Of opening
the creek. After bringing up a cut
to strike bedrock, if the prospects
justify he will put in flume to work
the main creek and the bars at this
place.
The next is the tunnel of Mr..
Sweet on his lower ledge, and, from
the looks Of the dump, it must pene-
trate the mountain to considerable
| distance.
Next we came to Ross's Fork.
Here Mitchell Bono and Naz Carpen-
ter are running an arastra on rock
from the Orc Fino ledge. This aras-
ira was put up by James and Joseph
Traverse many years ago. About
one-half mile above this is the Elk
horn mine and mill, owned and op-
Grated by Hugh Turner. This mine
was worked in the sixties and yielded
big amount of gold, but the greater
part of the stockholders never re-
ceived dividends, as it took all the
surplus after the working expenses
were paid to keep the officers of the
company in good shape, they always
living so as to come out even.
After the first company suspended
operations on the mine George Rich
ards & Co. worked the mine about
year, and then J. B. Mclaughlin got
hold of the property, and it was idle
for some time. Next Thomas Barry
worked the mine for about a year,
after which Mr.. Turner got
hold of the mine and mill
and has been working them the past
seven or eight years, doing great
amount of work in opening and pros
pecting the mine, running one
straight tunnel over twelve hundred
feet into the mountain without strik-
ing any great amount of ore, running
his tunnel too far to the south (as he
found out afterwards) for the pay
ledge. Last fall, as he was starting
a new tunnel further north, he struck
good pay rock right on the surface,
and made two or three good clean
ups last fall. He has now run
cross-cut 100 feet from his lower, or
l 1,200-foot tunnel, and runs the ore
out in cars into the mill. The ledge
varies from two to ten feet wide, all
good milling ore.
Mr.. Turner has built new 5-stamp
mill, which has been running in full
blast day and night for about month,
getting away with as much rock as
any 5-stamp mill in the county. Mr..
Turner has saw mill that gets out
all the timbers and lumber for the
mine and quartz mill. He has ev-
erything handy and fixed up in good
shape. Both the mills are run by hy-
draulic power, having all the pressure
desired. We think Mr.. Turner will
make pile of money, which he de-
serves.
A short distance above the Elkhorn
is the Williams, Sweet, Thompson
and Smith mine, the Gladstone,
which looks very promising. They
have run two tunnels to tap the
ledge, 100 and 2O0-foot levels. They
have run adit levels on the ledge,
and are now starting to raise from
the lower tunnel to connect with the
upper works, and then commence
taking out ore. May their hopes be
realized, is the wish of the whole
WORLD.
After stopping over night at Mr..
Turner's we returned home well sat
isfed. Elkhorn district is 8 good
mining camp, and is now on the
boom.