Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1903-12-25
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BEING BRIEF PARAGRAPHS

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town.
The beginning of the week was of
rather a strenuous nature,
Ernest Cook is away on a visit to his
old home at OtterVille, Missouri.
On account of a shortage of type many
important articles are crowded out.
A two dollar subscription to the MIN
ING NEWS covereth a multitude of sins.
All the leading magazines and illus
trated weeklies at the P. 0. Newsstand.
Joe Coverly is expected in shortly to
resume operations on the Lily May
group.
MI. and Mrs, Finley were in from
their Red river ranch Tuesday and re-
turned horne Wednesday. u e.,
George Weaver brought in the Dixie
Qsteen sawtnM Tuesday from Dixie. 1t
is being removed'to the LIE Roy mssse
on Crooked river.
LOST. Between Elk City and Red
river, n bear rug and one axe. Find
er please leave at postoffice and be re-
warded. j.. H. LINGO.
Natwick & Bullock have moved their
wood cutting outfit south of town and
are now prepared to furnish wood in
anv o,Iantitv mr. lenoth
Rory Burke, millman at the American
Eagle mine and who enjoys the distinc-
ton of being a frst-class mechanic, was
in town a few,days this week.
Ernest Carrick, of Hunter Creek,
Wash, who has been looking after
assessment work on Relief creek, re-
turned home last Saturday,
Somebody sent Lee Mann a paper
called Capital & Labor" Lee says
he has no capital and won't labor so
don't see what good it will do him.
Link Ewing returned to his home at
Hunter Creek, Wash, Sunday. He
was here to do the annual assessment
ON the Blind Pig and Leopard mining
claims on Relief creek.
F. T. Jones informs us that he ex-
poets to cut the ledge on the Sunfiower
property on Red Horse creek within Il
few days and expects to show up a
strong ledge.
Martin Hickman has finished the as
sessment work on his Baker Gulch
claims, in the Crooked river section and
says he exposed a large body of ore.
Andrew Prader is interested with him.
I. C. Larsen left a few days ago for
Seattle on a three months visit with
his brother. He has valuable holdings
on Deadwood mountain and will return
in the spring to do development on
them.
Andrew Prader, who is heavily in
terested in this district, left a week ago
Thursday for a visit during the, holidays
with friends and relatives in Spokane.
He will return shortly after New
Years.
While you are in town celebrating
Christmas come around to the MINING
NEWS Office and separate yourself from
a pair of Williams and we will send you
the paper for a whole year, the Christ
mas edition thrown in.
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Last Saturday S. B. Baxter purchas-
ed an eighth interest in the rlind Pig
and Leopard claims on Relief creek.
The price paid was $500. A tunnel in
. so feet on the Blind Pig shows a twelve
foot hedge that will average So in gold
to the on.
J. R. Sieber was down from the
Hump one day this week and from him
we learn that the big boiler for the
Jumbo mine is expected at Sites any
day and that the management Of the
mine are preparing for the installation
of ten more stamps, making a total Of
twenty-four.
w. F. Johnson and Ralph Middleton
were in town from the Hercules mine
the first of the week. They report
everything progressing f~avorably ane
that they should cut the ledge with
their tunnel before going much farther
The boys have a good property and il
looks as if Fortune cannot much longer
elude them,
Joe Powers, the popular postmastel
at Orogrande, came up Monday by pri
vate conveyance and went back with
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