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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-02-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
United States Government Takes Sdnto
Domingo Under Her Wing-Will
Quen the Rebellion.

From Northwest Press Association.
On the 18th day of December,
1903, Senator Hepburn introduce
ed a joint resolution in the SEN
ate providing for the anneXntion
of~the Republic of Santo Domingo
to the United States. For this
action, many newspapers took
occasion to severely criticise him,
and various motives were alleged
as a reason for the introduction
of the resolution. Since that
time nothing has been heard of
the matter, until a few days ago,
when it was semi-officially an
nounced that President Roosevelt
had come to an agreement with
the government of Santa Domin-
90, and that the United States
would send a fleet of warships,
and as many troops as are neces-
sary to quell the rebellion. This
government intends to take pos
session of Santo Domingo and
carry on the administration of its
government-for the benefit of
Santo Domingo. This is an abso-
lutte endorsement of the position
taken by Senator Hepburn over
a year ago. The people of Santo
Domingo want to come under the
protection of the United States.
They asked us to extend our au-
throity over them over thirty
years ago, and if we had COM
piled with their request, order
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-02-11
WINS ONCE MORE.
Circuit Court of Appeals Rules in Favor
of Kennedy J. Hanley.

The case of Kennedy ]. Hanley
VS.. the Empire State-Idaho was
again decided in favor of Hanley
by the circuit court of appeals in
San Francisco last Monday.
The defendants had appealed
from the judgment on the ground
that the entire amount granted
was not due Hanley during a GER
tain period of the mines opera
ton. The decision gives Hanley
the full amount of the judgment.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-02-11

j. A. McEachran, manager of
the Elk G. M. & M. company, is
authority for the statement that
his company will resume devel-
opment work on their property in
Elk City district about March 1st.
This company in common with
others experienced the vicissi-
tudes common to presidential"
years, and suspended operations
early last fall. Upon the success
full results attending the Crooked
River company's cyanide tests
becoming known, they, in COM
mon with several others, have
felt encouraged to again go ahead
with renewed confidence and
vigor. According to Mr.. McEach-
ran their company is prepared to
expend $25, 900 at least, and prob
ably as much more, on develop
ment work alone. 1t is their in
tention to drive the present tun-
mel entirely through the mountain
besides running crosscuts either
way beneath the apex, with the
object of determining the width
of the ore body, which on the
surface appears to be several
hundred feet.
The present development con-
sists of $50 feet Of tunnel which
gives a depth of 125 feet, besides
numerous open cuts and shallow
shafts. Values run from $1.5C
to $500 per ton.
The bulk of the stock is held
by Spokan and Jackson, Mich.
capitalists, the latter place being
represented by G. w. Carter anC
N. Potter, the former being treas
urer of the company and the Nc.
Eachran Bros. and James Slavir
being among the heaviest stock
holders Of the former place.
The property owned by this
company isknown as the Alberta'
group and comprises eight claims
situated about three mill south
west of Elk City, is easy of access
and has an abundance of timbe,
and ample water for power.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-02-11
IDAHO
Past, Present and Future, as Viewed by
Robert N. Bell in Mining World.

Idaho first came into promi-.
nence as a gold producer by the
discovery of the Clearwater river
in 1860 at rich placer diggings
on the north fork at a place called
Pierce City,, now situated near
the southern end of Shoshone
county. From there the hardy
pioneers extended their search
over the rugged intermountain
sections of the state, resulting in
the discovery of a dozen other
districts that subsequently be-
came famous producers.
aa According to conservative esti-
mates the placer districts of
Idaho, from discovery to date,
have produced gold bullion to the
value of 5000, 900, 900, and while
the rich and easily available dig
gings is practically exhausted,
the placer product from deeper
ground that has been equipped
with modern machinery at several
points in the state amounted to
over 40 percent. of the 81, ,00C
worth of gold produced by Idaho
mines in 1903.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-02-11

The principal increase in gold
bullion production in this state,
however, will come from its ex-
tensive deposits Of medium and
low grade ores and from it's low
lying placer beds that are being
equipped with hydraulic and
dredging machinery, several
plants Of which have recently
been installed or are in prospect.
The Buffalo Hump district in
Idaho county gives defnate evil
dence Of being able to increase
the output of the state at no dis
tant date by 81, 900, 900 per year.
This is one Of the most promising
gold districts in the west. The
Hump is a hog-back elevation of
eruptive gray granite $500 feet
in elevation, and the highest point
is a densely timbered region of
broad granite ridges and deep
cut canyons so miles square.
The district is traversed by a
well-defined system Of large gold
bearing quartz-hlled assures that
carry pay ore in bodies 5 to 20
feet wide and in places several
hundred feet long.
The Jumbo mine, originally not
considered one Of the best surface
showings, but cropping in the
walls of deep cut canyon, lent
itself to ready development by
adit tunnels, of which it has three,
exposing two ore shoots to an ex-
treme depth of 500 feet, by an
aggregate length of $50 feet, and
from 5 to II feet wide, of $40 to
$12 average gold values, and has
a fourth adit under construction
that promises to double the pres
ent ore reserves.
This property has practically
paid for it's own development with
a four-stamp prospecting mill. II
is now equipped with a 24-stamr
mill that has been in operation
since January l, producing from
$4,000 to SIS, in bullion pei
month, and piling up tailings val
ues Of about $1,000 per month tC
be worked by chlorination.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-02-11
Hump Notes.

G. c. Peck is a late arrival from
the Hump. In conversation with
the Newsman he gaye the follow
ing interesting news notes:
The Concord shaft is down 1876
feet, from which depth drifts and
crosscuts have been run with the
most gratifying results, as it is
demonstrated beyond doubt that
they are in an extensive ore shoot
of exceptionally high grade ore.
The company is working Is men.
The Jumbo is still suffering
from lack of water, but the pow
er plant is nearly ready for oper-
alton, so the end Of this veXatious
condition is at hand.
The Atlas is working is men.
R. c. Bishop is superintendent of
the mill. The management is
contemplating sinking an addi-
tional 200 feet in the near future.
The Big Buffalo is working
quietly and saying nothing, but
are reported in good ore.
NJ. Dobbins has an exception
ally fine showing on the Lost
Lake, which is the south extern
sion Of the Mother Lode No. 2,
the Concord company's banner
property.
Mr.. Peck will remain in camp
for the present.
The Homestake Of South Da-
kota, on three dollar ore, has pro-
duced So, 1913 in dividends every
daVy n hoe ,-,,, fo,. +ha ,ooct +o,-
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-02-11
WILL RESUME MARCH !.
Elk Gold Mining & Milling Co. Will Carry on
Extensive Development Mining
News in General.

A most interesting feature of
the occurrance of these placer
deposits, from the northern end
of Shoshone county to the dirtrict
around Silver city, south of the
Snake river, is that they are al
most invariably confined to the
granite formations. The most
extensive and productive placer
district in the state was that of
the Idaho basin, 40 miles north
of Boise City, which alone is
credited with an output of $780,
100000.
The chief source Of lode or vein
gold produced by Idaho mines in
the past has been mines Of the
Yankee Fork, Atlanta, Rocky
Bar and Silver City, DeLamar
districts. These mines are of the
Comstock type, true fissure veins
in volcanic formations of tertiar
age, containing rich gold and sill
yer bearing silicious milling ores.
Their combined output to date
may be conservatively estimated
at $100, 900, 900, Of which prob
ably $4,000, 1000 was gold and the
balance silver. The mines in
these districts have continued in
more or less continuous produc-
ton for AZ years, three of them,
the Trade Dollar company and
DeLamar, in Owyhee county,
produced gold and silver bullion
of the coinage value of 81, ,663, 600
during 1903. In the light of mod
ern mining experiences the many
evidences of mineral still remain
ing in these famous old districts,
together with the cheaper meth
DDS of milling, now in vogue,
make it safe to predict that they
will continue to produce an i'm
portant yield of precious bullion
for some years to come.
The production of gold in Idaho
especially from original ore sour
ces, and as a by-product from the
. treatment of other ores, is des-
tined to increase very rapidly,
and it is not unlikely that sensa,
tional disclosures may be made II
some Of the more remote districts
, such as hBve characterized the
gold mining history of Colorodo
Rich gold-bearing tellurium oreI
. are reported from several dis
tricts in this state, but the write,
r has only seen the mineral in on,
S Of them, at Elk City, in Idah'
county, where it occurs in bunch
r es associated with gold-bearinl
e pyrites in a ten-foot fssure o
Y white quartz accompanied by
\ small potphyry dyke in walls o
4 Archaean gneiss. The telluriun
n ore was of the variety petite, an,
r occurred near the water level
: Above that level the vein wa
oxidized and was very success
! fully operated during 1903, pro
f ducing bullion to the value 0
!, about $75, 900 with a ten-stam
e mill. Several districts in tn
e granite and porphyry formatio
: further south are rich in fiuorit
|, and fiuorspar, the common assc
r ciationssof tellurides. In man
d instances these districts hav
u been very imperfectly prospecte
o and favorable differences may b
70 drawn from these conditions fo
o the future discovery of rich gol
- Io..oo.+c
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-02-11

would have been established, and
Santo Domingo would have be.
some one of the richest spots on
earth.
Making Appropriations.
Both houses of congress are
now in the midst Of the work Of
passing appropriation bills, and
very rapid progress is being made.
The absence of contention over
these bills has greatly facilitated
their enactment, general debate
on these appropriation bills has
been less this year in the House
than for many years. The House
committees have now practically
completed the preparation of ap-
preparation bills, except those to
come from the appropriation COM
mittee, which has the big sundry
civil bill to dispose of. The navy
appropriation bill is before the
House unusually early, and it will
apparently consume more time in
the Senate and House than any
other supply bill, because Of di-
vergent views as to the construc-
tion Of war ships. There seems
to be- a little disposition, however,
to depart from the committee de-
cision to authorize but two new
battleships.
1t would occasion no surprise,
from the present outlook, if ap-
preparation bills were cleared
away this year, so as to avoid
much of the congestion at the
close of a short session. There
promises to be fewer differences
between the. Senate and House
than in years gone by, and this
may shorten the struggles be-
tween the committees of confer
ence.
To Open Waterway.
The rivers and harbors commit
tee of the house of representa-
tiyes has had under consideration
for some time the question Of. an
appropriation for opening the
Columbia, Snake and Clearwater
rivers to navigation. The COM
. mittee has finally decided to
grant the following amounts:
$4,000, 1000 for opening the Colum-
bia at Cello Falls: $4,000 for
the improvement of the Snake
from Riparia to Pittsburg Land.
ing; besides there is SIP, 900 now
available for that portion of the
work. There is included in TIE
, above an appropriation for a sur
= vey Of the Clearwater river to
investigate the feasibility Of nav
, igation with barges. The entire
congressional delegation from
Oregon, Washington and Idaho
S has been very loyal to this meas
k ure, but the credit for the success
/, of the movement really belongs
d to Williamson, of Oregon; Jones.
n of Washington, and French of
+ Idaho. These three men have
f labored necessarily for this meas
}. ure, and their efforts have finally
! been crowned with SUCCESS.
H The Statehood Bill.
h. The statehood struggle is near
l. ing an end. The opponents o1
IS this bill generally express a will
), lingness to have it disposed witt
$ as early as possible. Hereafter
is discussion will be confined large
$ ly to amendments, and the liquor
d prohibition amendment will re
IS ceive special attention. The op
If ponents Of the bill will endeavol
J. to secure the most liberal change,
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-02-11

The Homestake Of South Da-
kota, on three dollar ore, has pro-
duced So, 1873 in dividends every
day it has run for the past ten
years.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-07-14

amt gsin' t. count the cost nuther.'
He was determined to carry my grip
for me. Hope had friend with her
who was going north in the morning on
our boat. We crossed the ferry and
took Broadway omnibus, while query
followed query.
makes me feel like a flapjack t. ride
n them things" said Uncle Eb as we
got out.
He hired parlor and two bedrooms
for us all at the St. Nicholas.
"Purty middlin steep" he said to me
as we left the Office, sit is, sartin, but
don't care mot bit. When folks
has t. hey good time they've got t
hev it."
We We're soon seated in our little
parlor. There was a great glow.>of
health and beauty in Hopes face. 1t
was a bit fuller, but had nobler out
lines and coloring as delicate as ever.
She wore a plain gray gown admirably
fitted to her plump figure. There was
a new aid splendid dignity In her car
rage, her big blue eyes, her nose with
Its little upward slant. She was now
the we'll groomed young woman of So
ciety in the full glory Of her youth.
Uncle Eb, who sat between us, pinch
ed her cheek playfully. A little spot
Of white showed moment where his
fingers had been; then the pink flooded
over it.
Never see girl git such a smack
as you did" he said, laughing.
We'll" said she, smiling, II guess i
gave as good as got"
Served him right" he said. .You
kissed back good an hard. Gran
sport" he added, turning to me.
Best I ever had" was my humble
acknowledgment. :
Seldom ever see a girl kissed SO
powerful" he said as he took Hopes
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-07-14

tor told me that dad was IN condition
of nervousness that he needed something
to happen to get his mind off of the
awful scenes he had witnessed, and
asked me If couldn't think Of some
thing to excite him, and wake him up.
and then dad said, after he got so he
could go out doors: "Hennery, you have
always been Johnny on the spot when /
needed diversion, and want you to take
your brain apart, and oil the works, and
see If you can't conjure up something to
get my blood circulating, and my pores
open for business, and anything you
think Of goes, and | swear l will not
kick II you scare the boots off of me-"
Well, that was right into my hand.
and set my mind to strike at four p. m.
had been out riding once with the Chi
cago man, in sledge, with three horses
abreast, all runaway horses, and the
driver was Cossack who dashed the
horses into run every smooth place he
found in the road, and it was like run
ming to fire, so got the Chicago fell
low to go with me and we found the Co.'S
sack and he was drunken than usual.
There is kind Of liquor here called
vodka. which skins wood alcohol and
carbolic acid to finish, and when man
is full Of it he is SO mad he wants to cut
his own throat. This driver had put
up sideboards on his neck and had two
jags in one, and we hired him by the
hour.
told the Chicago man the circum-
stances and that had got to get dad
out Of his trance, and he said he would
help me. When was out riding the
day before noticed that the road was
full Of great dane dogs, wolf hounds and
stag hounds, which followed their
masters sledges out in the country, and
the dogs loafed around, hungry, looking
for bones, and fighting each other, so /
decided to get the dogs to chase our
sledge, and make dad think we were
chased by wolves. thought that would
make dad stand without hitching, and
it did.
The Chicago man bought some cannon
frecrackers, and bought cows liver,
and hitched it to rope, and hid it in the
back seat, and my Chicago friend and /
took the back seat, and we got dad in the
seat behind the driver, and started about
an hour before dark out in the country,
through a piece of woods that looked
quite wolfy. On the way out.the driver
let his horses run awaya few times, like
you have seen In Russian pictures, and
dad was beginning to sit up and take
notice. and seemed to act like a man who
expects every minute to be thrown over
precipice, and mixed up with dead
horses. Dad touched the driver once on
the eoat-tail and told him not to hurry
COMPOUNDED fast, and the driver
thought ne was complaining because it
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-07-14

he had told her that I pas contng
home apith G-aeooden legl
tening, unable to get in a word. When
ct last she left him he came to us, a
look Of relief In his face.
II b'lieve.," said he, '1f Balaam's ass
he'd been rode by woman he never d
hey spoke"
why notT inquired.
"Never d hey he'd a chance" Uncle
Eb added.
We were two weeks at home with
mother and father and Uncle Eb. It
was delightful season Of rest in
which Hope and went over the slop:
ing roads of PARKWAY and walked In
the fields and saw the harvesting. She
had appointed Christmas day for our
wedding, and ! was not to go again to
the war, for now my frst duty was to
my own people. II God prospered me
they were all to come to live with us
In town, and. though slow to promise,
could see II gave them comfort to
know we were to be for them ever 9
staff aud refuge.
And the evening before we came
back to town Jed Feary was with us,
and Uncle Eb played his flute and
sang. 4he songs that had been the de-
light of our childhood.
ITO be continued.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-07-14
Dad Sees a Russian Revolution and
Faints-The Bad Boy Arranges a
Wolf Hunt Dad Threatens to
Throw the Bad Boy to the Wolves.
BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.

y = ~ d. 4.
BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, Former Editor
of Peck's Sun, Author of "Peck's
X Bad Boy etc.)
Copyright 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA.-MY
DEAR GROCERYWITZ: Well, sir, dad
and l have got too much of Russia the
quickest of any two tourists you ever
heard of. That skirmish we saw, the
day the Russians blessed the Neva, and
shot blank cartridges filed with old iron
at the car, was not marker to the
trouble the next Sunday, when the work
ing people marched to the Winter Pal
ace. to present petition to the Little
Father
We thought revolution was like q
play, and that it would be worth going
miles to see Dad was IN South Amer
lea once when there was revolution,
where more than dozen greasers, with
guns that wouldn't shoot, put on dozen
different kinds Of uniforms, and yelled:
Down with the government" and
frothed at the mouth, and drank butter
milk and yelled Spanish swear words,
and acted brave. until native soldier
with white pajamas came out with q
gun and shot one of the reyolutionists
In the thumb, when the revolution was
suppressed and the next day the reyolu-
tionists were pounding stone, with can
non balls chained to their legs; and dad
thought a revolution in Russia would be
something like that, and that we could
get on front porch and watch 1t as it
went by, and joke with the revolution,
and throw confetti, like it was a
carnival, but that Sunday that the Rus
sian revolution was begun, we had
enough blood to last us all our lives
We got place sitting on an iron picket
fence, and we saw the people coming up
the street towards the Winter Palace,
dressed mostly in blouses, and looking
as innocent as crowd of sewer diggers
at home going UP to the city hall to ask
for raise In wages Of two shillings q
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-07-14
we righted up, and dad wanted "a

we righted up, and dad wanted I'd
know where all the pups came from that
we had passed. l had been throwing
out pieces of meat into the road for q
mile or SO, and the dogs were having a
picnic. 1t was getting pretty dark by
this time, and we started back to town.
and | threw out my liver, fastened tn
the rope, and the Chicago man, who had
given the driver drink of vodka when
we tipped over, told him, in Russian.
that when the dogs began to follow us. to
get hold Of the liver, to yell Evolves"
and give the team the rein, for five.
mile run, and yell all the time, because
we wanted to give the old gentleman Z
good time.
Well, uncle, would have given any
thing if you could have seen dad, when
the dogs began to chase that liver, and
bark, and fight each other. The driver
yelled something in Russian, and point
ed back with his whip, the Chicago man
said: My God, we are pursued by 4
pack OF ravenous wolves, and there is no
hope for u.s." and began to cry, and
implored dad, if he loved me, to save me.
Dad stood up in the sledge and looked
back. and saw the wolves, and he was
scared, but he said the only thing to do
was to throw something overheard for
them to be chewing on while we got
away, but he sat down and pulled robe
over his head and his lips were moving,
but do not know whom he was address,
ing.
The Chicago man touched of couple
OF cannon firecrackers behind the
sledge, but that only kept the dogs back
for minute, and dad said probably the
best thing to do was to throw me over
board, and let them eat me, and said:
Nay, nay, Pauline" and then think
dad tainted away, for he never peeped
again until the team had run away lot
more, and cut my liver rope, and when
we got into the suburbs of st. Petersburg
the dogs had overtaken the liver, and
were fighting over it.
The driver had to pull up his horses
as we struck the town, and dad must
have got Whit off the drivers vodka
because he come to, and we got to the
hotel all right, and thought dad would
simply die in his tracks, but the ride
and the excitement did him good, and he
wanted to buy a gun and go out wolf
hunting the next day, but our tickets
were bought. and We shall get out OF
this terrible country tomorrow.
Dad woke me up in the night and want
ed to know if saw him when he pulled
his knife and wanted to get out and
fight the pack of wolves single-handed.
l am not much of liar, but l told him
] remembered it we'll, and 1t demon.
strated to me that he was as brave
man as the car, "the Little Jack Rab.
bit. as his people call him.
Well, thanks to my wolf hunt, dad ID
all right again, and now we shall go to
some country where there is peace. /
don't know where we will find 1t, but Il
such country exists, your little Henry
will catch on. if dads money holds out,
Yours, covered with Gore,
HERNERY.