Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-06-08
EXPERTS OPINIONS
OF ELK DISTRICT
John F. Leland Says Extravaganza and Misrnan-
agement Has Held Country Back,

suit is failure, Men who have amassed
fortunes in other lines of industry by
the application of enterprise and good
business methods will Immediately upon
beihg identified with mine separate
themselves from all the business and
common sense they ever possessed, and
act in such way as to make the aver
age lunatic appear perfectly sane.
That which will plainly result in fail
ure should be prevented if possible.
Every silent mill or plant is an eyesore
and detriment TO the district, even
though the mine may be good. Above
all this condition makes it doubly hard
to obtain aid to open up prospects of
known merit. There is something akin
to this condition here.
Developed Mines the Key to Success.
A few well developed mines or few
small successes is worth more to the
town and camp than dozen idle plants.
Find the mines first; develop :, them.
You can manufacture a mill any time,
but not mine. Mines grow to success
by the application of the same pripci-
pies that build up any other industry.
The big ones have been made.by COM
bination of industry, pluck; hope, good
luck, hardship, common sense, faith and
self sacrifice, upon which all success in
b,,v,,or offoi~o dapard Tbo fc~v,o,,Io ;c
simple. There is nothing complicated
or mysterious about it.
The high grade of gold ore that is
now exposed here, and that has been
shipped, if generally known as it should
be. would create stampede of capital
to this section inside of 80 days.
We are living in an age when by some
means you must let the world know
what you have. This applies to min
ing camp as well as to good brand of
flour or tobacco. A camp can be made
popular by the same methods. / do not
mean by indiscriminate, senseless ex-
aggeration, but by pushing the merits
to the front. The Rio Grande R. R.
issued one pamphlet on Cripple Creek
at cost of $24, 600 for circulation in New
York and Europe. This made the camp.
If advertising will make fake sue
cess, why not apply it to a proposition
of merit, such as exists here. If a
great camp can be built up down in ar
inaccessible, desolate, barren desert,
without wood Oh water, not possessing
ore half the merit that is in Elk basin
to begin with, why can it not be done
here? The same forces put into actor
here will certainly produce the same
grand results. No close observer Of
this district can doubt this for a mo-
/ ment.
District Offers Great Opportunities.
Any experienced observer or mining
man who is enterprising, and who know!
the indications of mine when they
stand up in front of him., and has tn,
ability to grasp and appreciate the con
ditions that great mining success re
quires, will find scope here for unlim
tied enterprise and sure basis fo
operations on grand scale, for it is NJ
:. small affair when viewed as whole
Such a man could make millions fo
himself and for others, add millions t
the wealth of the world, and at tn
!, same time bring into existence one 0
! the greatest. gold camps in America
/, All the needed factors are here to wor
on. Strong, we'll defined veins of un
usual strength and continuity possess
ing every feature indicating depth
n High grade ore as can be found any
: where. The unusual width Of the vein
e guarantees the quantity of the ore
n The average values are equal to an
;, and far above most of the best camps
The extraction of values is not Difficult
S of solution, not as much so as at Crippl
e Creek. The presence of tellurium con
4 bined with thet sulphides and free gol
: tends to warrant high values. In add
Il ton to these are great volumes of waite
e power, an abundance of timber, goo
d climate. The application of minin
+ brains, experience, judicious, we'll d
! rected effort and advertising will max
u it great camp, as it has others.
g What is the matter. with Elk basir
> anyway? JOHN F. LELAND.