Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-06-22
w. Bradley and His Associates Acquire Buster Nine

unless it be supported by experience
and demonstrated facts. "a little
knowledge is dangerous thing" and
nothing has the assurance of ignorance.
No industry outside of medicine has af-
forded so many opportunities for the
fakir and charlatan as the mining in
dustry, none has suffered more, and yet
none has accomplished SO much in the
way of grand results. At the same
time it has added millions to the wealth
of the world without taking dollar
from it, and made possible grand things
in many ways.
Mining is Very ExactinS Work.
No industry calls for more thought,
experience and observation. No trifle
is too small to be overlooked, to enable
man to size up mine in particular or
a camp in general in reasonable per-
iod of time. He must know men as
well as mines, or he will find himself on
wild goose chase every morning be-
fore breakfast. have known men to
come into a camp from the east, locate
claim, dig ten-foot hole in the
ground, return east, come back and
evolute into mining expert inside of
two months. The schools are turning
them out each year. All admire and
defend learning. The thing is to apply
it. There is a whole lot in mining, as
in other walks, that is not in the books.
A school of mines or no other can teach
boy to think and observe, which
should be its chief mission. You can
force boy into mining school, but
you can It make him think. 1t is observ-
ing, thinking, remembering and COM
pairing rocks, ore and men that makes
a whole miner. A college supposes
brains, but it cannot furnish them.
The school of life may nurture theory
and turn it into fact. In this hard
school of the hills the best men never
graduate, They are still learning.
There is in every new district some
thing to learn, some one thing, or may
be many that are unlike those of any
other camp. Every new district is a
study by itself. The idea being to find
out the fundamental principles that in
dicate or control the deposition ore bod
les in the camp you are in regardless of
what may apply to other camps.
Faith and Grit Developed Buster.
l claim that every desired indication
of strength, value and continuity of an
ore body exists in these veins, even
where partially developed, evidence
everywhere on the surface and below
and even in the air, is plainly visible to
any man capable of drawing correct in
ferences. There is and have been here
and elsewhere few such faithful and
intelligent souls. The world owes much
to them. A few of them never saw q
school. They did not need the embell-
ishmenfE of learning to imbue them
with ability to discover great mines.
Nature did that.
1t took Dave Wommuck good many
years to talk down the Mount Pisga
fake and make people believe that there
were great gold mines in Cripple Creel
until Stratton came along and proved il
to the world. There is a mighty fasci
mating field in Elk basin for some STRAIT
ton. There are to an experienced eye
few laws, perhaps unwritten, per
tanning to great well defined veins like
these, that are with few solitary ex
ceptions, in the nature of infallablt
guides in estimating the strength o.
weakness of veins of ore, especially
where the surface indications are a.
strong and numerous as they are here
All the veins of, deposits that hav'
proven great mines some where along
their course give certain and sure proc
of the values below. There are NOR,
proofs of high and average gold values
quantity and continuity associated will
the gold veins of Elk basin than can b.
found in any like area in America. i
is not difficult or expensive to proY'
this Jas it is on the desert or in th
jungles of Africa. It may be that it
great natural advantages and access
ibility robs it of enchantment to many
but the gold is here and the faith to ex
pose and ship it is rapidly on the in
crease. JOHN F. LELAND.
A. N. Ingram walks with