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Elk City, Idaho, December 25, 1903
Vol. 5, No. I
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IS A STRONG COMPANY
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The Kamiah Mining Company is IncorpWated With a Capital
t .Çtock of $2,000,000— Have Purchased SixteèP Claims
in Buffalp Gulch — Extensive Development,
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"The Kniniab Mining Company has
been incorporated with a capital stock
of !j!2,000,000. The seven trustees naim
ed for the company are: E. L. Marvin,
James J. Turrish, Minor A. Kinne, in
Robert L. Edmiston/ Wüliam T. Bird
\ sail, Phil Gerhai-t and Harry K. Cross. "
The above notice appeared in the
Spokesman*Review of-Spokane, Wé*te, i
December 10. This company has pur*
chased sixteen daim» in Buffalo Gulch
and neighboring tertittaty and proposes
with the opening of spring, to inaugtt
rate development on a large scale. It* |
property is located tnree and three- j
fourths miles northwast of Elk City on j
-j a veit porphyry dike which has gold in 0
• paying quantities. Very satisfactory
Xsissays have been secut-ed. Besides the
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SPECIAL STÀfE CORRESPONDENT.
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General Manager Hogan and family
have again taken up tlwir residence it
Orogrande. Miss Mar/ De Borde, of
York, Montana, who is Mrs. Hogan's
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Below Is « brief synopsis of the dif
ferent properties in this vicinity;
THE VENDETTA GROUP.
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ha* beer, done, which shows
ettemvow body of free milling q
THE OREGON GROUP.
J. M. Hinton is working on)
off-laims which are located OR top
^ Mr. Hinton is stopifl|p utoTJ
gi-adt ore which will ue to 1
^^rimastra in the spring.
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The MtNirrô News is iffformen upon
gcWd authority that the Kamiah Mining
company has large financial backing
and is among the strongest comp ante*
Elk City dft%rrct. Thfe''5vffi be aval
uable addition to the mining interests
of this locality, and it is euch companies
that propose to spend thousands of dol
1ai*s frt devetepmont during «oming
year that aid in bringing tJ*e ÿMMtibtf
ities of the Elk country before the
world ûftèl -aid m attracting the capital
that must first be interested before
Ike district can be properly introduced
to the rmrÄVkg 'Céorld.
At the first meeting of the trustees
f the Kamiah company, E. L. Marvin
^ e]ccted president; william T. Bird*
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sail, secretary and M. A. Kinne, treas
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urer. Headquarters of the company
will be in Spokane.
STAMP MILL
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mining enterprise of. great magnitude,
s now being successfully completed in
our district, namely. Le Roy gold min
ing company, incorporated under the |
laws of the state of Washington, with !
a capital stock of $1,000,000, at $1 par j
value per share. The main office of the '
company is in Philadelphia with its
manch office in Spokane.
■■be property ernsists of nine full
1 is situated one and one-half
.north of the famous Hogan mine
^^^^Htwenty stamp mill. Within its
ytwlMnFte Le Roy property has a great
JppHfii ce of wood for :!1 purposes, as
nr a water power sufficient to run
ten. »I imps in all seasons. It* ore bod
'iaDÄverage 300 feet wide and are of the
A new, and what promises to be
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^brrnat m as the Hogah mmé ■
PPuntione-i. which latter promises to he-.
i»ome the greatest producer of gold o„
the contient, as a low grade proposi
tion, the great advantage of the Hogan
formation being that two or mdre tons
can be milled per stomp,
even superior to twenty stamps on other
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of its ore
while a single tea « being milled in the
average quartz tnhie.
of tliis kinâ, ten stamps
Thus, on a mine
aie equal and
free milling properties.
A great number of assays prove
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ore dejxrails on !>■ Roy average f.-orn Jf2
to $24 per ton and the main objaset in
erecting the present mill is to tlioiougli
ly de n lui-st rate, by JV ill test, the exact
oummtiicial valtw; of tlicse vast
depouite.
FuiGhermore, De Hoy owns on
bhfc I ivt '1 gl out wau-i pOWC -1 loi
the innta) latiuti of an electric
plant tf 1000 horse power sulli-1
citml to nuit and pi'olit by itE
iiiiincuse bodioB of ore now in
sight.
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MR. HOGAN HOME
Will Make Several Changes in t>hc
Mill at. Orogrande
General Manager Wm. Hogan, of the
Crooked River Minn. g & Milling Co.,
who has been outside for the past two
months, has returned to Orograndc.
Mr. Hogan will make several important
changes in the mill this winter. New
copier plàtÊé will be installed, the ore
b; ns ^vift be remodelled somewhat and
sevo ^a5 nedc^tory changes will be made
to the handling of orts
Mp Hogim^while oh his eastern, trip.
stopped off at Lead and DeaûiXvtroch
South Dakota, whenfe ne kteked over
some of the gold in thài suction,
amon g theWi the faiftous Homestake!
which haâ almost one thousand stamps
dropping. The capacity of this mill is
about 4000 tons per day. While the
margin of profit is small the immensity
of the plant makes it a good dividend
paye?-.
Mr, Hogan, while enthusiastic over
what he has seen in tire Black Hills,
believes that the immense bodies of
free milling ore in this vicinity will,
with development, equal or surpass
anything in the Black Hills. —OrosgVandc
Correspondence.
WORK ON ABERFOILE
Company is Pushing Development and
Will OMrtirtue All Winters.
The wovfc bf developing the Àberfoile
mine is beîiig pùshed steadily forward
and will continue during the winter.
This property consists of ten claims
located on whiskey creek, about five
miles northwest of Elk City. There
are known to be six quartz Veins- tra
versing this fine group and a porphyry
dike over 100 feet wide.
The quartz
veins range from two to twenty feet in
width and ail of them, as well as the
porphyry, return assays that warrant
future dividends. About 700 feet of
practical werk hos been placed on the
property and arrangements to build a
mill next summer are completed. The
management of this mine is modest in
expressing the situation, the board of
i control Is imbued to tet the work speak
■ for itself and when the mill start* it is
not likely to stop. 'There is a Vast de
potet of ore that will give returns for
decades to come once tlie reduc
tion i 3 property inaugurated.
T5lfi company was organiz
£<j & y< ^. v/itl f headquarter at
, Sp$>kwie> Prof. Walter C. Brower is
piVtitdent> j. v . Wiuchnm, secretary, A.
V. Chamberlain, assistant secretary
and G VV. Rucket, treasurer. Prof!
lhx>wer is manager of the work ut the
mine. Probably less 1ms been said
about tills groug of claims and
work done t)vm in the case of. any min
. ing projjerty 1« Idaho.
The company is bjuurmrily strong and
j has been carefully and oconor.iicn.Uy
managed. D, D. McFarland, who
been foreman of t!*e ALmm-IoIU- nan
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from tlie date of ir.uuguru
work, lint proved to be tlie
in Uw right place
.tie« of
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Our Protest made Effective
Very Encouraging Reports Received From Washington, D. C.,
Regarding Remonstrance Sent to Senators Dubois and
Hey burn. —Prompt Action Taken
The citizens of Elk City and district
will teng remember November 29, 1903. its
On that memorable day our local
Déclaration of Independence was prac
icaliy made, In our old town hall, under it
the Stars and Stripes bespangling its
ceiling and walls of roughly hewed logs
that grew on these noble hills, here in
'God's own country, ' '
Indeed, never Were the people of this
whole sectioÄ more firmly determined
than since that meeting to enforce their
rights, as free-born American citizens,
not of any one special class, but of ail
classes alike, and burst the miserable
bonds of red-tape, that have to ute-iec
esarily and ridiculously, but most an
noyingly hampered and irritated them
since the last few years.
In fine, the nnited community of
Elk City and district now begs the sec
retary of the interior to fully under
stand that this free, enlightened and
patriotic section of the 'Mnland empire''
is no place whatever for red-tape ' 'rules
and regulations" so-called, which are
the quint-essence of stupidity from a
practical standpoint, and which can
alone breed contempt for the real laws
of the land, cause untold annoyance and
injury to the best class of citizens and
ultimately petty official corruption and
brutality to the detriment of the whole
community at large.
In other words, we are wow living un
der a state of things that our people
cannot and will not longer tolerate.
On the one hand, it is absolutely con
trary to the spirit and letter of our na
tional laws and constitution. While,
on the other hand, the remedy is very
simple, indeed, provided cur direct and
popular representatives are listened to
at Washington, thus causing bureau
j '- rn ^* c littleness t_ give dciTinitely away
! to American manliness.
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We all love, respect and practically
I adore" Uncle Sam. '' To us no king,
I or P rcsuicnt is or can **
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fortunately, however, we cannot deal
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with the grand ideal of our
i ,ultion ' but must his 8ub oi-di
. As say the French: "It is far
better to deal directly with God than
with ^ And ^
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f&,cibI >' realized than when dealing j
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Now ' h '' wevc ' r " th * °" !1 10 rol ' : '*f 1
proi>e. Ws and in the nght di
Uur energetic protest of tlu
"* >th u : "** ijfcen , heait in mgli
lUarUrs, and is ahoody being made ;
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lÿicl t:;a> rest of tlw couuuittee
on the 29th sent a strong p
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the Lewiston Tribune published in
morning columns the energetic let
sent it by Dr. Strong respecting
our meeting of protest on the very day
was held. And we take pleasure irj
thanking the Spokesman-Review, of
Spokane, Wash., for the following that
tiers,
appeared in its recent issue of Deo.
18, in favor of our just cause :
ELK CITY SENDS A PROTEST
Odious Rules and Regulations by For
est Reserve Agents.
Dubois Takes The Matter Up
Early Closing of a Portion of the Bitter
Root Forest Reserve is Probable.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 17—Senator
Dubois has deceived the remonstrance
of a mass meeting of the citizens of
Elk City, Idaho, against the rules inv
posed by agents at the Bitter Rcot
Forest Reserve. Chargea of burden
some rules and regulations to which the
citizens and miners are subjected wt re
sent, including copies of permits, appli
cations, etc., that Vvepe of such a na
ture as said to annoy and harass ser
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The senator took up the matter per
sonally with Gifford Pinchot, chief of
the forestry bureau, who assured him
the early closing of a portion of this
reservation was contemplated by the
department, and the senator was asked
to request his people in Elk City to send
affidavits, maps, etc., to sustain their
contention that a portion of the reserve
should be eliminated.
The îffiNiNG News will keep its lead
ers fully posted of the progress and
phases of our legitimate fight agains"
unwarranted rules and rtgt latlon» -
the reserve that can only lead to official
injustice, petty tyranny and blackmail
in our midst. And we will ever be the
faithful and vigilant servants of the
whole community in this, as in ail other
matters pretaining to its prosperity.
In fact it was with this special erd
ip view that the founding ol the MIN
ING News was hastened at the present
time.
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S. W. Smith left on the seventeen »'
. an extended trip to Butte, Mont.,
an(j Utah, and may possihiy
cxU , nd gg. vt8 jt fto ban Fronc-su.
S. W. SMITH AWAY.
Goes to Butte and Salt Lake on a Easi
ness arid Pleasure Trip.
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with pleasure and wid endeavor to in
terest capital iu the vaikjs clsiinr tlwr
la.- owns in this locality. For twei.i .
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