Show RUSH INTO TENMILE TEN MILE mining news elk city idaho A second stampede of prospectors into the south fork country set in the first of the week from this point and at noon thursday not more than twenty men could have been found in elk city the discovery of twenty feet of rich god ore by york and king across the river and about three miles from harmon morrows rich discovery and the same distance from the south fork mine induced the new rush the new discovery was made saturday to illustrate its value two pieces of ore the size of a walnut were mortared and panned and a string of colors turned out that reached clear around a miners pan miners and prospectors are ashing j in from all sides the south fork trail all the way to grangeville Grange ville is said to be lined with newcomers new comers two stages left stites wednesday morning with nine passengers the driver on the newsome stage reported twenty men stopped at mud springs tuesday night the best indication of the number of men along the river is found in the large orders of meat and provisions that go out of elk city every day A half of a beef goes to mud springs and newsome on every stage the south fork river was too high to cross with safety the first of the week any many down stream came up to the bridge across red river on the elk city orogrande Oro grande road in that way the news of the new strike came to elk city early among the first to go from here we learn were engineer W C mcnutt assayer M F ed geist W F newton jack billy mathews frank joe stilwell charley chippe Wh ippe A W davis E L schnell W A patterson joe brown others have gone from their prospects in the hills around elk city in all there are probably men prospecting along the south fork river between newsome an and id the center star mine |