Show MORE STRIKES AT FOUR MILE news elk city idaho the new four mile country which sprang into existence a few weeks ago is now one of the best districts if not the best district in central idaho its rank having been given first by the howard and lackie backle strike and by rich discoveries that have been made since and are still bein being 0 made in the district according to reports that appear to be reliable there are more prospectors at work along four mile six mile and ten mile than in all the rest of the districts in central idaho the number is estimated to be in the neighborhood of since the howard and abid lackie strike new recruits have been going in at first the snow was a serious drawback and travel was slow but the past two weeks the travel has been so great that it borders close onto a stampede new arrivals are going in by way of newsome and oro grande and the latter place Js is almost de populated the new strike by R L wisdom and A C carpenter last week on ten mile appears to be the greatest sensation of all mr wisdom reports to as this paper that samples ot of the rock carry as high as in gold to the pound and assays essays made at the butte and orogrande Oro grande mill show an average of the lead is a blind lead but float has been found along its course for a distance of feet the shaft at the discovery point was down only two feet saturday but mr wisdom valued the ore on the dump at 1500 mr wisdom says there is p finety of timber for development purposes within easy reach and that there is an immense water power that is not now in use th the new strike is about two miles from the howard lackie strike it joins the franklin and the buckhorn properties and is just a short distance from peter coer dalene property which is proving to be a rich mine under the development work now being done by a company of spokane mining 0 men near the new strike also is the property that was sold last week by james murray and andrew henry to spokane parties james larsen acting as middle man |