| Show THE FOUR MILE COUNTRY flourishing gold district not far from elk city up in idaho next to the coeur calenes dA lenes in idaho where great activity prevails from one end of the year to the other the mining districts in the vicinity of elk city seem to be bb attracting a great deal of notice and attention at the present time in this section there are a number of gold producers which are responding most satisfactorily to extensive and intelligent development and operation one of the most active and promising districts being the four mile country concerning which the mining news of elk city says dr B S cullen and tommy murray returned the latter part of last week from a visit to the four mile country where they saw and examined nearly all of the leading prospects it was dr cullens first visit to the district in a long time and he was pleased to see the development that has been done on the various properties and the good ore that has been found center star the center star better known as the murphy property owned by james murphy herman brown and charley is tho the best prospect I 1 have ever seen in any district amount of work considered said dr cullen we stopped there tuesday night and anda on wednesday morning we visited the workings they have a tunnel in over sixty feet crosscut which exposes 32 feet of ore which assays essays something better than to the ton they have over ICO tons of ore on the dump that carries equally high values and every piece of ore on the dump showed free gold the rain the night before having washed the rock clean french pete gets ore french pete at the coeur dalene mine I 1 consider the luckiest prospector in central idaho said dr cullen the men who had the property under bond ceased operations when the face of their tunnel was within eighteen feet of the ore shoot and pete drove the tunnel ahead and he is now in the pay shoot and it is very high grade ore As it is pete has brought home the bacon he got had his property developed without cost to him got the girl and now has one of the richest and best gold prospects I 1 have seen twenty feet in buckhorn the duckhorn buckhorn owned by capt J D wooden C E semple and J H kingsley all spokane men has been developed by a tunnel feet in length the past few months and there is shown twenty feet of high grade ore the tunnel cutting th the ledge eledge at an angle the gilt edge has a tunnel eighty feet feed in length exposing an all ore body twenty feet wide all of which pans free gold tommy murray and jack keeman have nine claims across four mile from the buckhorn and several cla claims ims alongside of af it in which the ledge shows up strong and all the float pans inthe the comet is a good prospect james larson is working on a property on the east slope of ten mile which looks good he has a tunnels in eighty feet but expects to have to drive feet farther to get the ore rock taken from an open cut assayed high in gold haas bonds again iw W H harvey foreman for nathan haas the man who had the coeur dalene mine under bond has a force of eight men at work for mr haas on a property on the divide between rabbit creek and sangiam santiam creek the property has the biggest crop pings in the district and it is I 1 should judge a mile distant and on a straight line from the coeur dalene ideal mining region the four mile country dr cullen thinks is an ideal country for mining it is easy getting around it having been burned over there is an abundance of water and from the rock he examined he believes the ore is a telluride deeper down the entire district reminds him of the elk city district in that all the rock picked up panned free gold the center star has six claims all heavily timbered with tamarack |
