Show NEW NEAR ELK CITY company plans extensive development and mine and mill equipment I 1 II mining iliin news elk city idaho one of the largest and best pieces of development work ever undertaken in the development work ever undertaken in the elk city district district has just been started on american river for some time past it has been known that parties had under bond the group of claims owned by J H williams and that preparations were under way for considerable work but not until now has anything definite been given out the welch tunnel gold mining company compa ny has been organized and have made application for a charter their organization will be complete for business early in september they have taken up a mill site and water right below the new bridge on oil american river one and one half miles from elk city and have also taken up a tunnel site for a lar large lare e drainage and working tunnel work 0 on n which has already been started to intercept by crosscutting cross cutting first the black pine and later the june bug group of claims which they have taken under bond from J H williams the purpose of the company is to develop first the black pine veins and later the june bu bug claims the tunnel will give to 1000 feet of sloping round ground above we main level the tunnel will cut the veins at ab about out right angles and as each vein is cut drifts will be run to extract the ore from the various shoots which have been opened on the surface and in the shallow shafts and tunnels this has been proven to be a rich property by the very extensive placer work over a greater portion of th por perty where the various ore shoots have been washed off and have given some of 0 the richest placer results known in this district the mill site and water right adjoining the main tunnel will provide a location for a mill to be driven by electric power and it is the purpose of the company to install as soon as possible a stamp mill concentrating plant and air compressor to handle the ore which has already been opened up and the rich placer quartz which has been uncovered and stacked up during the workings of th placers the company is composed of philadelphia business men already interested in ill mining in this state and in the so southwest I 1 it I 1 i ivest effort is now beiji being 1 made to 11 get et the machinery for the mill hauled in this fall R kemp welch manager t of the idalia champion is consulting engineer and general ent manager of this property J I H 1 williams locator of the blade black pine and the june bug groups discovered this in 1902 during the times of the working of the old turin diggings which adjoin the northeast end of the property one of the rich and extOn sive diggings in the early days of this district which made elk city known as one of the richest placer workings in the united |