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Show SALT LAKE MAN MAKES A' STRIKE IN IDAHO ' J. B. Wolmor of Salt Lake City, who , took a hond for the laurel Hill" group in Elk City, Idaho, district, last summer, sum-mer, has started a crew at work. The property consists of two patented and two unpatented claims. Two crosscut tunnels tapping tho lead at depth, exposed ex-posed considerable rich ore. Including hematite. The claims were located by "Jako" Prichard, one of the few survivors sur-vivors of the eary placer miners. Prichard and a party of prospectors received Information "of the mountains of rocks In the Elk City mining district from the Indians In 1SC0. After tho placer excitement was over, the ldces which furnished th placer gld were prospected and some of them worked on a small scalp. French Kulch. famous fam-ous for Its abundant yield of placer gold, received itg supply from tho Laurel Hill ledge Large pieces of highly mineralized quartz were paektd by mule?, down to American river and there ground up by means of an arras ar-ras t re. |