The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-04-10

smooth and val defined, from two to seven
faet anart. The ore 10 nearly white, much q
Il aoff "a wax, streaked with hard, dark slate,
Also containing gold. A mill eats but slowly
into . we'll delfned rich lode like this. In
deed, if the tein continues good, the only
point of exhaustion viii 10 when il is worked
so deep that 10 orc viii not pay the expense
Of raisuG 70 tho surface-A very remote ons
in these days Of hosting BY steam. Twenty
Eve miners ate enployed in taking out the
ore-half working ~ day and halt by night
sTnndex tina ten houra systam. looming stne
s'day gang at their substantial dinner in the
log boAtdinR house hard by, we found them
young men, and peculiarly intelligent-like
nost working gold and silver miners every
Next We visited the Minnesots, opened 81
feet in depth. The lode, IS inches, thick at
the surface, was widened to three feet; and
the ore is believed to average 500 20 the
tim. Now. on the bleakest summit of War
EAGLE. the freezing wind stung our faces and
stnnped our breath. We saw stakes innumer-
able. marking the course Of lodges; and
shafts, tunnels and bitches without limit;
for prospecting and developing mines
There is one series of work, where an Dragon
Company spent 800, 900 in seeking to strike
certain ledge of known richness, without
finding it. After viewing asjnumber OF other
veins, our last visit was 70 the Hays Kay,
owned by the New York and Owyhee Com
pany. Three shafts are begun, the deepest
twenty-five feet, and a tunnel thighty eight
| feet; and Developments going on rapidly. The
vein TINS far Il from one to three feet wide,
| the ore is almost white, and so soft that one
| may cut it with knife, and very rich
| From portions taken out in my presence
picked sheets of native silver as large IN area
as half dollar. Its average yield promises
to be greater that any other ore have seen.
Higher up on The lode was pointed Fort
Baker, q log building fronted BY stone breast
/ works, and its walls pierced for rifles Ye
who listen with creduity to the whispers Of
fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phan
toms hope, who believe silver minting .
pacific pursuit and suppose quartz mills MOI
subject to bombardment, attend to the history
of Fort Baker and the .tPoorIpan War.
The Hays & Ray lode, as claimed ane
staked in August last, was LOCO feet long
A month later, other parties claimed ane
staked for l, 400 feet 9 lode which they caaet
the Poorman, crossing the Hays l. Ray nea
the middle at an acute angle, the two line
Of stakes exactly representing the letter \
The Poorman@ party began to work thei
alleged lode, not at either end, but at thu
very point Of crossing the Hays h Ray; ant
theirs struck POCKET or chimney. OF ore o
unprecedented richness-indeed almost pur'
silver. Portion Of this ore actually yieldes
by the mill process, SO to 90 per cent 0
silver-a result never before equAled il
mining history, and giving rise to thelreport
that Idaho miners had found the solid silve
in "clunks'' as large as cradle boxes. 1t i
claimed that they took out $3.50, 600 in tw'
1 weeks. They certainly harvested larg
quantities of ore, and carried it away b,
night, on the backs Of mules, oyer tn
mountains to be crushed in Portland. Oregon
Probably it is the first silver ore everdiscov
cred which would pay to steal or tp carr
500 miles in a crude state.
The Hays & Ray claimed that the Poor
man Ledge did not exist, but that the advers
party were taking out and reducing their ore
The ssPoorman, "(it might be more exact t
say the Poormen, though they would no
, have been poor long had tins continued, nc
only denied this, but, with an armed force
drove off the Hays 4 Ray workmen from
portion of the ledge, and threatened blood
warfare unless they could have thei
rights" After long investigation Judg
i Myron Kelley of the United State
District Court granted an injunction, re
straining the Poorman party from, TAX
ing out more ore at present-orderlni
both contestants to sink their shafts and trac
f their lodes to the disputed point-that a jur
might determine which actually owned tn
ground. This decision, obvious just an
equitable, caused intense indignation anon
the discomftted suitors. 1t was even threaten
f ed to tar and feather the Judge, and a stron
attempt is being made for his removal
, Still this is better than the early days c
!, Nevada, when in great quartz cases, on
party, and somtimes both, used to buy tn
1 witnesses, jury, sheriff prosecuting attone
7 aud judge The man in the play must hav
lived in b mining region before he learne
the profound truth that Honesty is the roo
of all evil and money is the best policy.
4 A. ID. r.