Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-03-30
Letter from White Pine.
HAMILTON, wHrrx PINE, March 10. Iss

GUS locality, and Oh, Ye Gods, What SELL |!
Treasuse Hill, q mountain of less extent than
War Eagle, is the only place in White Pine
District that the oldest inhabiiant, or any
other man claims to be worth d-n, and it I
is plasiered over with claims ten feet deep
on tho surface, and reaching to the regions
OF Pluto, Esq. Before three months there /!
will be another coat OF plaster--the hard
coat and finishing touch, composed of the
curses of bilked Capital, bilked Labor, sold
fools and disappointed men OF all sorts thick
enough, deep enough, and saturated sufli
GENTLY with sulphur TO keep the famous hill
called Treasure, burning thousand years
after Hill gives out, her 1res extinguished
and her Goals consumed
The silver ore found here is different from
any have ever seen from any place, and be-
lore one becomes good judge Of the metal
liierous rock he must learn his lesson as this
region teaches ii, and after becoming expert
in the selection Of ores lac has harder lesso
deposits of Treasure Hill all experts are bad
ly beaten. Holes q cannot call them shafts
sunk anywhere in Chloride Fiat from ten
TO fourteen feet deep seem to strike bed OF
| orc, OF what thickness have been unable to
learn, and most Of the claimants and jump
ers appear to be afraid 10 sink for fear they
may 90 through the deposit, and lind their
mine Of limited extent ! will not say for
certain, but l do not believe there is hole
on Chloride Flat twenty feet deep Ny own
opinion is-but / am no eXpert-that the
country rock once in tho worlds history,
lying fiat has received the metalilerous de-
| post in series Of layers, alternated with
deposits of limestone, and is these deposits
| lie nearly as nature at first disposed them,
they are still found lying ilat, or nearly so
near the top Of the uiountain, while lower
down and near the base of the mou ntain
the rocks beiung tilted to an angle OF 40 deg.
more or less, Lodges may be found with
distinct walls, loot and hanging, instead of
roof and floor as ON Chloride Flat
The above opinion is gwen merely as a
hint to the incoming army OF litigants to let
them know what | can do in the expert wit
ness line, if only property encouraged
Considerable building IS being done both
in this place and Treasure City, but lumber
is worth from three to five hundred dollars
per ii, ana sufficient for the demand not ia
be had at that, while take note yc chips
there are carpenters enough here to build
New York or any other Tar wing town in a
week
Living is very liberal here-yOu can get
a reasonably square meal for one dollar and
| Gftyscents. and one not quite SO square for
one dollar, so you see in this "Poorm ans
Paradise - poor fellow with Il good appetite,
three-mcal appetite, can live for three dollars j
day for grub and one dollar for lodging, cor
raj fashion; single rooms partly furnished
SIS per night; completely furnished from
$40 10 $40 according to style of furniture
sleep corral fashion and haven't needed any
extra furniture in mine up to the present.
Carpenters get from eight to ten dollars
per day, and common laborcrs fiyei miners
get from i've 10 six.
OF outside districts, Patterson is now at
tracing more attention than any other, and
ten or fifteen left here for that place to-day.
Ex-would-be-G Gov Murphy, late OF Idaho, Is,
understand, Recorder Of the district |
have good and sufficient reason to believe
Patterson Dist. will rival this IN all respects.
After Patterson has played its part, the smart
alexis have Grant District, already some
what talked Of and dozen or fifteen others
ready to take their turns as bilks superlatlYe-
TO wind up about the mines, would not, II
1 I was a fortunate owner, give the Golden
Chariot. Ida Elmore or Poorman for all the
mines in White Pine District, excepting the
one located in four days ago. Ny mine Is
rich thing, indeed, worth fifteen or twenty
millions. at least. intend to sink on it day
and night, and open enough to develop It's
resources if it breaks my back.
Black eyes and a man with head on Is
quite a common thing, and one or two Shoot
ing matches have taken place Smallpox
: nreyails to some extent, generally terminal
ing fatally. Pneumonia and bad colds to
very great extent When first arrived IL
was pleasant and agreeable weather, ard inc
: snow was nearly all gone, but for over a weei
| mast it has been storming almost constantly
! and the ground is now covered WIN aDou !,
SIX inches of snow, stopping prospecloTs Il
i their work.