The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-04-03
LETrERs FROM CHERRY CREEK
CHERRY CREEK, March 27. 1879.

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CHERRY CREEK, March n, 1879.
EDrron NEWS Knowing your anxiety 70 ~
local news from different parts Of the county,
Thought / would drop you q few lines from TINS
camp.
The Teacup Company have their shaft DOWN
$50 feet The fourth level has cut the "inA0'
and presents = fine bodyof black metal ore.
second south level has been started, anu -
Saturday last they cut another chimney OF very
rich ore. II 10 intended that this level shall DC
continued : distance Of about 400 feet. The pres
ent level is in 232 feet. The company's mill Is
kept constantly running, and to-day they snip
ned one bar of bullion valued at Sl,l00. iney
are also working the Geneva mine, with very
Gathering nrospects. The tunnel in this mine IS
now in IS feet.
In the Star mine they have struck it richer
than ever at a depth of $50 feet. Returns rom
some of this ore, sent to San Francisco, give S4oo
DER ton and second class ore, milled at Cherry
| Creek, yields over 500 per ton. The last bar OF
bullion shipped was 9S4 fine. and contained 81
4o4 in silver, and $3.50 80 in gold, making a total
Of 81. 1853 50. This being the ffty-seyenth bar
| shipped by this company upto the present time.
By the looks of Charley Keeney and Dickinson,
l should Judge they had a " big bonanza"
The Flagstaff mine has been bonded to Mr.. W..
81. Duren and others.
Work on the Exchequer mine is being vlgor-
ously prosecuted under the superintendent OF
Mr.. Williams. They have just struck a large
body OF water at q depth of go feet. The COM
/ pany propose to put up extensive pumping ma
chinery, and will then have enough water to run
a mill. On the first level a drift Of 200 feet has
been run.
The mines in this district are looking better
than 1 have eyer before seen them.
Sheriff Raum arrived in town today. and i'm
mediately went to the Chance mine and levied
an attachment on the property-at whose in
stance l do not know.
A little sunpleasantness'' occurred here last
Thursday night. Constable Henry "clubbed"
two Cornishmen, Jimmy Mellow and Tommy
Mitchell, with a pistol. Nice business for a
: peace ofhcer."
Little Maggie Cameron died here last Thurs
day morning.
Mr.. Jacob Greenwood has married Miss Ber-
tina Abrams. This was the first wedding in Cher
ry Creek. CHERRY.
CHERRY CREEK, March %, 1875.
Ed. NEWS My last letter was replete with
promises. I said it was only a 9 preface to fu-
ture communications" "Only this and moth
ing more, " ! might have added, had I been gifted
with prophetic wisdom. IpEomised to describe
some of our mines with their dips, spurs, an
giles, sinuosities and variations, but alas for
human expectations. Our mines and all the
above concomitants are as profoundly mystic
rious to me to-day, as is the report Of Professor
Whitehill, State Mineralogist, who tells us that
we have granite, slate and quartzite. and that
our lodges remain just as they were formed, no
disturbance having taken place since the Al
mighty fiat ent forth let there be silver in
Cherry Greek" and there was silver, with a pro-
viso for a little gold. Wethank the Great Archi-
tect that He has not complicated our = bonanza"
and we thank the little fellow. Whitehi1l, that
he has expressed no original opinion, to mislead
those who do not Know him.
Our mines remain in statu quo, and the statu is
a good one, when the lingual embargo is re-
moved, and when my ship comes in" / will
tell you all ! know, which I can do so briefly
hat it will scarcely annoy you or your readers
at present I can only gossip.
For the past few days we have had many ar
rivals and some departures. The most notable
of the former, were Sheriff Raum and Capt.
Strickland. Do you know i" Cap ?'-one of White
Pines earliest settlers. He has Haunted the
. stars and stripes" from the masthead Of his
brave Yankee ship in the principal ports of the
world. He has run his ship past the guns of an
arrogant power, which claimed the right of
search, when they were laundering, halt +! in
unmistakable tones. He has mixed a cocktail
which would tempt angels from heaven, or even
Beecher, to " step down and out" to imbibe.
Notwithstanding that he and Sheriff Raum. or.
that he or Sheriff Raum did break down the bed
at Cherry Greek on the night of their arrival
here, / say, " give the old man another chance"
More anon. vALpEs.
INFORMATION WANTED.-W. w. Miller.
of Bucyrus, Ohio, is DESTROYS OF learning
the present whereabouts of Francis Lewis
Miller. what he is doing, and his Post
Office address. When last heard from.
said F. L. Miller was at Hamilton, White
Pine. Mrs. Margaret Mahon, whose adj
dress is No. 80 Pier street, Cleveland.
Ohio, desires to hear from her brother.
Patrick Coffey, who was at Truckee at
last accounts.
TRANsPoRTING.-Rufe Shoemaker, of
the Grass Vallou Hnso.