The weekly miner., 1880-08-03
THE CATARACT DISTRICT.
" HoggIng" Locations and ExtravaEant
Vniuation-AOm OF the mere PrOmi.
neut I.sdes or the District-Early Days
OF . Rich Camp.

Parties coming to this camp would do well
to bring their blankets with them. Tools
and provisions can be purchased hare at reas-
enable figures, and good board al So per week
can be found at either Of tho towns men-
toned above.
In this district about 800 lode claims have
been lorared aud recorded and probably as
many more are unrecordea. 1t appears more
regard las been paid to the quantity that
could be taken than to their quality. Several
men here each own d dozen Or more claims.
| don't say they are mines, or even lodes, but
meEcly claims upon some of which = small
hole. probably large enough in which to bury
a cat, has been dug--a notice posted up
stakes set, aud claim recorded in due aud
lawful form.
So far as one can see no wall of lode, ana
in many instances 40 lode has been discov-
e~ed that would justify this procedure. Yet,
under the law As it is low interpreted, claim
ants can hold the ground against all parties
until the lst day Of january, 1852. One
man told nle he had already disposed OF sew
eral claims and had only twenty lett l am
inclined to think that during the coming year,
when 1t will become necessary to represent
these claims by the usual amount Of annual
labor, their owners will prove non est, and
that parties who desire to prospect will lind
abandoned claims by the dczen, upon which
good lodes may be found. II the meantime,
however, prospectols who come at this late
day must be content to skirnish around be-
You'd the outer wall Of stakes which inclose
All area several miles in diameter, but cap
italists desifous of investing their surplus
thousands in lode property can here find an
opportunity to become fall owners Of the
numerous /" Little Joker" and Grand Hum
bug" lodes with which the district aDounds,
for the triflIus sum Of $1,000 or $4,000.
OF course in new mining camp like this,
where the lodes crop out in such generous
profusion, there may be found men ho are
disposed to .'gobble' everything in sight
Yet there are others who have concentrated
their labor and means in the development of
one or two lodes and by so doing have shown
up mines which will bear a reasonable market
BY your permission L propose to notice
some Of the most prominent. The reader
will please bear in mind that as every claim
is not lode, neither is every lode mine.
A man may have a good prospect for mine
and still 1t may turn ont to be only mass If
worthless rocks, while on the other hand a
bonanza may be buried beneath an apparently
| valueless pile OF rubbish. The assay value
| of the rock is given as | received it flom the
owners Of the iodss or from parties having
! the lodes in charge. Sampled ore must be
understood to be ore taken from every part
of the ledge, all pounded together, thorough
| ly mixed and a portion thereof assayed
| The amount of tho assay value means that
amount or value per ton. As there are many
who read your paper who are not familiar
wi il the terms used, have thought this ey-
pl4nation necessary, The lodcs mentioned
below were visited between the 1st and 18th
day Of the present month.
Mono lode-This lode is situated two and
one-half miles above Col. Blacks station, on
Red Rock creek. Owners are JAS. Moore
Jas. Pardee, 5. G. Ash and Tom Doushelty
At depth of 10 feet the vein is 3 feet wide.
Samples assaysd A oZ. TO 70 o. III silver
This lode yields smelling ore, the only one
have seen in the district that is composed al
together of this class Of ore.
West Point fode-On the opposite side OF
the creek from the above, owned by Berry
Miller and Tom Rudssell--two colored bows
who have been here about year. The lode
shows some galena and is very rich in silver
Montana-Near the same, owned by same
parties, vein 5 to feet in width, very rich in
/ gold. With common hand mortar the boys
have pounded out gold eroush at odd time,
to dstray their expenses. This lode is ev
IDENTIFY Oh one of the western extensions O.
4 the great Boulder lode. The Mcdaniel boys
! l was told, have very rich gold bearing lode
near here. They were absent and not visit
the lode.
The Sacramento and Salmon lodes. owne,
Z by Hines & Evans, are located in this vicinity
The lodes are reported to be rich in silver.
Boulder Lode.-Ths at present is the min,
= OF the district. 1t was discovered last fall b.
g n. ID. Hathaway, an old typo, one of th
founders Of the Independent, and Pete
e Brown. They recently sold it to Mes,r,
e Lawson d Allport for the sum of SIS, 600. TN
v mile IS developed by five shafts from 30 to 6
IS feet in depth, the extreme end shafts beu
l. 800 feet apart. Two shafts are sunk uno
c the main lode, in which the vein is found I,
be from to 16 feet wide. and three shaf,
!. are sunk upon the north stringer or feede,
m which runs parallel with the main lode ahor
at oo iest from it. The width of the vein i
10 the stringer is from II to IA inches and carrie
t' very rich gold bearing rock. Twelve me