The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-01-13
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EDITORS OF PILor:-In your issue
Of December 80, under the head OF
the article entitled Ruby Camp, and
in second column of third page, l no.
tice a paragraph in reference to two
of the principal mines upon which
much Of the reputation of this camp
is built, Che Forest Queen and Ruby
King and which at first glance nigh,
be considered as rejecting your views
regarding the properties mentioned.
As / am aware that such IS not tae
case, and as great injustice was in
tended, not only to the mines men
toned, but to the camp in general, j,
Is emlnently proper to notice the state
ments and correct some of the inten-
tional errors made by the writer,
Richard Irwin, Esq. To any one ac-
quainted with this camp, and with the
Hon. Richard in particular the animus
of the whole matter becomes apparent.
1t is generally known that Irwin has
manifested dislike to some of the
owners Of these properties, and that
he has never let an opportunity pass
without attempting to vent his spite
and malice, regardless of any injury
he might inflict on innocent parties,
resorting as in this case to assertions
which either he knew to be false or
utterly failing to SO inform hinselfas to
make statements bearing the SEM
blance of truth.
Irwin says: &c 1t is the opinion of the
principal owner in the Last Chance,
(Dick Irwin prospector of twenty
years experience, that the ore taken
out so far in the Forest Queen work
ings is slide from the ridge on which
the Last Chance is located, and the
continuation of Forest Queen vein
will be found on the Last Chance
ground"
Now the Forest Queen and Last
Chance lie side by side and adjoining.
The former to the east, the point OF
location and entire claim lying higher
up the side of the mountain, and yet
this wlseacre says that in spite of the
laws of gravitation the Queen mine,
which has produced hundreds of tons
of high grade ore, showing a solid
mineral pay streak Of from two to four
feet in thickness by some eccentric
movement capable of no solution out
side the fertile brain of this expert
enced prospector, slid up hill instead
Of down, depositing from the Last
Chance a body of ore on the Queen
ground for extent and richness scarce
ly ever equalled.
OF the thousands of inhabitants and
visitors to this camp, Irwin is the only
man brave enough to withstand the
contempt and ridicule justly due for a
statement such as above quoted.
There is continuity in the Forest
Queen vein throughout the whole ex-
tent of the claim, the said Richard to
the contrary Notwithstanding, and the
outlook of the mine is better to-day
than ever before, and from the shaft
Of the Queen two shifts can in twenty
days take one hundred tons of ore
that will mill three hundred ounces of
silver per ton.
At the end Of the paragraph referred
to, this statement is made: "The
Ruby King ore deposit is broken and
not continuous and the last eighteen
feet sunk in the shaft was in loose
dirt and boulders," This pronounce
to be wlllfully and maliciously false.
The writer never had an opportunity to
know anything about the King shaft
and he never received any such infor-
nation from those who worked in the
mine, for it is the unanimous testimony
of all who have seen the bottom of
the shaft and watched its progress
during the last fifty feet in sinking,
that at no point on the vein has the
mineral seemed more in place, and as
matter of fact the last eighteen feet
opened up body of ore, continuously
rich and large, showing equally as well