Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-01-04
The ElcaBitan.

One q THIS week we FlSlteu Ills
noted property land by the courtesy
of the Superintendent, Mr.. D.. d.
Bliven. of Audrain Co.. Mo-, were
shown through the mine, and learned
the following facts concerning the
property. The mine was located in
1880 by Mr.. j. R. Mead, and the
vein was uncovered for a distance of
forty feet by an open cut and showed
the vein to be from two to five feet
wide and assayed up in the thousands
in silver and gold. Only the assess
ment work was done each yearly Mr..
Mead, the reason being he was like a
good many others in this district
afraid the mineral would pinch out.
In the spring of 1882, the property
was purchased by a wealthy Illinois
company through Mr.. Bliven, their
agent. The company Immediately
went to work putting up the necessa-
~ buildings for its development, and
have employed from twenty to thirty
men all summer and now have the
mine in excellent shape. The devel-
opment consists of a tunnel POS feet
in length and several drifts, n Sc
feet and another 25 feet. all in good
mineral and dead coolies of it. There
is also a shaft 81 feet deep, but has
no mineral, not being sunk deep
enough. At the breast of the main
tunnel, the vein is five feet wide and
is dipping nearly straight down. 1t
is Mr.. Bliven's intention to sink a
shaft from the surface to intersect the
vein at the end of the main tunnel,
which is supposed to be only a dis
lance of SO feet. The vein ranges
from four to eight feet wide and as
says all the way from $50 to $1,000
silver and gold to the ton, and is said
to be very easy smelling ore. There
IS now over 200 tons of ore on the
dump, which will average $40 to the
ton, besides about fifty tons of very
high grade in the ore house. This
ore was all extracted in doing $50 feet
of development work, and at a depth
of not more than forty feet. Mr.. B.
will shortly ship several tons as a test
to the Silver Islet mill at Pitkin. The
company think the ore can be treated
for less than the Virginia City smeltel
can afford to treat ores, and will hold
it till spring, when they will probably
erect a mill of their own, if the mins
justifies it. Counting the ore to bring
q profit of $40 per ton, there is ovel
500, 900 worth now in sight. This
of course, is a very low estimate, ane
is simply made so that one can form
some idea of the immense value of the
mine. Work was shut down on thu
mine last week and the force put OF
assessments on the other claims be
longing to the company. As soon a
this work is completed the men Wilt
pnt to work on the mine and continu
all winter.-Colorado paper.
His Juvenile Days.
Unpublished page from the life O
George Washington. 1t is the merr
summer time. To him, the mothe
of the father of this country:
"George, dear, where have 70
been since school was dismissed?"
''Hain't been nowhere, ma"
Ibid you come straight home frol
school, George?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"But school is dismissed at thre
O'Clock and it is now half past 81,
How does that Gomez"
SCOT KEEP in"
"What for?"
"Missed m joggrafy less'n."
"But your teacher was here on
an hour ago and said you hadn't bee
at school all day."
SCOT KEEP in yestidy, then"
"George, why were you not
school to-day"
"Forgot. Thought all the time
was Saturday"
"Don't stand on n side of 20
foot in that manner. Come here
me. George, you have been swil
ming"
"No'me."
"Yes you have, George. Haver
your"
"Noak."
"Tell your mother, George"
Chuck"
"Then what makes your hair
wet, my SOM"
"Sweat. 1 run SO fast conf
from school,"
s'But your shirt is wrong side out
"Put it ION that way when l got
this morning for luck. Always v
when you play for keeps if ye
shirts on hindside out"
"And you havn't the right slet
of your shirt on your arm at all, a
there is hard knot tied in it. III
did that come there?"
"Bill Fairfax tied it when l was
looking"
"But what were you doing W
your shirt OFF,"
stDidn't have it off. He jes tc
an tied that knot in there when
was on me-"
"George!"
THAT'S honest truth, he did,"
About that time the noble blu
rod came along with a skate str