Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-01-09
RELOCATING CLAIMS.
LUDICROUS SCENES, INCIDENTS
AND NOTES OF THE LAST
NEW YEARS EVE.
A Deer Greek Woman Compelling Seven
Men to Terms-A Group for Which
$4,000 Has Been Refused Relocated
The Important Part Played by
WincheSters-Etc.

VluCHeSterS-EtCs
A boastful miner at Bullion wag-
cred $50 that he would on New Years
eve relocate a claim near town, I'M
less the repre- senting work should be
performed. The boys took the wager,
and at 80 two of them were sta
toned on the ground with Winches-
ter rifles. The intending jumper
soon appeared and, seeing the two
men, inquired what they wanted?
The boys opened fire, knowing, of
course, who it was, and only shot close
enough to let the jumper hear the
DULLES whistle. At the second round
he fed to camp, and told the boys of
his narrow escape. The two shooters
changed their costume and partici-
pated in the enjoyment Of the frolic,
for which the boastful jumper was
assessed the sum wagered-$5O.
On Deer Creek seven men and a
woman had long intended relocating
a certain claim. The husband of the
woman had promised to locate her in
the mine, but taking no chances, she
waded the snow and arrived first on
the ground. Eight being too many
for one location, claim was staked
each way from the discovery, and four
located in each. The woman had set
her heart on owning an interest, and
she bravcd every difficulty to secure
it.
A well-known Bullion miner named
Mike Hynes had told all the boys he
had several rich locations to jump be-
tween the noted mines. Before Christ
mas day he had draughtsman and
expert to draw off his notices
and put each one in a box on
the claims he Intended Jump
ing. Being little behind time on
New Years eve, he was coming up
the gulch to tack up his boxes, and
the first square view he got of his in
tended claims was one calculated to
make his hair stand on end as, sit
ting on each end of the seven claims,
and upon each of the seven boxes,
was man, and each man had a Win
chester repeating rifle pointed
at Mike, who was SO amazed he passed
by each one, merely remarking: "Good
evening! Happy New Year," And
he didn't feel very we'll until he got
into a saloon at Bullion, where he
braced up and remarked that he
guessed he hadn't lost any mines, and
he wouldn't give S. for all he had
come to jump. Nobody said word.
The mute appeal Of those rifle barrels
as Mike looked into them was be-
lieved to have been enough. A friend
of Mikes sympathized with him at
his loss, remarking: "Why, l knew
there wasn't anything there in the way
of mineral, but, then, you could have
sold them and started tunnel at the
foot of the mountain, and it would
have given you three years job be-
fore any company could find out there
wasn't anything there
Another ludicrous incident occurred
in Quigley's gulch at little before the
first hour, January l. Three valuable
claims were owned by three partners,
one of whom had spent 500 in de-
veloping, while his partners had not
spent a cent, SO he arranged to re-lo-
cate all to himself and hired miner
to go with him. A party of four men
had week previous stuck up notices
and intended to be there at midnight
| L hC OWucI dIlO HIS man dTTlNcu IlTSt
on the ground, and while waiting saw
the four men approaching. The owner,
who was lying down over the ridge
with his Winchester rifle pointed sent
the miner to meet the four men and
notify them that he was in possession.
Believing the miner to be the only
man on the ground, three of the four
men got on the claims to locate them,
while the fourth pulled knife and
pistol on the old miner to bulldoze
him out of any interference. Seeing
this the owner, who was hid from
view over the ridge, sighted his rifle
upon the man with the pistol and
knife, and shouted: "You git" One
Of the four heard the warning and