Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-04-04
Mining Matters,

Nineteen silver bricks were ship
ped from the Mimbres company 8
mill last week.
| About twenty-five men arc en-
gagged on assessment work and talk
| ing ont ore in Hanover gulch. The
ore OF that camp is OF a very desir-
able character for the smelters here.
| Jacob Long and Charley Cox
have located claim in Hanover
gulch which they have called the
Little Mamie, and haze sttik a
shaft seventeen feet deep upon the
ore vein wi ich assays $50 in gold.
The surface rock run but IS and at
Tho present depth it will pay It's
owners we'll to work. The vein ia
eighteen inches in width.
For new camp Gold Hill is
making a better showing than any
other camp IN the county. The fol
lowing parties are sacking and
shipping ore: McCohe q Kcister,
Lewis & Cottrell, Hood & Doane,
r. p. Samuel. }. G. Winters, l.. A.
Snyder, Black & Park, Meddo &
Kennedy, James Cunningham, Gid
ding & Miller, W. J. Graham and
George Goodwin.
John A Miller has made arrange
ments to put up l0-stamp mill
| upon the Peacock property, in The
The MongoIlons, and it is likely the
machinery will be here in very
short time, as we understand it is
Mr. Miller's intention to ship it be-
fore he leaves San Francisco. With
l0-stamp mil upon the mine the
Peacock will make record second
to no other in southern New Mexi-
co.
The failure of Pope, Cole & CO.,
of Baltimore, caused quite sensa-
ton in Globe, A. Il. This firm
have been the financial agsnts for
the Old Dominion copper company,
and 1t was thought for a time that
tbs company would be forced to
close down on account OF fhe fail
ure OF the Baltimore firm, but hap
PLY, this catastrophe to Globe has
been averted, as Pope, Cole & Go.
will pay dollar for dollar, and have
already sent out agents to Globe to
settle with the Old Dominion COM
pany. The failure Is accounted for
by the large quantity of metal it
was forced to carry and was unable
60 Immediately realize upon by rea-
son OF glutted and failing market.
The many friends of Messrs. W.
j. Porter and George Henderson
here will read the following with
interest, and unite with us in wish
ing fhem many such finds. 1t is
saken from the Occur d'Alene Sun,
published at Murray, Idaho, and
exnla,ns itself: "It was found to be
irregular in shape, nearly four
inches long, two and a half wide
and one inch in thickness, and nine
teen ounces, twelve pennyweights
| and eighteen grains, the largest
nugget ever found in the Cnur d
Alene mines. 1t carries some quatz,
| which will probably amount to an
| ounce, while the gold is of bright
yellow, with no rusty stains, and Is
| we'll rolled. 1t was struck twice
with a pick, and scraped into a pan
with some gravel by n miner named
Jackson, one of the leases of the
ground. He had not proceeded
very far in washing the dirt when
he came across the nugget. For q
moment he was bewildered by Its
| enormous size, then he gave q yell
that made the plneries echo Tor
mil5s, and in the excitement OF the
moment he jumped into the creek
up 10 his armpits. HIS companions
hearing the cry rushed to the spot
and found the overloyed miner
struggling to the banks with the
nugget clenched firmly in has hand
There was general rejoicing over
the find, and the remainder OF the
dirt panned out, which gave anoth-
sr piece of an ounce, giving the en-
tire pan value OF twenty-one