Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-01-03

| us possibilities As the GeVeiOpncnC IL
entirely upon the surface. | have nc
doubt as you gain depth, it will in
crease in the quantity of ore and will
no doubt grow better, as it has in the
Maynower and Idahoan mines-both
of which have had the management
of for the last three wears and have
paid out Of the two mines to their
owners over 100000 in dividends.
One of them has paid over $4,000
before hal charge of it.
This communication is not report.
but simply details to you Of what l
have observed during my stay at
Bullion.
l will be pleased to add anything
in the way of facts which have trans
pred at any time, when ! can do SO.
Yours, etc.,
G.. L. HAvENs.
There has been no one here to rep.
resent the company for years past;
but the claim has always been known
as carrying high grade ore, and been
looked upon as an exceedingly prom
ising one. Very little work has, how
ever, even been done in the property,
besides sinking a shaft about IS feet,
and driving tannel about 20 feet.
This, however, shows the vein to be
| from two -anda half to three feet
thick, all Of which is low grade or
concentrating ore, with the exception
of streak averaging good inch in
thickness of solid galena ore of two
well-deGned kinds, to-wit: a satin
ga!ena, and steel galena. This ore
has been assayed repeatedly, with like
satisfactory results; but Colonel
Thompson being an old lawyer, and
anxious to deceive neither himself
nor his friends, descended the shaft
on ladder, and, pick in hand, in the
presence of Thomas r. Temple, his
foreman, and Michae! WelsF. two as
we'll known and competent miners as
are in this reglon) broke from the
vein, every foot or two of depth, a
box full Of samples, which he brought
to the assay Office Of e. Daft, in
Mccormick & Co.'S banking house, in
this city, and from which average
samples were taken and assayed, with
the following result: Satin galcna,
70 per cent. lead and 549 3O.lOoths
ounces silver per ton; steel galena,
$3.50 per cent lead, and As 70 ounces
silver per ton. Colonel Thompson
was very careful to see that the sam.
piles should be of the best and worst
of the two classes of ore. and he
flatters himself that the ASSAYS show
that he succeeded in this. The box.
after Mr.. Daft had made returns Of
n"l.ed up by the
mining reporter Of the TIMES, and, at
Colonel Thompson's request, delivered
10 Mr.. Ste ward, agent of the Pacific
Express, and sent to a friend in his
native State
Colonel Thompson's next move was
to apply for a patent. He therefore
procured an abstract of title, which
Hon. John NJ. Caunady, Recorder Of
A!turas county, has just supplied.
This shows:
That the Rising Sun claim was
originally located by NJ. Hynes, June
|, 1881. November II, 1881 Mr..
Hynes sold, for 500, an undivided SO
feet to Tim. O'Leary; February 2,
1882, Mr. IIynes conveyed, for $500,
to DR.. S. Il. Miller, $50 feet of the
claim; November z, 1882, Mr..
OLeary mortgaged his so feet to
stephen Hays, for 1928; July 80,
1888, this mortgage was satisfied in
full; August L, 1882, Mr.. Hyncs
sold, for $500, qnothsr 800 feet to
DR.. Miller; and October lG, 1882, Mr.
Hynss sold to DIR. Miller, for $4,000,
the remaining 900 feet of the claim
January 8, 1888, DR. Miller sold his
l4JO feet OF tie claim to George d.
Mackay, of New York City, for s37,
500; July IS, 1883, Tim. O'Leary
sold his Undivided so feet to DR..
Miller. This was also transferred to
George d. Maohoy, who, January s,
1854, sold it TO the Alba Mining
Company, of New York City, for the
sum Of sa5,0 u0, AMI large block Of
stock, The company has therefore a
clear title to the property.
Having got ready for active opera
tons, Colonel Thompson will at once
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