The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-06-09
MINING NUGGETS.

ten bars weighing 16, 654 ounces, ship
ped in the middle of the month COM
prise the output for May, making a to-
tai of 81 .542 ounces valued at $5S, 1000,
shipped during Che month. Work at
the mines and mill is going on smooth
ly, leaving nothing unusual to report.
The big strike made in the Howe
Manhattan last week has been the talk
of the camp. The first number of this
paper issued one month sgo, contained
an extended description of.his property,
in which the NUGGET expert predicted =
good future for this mine, but as he
always is conservative in his reports, he
did not tell it 30 big as 1t might have
been reported. The present strike was
made by extending cross-cut west of
the main tunnel. This cross-cut was
run three years ago and work on it dis
continued, to work on the main tunnel.
A few days ago work was again begun
ON this cross-cut, and only short dis
tance run when the ledge was en-
countered. 1t has now been cut into
thirty-five feet, and the distance to the
hanging wall not yet ascertained. The
ledge is mixture Of quartz and tale
| clay, of the same character as that found
in the big ledge on the De Lamar, and
most probably the same ledge. The
ore is very rich in silver, and samples
of it shown are even better than any
found at the same depth in the De
Lamar. At the time the strike was
made negotiations were in progress for
bonding the property to San Francisco
parties with the view placing 3 group of
several properties in London. The
owners had given their promise in the
matter and did not back down under
the influence Of this important develop
ment.
fourishing period terminating in 1875,
has the general outlook of mining inter
ests in Owyhee county looked anything
like as favorable ais at the present time.
On War Eagle mountain, the Poorman,
the Stormy Hill, the Cumberland and
the South Central are all producers and
other mines and prospects are being
looked up with favorable appearances of
several of them coming to the front be-
fore the middle of the summer. On
Florida mountain, the Black Jack mine
and mill are both making a most favor
able showing; the Phillips & Sullivan
properties are being very proftably
worked; the Trade Dollar is being de-
veloped and showing up we'll; the Hum
boldt has been changed from mere
prospect to a valuable mine, and half a
dozen other properties are showing up
very favorably- At Flint, the big mill,
so long idle, is being transformed into a
concentrating mill, after experiments
have been made with the ores of that
camp, to the satisfaction of the operators
proving that the mines there can be prof
itably worked and ore shipped as con-
centrates, and that for a long time dead
camp is giving promise that it will again
loom up a. profitable producer. South
Mountain with its rich argentiferos ga
lena and copper deposits is still an idle
camp, but experienced mining men are
now inquiring into its merits, and it is
quite probable that it will not be a de-
serted camp much longer. At DeLamar
the great DeLamar mining company is
keeping the present twenty-stamp mill
steadily pounding away, and the richer
ore taken from the mine is being sacked
and shipped as usual, while preparations
are being made for doubling the capac-
ity OF this MILL and also for building an
additional new milling plant and reduc-
tion works of four times the capacity of
the present mill. Other mines at De-
Lamar are now giving such favorable
promise that the entire camp is happier
over its prospects than ever. Within a
week developments have been made and
deals consummated which are causing
stir in the camp. The Howe-Manhattan
has made r strike which the owners
think and claim is equal to any discov-
cry yet made in DeLamar. This and the
Chautauqua, an adjoining property,
have, it is reported, been bonded for a
sum which will make the owners very
comfortably fixed. Several other mines
on the same mountain are in fair way
to show up big, and the feeling of the
camp is good