The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-06-23
MINING NUGGETS.

Mr.. ]. A. Pack, who few days since
secured an option on the Garfield min
ing claim, on Cow creek, from the own
er. David Farmer, has let contract for
running hundred foot tunnel on the
claim
The deal made, selling the Cumber-
land mine On War Eagle mountain, and
he arastra mill in Silver City +; the
cheering reports from the Poorman and
other properties on that mountain; the
starting of a new tunnel on the Ruth
ledge to prospect that mine at much
greater depth and to cut the Poorman,
which 1t intersects, nnch deeper than
any former workings, and this same
tunnel being eventually intended to cut
clear through the mountain, make min
ing matters at Silver City look decided
lv cheerful. When to he above is add
ell the good reports coming from the
Trade Dollar, the Phillips & Sullivan,
the Black Jack and other properties on
Florida mountain, the people Of Silver
City have excellent reason for feeling
that their surrounding camps are not to
be eclipsed by the great DeLamar camp.
Fortunately there is no rivalry in the
mining industry and we can we'll enjoy
seeing more than one big camp coming
out strong.
The big mill at Flint is being SO ma
terially changed that in amounts to al
most entire reconstruction. The batter
les have been removed to the upper
portion of the mill where the rolls for
merly stood and morecancentrating Ia
bles are being put in. The present in
batteries, saving as much bullion as pos
sihle in settlers before running the pulp
over concentrators. This method is,
however, only experimental and the
manager says he will go slow until he has
determined hat is the better plan of
working the rich, but slightly refrac-
tory ores of the camp. Dir. Leech, the
manager, leaves this morning for Oma-
ha, to confer with the owners concern
ing future work.
Reports CONF from the other side Of
the mountain of big strike riade about
a half mile sonth of the Zulu mine.
Two miners, ,g0smed Magill and Wilcox,
went over where Blake and Nicholas
were prospr citing and just outside of the
latter's cl.im they started to dig hole,
where there was nothing in sight; be-
fore the hole was foot deep they found
good quartz. The indications we're so
good that Mr.. Oman, the DeLamar
foreman, and another miner, offered to
pay them wages to continue working,
for faIf interest in the claim. They
have now sunk twenty feet on what, all
who have seen it say, is The best pros
pect for the depth they have eyer seen
in the camp. The shaft is all in good
quartz and not a pound of waste rock
has been taken ont. Samples, selected
TO get a fair average of the entire value
of the rock, assay $32 60 in gold. The
width ofthe ledge has not been ascer-
tanned, but cuts on the surface demon
strate that it is a very wide one. This
find is half mile southwest of the one
mentioned u month ago made by Miller
& McGarry, which We then stated. and
still maintain. was, up to the making of
this last strike, the best thing in the
camp for so shallow a depth. 1t has
made the business of prospecting in that
direction livelier than ever, and float
has been traced aud claims located clear
beyond Pedicnlns creek.