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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

The adaptability of electric power for
mountainous mining regions is one OF
the marvels of the age. 1t is reported
as fact that 300-horse power gathered
from the Neckar river is delivered at
the Frank fort Exposition, l0S miles dis
tant, with loss of only 25 per cent. in
transmitting this great distance. If this
has been accomplished at the chief city
on the Main, it shows to what extent
our mountain streams can be utilized
for the transmission of power to the
mines far remote, even though gulches
and mou ltains intervene. The electric
current passes Though the wires up and
down as readily as though in direct
and level stretch7 Water wheels and
copper wire are less expensive than
boilers, engines and fuel for he genera
tion of steam. Mining Industry.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09
Work on the Mountain Home Dam

The first shovel of dirt in the trans
| formation of Mountain Homes grand
surroundings has been lifted, and the
dawn of better times is now upon US.
The most sanguine expectations of the
earlier settlers will now be fully rea-
lized, while the darkened and forlorn
hope of the more skeptical will be Wv
fled and the intensity of gratitude ex-
perienced only in thrifty and pro-
gressive times will come knocking at
our cabin doors, welcome guest in tho
midst of our poverty.
About twenty teams are now steadily
employed excavating for the dam to be
built across Rattlesnake, and as rapidly
as possible more will be added until the
force shall have reached one hundred
two-horse teams or more.
The excavation will be seventy-fve
feet wide, reach to bedrock and extend
from one extreme bank OF Rattlesnake
to the other.
This dam, when complete, will form
reservoir almost lake within itself, and
canal to convey the waters of Canyon
creek thither is contracted to be com
pleted by the 18th day of February, thus
amply providing for the reclamation
and cultivation of several thousand
acres of Mountain Homes arid lands
ere the spring of '92 dawns upon u.s.
Range and Valley.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09
Pay the Printer.

When storm cavorts around your door,
And you, by light of taper,
Sit closely by the evening FIRE
To read your country paper,
Just think of him whose work TINS helps
To wear away the winter,
And put this question to yourself,
Have paid the printer ?"
Exchange.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

The Silver City Brewery is now again
making 6rst-cass quaIitv of beer. The
brewer formerly employed is now out OF
it and new man employed who is turn
ing out finer and better beer than any
shipped in here. Try it and you will
like it. The next i ne you call for beer,
ask for Grete's.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

Eli, the best China cook in the county,
has started bread and pastry bakery
in town, and will supply bread, cakes
and pastry to persons giving him orders.
He will also serve lunches at night in
the stores and saloons.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

Come up, boys, and settle. I must
have money. l have accommodated
you, now square up. jim BROWN.
DeLamar, Oct. 20, 1891.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

Go to the Nevada Restaurant for a
first class dinner. Try the Nevada Res
taurant for delicious cup of coffee and
nice, juicy steak for your breakfast.
Get your supper at the Nevada Restau-
rant. You will like it. &
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

The Nevada Restaurant,in new hands,
is good place to get nice, clean and
well prepared square meal. The man
agement is good and the food excellent.
Try it. &
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09
Particular Notice.

All persons knowing themselves to be
indebted to the undersigned will please
call and settle at once and thereby save
costs. We must have money and mean
just what we say.
TREyETHIcK & BLACK.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

The portly form and pleasant face of
Mr.. Henry Bratnober, large owner in
the DeLamar mines and the Elkhorn
company in Montana, may now be seen
in DeLamar. He arrived Sunday night,
coming here from California.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

We wiA not be undersold. Quality,
quantity and price considered. Goods
delivered to all parts Of town and on
the hill, free of charge. D. M. & 3.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

number of companies operating in
the Black Hills, have adopted the
system of aggregating their product into
one mammoth shipment and sending
out large double-header train load of
ore to the Aurora smelling works of
Illinois. These special trains attract
great attention to the district and is a
novel advertisement, each car being
tastefully decorated and marked with
the name of the mine from which the
ore Mining Industry.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

The DeLamar M. & B. Co. are now
carrying the biggest stock and greatest
assortment of goods in the county. Call
and price goods. They don't keep every
thing, but they come reasonably near
n IL
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

KuseI. the tailor, has just received
some fine suitings and nice lot of SAM
Piles of shirts and underwear. Call and
see them.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

Gents wooden underwear at $500 per
suit at the + TeLamar M. & B. Co., can't
be beat.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09
MINING NUGGETS.

The owners of the Howe Manhattan
have made an upraise from their tunnel
to connect with the bottom of the shaft
sunk during the summer, and now have
good air through hundred and seventy
five loot shaft.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

The finest line of cigars in Owyhee
County is to be found at Knapp & Rich
ter's drugstore Try them
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

A large consignment of 6ne winter ap-
pies, for sale cheap, at Knapp & Rich
ter's drug store.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09
Notice.

Anyone knowing themselves indebted
to the undersigned will please settle at
once as the accounts will be put in the
hands of an attorney for collection.
CoNTANcIN & MITCHELL.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

See our new line of gents hats at $500,
$3.50 and $500, and you will buy no
others. DELAMAR M. & B. Co.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

Col. William H. Dewey, of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, president of the Trade
Dollar Mining and Milling Company
OF Pennsylvania capitalists will arrive
here to meet him and examine that
valuable property about the 24th inst.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

Get your letter heads, note heads,
envelopes, cards, bill heads and state
ments printed at the NUGGET office. We
will give you good work and living
prices.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

Gents good quality Congress shoes
only $500. DELAMAR M. & B. Co.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

Subscribe for the NUGeET and send it
10 your friends in the East.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

Steam was turned into the big Corliss
engine, at the company's mill, on Satur-
day and Sunday just to smooth it up pre-
paratory to hitching it on the macbin-
cry. The mill is stopped to-day for the
purpose of putting the pulley on the
shaft under the pans. This will be COM
pleted, probably to-day and the big belt
which will pull the machinery hereafter
will be put on. So short a stoppage Of
the mill to make such important
changes indicates good management.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

The tunnel on the Chautauqua is now
in about nine hundred feet and the own
ers expect to cut the Boone ledge before
running much further.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

AS will be seen by the report cabled
to London by the DeLamar Co.'s man
ager, copy of which is given below,
the net profits of the mines have now
reached the very handsome sum of one
thousand dollars per dav. The doubling
of the capacity of tht mill will soon be
an accomplished fact. and from this
time on the net profits, it is fair TO pre-
sumo, will also be doubled. The man
ager reports the mines looking we'll,
and that development work continues
to show up large bodies of ore.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

AL accounts due the DeEamar
Mercantile g. Banking Company
NxU 5T be settled on or before De
cember Z, 1s91.
DeEAM AR IsT. Ok IA. co.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09
For Sale.

The Fuqua Restaurant, building and
outfit. Inquire at NUGGET office.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

Serd in your orders for job work to
the NUGGET Office.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09
THE DE LAMAR NUGGET.
Issued every Tuesday
LAMB & YORK, Publishers.
Entered in the postofice at DeLamar, Idaho, as
second class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES..
oWYHEE COUNTY DIRECTORY

County Commissioners
1st Dist.-W H. Townsend, Silver City.
I'd Dist.-Wm. Houtz, DeLamar.
Sd Dist.-W. S. Harley, Bruneau
Sheriff-John MyCabe.
CLERK Dist. Court r. H. Leonard, Jr.
Probate Judge-Jl. Lewis
Assessor--A. B. 5Jroeheron.
Treasurer-S. e. N. Smith.
Coroner-Dr. 9, Richter.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-11-09

John Connors has shift of miners
working on the Ella mine, an extension
of the Stoddard.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1891-08-27

Tie walking and climbing leaves OF
Australia were for over half century
considered the greatest Of natural won
ders. A party of sailors wandered inland
and sat down to rest under tree A
great wind shook to earth several dead
and brown leaves. These presently be-
gan to show signs of life and crawl to-
ward the trunk, which they ascended,
and attached themselves to their respec-
tive twigs.
Hence the sailors, who promptly ran
away, said the place was bewitched. But
the simple fact turned out to be that the
so called "leaves" were really leaf shaped
insects, having long, pendulous legs,
which could be folded out Of sight, and
posses m the chameleon like power of
varying their color to correspond with
that of the foliage they are clinging to.
Upon being shaken to the ground, in
stinct taught them to seek shelter of the
friendly leaves again as soon as possible
These walking leaves are frequently
found in the woods of Illinois. The
farmers call them animated twigs," as
bu6y SAdCtly 1tSciHDi0 et Dlt VI tu0 blCS.
They are green when the trees are green,
but as soon as the foliage changes they
become brown. The writer of this was
sitting under a tree reading in the woods
of southern Illinois when one of these
"twigs." as it was supposed to be, drop
ped on the page. 1t moved and thus re-
vealed its identity. Its natuss seemed
to be that of worm, and its vitality
that Of he very lowest 1t died as soon
as removed, and served as a boolzmark
for many years.-Detroit Free Press.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1891-08-27

Mocking birds come from Texas chief
ly. Albany in that state is the head
quarters for them. One trapper there
sends me from so to 100 mocking birda
every week in crates. | forward nearly
all of them to New York, exchanging
them for other stock. The system Of ex-
change is carried on to a great extent in
the fancier's business. Most Of the stock
that we get from boys is negotiated on
that plan; so many rabbits make a squir-
rel, and so on.
| do considerable trade in peacocks,
which customers who have country
places buy for ornamental purposes.
Farmers raise them in Maryland and
Virginia. Goldfish are propagated BY
regular breeders in Maryland, Virginia
and Pennsylvania, who send them to me
in cans, but the fancy goldfish, with
double tails, are imported from Japan to
San Francisco and reshipped from that
city.
Those stuffed birds are pets. Their
owners bring them here for the purpose
four legged beasts, too, of all sorts. A
squirrel is one of the most difficult ami
mails to stuff successfully Food is an
item in caring for such a menagerie as
this; it costs me nearly 81 900 year.
Interview in Washington Star.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1891-08-27
carnixarnns parrota.

The kea, or mountain parrot, OF New
Zealand, greenish- brown bird, formerly
as harmless as Others Of his class, has de-
veloped carnivorous habit as fastidious
as that of ericures 1t used to feed on
the berries that grew luxuriantly on the
hills, but it has changed that simple
Giet since the multiplication of sheep;
perhaps fires too made that natural
food scarce 1t now takes a terrible re-
venge on its unconscious enemy
Fastening itself on the back of a poor
sheep, perhaps stuck in 4 snowdrift, and
savagely tea,ing away wool, skin and
flesh, it pluuges its powerful beak into
the kidney fat. which it deyours, and
then, leaving one victim to die in agony,
goes off in search Of another Though it
is as difficult to feel individual affection
for sheep where they are slaughtered by
millions as it would be to care for hogs
in Chicago the most unsentimental
shepherd cannot refrain from pitying
one of his own flock that lie finds in such
condition, and from invoking maledic-
tions on the whole race of keas.
How they found out that kidney fat
was such delicacy can only be con-
jectured-perhaps in the same indirect
manner in which Charles Lambs China
man discovered that young roast pig was
good: kea saw sheep devouring his
regular supply of food and defending
his property with what beak and claws
he had, his tongue came in contact acci-
dentally with kidney fat From that
moment the satisfaction Of appetite and
the qualification of vendetta were united
G. NJ. Grant in Harpers.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1891-08-27

When men first begin to become "a.
miliar with the methods of measuring
mechanical power they often speculate
on where the breed Of horses is TO be
found that can keep at work raising
$4,000 pounds one foot per minute. 81
the equivalent, which is more familiar
to some mechanics. of raising $50 pounds
100 feet per minute. Since 81. 900 pounds
raised one foot per minute is called one
horse power, it Is natural that people
should think the engineers who estab.
lished that unit Of measurement based
it on what horses could really do. But
the horse that can do this work does no,
exist.
The horse power unit was established
by James Watt about a century ago, and
the figures were fixed in a curious way,
Watt found that the average horse OF
his district could raise 22, 900 pounds onc
foot per minute. AT that time Watt
was employed in the manufacture of en-
gines. and customers were 50 hard tc
fnd that all kinds of artificial induce
ments were necessary to induce power
users to buy steam engines. AS method
of encouraging them Watt offered to sell
engines reckoning 5000 foot pounds ID
a horse power. And thus be was the
means Of giving a false unit to one Of
the most important measurements in the
world. Rider and Driver.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1891-08-27

The young man who lifts his girl
along by her elbow is to be seen every
few yards on Broadway. Nor is this
style of locomotion confined to any par
ticular class. 1t is one of those fashions
that occasionally starts up in the crude
society of the country village, and, re-
versing the usual rule of social con-
tagion, spreads to the metropolis Being
simply recorder and not an arbiter in
such matters, | am not prepared to say
that it is strictly fashionable in New
York, much less proper or in good form.
If the girl likes it | withdraw my nat
ural objections. Where the sex is CON
cerned it is pretty safe to follow the
rule that obtains in euchre-"W When in
doubt take the trick. New York Her
aid
Gloucester County Democrat., 1891-08-27

Many stories told Of the crafty fox are
doubtless incidents of the Imagination.
But recent writer tells an anecdote
which, though taxing belief, he says is
vouched for by an eye witness of the
affair. Some fishermen on the west coast
of Ireland were in the habit of going to
small island, few hundred yards
from the mainland, in quest of bait.
The island was inhabited by large
numbers of rabbits, and could be reached
at low tide by wading, the water there
being only few inches deep. One
morning they went in their boat quite
early, it being high tide, and on landing
saw dead fox lying on the beach, The
fur Of the animal was all bedraggled,
and he seemed to have been drowned.
One of the men, remarling that his skin
was worth something, pitched him into
the boat. Procuring their bait they re-
turned to the mainland, and the man
who had possessed himself of the fox
seized him by the tail and flung him on
shore.
As soon as the animal struck the beach
he picked himself up with considerable
agility for dead fox and shot off like a
fash up among the cliffs. while the men
stood staring at each other in mute as
tonishment The men concluded that
he had crossed over to the island during
the night, when the tide was low, in
search of rabbits, and finding in the
morning that he was cut off from the
mainland counterfeited death, with the
expectation of thereby procuring pass
age to the shore in a boat, an expecta-
ton which was fully realized. Boston
Courier
Gloucester County Democrat., 1891-08-27

A United States patent will be granted
to any person who has invented or dis
covered any new and useful art, machine,
manufacture or improvement thereof,
not known or used by others in this coun-
try, and not patented or described in any
printed publication in this or any other
country before his discovery or invention
thereof, and not in public use nor on sale
for more than two years prior to his ap-
plication. unless the same is proved to
have been abandoned. In this connec-
ton the word art" means the process or
method of producing an old or new result.
If method of doing anything contains
one or more new steps, the process is
new and patentable. The word 'sma-
chine" means any device or thing by
means Of which mechanical result may
be produced, such as pin, churn or q
locomotive. The word manufacture"
means made up article, such as furni-
ture, clothing, harness and the thousands
Of things which are offered for sale.
Composition Of matter" means a chemi-
cal compound of ingredients, such as
hard rubber, liquid glue, medicine, etc.
Patents may also be obtained for de-
signs for manufactures and works of art,
for three, seven and ten years.
Trade marks may be registered for any
arbitrary sign or symbol which is not
descriptive; the government fee is twen-
ty-five dollars. Such marks are the ex-
elusive property of the registrar for
thirty years. and the time may be ex-
tended. A "label" is any descriptive
tag, print or impression to be placed
upon any article or its case, and it may
be registered for twenty-eight years.
The government fee for label is six
dollars; but if it contains any special
mark or symbol, the Office decides it to
be a .strade mark instead of Label
Washington Chronicle.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1891-08-27

No pen can adequately describe the
appearance of the Kimberley mine. 1t is
the largest hole made by man, and in the
shortest space of time. for the incentive
to work was there-the diamond. a
spectator standing on the edge looks
down and sees men at work looking like
ants in size, and during the blasting
hours he can in perfect safety witness
the explosion Of thousands, Of pounds Of
dynamite and note the rending of masses
of blue and rock, which would fall far
below him.
AS an honor to the late Chinese Cor
don" when he visited the mines, the
writer saw the Kimberley mine illumin-
ated at night with thousands Of impro-
vised lamps, assisted with colored fires
and displays of fireworks The weird
effect produced was grand, for the eye
could not properly measure distance at
night, and the twinkling lamps but
served to heighten the effect. Engineer
ing Magazine.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1891-08-27
Raisiur wafer in Lou,,on Docl,s.

In lieu Of incurring the immense ex-
pense of excavating the London docks to
accommodate the increased size given to
modern ships, large pumping engines
have now been set up, and the water in
the docks is raised by this means. Some
idea of the demands upon these engines
can be had from the size of the docks,
one Of which has an area Of nearly ten
acres, the pumps which raise the water
having a capacity Of 6S5 tons per minute
and raising the water level five feet in
one half hours.
Centrifugal pumps Of superb work
manship are employed, driven direct by
compound tandem engines. and the power
of these pumps is evident from the fact
that the inlet oriices to the main pumps
are fifty-four inches in diameter, and,
when worked together. the three pumps
have capacity to raise $1,000. GOO gall
Ions of water in FIVE hours, against an
average head of ten feet The pumps
are arranged to be worked separately
and independently or together as de-
sired, and the engines are supplied with
steam at hundred pounds pressure by
powerful boilers. New York Sun.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1891-08-27

There has been great deal of talk
about the ferocity Of Tip, the big ele-
phant in Central park, New York, but
those people who happened to be in the
elephant house at o'clock the other
afternoon came to the conclusion that he
was very playful. Two men, in com
pany with a little girl, had been feeding
the big fellow lozenges (above all things
he likes lozenges), but the stock at last
gave out. Tip waited patiently, when
at last thought struck him. He eau
tiously advanced his trunk and in a sec
ond had removed one of the gentlemen's
hats.
He carefully laid it down on the hay
and waited again. Peanuts were offered
him, so were crackers, but not until the
owner of the hat had bought more loz-
enges did Tip relent, for as soon as he
saw them he, with good display of
grace, returned the hat and received a
whole handful Of his favorite sweets in
return.-New York Letter.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1891-08-27

A nice young man got into a tram cal
a few evenings ago, and saw to his de-
light the only vacant seat was by the side
Of young lady acquaintance He made
for that seat with joyous strides, and her
eyes answered his with delighted looks
But just as he got there an elderly party
walked up and dropped into the coveted
seat. The young man approached more
slowly and accosted the young lady
"How is your brother?' he asked; sis
he able to get out?''
"Oh, yesP' she answered
"Will he be very badly markedy" he
continued, and the old gentleman grew
suddenly interested.
"Oh, nor she said, .'with the excep-
ton of few marks on his forehead
"Were you not afraid Of taking I'll?
the young man continued, while the old
gentleman broke out in cold perspira-
ton.
mot at ALL" she replied; 81 had been
vaccinated, you know"
The seat was vacated instantly, the
two innocent young hearts beat as half
dozen, and the prattle Of ''nice talk"
strewed that part of the car, while an
old gentleman scowled upon them from
the distant corner.-London Tit-Bits.