The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-06-16
MINING NUGGETS.

be shipped to Denver. Mr.. IF. Ieech,
manager of the Flint Mining Co., will
yet bring out that camp in fine shape
Caldwell Tribune.
Messrs. Scadden, Cogar and Hawes
who are running crosscut tunnel on
the Sheridan and other claims west oi
the Chautauqua and we-Manhattan,
have crosscut ledge several feet with
out reaching the further wall. They ex-
pect to cut three veins in this tunnel, on
three parallel claims, and have fine
showing for developing big property.
They have declined to bond the proper
ty to be put on the English market, al
though the figures named for it would
have made them quite fortune.
The parties who have bond on the
Homestake claim, one mile north of De-
Lamar, are working six men on the
same with excellent prospects of devel-
oping itinto fine property. They have
cut three different lodges, all of which
look well and give promise, at greater
depth of showing up pay rock in big
quantities. This claim lies between De-
Lamar and the Cow creek district and is
proof of the continuation of belt north
from DeLamar to the many discoveries
made in the latter district.
There is dispute now going on over
the ownership of fractional claim,
west of and adjoining the Wilson claim
of the DeLamar group. There has been
good deal of discussion about this mat
ter among parties who haye no interest
in it which shows that the piece of
ground, although only three hundred
feet in length is considered very val
liable. All talk of a war over the claim
is nonsense, because the claimants on
either side are sensible and practical
men who are abundantly capable of set
tling the question either amicably or by
law without making it personal affair.
In answer to question asked US sew
eral times by prospectors, we will state
that the time FOR doing assessment work
on mines has not been changed. The
Stewart bill, introduced in the 50th con-
gress and re-introduced in the 5lst, with
modification, which proposed to make
noon of the first day of August the time
for forfeiture of claims, did not become
law. There were so many admirable
features about this bill, this feature be-
ing one of them, that it is to be hoped
that bill will yet pass congress en-
bracing these points.
A matronly hen is now sheltering
thriving brood of chickens in the first
building ever erected by Capt. Della
mar in the now fourishing town where
the NUGGET is published. Three years
ago this "building," which is about
large enough to make comfortable
kennel for pug dog, was perched upon
a post by the side of the road about
where the upper bridge now crosses the
creek. The legend painted on its side
in black letters, indicated that it was
doing service as wayside letter box,
but the wording was rather pretentious,
as it read, "DeLamar postoffice.n Into
this box the Jordan Valley stage driver
daily dropped the mail broughg down
from Silver City for the five or six min
ers then working in the Wilson shaft |
on the top of the mountain. Old Wag-
ontown, with the three habitations of |
Messrs. Jones, Adams and Moss, was To-
Gated mile or more further down the |
creek. Enterprise, prompted by the
rich discoveries made on the mountain
looming above this then lonely road and |
little white postofice, has made mglk ed
changes in the aspect of what was then
a not unpleasant solitude. The swift and
turbulent little creek plunges along just
the same, except that its channel has
been cleaned out and narrowed, but
along its banks has grown up thriving,
bustling town, with fine hotel, numer-
ous shops, big school house, electric
lights, telegraph and telephone and a
i've newspaper 1t is typical mining
own of the fourishing sort, except that
strangers and citizens here are provided
With better quarters and more comforts
han are generally found in a camp as
1ew. For more than mile up and down
he narrow gorge through which Jor-
Ian creek has cut its way houses and
canvas tents are alive with people.
)ne great mining company now iof'ns {
he nucleus toward which they have all
been attracted, although the number
If men employed by the l