The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-09-25
The Henrietta Mine.
Promise of an Old and Once Famous
Property Getting Into the Ranks
of Producers Once More.

rel, on the west side of what is now
known as DeLamar mountain, which
proved to be very rich in silver A
, brief time spent in prospecting deyel-
oped ledge of the richest ore ever
found in the district. A short time
afterward, Dan Feour, of Silver City,
found another ledge quite as rich as
the former, running with it and only a
short distance away. These claims
were both located, and the owners for
some time afteward made money out of
them by taking out ore by the sack and
selling it to A. Simondi, in Silver City,
by the pound. Mr.. Feour has told the
writer that it was not an uncommon
thing for them to realize $3.50 pound
for sacks of ore sold. Later on, these
two and third claim, each only one
hundred feet wide were sold to Boston
capitalists and additional ground TAX
en- up and patented The Henrietta
Mining Company was organized to de-
yeIop the property and Mr.. Joseph
Parks, who afterward died in Silver
City, was placed in charge, as manager.
The Henrietta mill was built, hosting
plant put up at the mines and shaft
sunk to depth of two hundred feet.
The ore continued Of good character to
| the bottom of tee shaft, but the ore
being slightly base could not be worked
satisfactorily in the mill. The man
agement, to say the least of it, was a
very extravagant one and after brief
and not very creditable career the
property became involved and tied up.
1t remained in this condition until
1887, when the Proustite company, of
New York, was organized and secured
control Of the property, and Mr.. B. S.
Howe was placed in charge This com
pany ran a drift for some distance from
the bottom of the shaft and sunk it |
125 feet and cross-cut on the 300 foot |
level interesting three veins and
drifted upon two of them, 100 feet
on one vain and short |
distance on the other, taking
out, to the writer's personal knowledge,
considerable rich ore. The company.
however, seems to have been organized,
like too many eastern companies, as a
stock dealing concern and did not pro
vide means to properly carry on the
work here and soon became involved
and suspended operations, and to the
wonder of the people in this camp the
property has been permitted to lie idle
until the present company, the Old
Glory Gold Mining and Smelling Com
pany, of Boston, secured control and
added it to their several other Idaho
holdings, naming it the Big I.
Some weeks ago Mr.. G. o. Norcross,
the general manager and treasur er of
the Old Glory G. NJ. & S. Co., in com
pany with Mr. w. w. Fisk, the mining
of the company, came here
and took charge of the property, re-
pairing and putting the machinery in
shape, and have just completed the
task of taking the water out of the
shaft and drifts and are now prepared
to explore the present work and pro-
ceed with the further development of
the property.
The NUGGET, in conversation this
week with Mr.. Fisk, learns that with
the slight examination of the shaft
and drifts he has so far been able to
make he is highly elated over the out
look of the property. He expresses
surprise that the work should have
been suspended at the time it was as
he even found car in the stopeloaded
with good ore, the manager not even
stopping to hoist it when work was
A number Of miners are still about
this camp who worked in the bottom
OF tfe mine, seven years or more ago;
and they all declare it was rich and ex-
press their surprise that the owners
have let it lie idle. The reasons. can
only be explained by the apparent fact
that the New York Proustite company
we're not miners but stock speculators
ana had failed to put up for the former
owners, into whose hands the property
again fell. 1t has lain idle because the
former company was never reorganized.
Having now been purchased by a
company who propose to do mining in
stead of selling stock, this long neg
lected property viii now be vigorously
worked for the values in the ground.
TIE NUGGET has the assurance of the
principal former Boston owner that no /.