Sierra County advocate., 1896-02-07
Neighborhood News.
THE BLACK RANCE.
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ton are doing their assessment for
'96.
A contract for 200 cords OF wood
for the Wing STAN p. mill has been
let.
John Saucisr went 10 the San
Mstso mountains this week 10 work
on his mining claims
Some very handsome and exceed
inRly rich silver ore is reported to
have recently been taken from the
Omega and Excelsior mines.
Owing TO the amount Of timber.
log necessary In the Omega and
Excelsior mines, the Wing stamp.
mill did not start up this week, az
expected.
The property OF the Black Range
Smelling * Mining company will
he offered for sale by the sheriff, TO
morrow at 10 o'clock, at the east
door tf the post office at fairyisw.
Superintendent OF Schools
Chandler returned Saturday from
bis tour Of school inspection. He
returned with n "ber sweet smile
hsunts me still" expression, but
knowing ones consider the symp-
toms not necessarily fatal.
II is with ieep regret that The
Black Range Announces the death
ot Mrs. Dora Dryden Beckett, he
loved wife of the late Vincent B.
Beckett, former editor and founder
of The Black Range, whose tragic
death occurred at SprinRdale, Ar.
kansas, in March, 1893. The sad
intelligence was conveyed TO the
litor Of this paper by letter from
Mrs. Alice Barnes Fulghum, form.
erly OF Chloride, now. OF Chicago,
Ill, MIRA Beckett died at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Hsunferd, near
Peoria, and the remains were in
tered at Elkhart, Ind.
A strike WAS made a few days
ago slmos, within the town Of
Grafton, that is Of great Importance
aid one that is bound 10 hsye the
effect Of overthrowing some OF the
old time theories OF the prospectors
OF this section, as we'll as other
parts OF the count y IL has been
q fixed doctrine with those looking
for gold In the country to think
that the metal could not be found
in any other than crystalized
quartz, therefore they sought Tor II
in that particular martriI aud no
other. and iu many instances with
good resuts. as the different work
ings on the quartz veins OF this
great gold bearing district show
the proof of its value being given
in the many good returns OF high
grade values in gold from ths diff
ferent ores that have been shipped
in times past to reduction points.
TO Mrs, Mary Yaple, OF Grafton,
10 due the credit of finding this
new formation that is destined to
mark a new era in the future min,
ing development Of the camr. The
find WAS made last Sunday after
noon. The lady herself was The
first to break off the groupings and
also being the FIRST TO crush the
rock in a mortar and pan 1t The
result OF the panuing was q string
OF gold in the pan that would not
only daEIle the eyes Of a tender foo,
but would excite old timers. The
result OF the psnning being salts
factory some Of the new ore has
bsen sent out Tor assay. The gan
gae OF this vein is decomposed
phonolite, the same formation that
Cripple Greek likes to talk so muoh
about. Immediately upon the
prospecting OF the ore location
was made. The claim was christ
ened the Golden Queen The hiil
upon which the claim lies will now
go down to future posterii, as the
Widows Peak
Judge Holmes, il seems. has got
'hs ssiS hss ii nis nisrr'J T'5Jf61Gsssr. IS wss +
,amped on the outskirts OF the
Grafton district, and from appear