The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-21


under the homestead and preemption
laws.
Henry NJ. Loud was % impatient to
begin operations that be put in a
camp a few miles from where Ely is
now located on White Iron lake and
began getting out rock which he
hauled to Tower, a distance Of over
fifty miles. There was not sign OF
gold in any of it and the Duluth &
Iron Range railroad company after
ward compelled him TO pay for haul
ing it away from the depot where it
had been piled up. During the winter
all sorts of companies were organized
and enterprises projected which had
As a basis the immense bodies of gold
ore which no. one longer doubted
existed.
1t was the Emery brothers who
planned operations on the largest
scale. They purchased about s200o
worth Of camp supplies in February.
employed force of men, with an
expert gold miner in Colorado, and
with their fayorite assayer started
for the new FL Dorado to make prep
artions for the establishment Of a
large camp. They reached the scene
OF operations early in March and
pitched camp. The Colorado man
was not favorably impressed with the
looks OF things. but he kept his
counsel. lie crushed some rock
knocked of of the vein discovered by
| Sterens and Nightingale proceeded to
assay it. The gold bullion was pro-
duced and showed the same marvellous
results had been obtained from
the first specimens brought out. The
rock did not look like anything that
had ever been known to carry gold,
and the expert was mystified. He
tried some other rock of different
character. The result was the same.
No matter what Mr.. Nightingale
assayed, it all ran to gold. Then the
| Colorado man proposed TO do a little
assaying On his own account. He
asked Nightingale for piece OF the
lead he used for fuX and put it in the
pot without any ore. he ran it out
assayed it aud the ever-present gold
! bullion appeared 1t was the fiuX and
not the ore that produced the gold.
The gold boom was bursted with
that assay. Nj. Nightingale became
suddenly sick. The remainder Of The
party were thoroughly disguised, ane
someone suggested that the assayel
be lynched. This proposition was de
bated with much heat, and it was
finally decided that he be left in thu
woods to find his way out as best ht
could. This was done and he reached
| Duluth month later. The supplies
were sold on the spot by MIR. EmerI
TO party of surveyors who were en-
gagged in government work. but thu
contractor failed to pay Mr.. Emery
so he was out all he had invested.
1t seems that when Mr.. Emery tool
his rock to East Tawas and crushed
it. he left it for a time in Mr.. Night
ingale's possession. who doctored i
} in such manner that the assayers a
Cornell university and Chicago wer'
bound to get rich returns IN gold
When Mr.. Emery's party returned
and the story of Mr.. Nightingale
, duplicity was made public, interes
in gold mining suddenly subsidized AM
: no further interest was taken in it.
There were those, however, VIII
, still chung to the belief that golt
existed in that locality in payin;
quantities and Gus Stevens, the orig
: inal discoverer of the deposits, mad
one or two subsequent trips Of explor
alton. He claims to have found
vein Of quartz rock well defined sixt.
} feet in width on the surface and eX
posed for one and one-Quarter miles
from which assays of so in gold Z
the ton have been made. All assay
: of this rock are said to show traces @
gold. In 1888 he paid his last visit t
7 this vein and then found rock from
t which assays showing sl3 TO the to
in gold were made No later tina
last year a man named Spileman, VIII
! was one of the crowd of Michiga
! lumbermen who invested during tn
2 aYcitament in 1884 in 65-6 but VIII
now lives in California, sent mimi
: expert to examine his property. Il
q found rock there which ran rs hig
: as $27 to The ton in gold, and nun
Der of assays gave results of 81 and S.
t 1t is said that the Colorado expeI
!, who exposed Nightingale's assay
e assayed number OF pieces of roc
e taken from the Stevens vein and oil