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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-08-18
Sued for Royalty.

Captain ]. R. De La Mar has brought
suit in the U. 5. District Court against
the DeLam,r Whining Company, Ltd.
for royalty for use of the cyanide-zinc
powder precipitating process, patented
by VI. E. Waldstein in 1898, which
patent is owned by Captain De La Mar
The demands made in the complaint
are for royalty of one dollar per ton
for the ,ore already treated by the
process, estimated at 5000 tons, and
damages in tribe the amount for in
fringement, and an injunction against
the further use of the process.
The legal papers we're served upon
Mr.. E. V. Oxford, the designated agent
of the DeLamar Mining Company, Ltd,
by Joseph Pinkham, Deputy U. s. Mar
shall, on Wednesday. The trial is set
for October 2ud.
The NUGGET has been for some time
aware that suit had been threatened by
Captain De La Mar and that contro-
troyersy over the matter had been
going'on between him and the officers
of the company, in London, for settle
ment and that price had been agreed
upon between them for the use of the
patent, but fell through because of the
Captains refusal to make certain
guarantees demanded. The serving Of
the papers was not, therefor, unex-
pected.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-08-18

The DeLamar Cornet Band, yester-
day, made a contract to play for Boise
people during Fair week. They have
arranged to give concert at the Opera
House the Sunday evening preceding
the opening of the Fair and to play at
the grounds during the week. The
Fair management has made no mistake
in securing the services of our band. Al
though made up exclusively ofmen who
work in the mines, it is up-to-date and
quite the equal of many bands whose
members claim to be professionals. Its
employment by the Fair management
is recognition of home musical talent
which the people of Owyhee fully ap
preciate. 1t is also show of policy
this year which was very conspicuous
by its absence last year. 1t will bring
dollars to Boise business houses where
the foreign band employed last year
did not leave nickles. Many of the
men in our band have families which
will accompany them to attend the
Fair and do shopping while there.
Scarcely one Of them but will leave
more money in the city than they earn
while there. They will not earn as
much while there as their wages here
for the week amounts to.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-08-18
J, J.. Napier Dead.

lied, at his home, at the Garfield
mine, DeLamar, Idaho, August II, 1899,
James Luther Napier, age 43 years.
Deceased has long been a sufferer from
consumption. Formore than ten years
past he has been marked as victim OF
that dread disease; yet the end came
quito suddenly. In the morning he
started out to milk the COWS, having
only a short time before remarked to
bis wife that he had been feeling better
than usual for the past day CT two.
Before he got to the enclosure, he sat
or fell down, being attacked with a
hemorrhage of the lungs. His wife
heard a noise made upon the milk
bucket-made probably to attract her
attention-and ran down to him and
found him lying down and bleeding
profusely. He asked her to get him
salt and then get on horse and go for
help. She rode over to Cogar and
Scadden's cabin, found and told them
and then rode on to Lepley's. Cogar
ana OCduOeu Tdu ONer dJ Ouc6 duu
found Napier still alive, but nearly
gone. Before Mrs. Napier and Mr..
Lepley arrived the poor man expired.
Deceased, except for two years resi-
dence, five years since, at Grants Pass,
Oregon, has been resident of Cwyhee
since 1887. In 1890 he married Miss
Jennie, daughter Of Mt. Peter Adams,
and with the exception of the time
spent in Oregon have resided on De-
Lamar mountain.
Mr.. Napier was an industrious and
thoroughly honest and respected citi-
zen. He was always quiet and reserved
and on account of poor health remained
much at home and made fewer acquaiD-
tences than most other men among the
later residents of the camp.
He left widow and three children
surviving him.
His remains we're buried at Wagon
town Sunday afternoon, the funeral
being numerously attended by the older
residents of the camp,
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-08-18
Birds are not Plentiful This Year.

That is the reason the other fellows
didn't win in the match which came off
between number of members of the
DeLamar Gnn Club on Wednesday.
But, more about it, Joe Brown and VIM.
Jones we're selected for captains and
chose 81 les, five men besides the cap
tains on each side, for hunt for points,
ratio being fixed for value Of sage
hens, ducks, willow grouse, hawks, owls,
cayotes, foxes and porcupines.
Brown chose Thomas, Plumer, Nc
Cabe, Cantwell and Barkle. Jones got
the Parks, Sr. and Jr., Prout, Mcmillan
and Scott. Jones' side scored 1025
against Browns 573.
The contest was for bird supper, at
the hotel, for the shooters and invited
guests. The supper was given last
night. 1t was an elegant and most en-
joyable affair, (for stag supper,) the
tables was set for 26. beautifully decor
uted with flowers and sportsmen's out
fits. The guns pointing to the losers
side were draped with yellow ribbons,
while those pointing to the winners
we're decked with blue.
1t is real fun to hear the losers ex-
plain how it happened; but little
sadness shows in the tone on their
voices when they speak on that subject.
Joe Prout made the best score, with
Parke ST. and McCabe close behind
him. The NUGGET declines to tell who
made the smallest score.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-08-18
The DeLamar Co.'S TaiIings Plant.

Wagontown presents busy scene
thsse da5s, with all three plants work
ing on the tailings from the DeLamar
mill. Two of them, however, are about
done for the season. For want of water
the Scales and Townsend plants, run
by water-power, will be obliged to close
down until spring. The DeLamar
Company,s plant, with steam power,
need only be closed during extreme
cold weather.
The best conception of the working
of the DeLamar plant can probably be
had by following the ore from the
tailings yard to the slum pile, in the
creek. Teams, with wheel scrapers, are
kept steadily employed drawing the
tailings over two bridges built over an
incline tramway. The tailings are
dumped on the bridges, where they fall
into bins from which they are dropped
into tram car, holding two and half
tons, and are drawn up the incline
:tramway to a point above the tanks and
dropped into bin. From this bin they
are taken to the leechipg tanks by belt
carriers. There are four of these leech-
ing tanks, each holding two hundred
tons. One Of these is filed and one
drawn off every day, thus giving the
plant present capacity Of two humid
red tons per day. (Another tank of the
same capacity is now being con-
,structed.)
The solution carrying the values in
the ore is drained off into two tanks
below the leeching tanks, whence it is,
pumped up into three precipitatihg
tanks, where it is precipitated with
zinc, which takes up the values from
the solution, is then drawn through
a press having canvass diaphragms,
which hold the values while the solu-
ton passes into tanks where more
cyanide is added to restore it to the
proper strength, whence it is again
drawn into the leeehing tanks to go
through the same routine over and over
.agsin.
A large tank, placed ats considerable
elevation above the balance of the plant
is kept filled with water, pumped frot 4
q pit near the creek, supplies the means
OF sluicing the exhausted ore out of the
leeching vats, and by it vat is cleaned
out in very short time and ready ior
another charge. The belt carriers
quickly convey fresh charge from the
bins at the upper end of the tram to
the vat requiring to be refilled. A 30
horse power steam engine supplies the
power to run the tramway and all the
power pumps. The plant is So arranged
that as little labor as possible is re
quired.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-08-18

The resignation of Erv johnson as
Director General of the Idaho State
Fair has been accepted and the Fair
Association has chosen Mr.. James A.
Pinney for that important position.
Nr. Pinney is one of the limited num-
Der of the pioneer business men who
never lets bit of moss take root in the
vicinity of his backbone or faint of
selfishness impair his usefulness. He
has always been enterprising and
public spirited, and had more Of the
Boise business men been built on the
same lines as he, that beautiful city
would not now be at the end of a little
plug railroad, but would have had the
main line when fsw contributed dol
lars would have secured it. Mr., Pinney
will work for the Fair with the zeal he
has always shownfor the bestlinterests
of Idaho
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-08
RAPE AS GREEN FOOD.
Every Farmer Who Raises Chickens
Should Try a Small Patch
without Delay.

Rape is an excellent green food for
chickens and fills a long felt want of
poultrymen. 1t can be sown in early
spring or any time later up to the mid
die of August, and furnish an abund-
ance Of food, writes C. r. Roberts in the
American Poultry journal. Last year
l sowed small patch just to see what
kind of a plant it was. 1t grows from
IS to 20 inches in height. The leaves
in color and shape resemble the cab
bage leaf very much. 1t can be sown
and be cultivated. The ground should
be prepared the same as for turnips,
and the seed covered about the same
as turnip seed. 1t grows very fast, and
can be cut and fed to chickens or let
them go to it at will and help them
selves. When they are to eat in this
way l should prefer to have it sown
in drills, as they can walk between the
rows, and are not so apt to trample
and break it down as is the case when
sown broadcast; but when it is to be cut
and fed it is just as good to SOW it broad
cast as any. Last year my young chick
ems commenced to eat my cabbages,
but when the rape was up four or five
inches high they left the cabbage and
commenced on the rape, and any one
knows that when chickens leave acab-
bage patch to eat something else it
must be something they like better
than cabbages. l had never had chick
ems do better and grow, faster than they
did while they were helping themselves
to rape. l think that every one who
raises chickens should try a small
patch. 1t will cost but few cents to
give this plant trial, as five pounds is
enough to sow an acre broadcast, and
one to two pounds if sown in drills.
have no rape seed to sell.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-08
GREEN CUT BONE.
An Economical and Excellent Food
for Laying Hens, Both VIM
ter and Summer.

Green bone is rich in phosphate of
lime, and this fact alone should prove
it's value as food for laying hens, both
winter and summer. Fowls understand
its value to themselves, as is shown by
the manner in which they will leave any
food to get the green bone, says the
American Farmer. Further, it is one
of the cheapest foods, for usually the
bones of various sizes and shapes, with
more or less meat attached to them, can
be bought for few cents, and the
modern bone-cutter brushes and cuts
them fine in few moments. Frequent
ly there is sufficient meat on these
bones to furnish all that is needed in.
that line, and thus another saving is eff
fecter, for the meat bought alone
would cost much more than the meaty
bones. Still again, green bone, especial
ly when meat is attached thereto, fed
within reason, reduces the need of feed
ing the usual quantity of grain, thus
saving more money.
The main thing to avoid in feeding
cut bone is to see that the bones are
green-that is, fresh and free from
faint. In some localities where butch
ers have considerable demand for fresh
bones, they make two grades of them,
one from meat freshly cut up and the
other from older meat, and frequently
tainted with the entrails of fowls and
other refuse thrown into the box. Don't
buy this stuff at any price, nor take it
as gift. Feed only fresh bone, and it
will pay every time.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-08
LEGHORNs WITH COMBS CUT.

especially in view of freezing when
zero weather occurs. Use shears or
scissors instead of knife so as to pinch
the blood vessels and mitigate the
flow of blood.
The operation is not so painful as
might appear, we will state for the
benefit of the. Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Animals. Nature evil
IDENTIFY provided that the comb and wat
ties should be comparatively destitute
of feeling. AS during the thousands
and thousands of years the males
fought for the possession of the females
and the combs and wattles were the
parts seized upon in the struggle lack
of sensitiveness in these appendages
would be perpetuated and augmented
on the principal of natural selection.
So Indifferent is fowl that after be-
ing dubbed it will unconcernedly fall
to eating its own comb and wattles if
allowed the privilege. This dullness
or fewness of nerves of feeling in the
comb, when understood, may alleviate
the pangs felt by many persons at the
mention of what has been wrongly
called cruel practice. 1t is easier
for fowl to stand clubbing than to
endure a frozen comb.-H. HI. Stod-
dard, in Farm and Home.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-08
VERY OBLIGING.
canic Vocalist a Good Hard
Shove.

The young man who sings loud and long
was interrupted by tap at the door OF his
apartment.
Excuse me-" said the tall, thin stranger,
81 am sorry to intrude. | occupy the fla:
under you, and | have come up to inquire
if you are the gentleman who sings bal
lads
yes" was the answer, with the air of a
man who is modest, but cannot deny the
truth. Are you fond of music?"
II don't know that am what you would
call fond of it. At the same time | haven't
anything particular against it. l am very
much affected by some things | hear"
THAT amounts to the same thing as being
fond of it," was the answer, in tone of
soothing encouragement.
II have been wondering if / caught the
words of your favorite song correctly. Let
me see:
"'How often. oh. how often,
Have / wished that the ebbing tide
Would bear me away on it's bosom
To the ocean wild and wide
Is that right?'
"Yes; it's all right, according to my recol-
lection. Is that one of the pieces you are at
fected by 2"
Eyes. / have been affected by that for
hours at a time. 1t has drawn me irresist-
IDLY to you. 1t has filled me with yearn-
ing to do something that would make you
happier. And | called up to say that if
you'll come down to the river with me any
evening I'll pay your car fare and hire a
boat and give you good start on the first
ebbing tide scheduled And don't mind
saying that the further out it bears you the
better I'll be satisfied" -Washingt Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-08
TRIMMING THE COMBS.
1t Is Not a Painful Operation for tn e
Birds, Considering the COM
fort 1t Assures.

The drawbacks of large combs and
wattles are freezing in our northern
states and the discomforts and strain
resulting from carrying so much
weight on the head. 1t appears as
though the circulation of blood in the
head is somewhat affected by these
excessive appendages, for it has been
observed shat a Leghorn having fire.
quent spells of giddiness and stagger-
ing can sometimes be quickly and per-
manently cured by trimming the comb,
and we would always recommend the
trimming of both comb and wattles
for both sexes when two-thirds grown,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-08
WHEN ! WAS A BOY.

Twas a wonderful thing, the river knew
When l was barefooted boy;
And the swimming-hold, near where the
water-fags grew.
With its sandbar was ever bountiful JOY
When was boy
But boy.
twas a wonderful thing, day after day
I've sat by its waters and dreamed,
And watched it flow past in an endless way,
Dancing from nowhere, to nowhere it
cleaned,
When was q boy
But boy.
To nowhere it cleaned, yet the castles !
built
In that nowhere for beauty were famed;
And knights in bright armor had many a
tilt
named.
When was boy
But boy.
And down where the alders grew by the
deep place,
And the water spread out like lake.
There were imps, and I've seen them look
up in my face,
Then wiggle and dance, and squirm like
When was boy
But boy.
And when sister came, a wee little tot,
All bald, like a Sawdust child,
And l asked where they got her, pa said he
thought
I'd find her tracks down by the river. and
smiled,
When I was boy
But boy.
So the little one grew till one summer day
A cloud came over the stream,
And she passed out in the misty way
That she came, like silent and beautiful
When was boy
But a boy.
But days have sped since then and the
years
Have passed like cycle of dreams;
Beautiful dreams that have vanished In
tears,
So like those old times that often it seems
I'm still but boy
But a boy.
For somehow there's left where the dreams
disappear
A ghost of a dream in their place,
That beckons me on with voice of good
cheer,
And a smile on it's ghost of face,
Which says you're a boy
But a boy.
So look down the years to the river and
1t dancing the same as of old;
And follow it up from the boundless sea
Through the misty years to the years of
When was boy.
But boy.
Walter NJ. Hazletine, in Christian Stand
ard.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-08
STORY SOUNDED WELL.
But There Was Reason to Believe
That 1t Was Not Wholly
True.

"When l first went west tells a retired
business man, who now does nothing in the
way of work except to NOW the lawn and
see that the cat is in the barn at night,
"this manned hand saved my life"
SIS that so?" asked the visiting neighbor,
who knew that this form of invitation would
be sufficient to insure the story.
eyes, that's right. If | hadn't lost that
first finger when | was boy wouldn't be
with the Indians. We exchanged beads, fake
iewelry and bright calico for furs. All the
buffalo were not gone then and we did a
good business. One time we happened to
strike a wandering band of savages that
held us up on sight and it was plain from
the way the red devils danced around us
that we were to be put to death after the
Indian fashion. All at once recalled that
a good many of the Indians knew me as the
'four-fngered' trader who was always on
the level with those wild merchants, so l
held up the hand and kept it up till one of
the young bucks let out a significant grunt
and then hurried to the chief in command.
He came to me in digni6ed manner, ex-
amined the hand, grunted about 10 times
while celebrating, said How and released
me as we'll as my partner. We were treated
right up to the handle and permitted to de-
part when we wanted to. 1t was the closest
squeak and the worst scare had out in that
country when near calls and heart-failure
frights were the rule"
Brave man." said one neighbor to an
other, as they walked away.
Yes, regular big injIn,. if you accept all
he tells Between me md you he lost that
finger two years ago While examining hay
cutter. "-Detroit Free Press.
The depth of feeling displayed by the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-08
How to Get Ton Prices.

To get the advantage of full market
prices for eggs nothing is more i'm
portant than the style of the cases and
packing. Of course size and cleanness
are very important considerations, but
the first thing that strikes the eye of a
purchaser is the exterior quality. l
notice many lots of eggs, especially
from the south, which come into the
stores in an sorts of cases-scarcely
two alike, and none of them neat and
trim. These goods are generally con-
demned before they are looked at and
can only be sold at a concession, no
matter how good the eggs may be.
Shippers may accept it as fact that
while all eggs in first-class packages
may not sell at top prices, no eggs in
second or third class packages will do
son, Y, Produce Review.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-08
The Blue House Lock

THE life of Dorcas Heaven, who
keeps the Blue House lock, is
somewhat lonely and monotonous.
Her post is more, or less of sinecure,
for but few barges pass along that bit
of the canal. Indeed, the canal itself,
though winding through the prettiest
bit of country in the neighborhood, is
only navigable during a wet season.
After drought it grows so shallow
that COWS are wont to stand derisively
in the very middle of it, cooling their
legs.
Elijah, husband of Dorcas, is a labor
er on a farm some two miles off.
AS the path alongside the canal leads
to nowhere in particular, there is not
much traffic, but when a barge does
come Dorcas ''bustles her about sharp
ish," and there is a great TODD. She
looks upon herself as more or less the
hostess of the occupants of the barge.
''They change the weather and pass the
time of day." their destination and their
business are exhaustively discussed,
and when at length stiffness settles
down over the Blue House, when there
is no sound but the cry of peewit or
the rustic of a water rat in the rushes,
Dorcas fetches chair into the door
way and sinks upon it, exclaiming:
LAW! what a palladium it have been,
to be sure!"
On Sunday mornings Dorcas does not
go to church, for ''Elijah do like bit
o. meat of a Sunday" and Dorcas is a
good wife first and a good church
woman second. She therefore defers
her attendance until evening, when
Elijah accompanies her. While the bit
% meat is in course of preparation he
.strolls round for ''a bit of talk with
one "Ethni Hartman, licensed to sell
beer and tobacco" whose house of cheer
lies on the outskirts of the town, and
where the very latest electioneering
news is to be had. Elijah has been
heard to express an opinion to the eff
feet that ''there amt no arm in going
to church twice for them as it suits,
but once, along of my missus, be enough
for l."
Had it been in Elijah's nature to be
.astonished at anything, he would have
/, felt some surprise at the amiability
with which Dorcas had lately speeded
him on his way to 'The Cat and Com
passes" on Sunday mornings. She had
at one time been rather given to in
conveniently suggesting "that them
peas want sticking, and the salery be
ready for banking" when Elijah would
fain have been summing himself upon
the bench outside Ethni Harman's hos
pitable door, mug of cider and like
minded friend beside him. He usually
fell in with his wife's suggestions, for
he was man who loved quiet life, and
Dorcas-when annoyed on Sunday
was apt to carry on her domestic duties
with unnecessary vigor far into the
night on Monday.
The fact was that of late Sunday
mornings hal become for Dorcas the
cornerstone OF her week, and in this
WISE 1t did NOT, as rule, take long
to get Elijah's dinner under way; this
done. Dorcas would take her chair into
tne doorway and read her Bible. She
generally chose the Book of Revelation
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-08
CHEAP COLONY HOUSE.
Roasting Place Protected from Wind
and Rain Is All Fowls Need in
the Early Fall.

Fowls do we'll colonized out in small
fiocks in summer and early fall. They
need little more shelter than roosting
place that is protected from storms and
showers.
The cut shows an A-shelter boarded
with matched lumber to the ground on
one side and end with nests and roosts
inside. Put the tight side and end to-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-08
Keen che Henhouse Dry.

Build the poultry house SO it will be
dry at all times. 1t is easy enough to
have poultry house that is dry in the
middle of summer, but that is just the
time when the fowls are in it least
and are least affected by its condition.
But in the winter, when they must re-
main indoors for days at a time, is when
the fowls need to have place that is
not favorable to the increase of disease
germs. Wet and dirty houses are often
the beginning of epidemics of roup and
other equally fatal diseases.-Farmers
Review.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-08
AN "A"-SHELTER.

can thus be colonized in many focks
on pasture and other rough land, OBJ
Waiting the necessity of building many
yards, and of furnishing all the feed.
Fowls on free range will get half their
living themselves The plan reduces
the number of permanent chicken
houses required, since the. flock is usu-
ally much larger in summer and fall
than in winter after the market chick
ems and the old hens have been culled
out.-Farm and Home.