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The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-29
A MILLION DOLLAR
MINING COMPANY
Murray. Idaho, Mines Viii Be Devsl-
oped by Practical Mining
Man

Joseph Johnston 70 merly OF the Seven
Devils Mining country, now in Butte to-
se'hef with other ca .italists. is about }
perfect. the incorporation OF the Etrusc an
gold Mining and Milling company tne
properties OF which are located within a
mile and half of Murray, Idaho, in
Pritchard Creek.
These mines, the Alice and Argus ln,les
nave had considerable development d me
upon them With very en- cou. a. ing results
The ledge which cont nues through both
claims is tive We fee wide, con mi g free
gold and sulphehels. A recent mil run
Of ten tons Of the ore netted sloS per ton,
the lowest assay from the ledge being $50
in gold.
The development consists OF tunnel
LOCO feet in length showing mineral the
entne length, shat Of ls5 feat an in
cline, from the tunnel aof go fee an 1
drifts to the extent of 800 feet.
The amount of $4,000 has been spent
upon the workings with the result tina L
ore in paying quantities and character
has been found in eve.y direction where
development has been prosecuted.
Upon the dump there is 800 tons of good
re awaiting treatment.
1t is proposed to capitalize this mining
property Tor one million dollars d one
dol.ar per share, which having been done
twenty stamp mill will be erected con-
ia :ning the latest and necessary appli-
ances for reducing AMI the treatment of
the ore, hosting engine will be put in,
pumps and a compressor will be installed
and the property equipped in such a
manner as to place it upon a practical
and profitable basis.
l. Jal,Y
stone is the owner of three claims of
high grade copper ore Which runs sixty
per cent i'll copper. These claims though
at present too far f.om market Or
treatment will in time become a bonanza
to their owner.
Upon the completion of its organ.za-
ton the Etruscan Gid Mining and Mill
ing Co., will be Largely instrumental in
reviving the gold mining industry OF
Murray and vicinity.
In addition to the above Mr.. Johnston
has bond on the Nora fraction in Butte
adjoining the Maud s., which latter mine
is understood to be under contract to be
sold at high figure to the Amalga--
mated company.
The affairs of the Etruscan are now in
the hands of attorneys in this city,
who, as soon as the details are fully
agreed ,!ron will complete the incorpor-
ton and enable the owners to substan-
TALLY ard profitably operate their mines.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-29
FILLED WITH FREE GOLD.
John Donahue Discovers Three-foot
Ledge of Quartz in Oregon.

Strikes of rich ore in the eastern Ore
gon gold belt are becoming so common
these days as to attract but little notice.
A strike, however, was made last week
in the Virtue district which bids fair to
rival the Virtue itself.
John Donahue, who has been working
claim two miles south of the Virtue
mine, struck a three-foot ledge of quartz
which is literally fecked with gold.
Specimens picked at random show gold
in dozen places. No assays have been
made as yet, but the value per ton,
judging from the indications. must run
pretty high, especially when it is con-
sidered that the rock brought in Is but
surface indications. Mr.. Donahue's in
tention is to sink shaft and determine
the value of his claim.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-29

enough to overhalance the co.t of oper-
alton. Mr.. Clark drove two drifts on
the property. each about 80 feet long.
and sunk 100 feet in one of them. but
missed the main pay shoot by about 10
feet. This shoot has been tapped by the
new owners. who are taking from it
about 100 tons of ore per week and ship
ping it to the East Helena smelter. The
shoot is from eight inches to two feet
wide and its ore carries value of from
$50 to $40 in gold per ton The drift on
the main shoot is in 262 feet. Twenty
five men are employed at the mine.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-29

results are on file in the company's
office.
This seems to effectually puncture the
Snake river bubble, but the following
clipping from the Statesman of yester~
day shifts the rich field from Idaho to
Oregon:
"A miner who has just come to the
city was seen yesterday regarding the
recently reported finds of gold bearing
gravel just across the line in Oregon
near the great bend of the Snake. He
mas not been away from the scene of the
late strike very long. and seems to have
very fair idea of the conditions pre-
vailing there
He verities the main statements,
about the find The location of the
find is not on the Snake, but is on the
OWyhee river, few miles back from
the Snake. The Cwyhee at this point
cuts through the channel of a pre-
historic stream, and it is here that the
great beds of gravel have been dis
covered.
Some two years ago the people who
made the find went to work on an old
prospect, and they have developed what
Is considered the greatest Placer of late
years. The value of the property may
be realized when it is stated that gold
bearing gravel of this kind is cons;t.-
cred rich If it will go 25 cents per ton.
The gold there will run from So to ST
per ION. and it can be easily worked.
Deputy Game and Forestry Warden
Walter Moore is in receipt of private adj
vices from friends on the Owyhee river
which confirm the facts as stated. NJ.
Motre's Informant states that the dis
trict is a beehive of activity inaugu-
rated by the reported strike, and that
from all parts of the country prospectors
are rushing in to make locations
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-29
BOND ON THE COLD HILL
NEAR WHITEHALL IS LIFTED

Hugh I. Wilson. Thomas r. Kinds: and
w. Mckay, the two former of this city
and the latter of Whitehall. have lifted
the bond on the Gold Hill mine and
the property is now their own. The pur-
chase price was $40 900 OF the sum s15,-
600 was paid when the bond was taken
and the balance when it was lifted
which was few days ago.
The property is located in the To-
bacco Root range, two miles from the
town of Parrot, Jefferson county, and
was formerly worked by Senator w. A.
Clark. who extracted from it money
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-29
HUGHES CREEK PLACER CLAIMS
They Are to Be Prospected BY Gravel
Drilis-All Of the Ground
RnrIc1

The Virginia City Dredging company
composed of ST. Louis capitalists and
which is operating in old Alder Gulch,
has secured a bond on all the placer
claims on Hughes creek between the
forks and the mouth, distance of some
eight or ten miles, and will Immediately
begin prospecting-the same. says the
Western News, published at Hamilton.
Ravall county. Yesterday prospecting
or drilling machine was received here
and has been forwarded to Hughes
creek. With this machine, holes will be
bored to bedrock at intervals all along
the creek and that will be prospected
thoroughly With view to working the
ground on big scale with dredges as
is being done at Virginia City and Ban
mock. if the tests prove satisfactory.
The options on the Wood Placer company
and the Parmenter ground held by Cali
fornia parties have expired without any
thing being done. In both instances ex-
tensions o. time We're requested but re-
fused. The company viii sink six inch
holes at intervals in the ground and
wash every particle of the dirt taken
therefrom. Then, by circulating the
area Of the bedrock thus worked and the
total quantity of dirt handled to reach
it. the operators can very readily deter
mine whether or not they have paying
proposition.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-29

ton to its promises it will become one of
the most valuable mines in Montana.
DIR. Ellis speaks most enthusiastically
of the outlook His nine is situated
about four miles above Mammoth and is
in the Mammoth district the section be-
ing named Mammoth because of the
great size of the leads thus far discov-
cred. The Mammoth mine is owned by
the proDrietors of the Spectator mine
of Butte. who also own the -townste.
The DR.. Ellis mine is chiefly a copper
proposition although it also carries good
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-29

the east cor. of Secs. s and II, +. 8 ~. r.
w., bears S. S6 degrees 10 minutes w.
oao.S feet and running thence N IS de-
sfees e., 1925 feet: thence S. Is degrees
10 minutes t.. 321.5 feet; thence s. G5
uegrees 10 minutes W.. 1876 feet; thence
N. IL degrees 10 minutes W., 1855 feet to
the pace of beginning. containing an
area or l.49 acres. of which 10 acres are
IN conflict wi II Sur No. 4S54. not claimed.
leaving n acres claimed by the above
named applicants.
The location of this claim is of raccra
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-29

in the recorders Office of Silver Bow
County. state of Montana, in Book I OF
Lode Locations, at page 50.
The adjoining claims to these premises
are Sur. No. 1893, Lille Lode, lot 230 Edo
ward Hickey, applicant. on the east Sur.
No. 4S5i, Rory O'More Lode, Lewis Kauff-
man, ct al applicants, on the southwest.
GEORGE d. GREENE.
Register.
Samuel Barker. Jr., Attorney for appli-
cants.
Fl. st publication 6-2S-61t-9-9.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-29
MINING APPLICATION NO. 4s77

AFFlLlCAIlON NJ. 431
U. S. Land Office, Helena, Montana,
June q, 1901
Notice is hereby given that Henry
Smith and John Hoyland, whose postof-
flee address is Butte, Montana, have this
day filed their application for patent
for 1898 linear feet, being 209 feet west
erly and 20.3 feet easterly from discovery
shaft of the Kingstella Lode Mining
claim. upon which a notice Of intention
to apply for patent was posted on the
10th day of June, 1901, situated in Sum-
NIT Valley. unorganized, Mining District.
Silver Bow county, State of Montana, de-
signed as Sur. No. 6210, in Township 3
North of range West, being more par
ticularly described as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the northwest corner, a
quartz stone set in the ground. with
mound of earth and stone alongside, and
marked 1920 for Cor. No. l. from which
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-29
LOCATION Of STRIKE SHIFTED
It Is Still at the Big Bend Of the
Snake, But Is on the Oregon

Yesterday mornings Boise Statesman
published a short interview with Charles
B.. Lyon, superintendent of the Midland
company, the eastern corporation which
owns the shaft in the big bend of the
Snake river, where at a depth of IS feet,
reports of a strike of $27-per-yard gravel
caused general stampede into that sec
ton. Mr.. Lyon is quoted as saying that
the story of rich find having been
made in the shaft was without founda>
ton. The company stopped sinking last
fall and the shaft is now filled with
water. The gold found was very fine.
Samples We're taken every foot and the
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The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-29
OXIDE OF COPPER GROUPINGS
That Assay 80 Per Cent in the Red
Metal-Located Near Pony,
Madison County

DR.. E. G. Ellis and wife returned SAT-
urday evening from Pony, where the
doctor has been looking after his mining
interests. says the Ravalli County DEM
ocrat of Hamilton. this state
The outlook is most flattering and if
the property develops wealth in propor-
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-29

"Ah" said the good old lady. who was
visiting the prisoners, "how your poor
wife must weep as she thinks Of yo.
here"
Which one, a'am?" asked the con-
Wet I'm up for bigamy.'
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-09

thousand dollars in the meantime was
madness; it might as well have been
ten million. l climbed back to sun
light even more gloomily than 1 had
gone down, and chow inscrutable is
fate) was startled to find the owner of
the claim sitting on the dump. 1t
struck me that 1 might get an extern
sion of the lease, and so made him a
proposition to that effect, indifferently.
as l thought. Something in my man
ner must have aroused his suspicious,
however for he insisted on taking a
look at the bottom of the shaft. and
that look put an end to my hopes. He
would not have extended the lease five
minutes.
1t was all up. thought, so ] started
the ponies for Las CuevaS-frOm force
of habit, maybe-I didn't care much
where I went. But my lucky star must
have been in the ascendant that day,
for the postmaster handed me let
ter with the Denver postmark. 1t was
the long-expected from Mr.. French,
who wrote in a very friendly tone, but
saying that, from what l had told him
of the mine, the price was entirely too
high, that he was extremely busy, and
that unless the terms could be bettered
or a better showing made. he would
not be justified in making atrip to see
it. He added, however. that he was
about leaving for Arizona, would pass
Cerro Grande on the 5th of June. and if
| could manage to see him at the sta
ton he would be glad to learn if
there were any new developments. l
glanced at the life insurance calendar
on the wall: ii was Tuesday, the 5th.
The clock showed four, and the train
from the north was due at Cerro Gran
de. eighteen miles away, at 7:10. Sure
ly Providence must have directed my
steps that day. 1 could make it easily,
but there was no time to waste. The
broncos heads were turned toward the
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-09

claims which he did not have to
travel twenty miles across a New Mex
lean desert to see. He would probably
have forgotten me, and it was an even
break that he would not be at home
anyway But 1 was desperate, and 1
wrote him a letter that would have in
terested Sphinx and moved a sloth to
activity. Then 1 lost energy and sat
around for days, wondering vaguely
what I was to do after quitting the
mine-if it came to that-only driving
every other day to the post office at
Las Cuevas to ask for a letter that
necer came, and that 1 finally almost
ceasd to expect.
Ten days had passed since my letter
could have reached Mr.. French, and in
another week my lease would termin-
ate. My grub was about gone; 1 had
not twenty dollars in the world; SO
got my few possessions together, hitch
ed the broncos to the blackboard and
walked UP to the shaft to take a last
look at the old hole, before leaving it
forever. I had done no work on it since
writing the letter, and an implse seized
me to put in one more shot. There was
a drill hole that had not fired. and a
few minutes sufficed to load it with the
last stick of powder 1 could find. When
the smoke had cleared, l crawled down
the eightyfeet of ladder and found that
the shot had torn a hole in one side of
the shaft. The next instant l was
dancing on the broken rock like a
crazy man, for a flash of my candle in
to the hole had shown me the good
black sulphides for which had search
ed so long and so vainly. 1t was only a
few inches wide, but it was there, and
knew. or thought 1 did, that there
must be more. Then came the realiza-
ton that even if the claim were a bo-
nanza 1 could not hope to get anything
out of it. In a few days the lease would
expire, and to think of raising ten
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-09
A Story of an Unsolicited Testimo-
NAL of a Certain Ointment With
Romance and a Spice of
Adventure Thrown In

hey were sitting side BY side in the
soft leather chairs of the Sheldon hotel
lobby "a Herald reporter and young,
clean cut business man OF this burg OF
ri Paso. The reporter had been gently
utuerinc, beatitudeS in slaL.S and kick
liz. fervently against the l'ricks OF a
duu newspaper day. Nobody had felt
sufficiently induced to go ~: and carve
his initials upon the an ;tnm.| of his
best friend or attempt an essay on
<-How il Feels to Take Rough on Rats.
He could hear the men ca tie linotypes
paving the air for copy" but he had
nothing wherewith To arLcas" their
giuttoncus appetite. Wherefore he
spoke h;rsh and crIel things
Peace he STILL" quoth the young bus
mess man You have a graft every
day that periodically 1 would give as
uiueh as thirty cents to enjOy-the OPP
portunity to put ones hot thoughts in
to cod type Now, It's passing strange
how the evolutions of our cerebral stuff
finn prompt us to turn aside from the
road our feet daily plod for paths that
are untried and Improbable. To elu-
cidate. Every little while l am seized
with a very healthy bunch to scatter
the scintillations of my brain upon the
chaste and immaculate surface OF Irish
linen OF any other old paper. When
that fit comes on I've got to grab a pen
and write or lose a few buttons. In
til every thought has exuded upon the
page and my fingers drop nerveless by
my side / am as one dead to the
world. When the stint is finished the
FIRE has gone out and / have not suffi-
Gent interest in life to find out what
the crucible has produced. Now if l
could fire some of that stuff at some OF
those fellows that paw the keys of a
linotype and see the result in long slabs
of type I believe it might cure me-
The reporter suggested that as it was
part of his mission on earth to allevi-
ate suffering the young business man
might produce some of his literary
made-while-you-w nut-fruit and see
if il would do for the public appetite.
''All right said he. come over to
my office and I'll dig some Of it up"
The reporter complied and this was the
first of number under the title of
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-09

in the saddle so far that the buckle at
the fork was drawn through the ring
also. 1 swayed back on the lines to
help the horse to his feet, not MOTTO
ing that the buckle had cramped in the
ring, thus rendering the left rein use
less. AS the horse staggered up the
two of them lunged forward, swung off
the road and made straight for the
side of arroyo. 1 had a mental pic
ture of a blackboard in splinters, but,
responding to the haul on the right
rein, the team swung round just miss
ing the steep rise, and continued on
a mad gallop in a circle. The pace
became terrific, the blackboard went
up on two wheels and / described a
parabola through the empyrean, by
heavens mercy striking on my feet and
instintively hanging to the reins. Whae
would have happened if 1 had let go I
dare not think And that did not let go
considering the manner in which Twas
snapped through the air, and hauled
over ana through sand, sagebrush and
meSQuit. is a marvel to me now. That
streak of stubbornness, I guess. Howl
ever. after two or three minutes of this
they tired of dragging $50 lbs. around
and stopped. for which l was SUI
premely grateful. After regaining my
breath. untangling some of the knots
into which l had been tied and remov-
ing some of the fauna and flora of the
region from my hair and clothes. 1 adx
justed the reins, climbed aboard and
tried to resume the journey, while Off
ering up heartfelt thanks that total
wreck had not reSulted-but, me mis-
erum. me miSerum, both wheels on one
side of the wagon were stuck fast to the
axle. Thrice accursed idiot that was,
l had brainlessly forgotten to grease
the blackboard for days past, and more
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-09

railroad. and 1 rolled down the long
slope from Las Cuevas and out across
the mesa with the wine of renewed
hope and ambition tingling in my veins
There were new developments. indeed,
such l believed as would even interest
Mr.. French, hardened as he was to
glowing descriptions of prospect holes,
and the prospective millions to come
therefrom. l would talk to him as
had never talked before. Five min
uteS-even twO-would be enough,
and if 1 could not in that time suffi-
GENTLY impress him with my enthusi-
astic belief in the mine, and it's favor
able outlook, then 1 didn't deserve to
win out 1t was my last chance and
he must look into it.
The halfway point was reached in
what seemed but few minutes, so
engrossed was 1 in such thoughts. 1
looked at my watch; an hour and a
quarter since leaving Las Cuevas.
must push the ponies. for here the road
dips from the breezy mesa into the
pulsing heat of the arroyos, where the
sand is inches deep and the going
heavy.
NY thoughts reverted to the mine
again. II a deal could be made where
by Mr. French would take up the bond
and develop the property as it should
pS uS'ciopeu- Ike iutuIe HSu lew piop-
lens for me. 1t was big thing,
was sure. and the interest that would
acquire through the sale would give
me such a start as a year ago had seem
ed as far out of my reach as the stars.
and then castles in the air followed,
of course; diaphanous and evanescent
structures perhaps, but very beauti
full ones. and all builded around a
strong. sweet. womanly figure with
pure. tender face
And just at this juncture the off
horse stumbled, and went to his knees,
pulling the left rein through the ring