The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-06-10
Correspondent in Thunder.
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ed in the same lines.
Last summer there was not an in
work, but who was amply repaid
On lightning Peak, 80 feet high
er than Thunder Mountain, you find
far more surface quartz than any
place IN the district. On the extreme
top you can not wash a single
pan of dirt, with out getting a fine
string of colors. The owners know
they have the stuff, for this does
not stuff, from some one else 8 ground
Root and Fanburg, Longfellow and
Wayland have good ground. They
all did quite little development
work and are more than satisfied.
Spencer, Sullivan and LaHame own
good ground. Going down the ridge
we find the Sunnyside, Wisdom and
the Gem, the latter. surely comes in
tor its share, and w. D. Bull the
owner, deserves it. Branching from
there, we pass to the Head Of Holy
Terror. At first the owners only
priced the ground Immediately. ad-
jacent to the Sunnyside and Dewey.
but last summers work changed their
minds. In doing the assessment
work on the War Eagle-lt PANIED
from top to bottom-ln % foot shaft
On the Black Pine, cornering the
Sunnyside the owners were more
than pleased with the results received
in sinking 80 foot shaft. The I'M
mediate claims are owned by Col J
NJ. Guffy, Wsyland and Son, Cotter.
l. NJ. Pung, London and Lnesby.
Stallengs and Chas. Galloway. A
number Of assays have been made,
but ~ so at grass roots was the
highest surface ASSAY The BIG
Horn owned by j NJ. Guffy, was the
claim where they first found the
heavy concentrates. The Niger
Head on the west slope of Holy
Terror, apparently vast mountain
OF lava rock, shows up we'll under
development; Csmbeli and Moore had
some assays made in their 20 foot
tunnel, on receiving 81. so average
assay, thought it was too high and
there waa some mistake, so they
wrote to D. S. Cotter asking him to
go to the works and get new sam
Piles, this he did and found there had
been no mistake This shows you
the kind of men who are the original
owners and locators, the back bone
of the camp. They would rather
under rate than over-rate. There is
no question. but the rich lead from
the Sunnyside and wisdom runs
north and south. The Occur d Alene.
owned by Parsons & Johnston shows
up we'll. Now we come to the Dewey.
this Is practically a closed CORPORA
ton, the management are thoroughly
satisfied and it Is a paying PROPOSE
ton.
Here, on this reef. nature was
bountiful she uncovered the dyke
IN such a way as needed little sur
face work, but the development work
has shown it wide and deep. The
MADEIRA and Accident. the latter own
ed by the old timer A.. j. Roberts
have proven good claims. Next we
see the Magnolia, A D Pardee the
owner also did his work on the
Golden Eagle which lies between the
Dewey and Sunnysde, and express
ess great faith in Thunder Mountain
Lying in this immediate vicinity we
ind a number of claims owned by
Martin Curran, Ben Caswell. WAY
land q Son, Holcomb & Mosier
Longfellow & BarnsdaIe and Hugh
Fulton, this property being within
200 feet of the Dewey mill Before
passing down tue ridge, we must
branch to Fuller q Lawrence who
lie at the foot of the mountain ioin-
ing the Dewey claims on the south.
These claims were located IN 1901.
and the men have encountered ore
in character similar to the Dewey and
in in good quantities, in one ASSAY