The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1905-06-30

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but the rock crusher had not been do
ing it's work we'll and the mill had shut
down until part of the crusher could
be sent to Nam pa for repairs. Theu
he went to the War Eagle and Stormy
Hill mines, and thinking Of what rich
ore they had produced in early days,
he having heard the history of their
early production often told, he won
dered why some enterprising party did
not start them going again. In going
chat distance, and everywhere he
went, over the mountain, he noted new
location stakes, denoting revival in
interest prospectors we're taking in the
abandoned claims and searching for
further discoveries.
Meeting VIM Lacharity, the hnstling
prospector, he was then directed to the
John Bill claim, where he found Chris
Farrell and another miner ina tunnel,
35 feet from the portal, where they and
Lacharity we're following a small but
very rich vein on claim located near
the South Central and Thompson's
Idlewild. They had out number of
tons of ore, with gold visible in nearly
every chunk, and will have a crushing
before long which will be surprising.
From the John-Bill he went across
Silver Chord gulch and up the Pauper
summit, to the California mine Here,
piled up beside the shaft house, he saw
some three hundred sacks of ore, re-
GENTLY taken out of the mine He took
look into number of the sacks
which had not yet been sewed, and was
surprised at the uniform good charac-
ter of the white sugary quartz, rich
with spots of ruby silver and specks Of
gold occasionally showing. But un-
fortunately, the battery starting the
fine gasoline hoist was out of whack
that day, and mdu repairing it, and
Supt Hopkins temporarily laid up
from an overdose Of vavor, inhaled
while filling the gasoline tank. He
therefore did not get to 60 down the
shaft, where Mr.. Hopkins told him a
hundred feet of drift had been run.
and the rich ore in the sacks had been
taken out on the north end of the hun
dred level 1t is the same character OF
ore as that taken out or the same vein
on the old Pauper, north Of it, years
ago, which smelted upwards of 500
per ton. This ore now in sacks is
awaiting the order Of he Cleveland
Mining Co. TO ship it to a smelter.
From the California it is only few
hundred feet south and west to Thilu
Nette's Burro mine, whittier Nuggets
expert next went. He found Nette
and Simon Harris at the bottom Of a
60 foot shaft, and preparing to shoot
their holes and did not care to clint
down a wet ladder to look at the vein
but spent the time until they came uE
looking at pile Of, he judged, 30 tons
Of ore which had been taken out OF
that hole and was good to look upon
Great spots of ruby silver spreac
through The white quartz, while here
: and there coarse specks of gold were
visible. Nette don't talk or let other:
; talk about his prospect as he per
sists in calling it, but we know nov
that the reports which have been com
ing to town for month or more, tha
"Nette had got it rich, are trIe.
, This section, on southwestern
point on War Eagle mountain, wher'
is located the old Pauper, the Califor
MIA, the Neversweat aud Republic, th
latter two belonging to Louis SorenseI
}, and the Tom Shaw estate, and The Bor'
S and four other claims belonging tS
e Nette u Inglis, constitute great groul
g we Will all hear more about later on
e They are all south of Silver ChorC
, gulch, directly south Of the once fam
+ Gus Silver Chord mine and directly il
e line with il and the once greatly NOR
famous old Poorman mine, of whicl
e string of rich Lodges they are nndoubt
g edly the southern continuation
When our expert was on this group
9 Louis Sorensen was not at his mines
5, aud consequently he did not take
4 look at the best known of all the claim
b in the group-the Neversweat and tn
Republic.
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