The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1905-07-07
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IN OWHYEE COUNTY
ANOTHER DEAL
ON WAR EAGLE
c. w. Hill Buys an In1porta MT
Group Of Adjoining Claims and
Will Orga nize O Compa NY for
Their Development.

oFO0p ~ ADJOINING @h6ffnS hffo
Will Organize o Company for
Their Development.
Mr.. @. W. Hill, formerly of Baker
City and later of Nampa, who has for
some weeks been visiting Mr. Arthur
Buckbee of tine Pioneer Mining Com
pany. has evidently not been stopping
up there just to enjoy the clear atmos-
phere and far away scenery, but has
been doing something. IL turns out
that he has secured from Mr.. Buckbee
that gentleman's option on the Stormy
Hill, War Eagle and purchased
the Ell Madhi group of mines;
has added to them by purchase
the Ninety-Two claim, and to fill out
the compact group they make, has To-
Gated claim south of the Stormy Hill
which he has named the Carton.
With these five claims Mr.. Hill se-
cures very important group, making
one hundred acres just east of the
summit of War Eagle, where veins of
rich ore are more numerous than at
any other point on the mountain,
bounded on the east by the we'll known
San Juan group; on the south by the
Afterthought; on the west by the EN-
summit of the mountain. Tie Stormy
Hill and War Eagle are both we'll
known old mines, which in the old days
of the camp we're counted among its
important producers. Their end lines
join, the stormy Hill being on the
south, and the same vein of ore run
ming through both. The War Eagle
has record of having produced $780,
QUO in bullion. The Stormy Hill was
not opened until later, and both met
the same fate, at the Bank of Califor
on the mountain were closed, and all
the speculating San Francisco COM
panies owning them went broke.'
The War Eagle has been idle since. but
the Stormy Hill has been worked lit
tie since by leasers and chloriders, with
good results. A drift has been run
south on the loo level of the vein for
about 300 feet, proving it to be five feet
wide between the granite walls. An
evidence of this is the fact that the
dump is practically all ore with on y
the leasers discarding the lower grades
of ore and only taking the richer
streaks, which paid them for having
hauled away and milled in those ex-
pensive days.
A careful survey and estimate of the
number of tons in this dump, made for
Mr.. Buck bee by his engineer, puts it
at 2l,000, aud thoroughly sampling
every part of it shows average assays
of more than six dollars per ton. What
chance for small cyanide plantI
The Ell Madhi claim in this group
lies vest of aud adjoining the two
mines just mentioned. 1t formerly be-
longed to "Scotty' Beaton. Mr.. Rea-
ton has taken some very rich ore out
of this claim, but his eighty years iu-
duced him long ago to give it to a
grandson, who, not being miner, has
decided to part with it. The Ninety
Two is the recently discovered vein,
located by that inveterate and versatile
prospector, Chris Farrell II is south
of the El Madhi.
Mr.. Hill will leave for the east in a
few days, expecting to organize COM
pany to exploit these properties, at
Utica, New York, where he has friends
already interested with him in them.
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The report is out that the manage
ment os the DeLamar mines is having
plans made to have the mill complete
ly remodeled. 1t having been first con-
structed as an amalgamating mill, and
then, after many changes had been
made, converted into cyanide mill, it
is very inconveniently arranged; aud
having done service until it is old and
badly worn, and the mines with their
new developments giving promise of a
long future, it has been decided to sup
plant it with a mill which will be en-
tirely up-to-date, with new system of
crushing the ore, new leeching tanks
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