The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1905-11-24
Nj 4 N I n G
IN OwHYEE COUNTY

The party negotiating for the pur-
chase of the Neversweat group of
mines on War Eagle now have men at
work continuing the crosscut tunnel,
started when the vein was first discov-
cred, but never completed to the Re-
public.
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Lee Bunch, of the we'll known broth
ers of that name, who owned the Pay
ette river placers and organized the
Oxbow Tunnel, Placer and Power COM
pany, arrived here yesterday, and is to-
day making an examination of the
Commoner mine, the property Of Nc
Leod, Hogan and Nugent.
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Arthur Buckbee, manager of the
Pioneer Mines Company, is now re-
ceiving the long delayed electrical
equipment for the Cumberland mine
and mill, aud w. B. Hurd, the cleo
trician, with force of men assisting
him, is now installing them The trans
former was brought up from Murphy
this week AS the outside wiring was
done and all preparations for receiving
the appliances had been completed be-
fore they began to arrive, it will not be
long until they are in place and the
mill ready to start.
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Van Curtis, whose present home is
at Vale, Oregon, but who has been here
for a couple of months doing assess
ment work on his Village Blacksmith
and Home claims, near the old
rrask arastra site, has bonded the
claims to A @. Fralik the gentleman
who came here from Chicago to report
upon the Neversw. eat group for L. M
johnson. The time and amount of the
bond are not given out. These two
claims lie south of the we'll known
Whiskey claim, on the same vein. This
vein, on which the Addie companys
string of claims is also located, is said
to be the longest continuous vein iu
this entire district and can be traced
and located upon for quite two miles
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Chilean mills and other equipments
are now at the Murphy station and be-
ing hauled to DeLamar for the recon.
structiou of the company's mill One
casting on car there, Wednesday,
weighs $4,000 pounds, aud it may be
some days before the freighters will be
able to get it delivered, as the only
wagon capable of carrying it is now
undergoing some repairs. A force Of
mechanics are now busy on the mill
The pillars to support the machiner,
and tanks have been put up; large
quantities of lumber for construction
now on the ground and work progress.
ing nicely. AS regards the new strike
in the mines, there has not been suffi
cient work done to determine anything
definite further than to say it looks
encouraging.
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E. L. g., one of the Clark brothers,
the we'll known aud successful surface
gold prospectors, called upon Nugget
this week TO tell about their new find
on North Sinker, about half mile
west of Paul's Station, on the Murphy
road. Mr. Clark says they have found
vein and uncovered it at several
points, being able to trace it for sew
eral thousand feet, which is proving to
be very rich in places. Specimens he
had with him showed gold as big as
grains of wheat. MIR. Clark is inclined
to think that the ore will class as tel
urium. The vein is eight inches wide
on an average (not eight feet, as an un-
reliable local paper had it last week.
AS this find is about IA miles from
Murphy ana on the side on which
there is very little snow, the owners
will be able to continue development
work all winter.
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c. w. Hill has been busy since his
return with preparations for working
the Stormy Hill property. He has
been rigging hoist over the Stormy
Hill mine shaft. having procured the
gallows frame formerly on the Pauper
and set it up. The next work will be
the complete retimberir g of the shaft
down to the level where the mine was
worked last bY leasers. This level has
been driven south several hundred
feet on the vein, and north to the end
line of the War Eagle. AS the Stormy