The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1905-04-07

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Henry M. Stevens, who came to Sill
yer City late last summer, to gvisit his
brother A. L., proposing to remain 10
days, but stopped five months, re-
turned to his home in Tacoma last
week. We are confident that Mr.. Stew
ems putin his time to a profitable ad-
vantage while here. It will be remem-
bered that in early days, Rich Gulch.
on the southwest point of Florida
mountain, was the richest ll.:ssssia piece
of placer ground ever encountered in
Owyhee. Pete Donnelly, now an old
gentleman of leisure in Nampa, was
one of the locators. But above a GER
tain point in the little gulch the values
petered out. During generation fre-
qnent efforts have been made to find
the source Of that rich placer, without
results. Jack Hogan, who has located
several good claims here and has been
lucky, spent a summer prospecting for
IL. Bob Lewis and Hadsel Dye each
spent considerable time searching for
IT, Baker, the tailor, almost went wild.
thinking he had found it, But Henry
Stevens, nothing daunted by all the
other fellows bad luck, borrowed his
brothers transit, took bearings fr M
various points, last fall, and after four
days work decided where to begin dig
|ging for it. He dug He has driven
tunnel loo feet long, has found vein
Y feet in width, and is cock sure that
he has what so many have been look
ing for. stock company has been
organized in Salt Lake to work the
vein. It is not heavily over. capitalized
at So 600. Work will be done on it as
soon as the ground is accessible.
A. j. Orem, Jr,, of A. J. Orem & Sons,
Salt Lake, who recently organized the
Idaho Development Company in that
city, which has taken over a large
block of the stock of The Addie Con-
soidated Mining q Milling Co, Ltd,
Of this place, arrived here yesterday Co
assume the superintendency Of the
Addie property. Mr. Orem Informs
us that extensive development work
will be begun upon the Addie property
without delay that probably the first
work will be the making upraises from
the long tunnel to the surface to secure
better air, and that then cross s-cutting
will be done to cut other veins known
to be on the several claims, as we'll as
sinking from the tnpnel, Means have
been provided to thoroughly explore
aud develop the property, as well as to
extract and work the ore chutes al
ready discovered on the Addie vein.
Mr.. Stevens, who has heretofore had
the management Of the property, has
sold all Of his ctock in the Addie and
will probably in short time leave
here for Southern California, where he
has invested in a fine home.
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Tom Harland. superintendent of the
Homestake mines, was in town this
week lie had nothing to report fur
ther than that work is progressing
favorably.
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Robert Noble, the sheep king Of
Idaho, was in town the fore part of
the week, comforting with his mining
partner, Col. John F. Sullivan, regard
ing future operations on their group of
mines at the head Of Jacobs gulch.
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". D. Evans has been spending the
week at his Rawhide mine on Castle
Creek. We think, from reports com
ing from that new district, that Mr..
Evans has reasons for getting consider
ably excited over the discovery that he
and Mr.. Sautray have made there.