The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-08-06
BOISE. IDAHO, AUGUST 6 1909

up notice claiming somewhere that neghbor-
hood ranch but he did he had his notice recorded
Men in those days while rowing about the country frequently wrote
out and stuck notices claiming land springs the water OF streams
quartz veins gravel deposits anything else that they might for the
moment think valuable but unless such claims properly recorded
and worked they could not be held all miners and others well
newa expiring the end of 10 days when the prop
ey might be taken up recorded and held by the first man that came
along Costock had some show OF right to the water and to the
along the upper part of Six Mile canyon the year
before he Old Virginia and Pnod had bought of old Joe Caldwell
set OF sllce-boXes and the water OF spring However the
possession of set of sces the and right
from certain spring neghborhood by gave Com
stock his friends the right lay claim of found in
hill somewhere in their section Of the country.
John Bishop who bought Old Vrginia's interest in the
sucies gravedggngs got share of the quartz
discovered by Pete Oey Pat Mclaughlin though managed
the lead locating the mine known the Central No
part the California of the bonanza mines with millions
of sight Bishop put the first built the
lode starting up three days before that of the Opr be-
San running He sold his the Central No $4,000
$500 per Gas incorporated the California mne) the
ground selling $4,000 per foot and John Bishop still
works, miner, at Gold Hill
After Comstoc had managed to become largely interested in
the discovery and after the gold taken by ORey and Nc
Laughn had been carried down Gold Hill and exhibited and
amned there at once great deal OF local excitement IN regard
the dggngs and all get interest in the
claim the lead the original discovery possible
Those who finally recorded in the Ophr notice original To-
the following persons Peter ORiey Patrick Nc
Laughin, H T. P Comstock E. Penrod and J. A. ('Kentuck
Osborne The named had onesx each of 400 # of ground
and addition Costock and Penrod had 100 # seq
1egaed he making 1900 it. taken up by the party The 100
# of Comstock and Penod though in the midst
ground rekoned part of the Ophr claim and soon
sold and worked separate under the of the Mexican
Spanish mine The Ophir claim the first that located as
quartz claim point the Costock lode though early
February 30 1855 Old Virginia James Fnney Fennmore)
location large the westward OF the Comstoc
This vein known the Virginia lead Virginia groupings 1t
Welded but contains quantities of base metal
of various kinds thought by that this
would prove mother lead of the range the
surface considerable distance below the surface the Com
dipped toward it. Parties bought Old Virginia
began against the Ophr company asserting that the
lead which they work the that located
1858 by Old Virginia 1t of speculation the OF
those who brought the and understood that they succeeded
obtaining 100000 from the Ophr company At the beginning OF
this necessary possible produce the original notice
placed upon the groupings of the lead by Old Virginia but the
parties to whom he had claim could get him sufficiently
obed I'D to show where could be found Growing desperate
they at length seized the old fellow evening and hrstng him
into the mouth big tunnel closed and locked upon him heavy
iron gate The morning when they went to the tunnel they
found Virginia sober but He would do
nothing they had taken him down and given him half
unbler of whev This swallowed he ready business He
marched directly up the side of the mountain and going straight
large of groupings, drew out small block OF rock and 10
behind it was seen nugy slowed the mucldesired notice
was probably of his having made this location that
Old Virginia given the credit OF having been the doverer OF
the Costoc his in which he said to have sold for
an old horse pair of blankets and bottle of wikey He sold
rd interest in the sluces and dggings in the canyon to
Tohn Bishop for S25 Hart who had interest the
ces and dggngs the canyon sold his right to be considered
in on the big discovery Winter of Washoe Valley for
horse and $50 in coin
To show the different viewpoints stated that when President
Taft as of illustration spoke OF stove as consumer OF