Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-04-16
From Our Exchanges.

Clifford Nuner and Miss Alameda
Adams both OF this place we're
married by Rev. Father O'Reilly last
Saturday. Both of the newly married
are we'll known here, the bride being
a prominent teacher and musician
and the groom being the oldest son of
Mr. and Mrs Dan Nuner. Prospect.
At the last meeting of the trustees
OF Preston School at lone, superiu-
tendent W. Il. Randall was authorized
20 engage the services OF Prof. Homer
s. Henley to instruct the cadets in
vocal music. The school already has
one of the finest bands in the state
and Mr. Henley expects to develop a
chorus of thirty live or forty voices
from those who give evidence of the
most marked ability. Dem crat.
Otis Shepardson, an old time resi-
dent at the lower ranch in Salt
Spring Valley, died in San Andreas
this week. Mr. Shepardson was
stricken with paralysis short time
ago, and was brought to the hospital,
here for medical treatment. lie was
we'll known among, the old timers,
and for many years was close as
Eociate of such sport loving men as
Mark Mccormick, Hiram Tyre, John
A. Giles and others, who we're crack
shots of their day. In one season
Sbepardson shipped 9O9 dozen quail
to market. from the vicinity of Salt
Spring Valley Prospect.
For some twenty years past an
idea has prevailed that the quartz
VEINS OF Ell Dorado county carried
values only to n limited depth, no
mining being done at levels below
few hundred feet. The deepest
shaft ever sunk In this county did
not touch the 1600-foot level. but the
pay chute held good as far down as
The vein was worked, and the property
was abandoned because the working |
company did not think it good bust
ness judgment to purchase $3.50, 900 |
worth Of new machinery which was
deemed necessary to properly equip |
the mine for working out to the low
est possible levels. Many other good |
mines we're worked to depths ranging |
from 400 to 100 feet, aud then
abandoned for various reasons. |
Among the number we're the Big |
Canyon, Union, Mt. Pleasant. Ida
Mitchell, Pacific, Atlanta, Larkin,
Grand Victory and a half dozen
others. Within the past few months
modern mining men have taken up |
some of these properties and have |
either opened them up or are prepar-
ing to do so. Nugget.
The full extent of the recent strike
at the App is not definitely known,
either by the public or the owner,
but it was prize bunch Of gold-shot-
ted ore that was blown out of place
in stope in the north drift off the
I3OO. The two feet of yellowish- gray
ore, which has been followed for
several hundred feet, has proven to
be high grade the entire distance, but
last week it got into the candlebox
class. The output of a few days is
variouslY estimated at from $40, 900 to
$4,000. 1t was a great strike. but
not by any means the tirst-nor the
last-bunoh of gold to be wruDg from
the bowels of that wonderful old
quartz mountain by that wizard of
the lode. Capt. WA. Nevills.-Union
Democrat.
The eight-year old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Robert Gibson TO Milton
died last Saturday morning from
burns received Friday Afternoon
while playing with toy stove. The
little tot and her companions were
playing housekeeping aud had started
fire in toy stove. They we're pre-
pairing their neal and we're so taken
mp with their household duties they
did not realize what had occurred
until the Gibson ohild's dress was a
mass of flames. The little girls gar
ments had come in contact with the
fire and 10 few seconds the flames
had completely developed her. Her
playmate's screams attracted the at
tention of the mother, who rushed to
her daughters assistance. She quick
ly smothered the flames, but not
until the child was horribly burned.
The doctor arrived before the child
passed away. He quickly observed,
upon his arrival, that the victim