The Alaska citizen., 1910-10-24
Story of How Famous Mine Was Discovered


 The disbursement of s15o.ooo as one months dividend from the fam. ous Bunker Hill and Sullivan Silver lead mine al Wardner, Idaho. set Dutch Jake" Goetz 10 take his pen in hand yesterday. Jake is a pioneer of the Coeur d'Alenes. and uot only had grubstake interest in the great mine but actually assisted in stalking the Sullivan claim, which is a part of the group,
 It has been raying dividends or. diuarily at the rate of sI5.o0o a month. but a double-header of $l5o. 0oo was dishursed March 4.anG made velt's inauguration - and it made a total of s2.5710o0 The mine is controlled by the D. O Mills inter ests. which are represented on the cost by Fred Bradley, of San Fran cisco. The mine. which sold about Is years ago for S1.5oo.000 has in creased in value until the last few SNdTtS tNdl were 10 pt udu tl ltt market were quoted at slS.O0-a val nation of over s5000000 for the mine - and it is doubtful whether the control could be bought for that figure Thus the mine has more than trcbled in value while pay ing on an average of 10 per cent. l 11,s hn ', 60 price
 Dutch Jake's" Account.
 I'm going to tell the true story about the discovery of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine in the Occur d'Alenes Qdaho). There have been a lot of stories written about it, but never saw one that was right all the way through.
 It happened back i'll 1SS5. was then at Murray. in the gold belt of the Occur dAlenes where my partner, Harry Baer and l had a saloon We were partners too, in mining deals Harry stayed to tend to the business in Murray while went out into the hills looking af- ter prospects Dutch Jake's bar, on Myrtle creek, near Murray, is nam ed after me
 "I was pretty close to 30 years old then and I had made s25 000 or s300OO in tie and pile contracts for the Northern Pacific during con. struction days. had owned some saloons along the railway and We did a little gambling. In 1883 l went into the gold belt of the Occur d'Alenes on snowshOes over the mountains from Trout Creek, Mont. There was 20 feet of snow on the hills. was real thing as pi- oneer, for I helped 10 lay out the town of Murray. Mullan. Eagle. Burke, Delta, Littlefeld. Kellogg and Wardner
 Phil O'Rourke Interested.
 II got acquainted with Phil ORourke, an old Colorado miner. who was counted the best prOspec- tor in the camp in those days, In the early summer of 1885 we went over toward Mullan to look after some claims and when we returned to Murray with our cayuses We found old man Kellogg. He had been out prospecting on the South Fork of the Occur d'Alene river, near the spot where Kellogg, Idaho, now stands, and he brought back some iron capping that he found. The old man was prospecting on a grubstake for Messrs. Cooper and Peck, of Murray, Idaho. They had provided him with a burrO and with s18.75 worth of tools and provisions. With that he'd put in about two months in the hills, and all he had to show for it was this iron cap. He showed it to Cooper & Peck, and they asked John M Burke about it Burke had great reputation. He saw it was a smelling ore and when he told Cooper & Peck so they got disgusted, for they wanted free gold. They said to Kellogg that he'd better quit prospecting if he couldn't get free gold.
 Kellogg showed his samples to Phil O'Rourke. It didn't take a min ute for Phil to see that it gave promise of producing some galena or carbonates, like the ores that made Colorado famous. Phil came to me and told me we'd better join Kellogg in stalking the ground, so I turned our cayuses and provis- ions over to Phil and Kellogg, and they struck right off for the South Fork. Meantime Kellogg had noti- fled Cooper X Peck that he had quit the grubstake deal with them.
 Finds the Bonanza Lode.
 Kellogg took O'Rourke down to Big Creek, on the South Fork and pointed out the big iron capping that covered the lodges. Moving down the river they came to Milo Creek, where the town of Kellogg now stands. There they lost a pack horse, and while old man Kellogg went in search of it uD Elk eulch