Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-04

sinks or drains or whatever they are
called were of silver. Two big plate
glass mirrors made the back of the
bar and there were statuettes that
, would grace any parlor. There was
a cash register that cost, so the own
er told me, $500, and 1t was so COM
plicated that it required a barkeep-
er with a college education to man
ipulate it. 1t had more stops and
cams on it than an old fashioned
Dutch horn and told everything
from how much the next train was
late, or when a customer had all he
could carry, to the age of Ann. The
place, by the way, is owned by n
former Salemite, V. e. Warren, and
sold Salem beer, but that was not
the reason that 1 took a cigar in
stead? But here I am depressing
again from whatever it was that J
intended to say.
Nine miles from Hilt I found
johnny" Densmore and his part
ner Mr.. Cavan, at their cabin. They
fed me, and slept me, and talked
me, and the next morning they took
me over their claims. Their mine is
located on Hungry creek, that is
probably so named because it's
mouth is so far from its head that
it couldn't feed itself I know be-
cause in an unguarded moment I
consented to let Mr.. Cavan take me
down it. 1 was hungry myself when
got back.
Densmore and Cavan have GER
tainly done an immense amount Of
work, and they have one of the best
mines, if not the best mine, for the
depth, that have seen in the course
of 40 years around the mining
camps. They have with infinite pa
tience and unceasing toll uncovered
one of their lodges every fifty or a
hundred feet for it's full length,
1900 feet. At one point they have
a tunnel in about 80 feet, and at the
end of it they have sunk on the
ledge about eight feet. The ledge
here is a little more than six feet
wide and is widening as it goes
down. / sampled this ledge across
the bottom carefully and throwing
out the rich nuggets that are found
in a streak a foot wide along the
hanging wall, the other five feet will
work better than $1,000 a ton. In
the one foot seam there are lunches
of rich stuff that are simply nuggets
and are identical with the nuggets
found in the placer mines on the
creek which has been mined out up
to where their ledge crosses it, or
practically so, though there are two
men placering on the creek just be-
low their mine that have only water
gathered in reservoirs, to furnish a
sluice head for 20 minutes twice
day.
They gather their dirt while the
water is accumulating, and then
they shovel it into the sluice boxes
as long as the sluice head lasts, 20
minutes. They told me that they
took out a dollar apiece for every
minute they shoveled into the boxes,
or $40 a day to the man. The creek
paid in early days as high as $500
day to the man. 1t was this that
made Cavan first get the idea that
the mines were fed from quartz
veins, for in the 15 miles of Hungry
creek mined, there is not side
gulch worked, showing that the
values all came from the main
creek.
The body of ore the boys now
have opened contains at least hun
dred tons of ore, for it could not
pinch out quick enough to shut out
the ore in less than that amount,
and this ore is worth considerably
more than $1,000 a ton for it is
worth that sum without counting
the rich stuff that is quite plentiful
all through the one foot streak
along the hanging, and neither the
end or bottom of the ore is in sight.
There is one Salem boy that is sure
ly in right on the mines. for he has
all that any one man ought to have,
in sight. Besides this one ledge the
boys have three others, none OF
them so well developed as the one
metioned, but one that is certainly
very rich, and in my opinion is like
ly to show up as the boss mine OF
that section. They have several
tunnels running up their ledges, and
all of them show good values.
l might add that the boys when
they needed a little money at one
time, sat down and with a hand
mortar and pestle. pounded out
s652.40 in a couple of hours. or
course this was done out Of selected
ores. but IL shows how very rich
stun they have. The Alta mill Is
only half a mile from the mine and
the boys expect 70 make some ar
rangement for milling a hundred