The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-10-11
A new MINING PROJECT

Henry Bahrs returned to Oroville
from the east the latter part of last
week, where he spent most of the sum-
mer interesting men of means in a
mining property located in the hills a
few miles southwest of Oroville. Sue
cess rewarded his efforts and he re-
turns to the west with the assurance
of material backing that will enable
him to thoroughly explore the ground
embraced in the claims, and eventually
make mine of real value, Judging
from the evidence already in sight. The
company that he has succeeded in Or
ganizing is to be known as the Ell
Dorado Mining company. AS an earn
est of the stability and sincerity of the
men who are at the back of the Ell
Dorado it can be stated that a lot of
machinery has been purchased, is now
on the way to this place, and upon it's
arrival it will be freighted to and set
up at the mine. The ore exposed in
the Ell Dorado is said to be an excel
lent concentrating proposition, carry
ing good values. Indeed, the casing of
the ledge itself, to say nothing of the
ore body proper, assays we'll. If this
barked in this new mining venture
have good reasons to expect remuner-
ative returns from the output
The group of claims constituting the
Ell Dorado holdings are located short
distance southeast of the old Wehes-
vile pOstOffice. They are in a mineral
zone that has been very thoroughly
prospected by the Wehe brothers, who
al 10 foi in ho nfv,y
Indeed, if they had not faith then there
is no way to account for their holding
on for so many of the best years of
their lives, and spending many thou
sands of dollars in pushing investi-
cations. The mineral character of
such lodges as have been uncovered
natural supposition from the showings
that all that has ever been required to
reach paying ore in quantities was
sufficient amount of capital, intelli-
gently applied. to open up the ore
ready done, while stretched over
good many years, has been largely
confined to desultory prospecting, with
no concentrated effort at any one point
to go down on the leads. This may be
ground was being held under the loca-
tion law, and it was necessary to
spread work over the surface in order
to comply with the requirements for
retaining mining claims. In the dis
trict the greatest amount of real min
ing that has been done, and done with
the aim to secure results. is to be
found on the group of claims now
embraced in the property known as
the El Dorado, and it has been ac-
cOmplished in the face of sore difficult
ties, the chief of which was the lack of
ready money to send the probe deep
into the hills. Notwithstanding this
serious drawback there is something
to show for the energy that has been
expended upon the main tunnel, that
has been driven in 600 feet much of
the distance through the most Obdu-
rate formation The final showing that
the exercise of patience and enormous
labor has made is such as to satisfy
Mr.. Bahrs, the man who has given
much of his time to pushing develop
ment to the stage it has reached.
The Ell Dorado claims are no new
discovery. The claims have been held
and the presence of mineral has been
generally acknowledged for years.
The property was originally located
by a prospector named Andy OMally,
and that was away back in the early
days of. mining in this upper country.
OMally worked some time upon the
discovery, when he was taken down
with miners consumption, went to
California and there died. Geo. Pas
kell and Roger Finen, two of the old
est and best known prospectors and
miners then in the county, fell heirs
to the claims. They lived for years in
a cabin along the road side near the
mine. and faithfully pushed develop
ment to the limit of their ability and
resources Paskell and Finen were a
reproduction in a modest way of Da-
mon and Pythias. When you saw one
you could depend upon it that the 9TH
er was not far away. They were simp-
ly inseparable. Paskell was a large,
powerful. good natured German, much
younger than his partner. Finen was
a taciturn Irishman, of advanced
years. but warm hearted and likeable.
One evening several years ago, after
the days work, and as he was sitting
in front of the cabin taking rest, ap-
parently in the best of health, Pas
kell fell over dead, stricken in an in
stant. Doctors pronounced 1t weak
heart. Finen never recovered from the
blow, and gradually went into de-
cline. He made deal for the proper
ty with Henry Bahrs, but becoming
to weak to work Mr.. Bahrs sent him
to California. where he soon passed
away. Mr.. Finen's ailment was de-
clared to be miners consumption. but
the beginning of the end can be dated
from the death of the partner.
Mr.. Bahrs took hold of the Paskell
and Finen property He certainly had
unfaltering confidence in the merits of
the holdings or he could not have ac-
complished what he has almost single
and alone Nothing else but supreme
faith could hold any man to the grind
and discouragements that Mr.. Bahrs
has faced and surmounted. Notwith-
standing all he had to go through he
kept pounding away. gradually push
ing on the work to point where a
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