The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-04-18

way of Oregon for $25, 900. at the same
time entering Anyways employ, and
remaining with him until 1874 Ard
way also bought the National from A
b. Richard for $500. Afterward the
GYPSY claim. part of 1t on Cave
ground already held by Ardway, was
located by henry Breeze, whom Ard
way bought out, thus consolidating the
conflicting interests. The first import
ant strike at Bristol was made in the
spring of 1873 in a big cave on the
claim of that name. where an i'm
mense body of soft ore was uncov-
cred. measuring II feet high above
the floor of the drift and 30 feet wide,
and assaying 375 ounces of silver per
ton, 2S per cent lead and Is per cent
copper. From this and other bonanzas
found on his properties Ardway is
said to have cleaned up about ST.
100000 in three or four years The
total production of the Bristol prop
critics in the early days was about
S2,000,O00 During the palmy days
of the Ardway regime, 800 miners and
transfers are said to have been regu,
larly employed at Bristol A townsite
was laid off and rapidly settled up,
and the camp was served by two daily
stages. After Ardway left the prop
critics suffered various vicissitudes
under successive ownerships and man.
agements, some of them very "trif-
ling" and inefficient, until. in 1887, the
Bristol Consolidated Mining company
was organized to take over the more
important claims on the Bristol side
OF the hill, the legal successor of this
company being the Day Bristol Min
ing company, which controls these
properties together with the more i'm
portant mines on the Jackrabbit side
at the present time.
The Hillside, now one of the most
important Bristol properties, and the
Day mine, the big producer of the
Iackrabbit district, were discovered
within one week of each other, in the
early part Of May, 1877, by |. ~ Gar
rison, who is now living on ranch
in the Wilson Creek valley in Lincoln
county At the time of the discovery
Of the Hillside, Mr. Garrison, who had
located the Day a week previously,
was going across the hill from Bris
tol to get some samples from the lat
ter property Assays from the crop
, pings of the new (Hillside) discovery
, showed Is ounces silver. Mr., Garri-
o son was accompanied at the time by
, John Valencourt Realizing that he
would be fully occupied with the prop
critics he had already acquired, he
gave his half interest in the Hillside
: location to John Blair, then owner OF
the Iron mine, who, with Valencourt
organized the Hillside Mining com
! pany, a concern whose stock was at
/. one time quoted as high as $50 per
share, and whose property was cred
= tied with grass production of about
) $1,S00,000.
r The transportation problem is bein,
D settled by the building of an aeria
, tramway, now almost completed
! which will convey the Bristol ore
! over the mountain range to Jack Rah
, Bit the present terminus of the Pi
!. oche Pacific railroad, and thence
. shipped to the Salt Lake shelters
: The Day mine, in which Mr.. Gar
rison had as his partner Josh Emery
$ proved to be poor mans bonanza.
!, The partners started work with sil
!, men June 10, 1871 and three day.
afterwards they had $4,000 worth O
: ore sacked on the dump They start
. ed in solid lime, with a streak of ore
five inches wide, which quickly wild
!, ened to four feet as they went dowr
: on it. At a depth of about five fee
: in their shaft the ore averaged $500
4 ounces silver per ton, with at leas
three tons in sight-and silver quoted
at $1.25 per ounce. After taking on
this wonderfully rich pocket tn
partners ran out of any further trace
but they decided to keep at work TO
few days longer at least. They pu
in deep shot, which blew back into
chimney" the contents of which
soft and loose, looked like tailin
pile and assayed 1000 ounces silve
per ton. In short time they ha
The property was then bonded to Jas
$4,000 worth of this ore ON the dunn
n per Macdonald of San Francisco an
Captain H. H. Day of Phoebe, the cor
sideration being $4,000 cash and 10
600 shares of stock in the new con
pany, guaranteed by Wells Fargo
company at IS per share Shortly bt
fore this Garrison and Emery ha
shipped ten tons of the ore to Sal
| Lake City, ten tons to the mill i
| Condor canyon and ten tons to Blu
lionville for test treatment, the RI
| turns from each being at the rate {
| about S04 ounces silver per ton.
Shipment From Day.
Garrison was put in charge as SUI
erintendent for the Day company an
within two months had shipped $275
900 worth of bullion to Macdonald
San Francisco. Meanwhile, no div
dends were forthcoming, and suit wa
brought by the minority stakeholder
representing about 80 per cent Of tn
stock, to enforce a distribution of tn
net profits. The case commonly r,
ferred to as the "Jackrabbit suit" a
tracted good cal of attention in Sa
Francisco, where the principals wer
we'll known; and as a means of enlis
ing public opinion in their favor, som
Of the waggish spirits among tn