Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-10
ON WAR EAGLE MOUNTAIN.

Ills group tne CIdlITlS IOTIH-
erly known as the Orofino. the Ida, Ell
more, the Golden Chariot, the Mime
sofa. the South Chariot and the Ma
hogany. All these claims are located on
the War Eagle mountain in the first
mining district Of Owyhee county. In
April 1916, when the present company
operating the claims assumed control
Of them after it's lease of them, the tun-
mel was 6405 feet In length but in a
very defective condition. After a pre-
liminary work for real activity on n
great mining scale the portion OF the
tunnel which was caved in was re-
timbered.
This work consumed from April of
that year until Sept. 26. At that time
the work of extending a tunnel for the
purpose of tapping the historical Gold
en- Chariot vein was begun and the ex-
tension OF the excavation a few days
since was s09 feet Twelve men have
been kept at work almost all the while
since April first of last year
COURAGE AND ENDURANCE.
The history Of the work of the de-
velopment of the present company is
a history of courage, a record of en-
durance and patiene comparable to the
numerous incidents with which the
early history of the west teens. Only
through extreme patience and perse-
verance have the present promoters
been successful in extending the tun-
mel in a distance of 300 feet from the
renowned Golden Chariot vein where
the great cross cut tunnel struck the
Cumberland vein which varies from
eight to IA inches.
This veing continued to carry values
to the Sinker tunnel level the same as
it did in the Cumberland mine and in
this tunnel ore to the value of $1,000
was found and ledge of it stopped out.
The fact that it was proven that the
Cumberland vein value went to this
depth greatly encouraged the present
promoters to continue their work until
they cut the Golden Chariot vein, the
barrier between them and fabulous
wealth They recalled that Colonel w
II. Dewey, the father of j.. ii. and w.
c. Dewey, had demonstrated in the
Trade Dollar mine a fact which in the
entire history of mining had never be-
fore been proven, and this was that
Mountain In a porphyry tapping was
practically 300 feet.
NOT WORKED SINCE 1873.
They have their ore shoots more reg
ular and stronger and the War Eagle
mountain differs from the Florida
mountain in that the metals mined
there run entirely to gold and that it
has not any porphyry tapping whatever
and Is the only mineral zone in the
great Silver City district where granite
is found In places on the surface. All
these mines were known in the past as
the War Eagle mountain mines The
mines have not been worked since 1875,
the Golden Chariot vein was discovered
in 1863 and was worked through six
shafts until 1878.
The mines were then closed and al
lowed to fill with water. The records
of the United States mints show the
mint value have been S4.319,338. The
mines were not consolidated until 1899
and a tunnel seven feet in the clear
was run through the granite formation
for distance of 6405 feet This cut
the vein to depth of 1000 feet, but
the vein was not reached except by a
diamond drill The old workings have
not been drained.
To V. 7. Elver, Thomas Babbitt, DR..
George o. A. Kellogg and Jacob Lock-
man is to be credited the development
of the present. The officers of the com
pany are as follows: President, Jacob
Lockman; vice president, +. A. Soren-
sen; general manager, Thomas Babbitt
secretary, w. G. Adams. V. T. Elver
and DIR. Kellogg are also members of
the company.