Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-24
ssDutch Jake" Tells Manner In
Which Bunker Hill b Sullivan
Property Was Located
Camp Goes Crazy.

Many different stories have been
written and told Of how Dutch Jake"
Jacob Goetx, and the donkey" played
such important parts in the discovery
Of the Bunker Hill 4 Sullivan mine
In 1885. at Wardner, Idaho. Mr..
Goetx IL still living and running the
Occur d'Alene Hotel in Spokane. but
the donkey" died many years ago
1T Forest Grove. Ore. having been
pensioned by his owner as a mark
or appreciation for services rendered
during his useful days. Here 10 Dutch
jake's' own story regarding the dis
covery OF this wonderful mine. which
he says sets forth the details:
I'm going to tell the true story
about the discovery of the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan mine in the Occur
d'Alenes, Idaho. There have been lot
of stories written about 1t. but /
never saw one that was right all the
way through.
4 REAL PIONEER.
1T happened back in 1885. l was
Al 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 attend to the business
an Murray while i went out into the
hills looking after prospects. Dutch
0dhtS pdib vi @sS' ~ ~'NNNb s'S~'
Murray, Is named for me.
Il was pretty close to 80 years old
then and | had made $4,000 or
$4,000 in tie and pile contracts for
the Northern Pacific during construc-
tion days. had some saloons along
the railway and we did a little gam
bling. In 1888 went into the gold
belt of the Occur dAlenes on snow
shoes, over the mountains from Trout
OF snow on the hills. / was real
thing as a pioneer, as I helped to lay
out the towns of Murray Mullan,
Eagle, Burke. Delta, Littlefield. KEEL
logg and Wardner.
ORoURkE MEETS KELLOGG.
Il got acquainted with Phil
ORourle. an old Colorado miner, who
was considered the best prospector in
the camp in those days. In the early
summer of 1885 We went over toward
Mullan to look after some claims.
When We returned to Murray on
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 Gaping he had found. The
old man was prospecting on a grub
stake for Messrs. Cooper & Peck. of
Murray, Idaho. They had provided
him q burro and 1875 worth OF tools
and provisions. With that he had put
in about two months in the hills, and
all he had to show for 1t was this
iron cap. He showed it to Cooper &
Peck, and they asked John NJ. Burke
about IT. Burke had a great reputa-
ton. He saw 1t was a smelling ore,
and when he told Cooper & Peck SO
they got Disguised, for they wanted
free gold. They told Kellogg that he
had better quit prospecting IL he
could not get free gold.
MAKES BIG FIND.
Kellogg showed his samples to
Phil O'Rourke. 1t didn't take a min
ute for Phil to see that 1t gave prom
ise OF producing some galena or car
Donates, like the ores that made Colo
RADIO famous: Phil came to me and
told me we had better join Kellogg
In stalking the ground So ! turned
our cayuses and provisions over to
Phil and Kellogg, and struck right off
Tor the south fork. Meantime Kellogg
had notified Cooper e. Peck that he
had quit the grubstake deal with
them.
Kellogg took o'Rourke down to
Big creek. on the south fork, and
pointed out the big iron camping that