The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-06-27
w. E. Smith Visits
CaptainJac Mine

W. f. Smith, electrician at the Prisce
mine and familiar sight in the Phoebe
postoffice, as he is also the mail carrier
to and from the Prince settlement. re-
turned last week from a flying trip TO
the old Captain Jack mine. which he
found some years ago and from which.
he has shipped some high-grade ore.
The mine gets it's name from an old
Indian named Captain Jack. who, with
some companions, worked the property
| in early days and took out some rich
silver ore, always keeping the exact
location of his diggings a secret. w.
r.. Smith has taken samples from the
surface running as high as 1,1OO ounces
in silver and the lowest assay taken
returned the high value of $40 per
ton. He has a frame camp and black
smith shop and has don some work
with windlass on prospect shaft, from
which he has shipped high-grade ore
Several days before his arrival on this
trip, he was told, the property had been
sold to Tonopah mining men; but, Mr.
Smith said this was an err0 as .ne ne
was on his way with an engineer for
that purpose.
Mr.. Smith did considerable work dur
ing January and February of this year
on this property, when, running out OF
supplies, he went to work at the Groom
mine for a short time to secure an
Mr.. Smith brought back som inter-
esting news from that distant section
he %ora ~ wash and he e tells Is
! the activities of that wonderful sec
tion. At Cattle, Springs, about eight
miles north Of Groom; rich gold ore e,,d y
gold about the size of the end If q
mans finger having lately been brought
!, in from the neighb0rhood OF Dan NJ
!, citement caused by German pros.
pector who brought In chunk Of golt
about the ;a size & OF COOS, COOS egg from r,h ina
:, crosscut tunnel to cut under the out
!. crop from which the ore was taNen
: but which would REQUIRE about $1,000
9 to complete, to say nothing of liv'
. years time The interesting part o
n the work was the fact that It reall!
ihardships endured in that deveiopmen
: cannot be described. These men fire.
h quently worked until entirely out o
II II Goldheld. sixty miles to the westwart
20 only to return after saving their wage
ar to continue their work. Had this brav
oil work been carried ?a along the Strike -
through barren rock the reward nee
II not have been delayed.
ID ID valiant work being done by a woma
in now camped at Cattle Springs al
- searching for mine found years as
e. by a prospector of the early days. TIL
ye some hills. is nearly go years or ag
a. but can make trips of ffteen an
Twenty miles ually, SO tne Iiei iS DclNi
looked over diligently. 1t seems til;
IA. years ago a man prospecting throue
,s' that section, found high grade gol
~. but was attacked by Indians and in X
m fight he killed two of them in order
50 save his own life. He had no wish
a. return to the scene of his escape, fea
e- ing retaliation. and has given to Il
" woman now engaged in the hunt II
of the mine specimens of gold taken fro
the mine. together with map showir
its approximate location. Even wi
nlt the aid of the most accurate goverl
he ment map, however. the finding of
,c- old mine hidden by the rains al
" washed-d down dirt is a difficult task.
he At Cattle Springs Mr. Smith foul
,as Lane and sherwood. two well-knov
he IDrospectors of Nevada, opening up
ny lbig ledge Of gold silver cooper ore. TIL
ne have traced it for distance of 1.5
,cK feet and have found the vein to have
width in places up to three feet. TIL
are staying at Andersons Camp, abo
Ids eighteen miles westerly from Groom
val At the Black Metal mine. south
eft the Groom mine and on the same pr
he ductive lime ledge. they have open
,ei up big body Of lead-silver ore a
aw have some twenty tons or more
to milling ore upon the dump.