The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-06-01

development and operation of the prop
erty up to the early Cos. when they
sold out Mr. Ward is now the repre-
sentative of the KEENAN, Mining com
pany, which has extensive holdings OF
Pony gulch, including the old Fay
Templeton. He tells an interesting
story of the location and development
of the mine. recalling names of men
prominent in business and mining af-
fairs of the North Side in the early
days.
Located in 1885.
It was in the spring of 1885 that H.
s. Gregory and w. n Morphy, two
young lawyers who found prospecting
for gold a more inviting field than the
practice of their profession at that
time, but who afterwards became quite
prominent in the latter, made a loca-
ton on Pony gulch which they chris
tened the Fay Templeton in honor OF
famous actress of that day. The To-
cation was made under a grubstake
from al Prayer and Camil Krause.
merchants of Murray. In 1886 Blaine
Ward and his brother James now de-
ceased. were employed to do the as
sessment work on the Fay Templeton
and in the course of which they struck
shoot of ore, though not the main
shoot. that run about 5000 in free gold.
They thereupon closed n contract with
the owners to run the tunnel 100 feet
for a hlf interest Being unable to
complete the contract within the re-
auired time. the Ward brothers. which
also included f. w. Ward, now living
near Spokane, gave Captain w. c.
Human, of the firm of George & HUI
man. who had a store at Delta, half of
their interest for his support in com
pleting the contract. The ledge was
almost flat and in places 20 feet thick,
but the tunnel disclosed little pay ore.
Find Rich Ore Shoot.
Disappointed with the showing In
the tunnel, Mr.. Wards attention was
attracted to a small pile of weathered
quartz about 10 feet east of the tunnel.
the work of some former prospector
unknown. He PANIED some of this
quartz and found it literally alive with
free gold. He Immediately started an
other tunnel at that point, the quartz
being from Is inches to feet thick and
wonderfully rich, much of it yielding 81
to the pan without crushing. After run
ming 40 feet it was decided to build an
arrastre, power for which was supplied
by a 24-foot overshot wheel driven by
the water from Pony gulch. The first
run of IA days cleaned up S14OO. an
even 800 a day. which means that the
ore produced 500 a ton, as a ton
day was the limit of capacity of the
arrastre. About that time c. d. and
Peter Porter, who subsequently took
over the Custer, came along and Of
fered 100000 cash for the Fay Tenn
pleton. an offer which the Ward broth
ers were ready to accept, but which
was promptly turned down by Prayer
and Krause. In the spring of 1887 Eu-
gene Klein. who was also interested in
the property, and who was afterwards
killed at Mace by a crazed miner, in
terested a man named Lockwood, of
Minneapolis, in the property, who put
in two 25-ton Huntington mills, which
proved successful after bringing an
expert from California to supervise
them and who taught the Wards how
to run them. About this time Frank
George. afterwards superintendent of
the Corbin narrow guage railroad, be-
came manager and for six months
made good money, handling the maxi
mum of so tons of ore a day.
Ward Finds the Ore Shoot.
The Fay Templeton company was
then incorporated and Camil Krause
became manager. He operated the
mine until it had produced about $780,
900, the gold being shipped to the U. S
assay office at Helena. AS the vein
dipped into the hill the values decreas-
ed. and Krause finally quit the job
The Wards then induced Prayer, who
was well fixed financially. to crosscut
back toward the original tunnel, con-
fident that the pay shoot would be
struck in about 30 feet George Dean,
a mining engineer, was placed in
charge. After running 100 feet with
out finding ore he was ready to quit
It was then that Mr.. Ward examined
the crosscut and found a stringer of
quartz in the roof. which he panned
and found rich in free gold. This was