The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-30
FAMOUS GOLD NINE
ON THE NORTH SIDE
EARLY UPS AND DOWNS
Opportunity for Large Profits
Still There Uuder Capa-
bic Management
EARLY UPS AND DOWNS
lpy Adam AulDach, Murray, Idano1

~ EEDtk GULCH, about a mile IN
- iengtn, spreads out into Miue
IN basin at ITS source, ana rs prac-
ucany dry shortly alter the
snow disappears. Ine Golden Chest
group OF locations cover the slope TO
the summit OF the ridge TO the east
and are thanked ON the north by the
Katie and Dora group. Separate own
ership has prevailed. The slope when
discovered was covered with quartz
llOat much OF it revealing Tree gold.
NO distinctive outcrop was visible. but
there We're large deposits Oh quartz
here and there. upon which the dis
covery notices were posted. There
were quite a number OF lOcatOrs, in
GLIDING the Coplens, Charley Sinclair,
Robert Il. Horn and W. Ii. Clagett
| The interests OF the three first named
were promptly sold to "a syndicate in
! Louisville, Ky, at about the same time
the Paymaster group was purchased
| by u syndicate from the same city
Judge Clagett however, declined to
give up his location. The new Chest
owners without delay commenced
work, started a tunnel and began exca-
walton for mill building. A battery of
five stamps was ordered, with accom-
panying steam power, no other power
being available. The plant arrived
without unusual delay and was erected
somehow this speed agitated Judge
Clagett and he had an injunction
served on the Chest people, although
the county seat was still at Pierce CITY,
about 700 miles away from Murray by
road travel, and no court having been
held here. However, Judge Buck had
been allotted to this district The in
junction fell like calamity on the
community and the owners of the
Chest We're in the act of abandoning
their enterprise until they found the
community almost a unit in sympathy
with them They employed almost the
entire bar here at the time for defense.
Judge Clagett fought his own case.
Judge Buck was soon on the scene and
in much less time than such cases are
heard now, the case was tried. 1t last
ed two weeks and the Chest won. Old
timers will never forget the celebra-
ton that occurred in the town of Muir
lay the night of the victory. The en-
tire population OF the town and sur
rounding camps was present Forty
five hirst-parlOrs were ordinarily nee
essary to minister to the wants of the
wealth gatherers, but on that occasion
the sympOsiums were not ample
Somehow there was a premonition that
from some source, and preparations
were made in manner only known to
the pioneer miners for the celebration.
Jim Mountenay an experienced hard
rocker" had been selected as master of
ceremonies, and he entered into it with
a spirit that won him much fame. With
he prepared giant powder
sticks, tying two or three together and
throwing them into the street The
was ear-splitting After
four or five 25-pound box fulls had
thus been fired off, Jim remarked,
We'll, now. let's give them a tiger"
Suiting the action to word he carried
a box fully prepared, to the center of
the street, spit the fuse and told the
spectators to hike. Pretty soon there
was an explosion that shattered every
along the street made build
iDgs rock to and fro. and, worst of ALL
knocked full glasses of liquor out of
the hands of the hundreds at various
bars. There was a-plenty of fresh air
to mix with the fumes of liquor for the
of the night. While not OBJ
igated to do it, the Chest people the
day declared they would pay
for all the damage done by the ex-
plosion and did So They were good
sports. Fortunately no one was in
iured by the unlocked for incident,
it occurred in the very center
Of the town. It was termed a fitting
close TO fix in the minds of the commu-
nifty the first mining case in a regular
court in the Occur d'Alenes.
First Stamp Mill.
In few weeks the pioneer stamp
mill of the Occur d'Alenes dropped its
five stamps and gold quartz mining
was considered the industry that
would soon bring permanent prosperity
10 the camp, the placers only being
ooked upon as temporary. The mill
Welded profits from the first cleanup,
and for a year following. Splendid
Judgment was exercised by beginning
with only five stamps, as no develop
nent had been done to Justify more.
The quartz was more or less oxidized
and free milling: therefore the absence
If concentrating machines was not
very material at the time. Besides lit
lie WIS known of the methods by