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Silver City Nugget
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VOLUME XIII.
SILVER CITY, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO, MARCH 11, 1904
NUMBER 43
LOCAL NEWS
OF THE PAST WEEK
Velvets at Getchell's.
The latest novels at Getchell's.
E. J. Burrough, manager at the Big
Store, has been in Boise this week,
meeting traveling men and ordering
stock for the spring trade.
Pocket Books of all kinds at Geteh
ell's drug store.
Miss Lulu Share of Reynolds has
been visiting in Dewey and DeLamar
for the past fortnight -at Dewey, the
guest of Mrs. C. W. Ward.
S N. Moe has removed his shop and
store to his residence and invites all
who have watch repairing or jewelry
work done to call upon him there. *
The friends of Mr. Pat McCabe, who
has been oouflued to his home for
nearly two months, are glad to greet
him on the streets once more, looking
fairly well.
The Inter-Mountain says: Each day's
proceedings iu the Smoot investigation
makes it more and more apparent that
Smith is not entitled to a seat in the
senate or free to woo the pure affec
tion of Gran'ma Hoar.
August Jobnscu went over to Boise
yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Geo
McClung and his baby, which has been
in Mrs. Mac's care, to visit Mrs John
son, now out of the hospital and in
fair way to recovery.
V. F. Nettleton was here this week
looking after his affairs here. He has
purchased property in Boise and he
and his family will make their future
home in that city where, when the
people come to know them, they will
be counted among the right sort.
The quiet little old Chinaman, Dick
who has done chores and sawed wood
for Adel Brunzell ever since War Eagle
Mountain was a hole in ground, took
his departure for the spirit world on
Tuesday and was buried by his fellow
countrymen Wednesday. He was 81
years of age. There are several old
Chinamen in town who look older than
he did.
A dozen or more ladies in town met
at Mrs. Hamilton's one evening this
week and organized a whist club, to as
semble one afternoon each week, and
they are all now reading up on the
science of the game, and just like the
men who meet every afternoon at
Bruuzell's, they know more points
about the most intricate game of cards
than Mr. Hoyle ever. But they have a
good time and a different variety of
refreshments at their assemblages than
the men have at Bruuzell's.
a
John C. Connors and W. D. Evans
have been at Evans' Castle Creek
ranch this week, turning on the sum
tuer range some 41*0 cattle they have
been feediug on the ranch this winter.
The winter has been easy on stock and
they have hay left over for next year.
They have a still larger number of cat
tie at the Connors ranch in Pleasant
Valley and are well hooked up to sup
ply beef when the meat trust gets
ready to pay fair prices for it, or the
war iu the Orient shall create a de
mand for it.
* ST. PATRICK'S BALL
THURSDAY EVENING. MARCH 17th
-GIVEN UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
CATHOLIC LADIES
OF OWYHEE COUNTY. ENTERTAINMENT WILL OPEN WITH THE IRISH NATIONAL
CHORUS (DELAMAR SINGERS ASSISTING.) THE PREVIOUS ANNUAL BALLS GIVEN
by the Ladies is an assurance that this will be a most enjoyable event.
ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED
$1.50 A
.Lg
UICKET^T
Pipes at Getchell's.
Goggles at Getobell's.
Do not forget to procure a ticket to
the St. Patrick's ball. Remember what
a good time you have always had at
these antiual functions, nnder the man
agement of the Catholic ladies.
There will be preaching at the Court
House in Silver City' next Sabbath,
March 13th, both morning and eve
liiug. A cordial invitation to all.
G. W. KENNEDY.
Mrs. Mary Morgan received a tele
gram yesterday from Park City, Utah,
announcing the death of her sister-in
law, Mrs. Graham, and left this morn
ing for that place. The lady left a hus
band and three small children.
Rev. Jones will hold services at the
St. James' Episcopal church on the
third Sunday, March 20th, both morn
ing and evening,
your little climb that there will be an
hour of real rest of worship that will
remind you of the sweet eternal rest
that awaits the faithful pilgrims.
A. S. Bibbins of the Big Store return
ed from Boise Monday, where he had
been for several weeks supplying the
place of W. S. Bruce of the Boise City
National Bank, while the latter gent'e
man was in the hospital under going
an operation and treatment for hernia.
He report? Mr. Bruce now out and
feeling better than for years.
Bibbins did not return with him and
he returned Wednesday to remain a
few days and may possibly accept a
position permanently with the bank.
The freighters and stage men are
preparing to offer a handsome reward
for information as to the whereabouts
of the road contractors iu the several
districts.
where left big holes iu the road which
require immediate attention, but the
men are not at them as they should be.
The road between here and DeLamar
is simply awful and it is reported that
the water has washed great and almost
impassable gulches on the Reynolds
creek grade.
Remember, after
Mrs.
High waters have every
Through a letter received by a friend
of Mrs. A. D. .Graham formerly of
Owyhee Co , but now residing in Green
wood, B. C., Nugget has learned of the
sudden death on Feb. 11th of that lady's
youngest child, a boy about fourteen
years»of age. Mr. and Mrs. Graham
will be pleasantly remembered here and
at Black Jack where the family made
their home for a number of years, hav
ing left there about fivo years ago.
The sympathy of a host of friends in
this vicinity goes out to them in their
sorrow. .
Mr. Frederic Irwin left this week for
a visit to his former Pittsburg home,
announcing that he will be absent sev
eral weeks. Nuoobt several weeks ago
copied from a Pittsburg paper the an
nouncement of the engagement of Mr.
Irwin and Miss Elizabeth Baird Wal
lace, daughter of the late Rev. Wm. L.
It is under-,
stood chat they will be married while
Mr. Irwin is ou this visit, and Nugget
only voices the sentiment of all the
people of Idaho in wishing that the
popular manager of one of Idaho's
greatest mining properties and his
bride may enjoy unalloyed happiness,
health and prosperity. I hey will be
welcomed home with the happiest ac
cord of all Owyhee.
Wallace of Sewickiey, Pa.
I
A. F. Stevens, manager of the Addie
mine has been exhibiting some fine sam
ples of ore taken from the shoot which
Nugget reported struck iu the tunnel
last. Mr. Hedum, one of the largest
stock holders in the company has been
making daily visits to the mine all week
and quite elated over the outlook.
He says the vein is showing both wider
and richer as work progresses.
Reports are coming from various
parts of Owyhee of unusually high
water in the streams. Several days
ago the Bruneau river got on a ram
page and materially damaged tl.e head
gate of the Buckaroo ditch in the val
ley. Castle and Catherine creeks have
torn out some of the bridges and have
tilled the irrigation ditches with silt so
that it will require a good deal of work
by the ranchers to clean them out,
Since the first of the month there has
been warm weather and much rain and
snow.
Several bunches of shares in the
Buckeye Mining Company's stock have
been picked up by Silver ( ity mendnr
ing the week The Buckeye Company
owus group of claims contiguous to the
great Hercules mine iu Shoshone Coun
ty claimed to be the greatest silver lead
miue in thq world. A tunnel on the
Buciteye is now getting close to the
ledge. Several thousand stiares of
stock has been held by a party here
since the organization of thecompany.
Now more men are getting in and tak
ing the only loose block of stock kuowu
to be on the market.
f== DELAMAR '=4
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l
There are a few cases of chicken pox
reported iu town.
Mrs. Kennedy left here last Monday,
visiting Silver, from where she will go
te Baker City, Oregon.
Rev. Jones will hold divine services
at the school house next Sunday eve
ning. First bell will ring at 7 p. m.
All are very cordially invited to at
tend,
Last Friday, the 4th inst, DeLamar
Lodge No. 29 K. of P had a very enjoy
able time at their regular meeting held
at their Castle Hall, assisting some of
the Brother members of Florida Moun
tain Lodge No. 42, situated at Dewey,
to ride the goat. Music and an elegant
lunch were enjoyed by those present.
The semi-aunual election of officers
of DeLamar Miuers' Union was held
last Saturday and the following offi
cers were elected:
President—J. H. Rodda
Vice-President—Jos. N. Haggerty
Fin. Secretary—Ben A. Heazle
Rec. Secretary—Bruce J. Sotheren
Treasurer—Chas. Curnow
Warden—J. E. Rodda
Conductor—Percy Gill
Del. to W. F. of M.—J. H. Rodda.
Alt. Delegate—-Bruce J. Sotheren
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Grazing La.i\d For Lease.
Stockman and ranohers desiring to
lease school land cau secure informa
tion concerning terms, etc., by inquir
ing of the county treasurer or writing
Norman Jackson. Chief Clerk State
Board of Laud Commissioners, Boise,
5t-44
Idaho.
* J3he OUTLOOK
so
of
Silver City has nearly passed through
au unusually dull winter which has
But when we look
Let us
given all the croakers and knockers
ample opportunity to predict dire
things for the future of this and sur
rounding camps,
around a little we may note many
things which give a cheerful outlook
for the future of Owyhee,
look:
The old DeLamar rnineB which the
then manager pessimistically declared i
were played out five years ago, are :
still running along as of yore, employ- ;

ing p, full complement of men and
turning out more bulliou every mouth
now than it has for some years past. !
Aud there is now talk that work will
be again begun to explore the property j
at the mill level tunnel which may ■
eventuate iu bringing the old mine
The
back agaiu to its former glory,
same management owns the Rooster
Comb properties, north of DeLamar,
which have been developed sufficiently !
to demonstrate that there are large
and continuous bodies of high grade
ore, and there are bright prospects of
a new mining camp being started there
during the summer.
The great Trade Dollar Consolidated
company, which by concentrating its
work at the mill at Dewey, had a good
deal to do with making Silver City a -
dull place, has now brilliant prospects :
of adding more millions to Owyhee's
bulliou production thau it hasrin the j
past. It is the greatest gold and silver
producer iu Idaho and bids fair to re- j
'
:
maiu such indefinitely.
It is stated positively that work will !
agaiu be begun ou Sinker Tuuuel, one
of the greatest miuing undertakings in
Idaho, at an early date. It was not for
any disappointment in the develop
meut in this great enterprise that
caused work to be suspended more
go
than a year ago, but because of the fin
ancial embarrassments of the wealthy
'
m.
Philadelphia owners, brought about by
their mix-up with Consolidated Lake
Fuperior. Now that they have gotten
matters in shape once more we may
look for developments which will make
the mines of grand old War Eagle,
with their record of more than forty
millions production, repeat or break
the record of their former history.
The American Standard Mining com
pany, recently organized iu Denver,
holding claims in the great silver-lead
district of South Mouutaiu, will be on
the ground very soon to develop the
of
Rooster Comb.
A big chunk of brown, irou stained
honeycomb quartz, assayiug 850, is on
a table in the DeLamar company's
office, brought iu from the Rooster
Comb mine when the last work was
done before wiuter set iu. We have
beeu told that it was a sample taken
from a point 700 feet south of where
the former prospecting was done and
good ore taken out. The vein is four
teen feet wide where the sample' was
taken and seven feet of it is similar to
the sample Both walls are granite.
At the depth of the prospect, the ore
works well by the cyanide process;
that it may turn base at greater depth
remains to be seen. More work will be
done there as soon as the snow disap
It all belongs to one person
to
pears.
now, who lias the means to develop it.
Mark Nugget's assertion that the
nine miles
Rooster Comb district,
north of DeLamar, will flud a conspic
uous place on the map of Idaho before
the Blackbirds fly southward from tbe
head of Sinker creek uext fall.
Mr. and Mrs A. A. Getchell are vis
iting iu Boise this week.
A. F. Stevens, manager of the Trade
Dollar Extension, went out to Boise
this morning, to be away only two or
three days.
The Nampa Leader says that Mr.
R. H Britt, while iu that town this
week, stated that work on the Poor
man mines would be started agaiu in
the spriug
The election held by the Silver City
Miners' Uuiou appears not to have
beeu decisive, wherefore Nugget does
ot give the names of officers elected.
«
greatest lead deposits in the State, out
side of the Coeur d' A le lies
The Imperial Miuiug Company, hav
ing settled the dissensions among the
owners, announces that it will get busy
this spring on its properties north of
War Eagle.
Camp Opportunity, with its massive
ledges of ore which can be worked at
small cost, will begiu business again in
^be ea rly summer. The G. O. M & M
i Company has the ore and plenty of it,
: requiring only capital to make it a
; Kteat and permanent property.
The Addie, which has been hereto

f° re a disappointment to the local
! owners, now has its long tunnelnear
ing the Calaveras ground' and has Hü
j douhtedly struck big pay on the vein,
■ w ^ich is widening as work progresses,
shoot of ore, struck at a depth of
^>0 feet from the surface and within a
hundred feet of the old surface work
''igs of the < alaveras, has every indics
! l ' 0 " continuing under those old
workings, which the old records of that
m ' u<; show to have been rich, when ore
ol less value thau $50 a ton was not
considered such.
Now the Addie mill
can work this rock for $2 per ton.
The Irade Dollar Extension Com
pany is pushing work on two tunnels
on their promising property, east of
- t, * le Trade Dollar Consolidated on
: Florida Mountain and will install*po
er <I r 91s upon the arrivai of the long
j delayed electric transformers,
Sullivan & Noble, on their mines at
j t * le head of Jacob's gulch, are in a mas
' sive ledge of good ore and are develop
V.
:
! '"8 a big property,
The Afterthought on War Eagle, on
which the DeLamar company suspeud
e< ^ work tor the winter on account of
*-be difficulty of getting supplies up
there through the snow, will start up
agaiu iu the spring.
It is asserted that the great Bauuer
group, paralleling the Trade Dollar
' vein on the west and thought to be its
equal in value, will not remain idle
much louger.
Several prospectors have been busy
all wiuter extracting rich ore from var
ious claims on War Eagle, all of which
will come down to the mills as soon as
the roads can be opeued.
Nugget might mention dozens of
mines being worked by their
whose reports give a cheerful outlook
to the future of the camp.
Ni'im»
And yet,
one may go arouud the barrooms in
town and find kuockers, toasting their
heels at the stoves and bemoaning the
dullness of the camp.
Notice to Sheepmen.
Enterprise, Ida., March 1st, 1904
In respect to inspection lines, the
said lines to start at the south side of
Strode's Basin, running southeast ti
Texas Basin, thence southeast ,o Jor
dan Creek at DeLamar
All sheep
coming into the State of Idaho from
another state must have written per
missiou or they will be dealt with
cording to the sheep inspection laws
of tbe State of Idaho
HO
Warben D. Smith,
Deputy Sheep Inspector, District 0%
Owyhee County, Idaho.
Preaching Service.
Rev. G. W. Kenuedy will preach at
Silver City, in the Court House, on the
first aud third Sundays of each month
at 11 o'clock a. m. Will preach at De
Lamar at 7:30 I . m. on each of these
Sundays aud on Friday night before at
Dewey, and also at Jordan Valley
2nd and 4th Sunaays. All are most
cordially invited to attend.
on
Dewey Baptismal Service.
Rev. Jones will hold divine services
at the school house uext Monday
ning, March 14th, wheu the Ordinance
of Baptism will be administered
three littie children. All are very cor
dially invited to attend.
eve
to
For Kent !
A good fruit and vegetable ranch on
South Siuker Creek, couveuieut to Sil
ver City, with over 130 flue bearing
fruit trees, alfalfa, etc
CUNNINGHAM. Silver City, Idaho.
Inquire of R.

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