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i Mohair in some / ; The De Lamar Nugget : . ?T DE LAMAR, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1891. VOL. I. NO. 2. PRICE TEN CENTS TIE DE LAMAR NUGGET. Issued every Tuesday. LAMB & YORK, Publishers. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ?3 oo ♦One copy, per year, »One copy, six months. »One copy, three months, Advertising rates made known on ap plication» 1 75 ! I«' OWYHEE COUNTY DIRECTORY. County Commissioners— Bist.— W. H. Townsend, Silver City. 2d Bist.— Wm. Houtz, BeLamar. Sd Bist.— W. 8. Harley, Bruneau. Sheriff—John McCabe. Clerk Bist. Court— R. H. Leonard, Jr. Probate Judge—E. Lewis. Assessor—A. B. Crocherou. Treasurer— S. T. N. Smith. Coroner— Br. C. Richter. 1st J^ICHTEB & PLUMER, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Silver City and DeLamar, Idaho. Calls from surrounding country answered promptly, day or night. R. F. S. HEER, D DENTIST. ' Office next to P. O. All work warranted. BeLAMAR, IBAHO. M. E. BELL, w NOTARY PUBLIC. IDAHO. DeLAMAR, J. DUVAL, w. JUSTICE OP THE PEACE DeLAMAR, 1 IDAHO. Julius Isay. GENERftLSTORE a * DE LAMAR, IDAHO. Full Line of Tobaccos, Imported Cigars and Smokers' articles. FRESH FRUITS AND CANDIES, Orders taken for any paper or periodical published. WALL PAPER, -'■* STATIONERY, JEWELRY, CUTLERY And a great variety of other articles. jpar'CTub Room in Connection. mmmmi BLACKSMITHS! DeLAMAR, IDAHO. Are prepared to do everything in the Blacksmith'Line. Wagon Work and Repairing. Bg^Miners' Tools made and sharpened. Drill steel and pick eyes kept in stock. This Space Reserved for 4 Theo. Philipp's SILVER CITY TINSH0P. Yesterday might probably be called a warm day. The thermometer at the Capitol at 3 o'clock registered 108 in the sun, while the temperature in the shade was ninety.—Statesman. After all the great battle in last win ter's legislature over the Alta-Lincoln counties affair, and the war that has since been kept up between Hailey, Bellevue and Shoshone, the supreme court has declared the bill creating these new counties unconstitutional. Hailey hi in the soup,Bellevue is stili the county seat of Logan, and Alturas county still has lier big load of debt. The Salt Lake Evening Times is one of the most enterprising of the great dalies published West of t^ie Rockies. With its full telegraphic reports, ana daily mention of the mining interests of Utah, Montana, Idaho and Nevada, it is a most valuable paper. It is now publishing extended and most reliable information of the new Deep Creek ex citement. The West Shore, the finest illustrated periodical which has ever been publish ed ou the Pacific coast, has passed into oblivion. It was not a financial success and, from a literary standpoint, was a marked failure. But its illustrations and matter descriptive of the Pacific coast scenery and industries were valu able arid we are sorry it was not a suc cess. The New York Sun has a correspon dent in Idaho City who writes interest ing and reliable mining news for that great paper; but he manages, always to make his letters read as if DeLamar was tributary to that town, and a stranger to the geoeraphy of Idaho, reading his letters would naturally write to Idaho City for any information about DeLa mar if he read these letters. The Boise Basin is a great mining country and can shine brightly enough in the mining world without borrowing luster from a greater camp one hundred miles away. A New Star for the Flag. Wyoming's star will go upon the flag two months from to-day, in accordance with the statute provision that at the admission of a new State, a star shall be added to the nnion of the national en sign on the 4th day of July next suc ceeding. Last year the people of Idaho had the pleasant prospect of being admitted on the 4th of July, and of being able to cel ebrate together the birthdays of the new State and of the United Slates. But the President suggested to tbeir Delegate in Congress that signing a little earlier the act for her admission would allow Idaho's star to go upon the flag on July 4, 1890, and so gain a whole year for it. That suggestion wag accepted, and it spoiled all the new flags that bad been prepared with forty-two stars. It made them incorrect and obsolete before they had ever been used, except by patching and alteration, and even when this was done, it substituted for the forty-two stars, so easy to group, forty-three stars, which could not be arranged symmetri cally. The War and Navy Departments strug gled some time with the problem of the forty-three stars, and at last solved it as well as they could by an arrangement of the flag which showed one star appar ently astray or out of symmetyr, and that was the result for Idaho of Mr. Harrison's uufortuuate suggestion. Now secretary Tracy, mindful of the necessities of fiagmakiDg, gives more than two months' notice of the way the new union is to be arranged, with Wy oming's star included : * * * * * * * ♦ # * * * * * # # * It will be observed that the extra star in the left-hand upper corner of the union, near the stall', is now to be offset by a Btar in the opposite lower corner, so that after the 4th of July the flag will be greatly improved in its appear ance.—San. A GREAT MINING CAMP, Ab Seen by a Tenderfoot. Editors Nugget: —The old adage, "Familiarity breeds contempt," is not always true, but it is true that familiar ity often blinds persons to the wonders and splendor of great things. The wri ter, being a new arrival, and not yet grown familiar with a great mining camp, is therefore, perhaps, better qualified to give those who have never seen one some conception of the enterprise and labor required to make it great, than those who have grown up with it. For this reason I have presumed to write this. I am now west of the Alleghenies for the first time. I had considered myself well informed concerning the great West and its industries, and left home not ex pecting to be surprised at anything I might see, but ready and expecting to admire many things. This week has seen me for the first time in a great mining camp. Many things I have seen since leaving home have been a surprise to me, in fact I may call everything a surprise, because everything has exceeded my conceptions. The vastness of the coun try, the magnitude of its leading indus tries, the productiveness of its soils in some places and the sterility and desola tion of vast tracts, have all been wonders to contemplate. I have for a few days been tramping over the mountain and around the town of DeLamar. and can truly say,the mines town and camp have been a revelation to me. I have been told that less than four years ago three or four miners' cabins, a few location stakes and notices and a half a score of miners prospecting, was all that was to be seen here, other than the magnificent mountain scenery. The discovery of one great mine has trans formed this former desolation into a thriving business camp, whose fame is now world-wide, and whose chiefest in tropolis of the world. How proud the man must feel whose enterprise, fore sight and good luck have wrought such a great change in this one little spot on the globe, and dug the dollars out of the mountain strongholds. I have not been in the great mines and can now only write about what I see upon the surface. I still have in anticipation my chiefest pleasure. I have found, lying along the narrow gorge of a turbulent little creek, a town strung along a tortuous street, with nice cottages perched on the hillside, a big mill, long tramway, big shops and fur ther improvements going on in all direc tions, with hundreds of men employed both in and out of the mines, and much more than enough to pay the big current expenses being daily taken out of the mines, to add to the wealth of the world. But this is not all. Vast as the property of this great company is, I can forsee that it is only the nucleus of a great mining center which has given an impetus to mining and prospecting on a mineral zone which is believed to be several miles in length and almost fabulous in wealth. Should fortune again permit me to visit the camp, I expect to see many other great and productive properties, Sturdy miners and prospectors, not em ployed by the great company, are doing work now which promises to tell in the future and make the Owyhee mountains famous the world over. Respectfully, Connecticut. MINING NUGGETS. The Ella, a location owned by Messrs. Connors, Ready and Ryan, is the East extension of the Stoddard lode. It baa been prospected in two tunnels. At the Southwest they have cut a large vein. A short tunDel has been ruu nearer the Stoddard east line, but the vein has not been reached. The Ohio, owned bv Frank Lepley, East of the Stoddard mine, nas been cat by two tunnels, the lower being 260 feet below the upper one. The trend of the lode is different from that of all other lodes on this side of the mountain, being nearly due North aud South. Considerable ore has been shipped from this mine to Denver, which brought $300 per ton. Two millings of second class ore, worked in Silver City, run $60 and $100 respectively. The mine has produced upwards of $100,000. The Roadside and Antelope, two claims located East of the Ella and on which a tunnel 250 feet in length has been ran, darting 2,000 feet Ea*t of the Stoddard, and catting a lode carrying a large body of sulphurate, is an indica tion that the mineral belt on De Lamar mountain extends southward aa well as northward, and argues that, as is main tained by many, the Cow Creek district north, and Florida Mountain south are both in the same mineral zone on which the great De Lamar mines are situated. The DeLamar Company's plans for their mill have not yet fully matured. Experiments are atill being made in the present mill, the results of which will to some extent be utilized in determin ing the character of some of the machin ery used in the new and larger one to be constructed. Mill men have this week been looking the ground over and the plans will probably be definitely set tled in a very few days. It has been definitely settled that a much larger new mill will be built and it is only the details of the plans which are tempor arily delaying the beginning of the work. The Nugget mining expert, paid a brief visit to the Stoddard mine on Saturday, and found Mr. Ludwig driving a drift north from the tunnel on a forty foot ledge. The trend of the lode is ten degrees south of east. The lode has been now followed for five hundred feet. The width for this entire distance has varied from twenty to forty feet. In the location their vein has been cut at two different points, five hundred feet apart. The west vein shows an iron dyke on the hanging wall, in which the richest silver ore is found. These three lodes are apparently connected by small stringers or feeders running north or south, many of which have been cut. A drift is now being run West on the center of the forty foot vein. The amount of work which bas been done on the Stoddard in crosscuts, winzes, shaft and tunnel, figures up to 1,750 feet to date. The Stoddard group comprises three locations, the Stoddard, Deadwood and Midas. The Midas has been stripped on the surface for over 100 feet, showing a twelve foot ledge. This lode is east of the Stoddard lode and parallel with it. This shows some good ore on the surface, but has not been prospected in depth. The Dead wood lode lies contiguous to the Stod dard, but has not been prospected to a greater depth than ten feet. A crosscut tunnel has been started to cut this ledge at a depth of 250 feet, and is now in 180 feet. This tunnel after cutting the Midas, can be extended into the Stod dard under the present workings of the Stoddard. All of these ledges may be cut at a great depth by comparatively short crosscuts run from the east side of the mountain, and are most favorably located for being cheaply worked. The location of the claims are all on the point of the mountain projecting south east of the De Lamar mines, and occupy a large portion of the mountain South and east of this great property. They are now held under bond by Senator John P. Jones, who is prospecting them with a view of purchasing. Cow Creek District. The Nellie II. owned by Hale, Bett cher and Seaton, has a cross-cut 90 feet in length, but hag not yet reached the ledge. Croppings from the ledge run as high as $916 in silver per ton. The Mocking Bird, owned by W. A. Seaton, is developed by a 20 foot cut, and shows a four foot ledge which aver ages $100 per ton. The Meadow Lark, owned by Wille neggar Bros., has a shaft 50 feet deep, and they are running a tunnel to cut the ledge. The ledge is about Bix feet wide, and they have obtained assays as high as $2000 from croppings, Sim Boom, of West Bingham, bason Turner creek a skunk ranch, consists of an acre on the bank of the stream, with a wall of masonry sunk below the ground sufficient to prevent the escape of the aromatic little crea tures by digging, and enclosed by a tight board fence. On this ground at present he supports some seventy-five skunkB, big and little, ring-streaked, speckled and grizzled. Mr. Boom pre fers the pure black ones, and is con stantly getting rid of those of mixed colors. He is reported as being very fond of his pets, freely handling them at all times, and with a confidence and trust, which, we are told, has so far never been betrayed.—Potter County (Pa.) Free Press. It =5 BOISE'S RECEPTION. The "Nugget's" Representative Tells What He Saw, Etc. Boise City, May 8, 1891. THE PRESIDENT W.' 8 COMING. Had any person held doubts upon this question they would have'been dispelled could he have beheld the streets of Boise yesterday morning. Upon every hand were evidences of active preparation for some important event. Laborers, me chanics and artists were busily engaged putting the city in holiday attire. The militia and firemen thronged the streets in full uniform. At every corner, and upon almost every building, "The Red, White and Blue" greeted the eye of the observer. The very air seemed impreg nated with the essence of patriotism. But, while the preparations of yesterday could not fail to make an impression upon the minds of all who saw them, they were but the prelude of the events of to-day. The president has come—has gone. One remarkable point, showing the won derful perfection of our railroad system, is that the presidential pvty has always been on time to a minute. Their arrival here was no exception. All Boise was up early and saw the sun rise this morn ing. And Boise was not alone. Thou sands of people from adjoining towns ; from mountain camps and farms were here and helped to swell the rustling, surging crowd. They were a represen tative body of people that reflected credit upon our young, growing and vigorous state. Upon the president's arrival he was escorted through the city by a procession made up of the G. A. R., two companies of militia, a cavalry and infantry compa ny of the regular army, the different fire companies and the carpenters' Unio®. After riding through the city, he was tifully decorated for the occasion. Here the president made one more of those neat little speeches which will make his trip memorable. He commenced by pay ing a glowing tribute to the city of Boise and state of Idaho. He Bpoke of our great mineral resources, but reminded ns that, no matter how rich they might be, they would eventually be exhausted,and that in time we would be forced to de pend upon our agricultural resources for our permanent prosperity. He addressed a few appropriate remarks to the mem bers of the G. A. R. who were present— paid a glowing tribute to the "Stars and Stripes" and addressed a few pleasant words to the school children. Alter the speech the president assisted in planting a tree in the capitol square. A reception was held by the president in the capitol building and nearly every person present improved the opportu nity of shakng hands with "Ben." Viewed from a political standpoint, there is no doubt but what the presiden tial visit was a success. His plain, un assuming,yet dignified manner,produced a favorable impression upon all classes. The greatest respect and honor possi ble were shown him by the entire crowd, but he was not received with that wild outburst of Western enthusiasm which would have greeted his appearance, had his convictions on the silver question been more favorable for free coinage. The ladies' reception was held at Mrs. John Sherman's. Idaho Against the World. Idaho can safely be staked against the world for her Salubrity of climate. Fertility of soil. Extent and richness of mineral re sources. Forests of timber. Grandeur of scenery. Grand sweep of stock range». Short and mild winters. Balmy springs. Heaven-born summers. Dreamy, delicious autumns. Prolific yields of grains, fruit», vege tables and grasses. Beautiful lakes. Bold rivers. To sum it up in a sentence. Idaho possesses far beyond the other state all those features so much desired by the home-seeker.—Boise Democrat. In mentioning the removal of Mr. J. M. Healey to Boise last week, we got the name "Mr. T. Healey, take, and his treat. Our mis-