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DE LAMAR, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1891.
VOL. I. NO. 2.
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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,
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' Office next to P. O. All work warranted.
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NOTARY PUBLIC.
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DeLAMAR,
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JUSTICE OP THE PEACE
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IDAHO.
Julius Isay.
GENERftLSTORE
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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,
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STATIONERY,
JEWELRY,
CUTLERY
And a great variety of other articles.
jpar'CTub Room in Connection.
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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.
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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 :
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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
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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-