The Owyhee nugget., February 14, 1908, Image 1

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OWYHEE
BEST
ADVERTISING
MEDIUM
OFFICIAL
COUNTY
PAPER.
;
NUMBER 40
SILVER CITY, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO, FEBRUARY 14, 1908.
VOLUME XVII.
THE LOCAL NEWS
week, a very beautiful souvenir, being
a email album, with inlaid and polish
ed covers of olive wood, sent Him from
t Le Holy laud, the leaves of the album
containing pressed flowers gathered
from iu aud about Jerusalem, from the
borders of the river Jordan aud the
many places of historic interest through-j
out Palestine. The maker of the al-j
Short Items of Interest for Nugget's
Many R_eaders
Any Suit in the house for $15
Sweenky, Silver City.
Born :—At Silver City, Idaho, Sun
day, Feb'y 8, 1908, to Mr. and Mrs.
George Lewis, a daughter.
The Improved Order of Redmen will
hold a grand social pow wow at Lower
Masonic Hall, one week from tonight.
Mr. C D. Goasland, state Insurance
Commissioner aud Ex-Officio State Ex
aminer, is in town today looking over
county offices.
Dr. W. R. Hamilton and family are
expected home from Payette tomorrow.
The doctor is reported to he far from
well yet. but sufficiently recovered to
venture home again.
There was found on the road be
tween Silver City and Dewey, a Black
Fur Scarf, which owner can have by
calling at Nugget shop and paying for
this notice.
Gus Gustafson, a Finlander miner,
taken ill here and beiug in the Miners'
Uniou hospital for seven weeks, was re
moved to Boise three weeks ago, died
iu the hospital there on Wednesday.
Mr. H. B. Latham of the Murphy
Lumber Co., was in DeLamar and Sil
ver City Monday aud Tuesday, trans
acting business. Mr. Latham, with his
big forwarding business manages to
keep himself about the busiest man in
Owyhee.
Do tot forget that the Charity Leap
Year Ball comes off at the DeLamar
schoolhouse tonight. We do not look
for many DeLamar people to attend the
Eagles' Ball in Silver because of their
own charity affair to which they will all
prove loyal.
C. O. Davis, a homesteader on the
Minidoka project, located near Rupert,
and a good printer, bus been helping
Nugget out for the past two mouths,
left for his home this morning to begin
farming. He will set out fruit trees on
his farm unit about the first thing he
does.
Rowett has just received and placed
on his shelves a consignment of Edison
phonographs, with a great variety of
the latest records produced by that
machine. When voit want a perfect
PhonograDh yon will find that the Edi
son stand at the head of the list for
dearness and d'stinctiveness, as well
a great variety of records.
Today is Valentines Day, when all the
birds from the eagles to the geese and
little chippers are said to choose their
mates and go off for the season in pairs.
It started off here with a clear aud crisp
morning aud promises to wind up here
tonight with such a gathering at the
Eagles' Ball as the camp has not
before during the wiuter.
Mr. Charles Forney, proprietor of the
DeLamar and Silver City stage and
about the obligingest mau in Owy
hee, has been too ill all week to drive
his stage or to open the drains and
keep the water drawn out of the chuck
holes. When Forney gets under the
weather business simply goes to piceces
in DeLamar and it becomes very quiet
up here. We hope to see him out
again soon.
Mr. Fritz Schleifer received this
seen
bum has displayed great skill and pa
tience.
Miss Hastings is packing for ship
ment to Mr. R. H. Britt a portion of
his library and other of his effects left
iu her keepiug when he took leave of
this place. Mr. Britt, we are pleaded
to learn, uow has charge of the Nevada
Copper company's property located
seven miles from Yerrington, and is so
pleasantly located that he can afford to
gather up his scattered belongings.
Judge Roheit H. l.eonard Jr .member
of the Republican State Central Com
mittee, attended the meetiug of the
committee in Boise ou Monday, at
which the times and places of holding
the two republican state conventions
were agreed upon. We have not met
hint since his return and are unable to
say whether he attended the Padarewski
piano recital or not, but presume that
he did, for Bob is a great lov. r of music.
Padarewski, the world's greatest pi
anist, guv.- an exhibition of his musical
geuius at Boise, Monday evening, at
tended by au immense audience, prov
ing that Idaho has its share of music
lovers, Paddy seems to have gotten rid
of many of the eccentricities which have
made him the joke of the newspapers
during former American visits. We
have not noted a single remark of his
haughty exclusiveness or unshorn locks
during this visit.
John T. Shea, Ed Maher, Lon and
Tim Mills and Bas Deary and we don't
know how many other Pleasant Valley
young fellows, are up here today, wit
nesses in the Fred Perry stock inspec
tion case which caine up today and was
withdrawn in the Probate Court. They
will all take advantage of being here
aud remain over to attend the Grand
Ball given by the Eagles tonight. Lon
Mills, who runs a big cattle ranch over
beyoud Juniper Mountain, says the
snow has not been very deep in that
sectiou this winter, and that stock is
doiug fine.
Happening to see quite a number of
Mrs. Mary Grete's family—two genera
tions of them—gathered iu from of
Rowett's store, Nugget rubber-necked
long enough to learn that this was the
birthday of their mother and they were
consulting about buying her a present,
and had finally decided upou presenting
her an Edison phonograph and a series
of records for the same. Nugget wishes
that the esteemed and respected lady
may be with them mauy years, not on
ly to listen lo the fine music, but to
hear aud eujoy the prattle of many
graud children.
Our postmaster was called upon yes
terday to fill out a money order payable
at Jerusalem, Palestine, Turkey, Asia—
in the Holy Laud, now dominated by
Moslem faith. He was equal to it all,
except to decide what coin to make it
payable iu. He thought of dollars and
dimes, pouuds and shillings, francs and
centimes, thalers, crowns, pesos, marks,
piasters, drachmas, florins, milreis and
other coins of the various realms and
governments, and finally settled upon
aud made it payable in francs. Here is
a question for the boys and girls in our
schools to study upon. Why did he
decide upou the Freuch coin? Anti
was he right?
Jack Lewis returned yesterday front
a trip down Sinker creek, visiting ihe
I Murphy Land & Irrigation company's
j canal and noting the progress of the
work done. The canal is now completed
from the Frenchman's ranch to a point
on the flat above the lower end of the
Joyce ranch, witti about two miles aud
one short tunnel to take it out on the
, Holier & Miller plains, to be improved
this year. Frattk Davis has taken a
al-j contract from the company to plow and
level 400 acres of land for the owners.
Lewis visited several of the ranch
ers along the creek, starting in at Gil
more's. He says our old friends George
Gilmore,and Bill Belcher,who is visiting
him, are chewing the political rag, and
eating fresh ranch eggs with their
bacon and spuds, and that both the old
pioneers are looking fine. That Lam
bert is well and that all folks on the
Joyce ranch are well.
There died this week at Caldwell a
lady formerly well known here as Mrs.
Trask, widow of the former owner of
the old Trask mill, up the creek from
here. Mrs. Trask was the mother of
Mrs. Jake Mussell of Homedale and of
Elliot Norton, the assayer, well known
here and now of DeLamar. Her first
husband was an uncle of the famous
opera singer Nordica, whose maiden
name was Nortou, who is an own cousin
to Mrs. Mussell and Elliot Norton. This
famous lad . 's name has frequently been
mentioned iu connection with that of
Captain Joseph R. De La Mar, reports
of their matrimonial engagement hav
ing ofteu been circulated by the yellow
journals.
Nugget, last week, failed to acknowl
edge the receipt of iuvitations to at
tend the commencement exercises held
by the senior classes of the Portland and
East Portland high schools, held re
spectively February fifth and sixth.
The iuvitations were sent ns by Miss
(Amy) and Robert E. McDonnell, son
apd daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
McDonnell, of DeLamar. The young
people, each members of the senior
classes of one or the other of the two
schools named, and from which we are
pleased to report, they each graduated
with the highest honors bestowed by
their respective schools. Mr. and Mrs.
McDonnell are very justly proud of the
success of their son and daughter.
The postoffice inspector for this dis
trict was in town yesterday. He was
in Murphy the previous day and saw
the stage from Owyhee points arrive at
Murphy with the mails and saw the
mails thrown out on the station plat
form shortly after the Idaho Northern
train had left for Nantpa, and the mails
and passengers stianded at Murphyjuu
til the next day. He was told that this
frequently occured and that innumera
ble complaints had been sent from
Owyhee points concerning it The fact
is that the time schedules of the stage,
which has to leave DeLamar at 4:30 a.
m., and Silver City at 0:30 a. in., is all
too short to meet the trains at Murphy,
scheduled to leave there at 11 a. in.
Whose fault is it that these matters
are so hrrauged?
CASE DISMISSED.
The case of the State vs. Fred Perry,
charged with ferrying several bands of
sheep across Snake river without hav
ing been inspected before removing
them to another county, came up in the
Probate Court here this morning, witli
Dr. G. E. Noble, State Veterinarian,
aud several other witnesses attending.
As the minimum peualty iu each case
of violation of the law is a fine of $200.
and as there was no desire on the part
of the prosecution to inflict such a pun
ishment on the defendant, he and his
friends were allowed to pay the costs,
and, upon motion of the prosecution,
the case was dismissed bj the court. It
is quite evideut that there will be no
further violations of this law.
Axes, double aud siugle bitted, and
boys' axes, Keen Kutter brand, from
Simmons Hardware Co., of St Louis, at
Theo. H. Philipp's Hardware Store.
Any Suit in the house for $15.
Sweeney, Silver City.
MINING
IN OWYHEE COUNTY
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH
Mr. Fegtley was compelled to lay
off the miners working in the upraise
stope, Wednesday, until he could pro
cure more pipe to put in to supply
them with air. They were still taking
out high-grade ore. No survey having
been made, they are still uncertain how
much further they will have to raise to
cut into the old Trask shaft. But w ith
the character of ere they are ex
tracting in making the upraise they are
in hopes they may have to con iuue for
some distance yet.
THE BANNER.
A Trade Dollar miner who is one of
the local stockholders in the Banuer,
visited the Banner mine this week—
the first time he had been in it for over
a year. He saw the prospect in the
Nelson shoot and at the north end of
No. 3 and 4 drifts, and came out of the
miue "with his head in the air." The
young man has only the money he
earns as a miner, and expressed a re
gret that lie had not pat more of it in
Banuer stock.
There is nothing new to be said re
garding either the mine or the mill this
week, further than to state that wont is
progressing satisfactorily on both prop
ositions.
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Electric Power in DeLamar Mill.
The electric power was turned on at
the DeLamar mill last Friday, aud from
the first turn of the drive wheel ran as
smooihly as a watch. The motor is
coupled direct with the main shaft
turning the Chilian mills, and the
change in their running was soarcely
noticeable. It is the ouly cyanide mill
in the district aud the method of treat
ing the ores handled is so different from
the amalgamating process thaï the mill
is a novelty to visitors. It is even a
novelty to those who saw the former
mill and its system of leaching tanks
Bat by a system of keeping the slimss
in constant motion uutil they reach the
filters when the solution has taken up
practically all the values iu the ores,
and is separated from the slimes by
suction, the work goes on almost auto
matically. From the filters the cyanide
solution, cariying the values taken tip
from the ores, comes almost as clear as
spring water, is pumped iuto the pre
cipitating tanks where zinc powder
takes the values from the solution, aud
the zinc powder is iu turn separated
from the solution by the solution being
forced through canvass diaphragms in a
filtering press, the powder afterward
cut out with acids and the gold and sil
ver values left in a muddy mass is melted
into bullion.
The foregoing is a rough sketch of the
process employed in the DeLamar mill
for saving values in the ore. It does
the work cheaply and satisfactorily,
saving a high percentage, hut the
amount of profit derived depends chiefly
upon the tonnage of ore treated. At
present about 90 tons of ore per day are
run through the mill. The Chilian
mills and the mechanical appliances
were constructed to handle doable the
amount now treated. All that is want
ed is more taukage for leaching the
slimes and more filtering capacity.
Plans have been made for such addi
tions to the plant that these will be
supplied. It is estimated that it will
require at least 90 days to complete
these additions. During this time
changes will be made in the mines so
that ore will be delivered at the mill
through the mill level tunnel and the
use of the gravity tram practically dis
pensed with. That there is ore enough
of a good grade which can be haudled
at a profit, still remaining in the mines
to keep the mill steadily employed for
years, no one familiar with the property
seems to doubt.
Validation of Mineral Claims Lo
cated by Deputy Mineral
Surveyors.
The bill introduced by Senator Hey
bttrn providing for the validation of
mineral claims heretofore made by U
S. Deputy Mineral Surveyors has pass
ed Ute Senate. If it should become a
law it will clear up the uncertainty of
title to many valuable claims through
out the west. The occasion for the
legislation proposed by this bill grows
out of the fact that there is a conflict of
opinion between the courts, and be
tween some of the courts and the Secre
tary of the Interior as to whether or not
Deputy Mineral Surveyors are regarded
as employees of theGeueral Land Office
and subject to the laws prohibiting
such employees from making locations
on public laud. Mauy of these claims
have passed into the hands of innocent
parties and the uncertainty of title fre
quently causes considerable trouble and
loss.
REYNOLDS.
Miss Anna Jordan returned home
last week, after spending a couple of
w eeks visiting with relatives in Boise.
Chas. Johnson and James Keith came
up from Wilson Saturday to attend
lodge.
Mr. and Mrs. Bony Agriola returned
home Saturday, bringing with them a
new baby boy.
James Goble is reported to be quite
ill at St. Luke hospital at Boise, hav
ing undergone an operation.
J. M Brunzell made a business trip
over from Nampa the first of the week.
We understand that the Given's Hot
Springs are under quarantine for small
pox.
a
Robt. Noble spent a few days here
last week looking after business affairs.
Milt McKenna and Frank Johnston
are in DeLamar this week, renewing
old acquaintances.
Miss Maggie Cavaney returned home
after a fortnight's visit, the guest of
Mrs. Oscar Brunzell.
Mr. aud Mrs. Louise Kelley will leave
for t'neir home in Chicago the latter
part of this week, after speDdiDg the
winter with the latter's mother, Mrs.
Nellie Williams.
A. J. McSweeney made a flying trip
to Silver last Monday.
Flossie is six years old. "Mamma,''
she asked one day, "if I get married
will I have a husband like pa?
"Yes," replied the mother, with a
-
smile.
"And if I don't get married will I Have
to be an old maid, like Aunt Kate?"
"Yes, Flossie."
"Mamma," she said, after a short
pause, "it's a tough world for us women,
ain't it?"
Just received a brand new lot °f
tailor made suits at Geo. R. Sweeney's.
Souvenir Chinaware and haud paint
ed cbinaware in beautiful designs and
great variety at Rowett's Jewelry Store.
New goods in Hardware, Graniteware
Building aud Roofing paper and Win
dows, just arrived at Philipp's.
Buy vour heating and cook stoves
from Philipp.