The Owyhee nugget., October 07, 1909, Image 3

About The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984

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IDAHO, THE IM
PERIAL STATE
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Owyhee Coimty Invites the Capitalist and
Homeseeker to the Land of Sun
shine and Happy Homes
(Concluded from last week.)
On the south border of Snake River are sev
eral hot and warm springs, one of which
w ith its accommodations for the public, with
bathing house, etc., is now' extensively pat
ronized by persons troubled with rheuma
tism and kindred complaints.
The wild and picturesque portion of this
country abounds in wild game-and its
streams are well stocked with mountain
Black tail deer, some antelope, oc
trout,
casionally a mountain sheep constitute the
larger game, while mountain lions or cougar
are frequently hunter's trophies. Sage
liens and ,villow grouse are found in great
abundance, both on mountain and Dlain.
There is plenty of shooting for lovers of
hunting and similar recreations.
River supplies our local markets with larger
fishes, among the best of which are sturgeon
and salmon.
People coming from the Eastern States
where the rainfall is greater than here and
the fall of the dew heavy at night can scarce
ly realize the enjoyment one has in camping
out on our streams in our mountains. Hunt
ing and fishing parties of families and
friends, ladies, gentlemen and children, es
tablish camps at favored spots and enjoy
outdoor life and recreation for a few days
and weeks. The days will lie all sunshine
and the nights always cool and refreshing.
Tents are only taken with such parties to
secure privacy. The open air, under the
blue starlit canopy with plenty of blankets
to keep them warm, is all the shelter ro
il uired. One does not swelter through a hot
night and get up in the morning enervated.
Hot nights may he good for crops of growing
corn, but they are not conducive to health
> and restoration of energy.
cloudless summer skies, our cool nights and
invigorating atmosphere of our higher alti
tudes have in them a charm the residents
of the less favored localities little realize.
If you feel enervated and worn out, come
to Idaho and enjoy a season of our outdoor
life.
Snake
Our almost
Or e need not feel that he is going beyond
the pale or civilization in coming to Owy
hee. The people are quite as îefined in man
ners and accomplishments as in scattered
communities anywhere. Iu fact they are
made up from the more energetic classes of
the older States. Churches and fraternal
society organizations are to he found here,
conducted -with as much zeal as elsewhere.
The public schools are in charge of experi
enced teachers and are most liberally sup
ported. The people are as law'-abiding as
any community anywhere. Our civil and
criminal courts hold only very brief ses
sions because of the little business coming
before them. Our great mining industries
give us in their employes a considerable pop
ulation which is continuously shifting, hut
the Western precious metal miners are the
peers in intelligence, industry, morality and
honor of any class of mechanics or working
men in the world. They take and read a
greater number of daily and weekly news
papers, magazines and books than most oth
er commnities. Tramps are few. Dead beats,
hobos and hums are not a minus quantity
among us, the broad mantle of charity aud
the tolerance of the people suffering them
to exist in our midst.
While the live stock, wool growing aud
agricultural interests of the couuty are
large and important, Owyhee is essentially
a mining county. Its ranges of mountains
aie seamed with veins of gold and silver
hearing ore which so far surpass all the oth
er sources of wealth that all other industries
are dwarfed by comparison.
The products of our mines have been the
foundation of many large fortunes. The fu
ture of the industry promises many more
fortunes. In fact it may he truthfully said
that the industry is yet iu infancy. The
surfaces only of many of its districts have
been touched and new and important dis
coveries are continually beiug made. Owy
hee is still a most inviting field for prospec
tors as well as for investors.
War Eagle Mountain.
The first location of a quartz vein was
made on the mountain—the first in this por
tion of the State—was made iu 1863. Min
ing was carried on on this mountain with
great activity from 1865 to 1875. The pro
duction of bullion during this decade is
Diluted from records yf ship
Unfortunately all this business w r as con
trolled by Situ Francisco stock speculators,
and with a great bank failure in that city,
in 1875, "the bottom dropped out." The
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principal properties were tied op. in litiga
tion, the mines filled with water and build
ings and costly machinery allowed to go to
wreck, and for nearly fifteen years only the
smaller properties, owned by invidiuals
were worked. Now titles have been straight
ened out and a new era of activity is begin
ning, based on legitimate business princi
ples. On the eastern slope of the mountain
is a great string of veins nearly a mile long,
in former times owned and operated by a
number of separate companies. These have
all been acquired by one company, which
instead of attempting to work them from
the top down as was formerly done, has run
tunnel 6,300 feet, cutting the system of
veins at a depth of 2,100 feet and proposes
to work the entire series of mines through
this tunnel, establishing a new camp, with
reduction works east of the mountain.
West of this system of veins crossing the
veins—a valuable vein of ore crossing the
Company's properties have within the past
ten years made fortunes for the sharehold
ers. Other companies have recently been or
ganized, acquired other properties which
promise to become rivals of the Trade Dol
lar in value of production.
Steele District
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Is located five miles east of Flint on Boulder
and Mammoth Creeks,
veins of low' grade silver ores have been lo
cated in this district. Ample w r ater power
is available for reducing the ores of the dis
trict and it is claimed it can he so cheaply
concentrated that a profitable enterprise
could be established here.
This district is located eleven miles south
of Silver City. There is an extensiver out
cropping of silver-hearing quartz veins in
the district, and there has been a considera
ble production of bullion from them. A
number of years ago the producing mines
became the properties of some B. & M. rail
way capitalists who have permitted them to
remain idle. How-ever. local men have de
veloped claims outside of the Flint com
pany's holdings, have put up a concentrating
mill and are making a success out of their
enterprise. There are other similar oppor
tunities in the district.
Sontli Mountain.
Borne very wide
Is situated twenty miles south of Silver
City. About thirty years ago a busy mining
camp of 800 people was on this mountain. A
number of well defined veins of high grade
silver-lead ores were opened on this moun
tain and a large smelter w r as built by a
company and a considerable amount of sil
ver-lead bullion produced. But at that time
the nearest point on a railway was more than
200 miles distant, transportation facilities
were wanting and every expense of carrying
such an enterprise was very heavv.
the mines reached water levels where oxidi
zation had not changed the ores, they were
found to carry a percentage of zinc blende
which made the working of them unprofita
ble under existing conditions. Conditions
have since changed. Transportation has
been made easy,
paid for by smelter instead of being a dis
count on their value. The ores of the dis
trict have been proven to be readily and
cheaply concentrated for shipment, and this
is a most inviting field for investors and
prospectors.
In the lower mountains aud foothills, six
to ten miles north of Silver Citw and not
far west of the stage road leading to the
railroad at Murphy, a great deal of pros
pecting has been done within the oast year,
resulting in important discoveries upon
which many locations have been made and
several companies have already been organ
ized for development. The ores iu this lo
cality, with a few' exceptions found, are not
high grade, but the ore bodies are so exten
sive that the value and importance of the
discoveries is now attracting wide attention.
Silver City, Dewey and DeLamar are
reached from the Oregon Short Line rail
way, at Nampa, over the Boise, Nampa &
Owyhee Railway, 30 miles, to Murphy, and
thence by daily stage coaches to Silver City,
23 miles, and Dewey and DeLamar respec
tively, three and eight miles further,
of these places have telephone connections
with the railway and with Boise. The Pa
cific Express Company has offices at these.
places. The stage road from the railway
crosses over one mountain summit, but is
well equipped with good six-horse coaches
and the managers look carefully after the
comfort of passengers. An ample number
of extra teams and wmgons is always on
luiru'to carry passengers w'hen more than
the regular coaches are required. Large and
well equipped livery stables are kent in Sil
ver City, Murphy and DeLamar where
teams, hacks, buggies, buckboards and sad
dle horses are always ready for persons or
parties desiring to visit any portion of the
county. Pleasure and camping parties are
amply provided for from anv of the towns.
A local hank at Silver City buys and sells
exchange. All the towns mentioned are well
kept hotels where guests are provided with
modern eOIuDmt* and conrouioaccs.
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towns are all equipped with electric lights ;
all of them have large general stores which
supply the surrounding camps with every
(Concluded on page four.)
Bids Wanted.
Notice is hereby Riven that sealed
bide will be rfeceived at the office of the
Clerk of the Board of County Commis
sioners of Owyhee County, Idaho, for
the construction of a bridRe in Bruneau
Valley, across Dry Creek, on the Sec
tion line between Sections 16 and 21, T.
6 S., K. 5 E., accordinR to the following
specifications:
To have a span of forty feet, sup
ported by two outside stringers 40 feet
long, 12x10, set 15 feet outside to out
side ; six stringers, 12x6,20 feet long,
and four stringers, 12x10, 20 feet long,
set with ends abutCug, and set be
tween the outside stringers at a uni
form distance from center to center ;
the ends of the stringers to rest on two
sills, 18 feet long, 12x12 ; the sills to
rest on five posts at each end, 12 feet
long, 12x10; the posts to be mortised
into mud sills 18 feet long, 12x12, and
set four feet below the bed of the
creek; the center support of the string
ers to be a sill 18 feet long, 12x12,
which is to be supported by four struts
17 feet long, 10x10, fastened at either
end by bolts 1 inch in diameter, 3 feet
long, with washer and screw on each
end, and supporting center sill with two
rods 1 % inches in diameter, 9 feet long
with washer and screw on each eud;
sills to be fasteued to posts, and string
ers to lie fastened to sills by irou braces
1 inch iu diameter, 2 feet 6 inch long,
bent and sharpened at each end ; floor
to be 16 feet wide,of plank 12x3; railing
over all of 4x4 scantling, 3 feet above
floor; approaches at either eud to be 7
feet long, resting on mud sills 10 x 12,
18 ft long, floored with 12x3 plank and
substantially constructed.
The successful bidder to furnish all
materials.
Bids to be opened at the Clerk's office
in Silver City, Oc^ber 13th, 1909, at ton
o'clock a. in.
The successful bidder will be required
to furnish a bond iu double the amount
of the bid for the faithful performance
of the cou tract.
Right reserved to reject any and all
bids offered.
By order of the Board,
J. S. St Claik, Clerk.
First publication, Sept. 17, 1909.
Last publication, Oct. 8, 1909.
Legal Notices.
4—348 b.
Notice 'for Publication,
[i ublisher.]
Department of the Interior. U. S. Land Office at
Boise, Idaho, August 17, 1909.
Notice is hereby given that Dan Barnidge, of
Morphy. Idaho, who, on July 6, 1907, made Des
niry No. 2750. Serial, No. 05.81, for
2*4 SWit, Section 3, Township 3 S.. Range 1
\V., Boise Meridian. ha6 fll- d notice of intention
to make Final Pmof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before the Register and
I eceiver, at Boise, Idaho, on the 19th day of
October, .909.
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witnesses: Frank Felt ham
of Murphy, Idaho; David Thimgan of Murphy,
Idaho; William Wymer of Murphy, Idaho;
Charles Buffington of Murphy, Idaho.
Wm. BALDEKTSON, Register.
Claimant names
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Alias Summons.
In the Justice's Court
Cf DeLamu Frectnct. County of Owy
hee. State of Idaho.
Before C. M. Brown Justice of the Peace.
Swain <& Helm,
a C o partnership.
Plaintiff.
; SUMMONS
vs.
FUchard R.oberts
Defendant. J
The State of Idaho Sends Greetings
To Richard Roberts Defendant.
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED To ap
pear before me, at my office in DeLamar in the
County of Owyhee on the first day of December,
1909, at four o'clock p. in., in
against you by said plaintiff, to answer the com
plaint of vlie above named plaintiff. Said action
is brought to recover from you the sum of
Twenty-eight dollars and forty-five cents L$'2S.45]
for merchandise purchased by you from said
plaintiff, and delivered to you by s dd plaintiff
f at your request, or plaintifi' will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded, or judgment will
be taken against you for Twenty-eight dollars
and forty-five cents [$28.45], together with the
costs of this suit, if you fail to appear aud an
swer.
Given under my hand this 20th day of Septem
ber, 1909.
action brought
C M. Brown, Justice of the Peace
of DeLamar Precinct iu said County.
J R, Hfertlon, Plaintiff's Attorney.
First Publication, September 24, 1909.
Last Publication, October 22, 1909.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To A. H. Rickies, his heirs or assigus:
Yon ure hereby notifled that we have expend
ed Six Hundred dollere (*«00 ) In labor and im
the "Como" and -Alice No.
provcnients upon
5 »" lode mining claims, situate in Carson Mining
District, Owyhee County, Idaho, in order to hold
gaid premises under the provisions of Section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United States, being
the amount required to hold the same for the
years 1907. 190« and 1909
And If within ni
this notice for within ninety days after this no
tice by publication) you rail
ute your proportion of such expenditure, as co
! owner, your interest in said claims will become
j the property of tbe subscribers under said Bec
I tion 2324. W. H. Bblcmcr
J. C. Connors.
Silver City. Idaho, July 26,1909.
Inety days aftor tbe servies of
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refuse to contrit»
Grand
Ball
TKree Days Racirvg
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Jorda.iv Valley, Oregon
October 18, 19, 20.
MATCH RACE for $250.00 aside between BOGUS BALLY aud GREY
HOUND. Burses will be hung suitable for other horses in attendance.
Everybody Come
GOOD MUSIC AND A GOOD TIME PROMISED,
SKvimate Bros.
When ordering Winter Supplies of Groceries call on or write
SHUMATE BROS, Nampa's Biggest, Best and Busiest
GROCERS
NAMPA, IDAHO
Phones 140 and 141.
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J. H. Moberly & Co.
HARNESS and SADDLES
We make Harness to order and guarantee satisfaction.
Come in and see us. Opposite postoffice,
NAMPA.
IDAHO
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BADGER FURNITURE CO.
Let us figure on your bills for bouse furnishings. We carry
a full line of CARPETS. RUGS, LINOLEUMS, STOVES,
RANGES, etc. We'll make you interesting Prices on every
thing used in a home.
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IDAHO
Jordan Valley Hotel
J. A. SCHAS, Proprietor
Particular attention given to table service. Bates 82 per day.
Livery a.i\d Feed Sta-ble in Connection
Jordan Valley, Oregon.
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A Select assortment of choice Wines, Liquors
and Cigars in Stock. Draught and Bottle Beer.
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