Show GOLD HILL PROPERTIES The Excellent Showing Made in Flute Count The Richfield Advocate in an article regarding the mining industry in Gold Hill mining district says A J Moore W F Snyder and J H Van Pelt ow the Trappers Pride group of five pieces dubbed the Trappers Trap-pers Pride 11 E Captain Ripp Polar Bear and Polar Star Running through the group is a ledge of a fine milling quartz a can 0 found in the district the best assay having shown a gold value of 1300 and the poorest dropping 5 The vein varies from ten to fourteen feet in width and ts straight goods throughout with ai average value of about 7 I extends 4500 feet over three of the claims and in no spot shows a symptom of pinching pinch-ing tendencies Five hundred dollars worth of assessment has been done this year a sixfoot shaft having been sunk in one place and the lode having been tapped at other spots through shafts from ten to twenty feet deep As is the case with most mines on Baldy the Trappers Pride has wocQ and water to give away All around the vein the dirt pans gold from the grass roots down and the owners say they will give the whole group to any man who can find a panful of ground on the surface aibove the ledge that will not shake out 5 cents Some parties par-ties whose names are withheld for obvious ob-vious reasons are negotiating for an option on the Pride Its site is something some-thing like two miles south of the Se vier Attached to this mine is a dash of historical interest Twenty years ago two prospectors had located a claim on this identical spot One day they were surrounded by the Indians who killed one of the miners and frightfully wounded the other who however managed to get down to Beaver and lived long enough to recite his experience to the authorities A posse of citizens captured the redskin assassin and confined him in jail and the captive in turn was murdered in his c 1 by a paleface the first night of his incarceration Golden Eagle and Utah are the names of two embryo mines belonging to W C Dodge and John Roberts which were first lighted upon five years ago about a mile west of the Se vier At the surface is an eightfoot ledge in sight for 1500 feet and the rock at the top goes all th way from 5 to 11S in gold and silver In all there has been done about 330 feet of development work and the operators are now running a crosscut over to the main ledge which is 161 feet below the surface The length of the tunnel is 280 feet In all their manouvres the developers have not found a streak of bastard ore on the Eagle and Utah the formation being a contact between porphyry and quartzite Dodge and I Roberts have been asked to grant an j option on their property but would not consider the proposition I |