Show THE GOLDEN AGE MINE romantic history ozithe of the Ds discovery covery of this idaho gold producer correspondence aning review boise idaho may 10 official announcement no is made that the golden age 1 mining company controlled by spokane capital will disburse its first dividend this year the company headed by robert abernethy has expended in developing ve the property in the boise bas n in idaho the shaft shaf thas has been sunk feet and drifting has been carried on in both directions from three levels tho work on the lower one amounting to feet shaft tunnel and drifts aggregate 2400 feet thirty seven thousand dollars in gold was produced during the short season last winter and it is expected that the output will be as high as a day in the future ten stamps now at work are producing a day five more mare will be installed within thirty days the water wheel will be succeeded by electric power power from the plant at payette two anda and a half miles from the mine and stamps may drop throughout the year the value is from 10 to 12 the free jn m aling resources are not expected to end until the water level as gauged by the creek 1500 feet below is reached the course of the body is along the length of three of the six or more claims comprising the group A twenty five foot ledge averaging 5 to 6 a ton and pierced by a tunnel is an asset that will be drawn upon when milling economics have veen perfected the ledge was discovered by G G der linder and anah h s wife in searching for the mother lode in the wilds of the boise basin where they almost lost their lives by exposure and starvation broken in purse by a business venture determined to retrieve his losses from the earth and he sought the virg infield remote from A cue was taken from the fields of lower central idaho which yielded between to to pioneers of the civil war days A ledge from which some of these nuggets originated was the Vander linders goal and the hunt for it tok them leagues from irom the wartime war time depository tory A bit of float the fragment of a remote ledge was found by in the prospecting of the dose boise basin pounded to a pul pulp and dropped in the pan it showed a string of colors the length of ofa fa finger at that point began a search of the hills that embraced intimate examination of every ledge through the area of miles and occupied two years A seam no thicker than a hand was the source but it expanded as depth was attained plunged into this ledge with a shaft but before sufficient depth was attained on it he and his wife were overtaken by winter and their little cabin was quickly covered with snow leaving them without sufficient provisions for the siege that followed while facing death by starvation a deer fugitive of wolves came within range and provided them with food until early spring when they resumed work while picked the ground and loaded the buckets in the thel pit his wife worked at the windlass the first few f ew dollars in yellow metal which re dished their credi credit tat tat a store several miles away were pounded out laboriously and meagerly in a mortar A single stamp leased from the owners of an abandoned m 11 ll 11 at 25 a month crushed out 1000 in the first season arid and 1800 in the second soon after they sold the property for mrs bought a ranch home with the proceeds of the sale of the mine she has several laborers at work planting crops and setting out an orchard while her husband has again plunged into the central idaho wilderness in search of the mother lode |