Show 0 A LADY LOCATES A MINE two weeks ago the miner hail had a brief account of a young lady of alamo who had braved the terrors of a blinding snow storm traveled all told five miles and relocated a valuable valuable mining claim which had just lapsed on account of the annual assessment work not having been done for the year 1 1902 some additional facts in this episode have come to hand which have more or less interest it appears appears the claim formerly belonged i to a par party ty who resides in the green horns for some reason he did not perform the required labor for the year having the utmost faith fairfi fi in the claim he decided to hold it by virtue of having a friend rel relocate I 1 it and tr transfer anifer it back to him im by deed the friend faithful to the trust imposed in him proceeded to the spot arriving there about 10 on the night of D december 31 the night being unusually stormy he decided that no one had the courage or e endurance n 4 d to make their way tp such an out of the way place through such a storm so he tacked up his notice and made haste ton foi shelter miss jessie mccubben now the heroine of the hour at alamo with an aged male friend and armed with a colts revolver reached the ground about as aa the new year came in she saw the former notice and knowing the location was illegal she tacked up her location paper claiming the lead lode iode or vein with all its dips spurs an ani agles etc as her individual property 1 then the weary march of two and one half miles back to alamo was taken up wading through the deep snow and grop ing along in a blinding snow storm was slow and laborious work but the plucky girl and her companion arrived at the town at ft 3 in the morning very tired after their exertions the claim which the spirited young lady acquired has a tunnel feet in length and a forty foot crosscut cross cut dut proving the vein for that width all of which is ore the general average being 4 per ton in gold which is con considered a bonanza at the depth it has been developed miss mccubben MeC called her mine the midnight queen and such it will always in tho the hereafter be known her father has undertaken the task of developing the property more thoroughly and it is the opinion of well posted mining men who are are acquainted 1 with the claim that it will yet become one onea of the big mines of that rapidly growing sec 4 tion On one thing athing Is certain everyone wishes success to the two midnight queens the 1 4 lady locator and the embryo mine she so courageously acquired miner sumpter n ore |