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Show mining edition beaver county news PAGE 23 hotel. Good public schools are maintained at this place and the faculty employed to instruct the young AmeriMINING CAMP cans ia among the best in the state. There is no doubt but that Frisco is destined to become one of the mining camjx, of the state, and The Home of Some oi the Most with such properties in operation ae the Horn Silver, Reaver Carbonate, Famous Mines in Beaver Imperial and numerous others, the Good Now a dsy is not far distant when the outCounty prospectors to side world will have to sit np and take it took a town were obliged Fayetteville, resources that their larger they Live Camp notice of Frisco. to live on charity. It measured four than the county seat, and a jewlcr feet nine inches by three feet three told him it was gold, and offered to Frisco is located about Actors Hirf Task. eighteen down for him. "About the h&rarsl thing I ever inches, averaging four inches in thick- melt it of Milford and is the miles northwest Reed left it at the shop for that purdid, said little James E. Rosea, the pioneer mining eamp of Beaver countv Skookums of- the Newlyweds playpose and the next time he went to and in fact ol Southern Utah. Here ing at the Lyceum, "waa to fara the town the jewler produced a bar of is the home of the famous old liorii little tots at the Jewish orphan, asylum when I set out to entertain them. gold seven or eight indies long aud 8ilver mine, the Corbonate Rattler, Cared-foand sheltered as they are, him naked what he would take for it. now known as the Beaver Carbonate, their condition so appealed to me that Not knowing the value of gold, and aud several other properties which don't know how 1 ever got through thinking he would fix a big price, have assisted in making the district without breaking down." world as one of Rosen had gone out to the asylum he said f 3.50. The jewler took it. It known throughout the the richest mining sections of the west. according to promise, the other afterwaa pure gold and worth several In years gone by, and when it was al- noon In the midet of n storm, and the hundred dollars. Reed thought he had most, if not quite, as hazardous for a children went wild over him. Afterdone pretty well ami after returning white man to operate the mining in- ward he spent an hour looking the place over and chumming with fit home be instituted a search and found dustry here as it was to enter the rich little ones which In bis cesa wasn't a few so difficult, on account of hla own aeversl other nuggets, including one mineral zones of the Klondike of worth dollars of millions ago, yean size, or the lack of It. that weighed twenty-eigpounds. rich ore waa extracted from the propI asked one little girl, a newcomer, These finds led Jo gold bearing quarts erties at Frisco. For sometime dur-th- e how she liked the Institution, he recent years, these properties have aid, "and her answer waa both funny and it waa known for many years as been practically abandoned but at the and pathetic. We gels meals for Reeds gold mine. Sounds funny, ia considerable breakfast,' she said. The working of this mine and the present time there sev- doesn't it? Well, think It over anil and this at ramp activity mining discovery of gold at other points in eral properties are carrying on exten- see If you can't eppreclnte the little North Carolina led to the establish- sive development work and are attain- girl' gratitude for a new view of life. It Just about got me going, I can tell ment of a branch mint at Charlotte, ing greater depth where high grade yon. Cleveland L er. which was operated up to the beginn- ore bodies are being otened up. Buildings of the Old Hickory Mine in the Rocky District Strong shipments are being made Sheriff's Talk Taken to Heart. ing of the civil war. In 1838 the from the Horn Silver and other mines An extraordinary scene occurred at and of the mint 550 established pounds about and it will be but a short time until the ness, weighed Majestic company's holdings, is loca- some weighing lour or five ounces. county jail of Dutchess county, N. product of the North Carolina mines Frisco is again one of the liveliest Y., the other morning, when the retiror f 148,000. ted in this district five miles distant This was only the beginning and nug-- 1 wts and most prosperous camps in the ing sheriff broke all precedents by Several of the Rocky Mountain at 9500,000 a year. from Milford. At this lime this pro- gets the size of a hen's ora goose egg delivering a farewell speech to thn In proportion to the total amount of atate of Utah. states, Colorado, Nevada and Idaho, ia said that at one time in the early prisoners. perty is not working but in past years continued to be found for yean. It Roys, he mid, "ynuYe but not gold produced, North Carolina has of this camp Frisco enjoyed a too fine n lot to he In here. Most of it has produced a large amount of The largest nugget California ever have produced some nuggets, history Alaska has produced an enor- probably yielded more nuggets than population of about four thousand you came here through drink. Cut It good ore. This property is connected yielded weighed 80 pounds. One night many. Other country in the world. Since people, but at the time of the abandon out Re decent. We all make miswith the railroad by a switch having in November, 1854, two drunken fel- mous quantity of gold, about f200,0QQ any takes. You have made them and so One the discovery of gold in California, ing the mines the town waa likewise have I. Don't make the same mistake been run in from the Frisco branch of lows were crossing the mountains to 000, but not many nuggets. Uie ounces was found Australia, South Africa and Alaaka, abandoned. At the present time twice. That's the point. Make up the Salt Lake Route. The accom- a new eamp, when a heavy rain came weigning thirty-fou- r of Frisco is possibly about population your minds to be right and stick to Carolina Youkons aaa North ranka and the Klondike gold 200. hardly in the It. Everybody will respect yon then. panying cut shows the buildings of on. They sought shelter in a deserted o ounces producing state, but the natives still The town has three or four mercanBehave as well outside as you do Inthe Old Hickory and also some of the hut, but before morning the water largest nugget seventy-twwas fonnd nearly twenty years ago, do aome mining and nuggeta are found tile establishments all of which are side and nobody will have any kick workings of the Glasscow and V estern swept them away and one was drownis coming. Have n banana and n cigar The placer gold of Alaska, which ii occasionally. Within the last fifteen doing a good business and the place Mining Co. whose property is situated ed. The next morning the survivor with me. - All the prisoners cams np and of out her slumber coming one hat been reported weighing rapidly shook hands with tha sheriff. and across the gulch from the Old Hickory. started to dig a grave for his dead com- obtained in such enormous quantities years several taking on new life. There are is mostly free ten pounds and another of eight pounds substantial of them were crying and many Some and washing, digging in by a has Western chunk The Glasscow and buildings Frisco, among panion, when he uncovered a try and reform. promised five they ounces. wheat and in thin, leafy flakes, like them being the Horn Silver at ore and large group of claims in this district of pure gold so large that he had diff- gold small pelleta, and the showing made in a number iculty in getting it out, and then could chaff, interspersedr with been reporhave no large nuggets of the workings Is very good. No ex- not carry it alone. Obtaining help, he but the size of from run ted. The pellets tensive operations are being carried on got it into camp about three mouths after the first discovery aud found upward of four thousand men working in the viciuily !aud getting from one to four ounces of g )ld a man a day. to the secretary of war The Old Hickory is One ol lhe! In ioveuor Mason said : "Mr. Marshall Famous Old Properties in !Kujdwlmt. iIh. mounUin on Ul(! north bank of the south fork where a great deal of coarse gold has been In the Kooky district is'located one fonnd. 1 there saw several parties at of the old producing mines of Heaver work, all of whom were doing wrll; a county. The Old Hickory, one of the great many specimens were shown me, ! j j finds. Gold was discovered in Austra- The boy had never heard of gold, but lia in 1851, about three years after it the thing was pretty, and he look it was iu California, and there was an- borne. His father did not know what other rush of gold hunters, some even it was, but the next time he went to going from California, for gold hunters the county seat, he showed it to the silver-smitand lie could not always flock to the newest discovery. local Farmer Keed tell. keit the piece two Australia has furnished the biggest nugget on record, aud it was found by or three years, using it for a weight who bad so exhausted lo hold the door open. Finally he two FRISCO, THE OLDEST ut - . r 1 ht at this nhJTpounds. By at work developing the 'this time he was sober, but too excit-und. These two properties prac- - ed to go back and bmy his dead cover the entire Rocky district ner. He sold the nngget for 922,700. and both of them have good copper This was in Eldorado county, and indications. shortly afterward that country pro-duced another nngget weighing 121 FORTUNES FOUND BY CHANGE ounces. In 1851 a party of English sailors found a nngget in Eldorado which county, they took to England A Bit of History of Some Famand exhibited at so much a sight. It ous Gold Nuggets which have was the means of adding materially to Made Men Rich the English-bor- n population of California. d Indian washWhat is the biggest nugget of gold In 1881 a his overalls in a stream In Nevada on record, where was it found and ing t what was it worth? The question is county, found a nugget in the bed of one of unusual interest, for everybody the stream that weighed 65 pounds likes to talk about gold, and the idea the second largest in California. It of finding it in chunks has a wonder- was sold for 17,400. In 1868, on Table ful faaination. The very word nugget mountain, Calaveraa county, a negro, has a charm, for it ia only applied to on hla way to prospect a oertain gulch, the precious metals aud generally gold saw a yellow point protruding above alone. We never hear of a nugget of the ground. When uncovered and dug iron or lead, though these and other out it proved to be a big nugget ol minerals are often found in a pure gold. Still Intent on his prospecting state, but when a lump of gold is found tour, he buried hia treasure, marked it ia always described as a nugget, and the spot aud went hia way. Returning in a few weeks he found a party the word makes a good mouthful. The bulk of the worlds supply of of prospectors digging not more than gold for coinage and manufacturing ten feet from his buried treasure. He purposes is obtained by quartz aud told his story and they permitted him placer mining, but nuggets have con- to dig the nugget up. It weighed 35 tributed their share. No very large pounds and brought him 97,000. If the ones have been reported for some miners digging not more than ten feet years past, but it does not take a of it had found it, the negro never could have proved his title. very large nugget of gold to mount-uOther nuggets mentioned in historin value. Even the little ones ies of California or by contemporary found now and then in the craws of Brown country chickens are worth writers, are from Calaveras county, one of 266 ounces, worth 92,800; at saving. The biggest nuggets of gold have Elizabethtown, one worth 93,600; one been found in the United States, Aus- at Mohawk Valley, of 420 ounces, tralia and South Africa, though some worth 96,700, from Nevada county, have been found in Mexico and British near Dutch Flats, one worth 912,800. America. California haa produced Thomas O. Larkin, United States many and some very large ones. No navy agent, writing from California doubt many have been found of which to the secretary of state at Washington no record haa been preserved, but the November 16, 1848, said: I have had in my hands several list of recorded ones ia interesting. qf gold, about 23 carats fine, pieces It was the finding of a few small nugone to two pounds, and gets in the tail race of a sawmill in weighing from it from good authority that pieces 1848 that started the California gold have found been have weighing 16 pounds. of excitement and led to a rush gold heard I of one specimen have Indeed, hunters from all parts of the world. 25 that weighed ponnds. This waa at Sutters Fort. These are California nuggets, the redisto the tried Sutter keep Captain to have been covery secret-- but it soon got out and cord of which happens no doubt hnt there have the excitement spread like wildfire. preserved, others. many Governor Mason, military commandBut Australia beats California in Wf ant of California, visited the fo rt half-bree- aand to that of bird shot, garden peas, hazel nnta and now and then the size of pigeoq egga. It may surprise many persona to learn that North Carolina waa once a regular bonanza in gold nngget and haa produced aome large ones. Gold was discovered in that atate before It waa in California and as is often the case the discovery waa accidental. In 1799 a old boy, aon of a fanner named John Reed, llviug in Cabarrus county, started out with a younger brother for a Sunday walk. While strolling along the banka of a small stream the boy saw something shining, in the shallow water and waded in and got it. It waa yellow, nearly as big as an old fashioned flatiron and heavy. me 12-ye- lfj ii -- GOOD SHOWING AT NELLIE PROPERTY Has Ore Vein Sixty Feet wide on the Surface Carrying Good V.. The Old Chimney which stands at the mouth Elephant canyon in the Star mining district. This is one of the oldest and best known land marks in the country. On the surface a 60 foot vein of ore ia exposed and recently a large body of NEWHOUSE low grade sulphide of copper ore was opened up in the tunnel. ConsiderMease ra Street and Kennedy n! able work baa been done by the own- Frisco were Sunday visitors. ers of tbia property and there ia now Miss Keener, the princiiial, will reover 600 feet of tunnel, 300 feel of main here for awhile and is undecided crosaouts and a shaft haa been sunk to whether she will upend the summer in Idaho or Oregon. Albert White has opened the bathing season in Nowhouse by taking an early plunge into the concentrate tanka at the mill. Mr. and rs. Pfening entertained a depth of 400 feet. 4 per cent copper values have been obtained from samples taken from this property besides John Forgie and associates are the good valnee in lead and silver. The owners of the Nellie group of claims Nellie is located on the west aide of - Copper Values of I hi-e- n A party of Friseo people drove to Newhouae Monday evening and were entertained by Mrs. Fennemore. Refreshments were served at a late hour being a most enjoyable part of the evening. Mrs. R. W. Bruner has as her guest Mrs. Keys of Cleveland. Mrs. Keys is making a tour of the West and will later go for an extended trip through the east and then return to Denver where she will make her future home. The Newhouse public school will close on Friday the 27th. Misa Bonner who haa been in charge of the primary grades will leave on Saturday for Salt Lake City where she will visit for a few days and then go to hrr home iu Eureka for the summer. Jack Reynolds interested a bunch of mail, who were sitting on the Cactus Club veranda, with aoine graphic and authentic descriptions of Indian war fighting in the early daya. Mr. is a veteran of many t tattles and hia descriptions of Custers last Stand was worth listening to; he was there at the time and one of the party that captured the massacreing Indians. Bey-nol- j , Nevada Ready-Pa- y fame, ahowed up in camp with a deep cut in the forehead the other day and waa quite busy for a few days telling about it. Mouth of Tunnel at the Nellie Property in Star in the Star district and are working the property in a; small way. This group consists rh eight undented claims and during the development of the property a large amount of good ere liae been taken mil and shipped. Dittriil the Star district about eleven miles the school teachers. Miss Keener and n,,,nrk dinMPr from Milford, and is within five miles j of the Moscow switch which is thej A small took a horseback nearest Snipping poiut. The accom- - ride to the party Blackbird proicrty Sun panying cut ahowa the mouth of the day and enjoyed the hospitality of main tufiftri in which lhe large body Kupt. Hteole at a six o'clock dinner. of or wse recently opened. Our Bill Biehlell, of irrepreesible Fruits of advertising in this paper will give jou a pleasanter sursaid prise than hen IN. Vj . K. La ). da |