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Title: October 21, 1970 Collection Type: Newspapers Collection Name: Nevada County Nugget Published: October 21, 1970 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Physical Format: Newspaper # of Pages: 12 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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tue A LOT of gold went through the mill room at the Empire Mine which is covered in the Northern Mines feature. 2 = . = e: : —_ ; (NUMBER THIRTEEN) By Edm _ E. THE SAGA OF THE IDAHO-MARYLAND made for the gold-giver in the claim which adjoined on the prevails in these later ti = southeast, the Idaho. A perpendicular shaft cut the vein at 120 light parade or an: excur: The Eureka mine is on Eureka Hill, about one and onefeet. Rejoicing over the discovery turned to doubt when the forto go him one better whe fourth miles east of Grass Valley. The location was made on mation. was found to be barren, For eighteen months the Idaho The tradition of the Col -; February 7, 1851, when a miners' meeting was held at which joined the Eureka as a closed and written-off mine, e Valley.= C. W. Ward presided and G. D. Roberts acted as secretary. But in 1867 the resourceful Coleman brothers, John G, ~ By the turn of the c The Eureka was originally located in claims which were 30 to and Edward, after realizing comfortably from the Morning Star of the Colemans had pr 40. For tedious years this mine was a financial drain upon its gravel mine at lowa Hill, and trying out various of the Grass and had disbursed six . "proprietors. It was owned at different times by B, L, Lemarque; Valley district quartz mines, bought the Idaho and formed the monthly dividends. But t G.D, Roberts; and Billy Chollar, who never succeeded in making historic Idaho Quartz Mining company. It was officered by John giving thought to the desi it yeild liberally, it frequently failing to pay at all. Fricot & Co, C. Coleman, president; Miles P, O'Conner, who mixed mining Moreover, the great lode ’ became the owners in 1857, A shaft was sunk on the ledge to a with the duties of Justice of the Peace, secretary; Thomas To the: east and adjoining ==. perpendicular depth of fourth-eight feet in the winter of 1862Findley, a banker, treasurer; Edward Coleman, general SamuelP.* Dorsey, the tc 63, This permitted explorations 20 feet below the tunnel. Here manager. The great lode was recovered in the course of the of the flora of the regior the ledge was found rich and well defined. sinking of a shaft designed to explore the ground to a depth the course of the noted . —Byrne's Directory of Grass Valley Township (1865) of 600 feet. The cost of that initial shaft was met by assessthe Maryland Mining com; 4 ments on the stock of the company to the amount of nearly The Colemans, 2 few O = That the beginning of the Eureka-Idaho-Maryland lode, a $40,000. But the great Idaho was on its way to three decades of mine had become little titanic exemplification of the mysteries of Nature's gold caches monthly dividends which were as regular as a tax bill. selling the property to tl which, despite some rather extended haltings, probably excels Those practical Coleman brothers constituted an unique buswas moderate and the ; in production any lode in California, But the Eureka mine itiness team, John C. sat on the lid of the expense account, Ed— exhausted workings and . = self was to have a relatively short life. Fricot, Rupert, and Praward periodically inspected the lunch buckets of his miners and able ore. It was to be lus soon relinquished control of the Eureka Company for snorted in disgust when he found candles where he had expected direction of Eugene Cre $400,000. Thereafter it paid dividends regularly until the year to find surreptitious gold specimens. They became leaders of company, and the procee 1878, At that time a tragedy of mining was revealed. The lode the civic, political, and religious life of the community, When It was an advantage was lost. Intensive search was made then and later for a west the building of the Narrow Gauge railroad was being financed due course ‘the two mine E. extension, but to this day no such extension bas been found and they joined in putting down $50,000. They took a leading part management. At that po qualified mining engineers are convinced that the Eureka dein the rebuilding of the Congregational Church and endowed did not hold for more th: velopment was by chance close to the western terminal of the the congregation. Bt is of tradition that no shadow of disagreenary line separating the lode, The Eureka mine was closed in 1877 and abandoned, ment, save one, that of politics, ever came between them. Whethspread that the consolic But, as it later turned out, the Eureka lode was merely er by choice or design, one was a Republican, the other a but ‘no certain gold-be: misplaced (faulted), not lost. As early as 1863 search was being Democrat. Nor was such affiliation of the denatured sort which faulted, or lost? That thi an ee —_— pi tcp ecatS —_— + ms ee a) eS ENSEN base ( ; + ice : 2 siivariecinsiaiiinaieniieieniiesteniai . bisa z