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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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Edmund Kinyon se later times, When Jofin C, promoted a torchan. excursion in aid to his party, Edward stove etter when his party's turn came, or vice versa. yf the Colemans is vivid in the annals of Grass . of the century the Idaho under the management _ is had produced fifteen million dollars in gold sed six million in the form of those gladsome ds. But the brothers, moderately aging, were o the desirability of retiring with their fortunes. great lode was nearing the end-line of the Idaho. adjoining lay the Maryland claim. Years before, sey, the town's express agent who of his studies the region, It seemed:to him that he could detect he noted lode in the surface growths, He formed ining Company with himself as president. ans, 2 few years later, believing their once great me little more than an empty shell, proposed erty to the Maryland:company. The price asked and the payment easy. Between the supposedly ings and the end line remained a block of valuas to be worked out by the Maryland under the wene Creller, a trusted executive of the Idaho he proceeds used to liquidate the purchase price. advantageous bargain for the Maryland and in two mines were consolidated under the Dorsey t that point Fate stepped in. The Idaho ledge more than a limited distance beyond the imagirating the two claims. Soon the ominous report , consolidated company had a shaft and a mill, _ gold-bearing vein. Was the lode ended, or ? That the question which the Dorseys and some a ——— reels TRELTTE Historical Scrap Book THE MASSACHUSETTS dry house which stood for years in the Golden Empire. ’ enter. Errol MacBoyle, a mining engineer of note and varied “=experience, appeared on the scene and few shares of the stock of the company asked for ingress into the a mine, His was not to be an elaborate inspection requiring man: later bondees sought vainly to determine. Victor Dorsey, a son of the owner, who had acquired mining skills, was accidentally killed in the workings. Samuel P, Dorsey, by then elderly, never descended intothe depths of his property. Limited , largely exploratory, went on for fine surface plant became the habitat of bats. : it was during the early part of the decade of he 1920's that the Idaho-Maryland was purchased outright by the Harry Payne Whitney interests of New York. The group, amply financed, sought recovery of the missing lode and complete rehabilitation : of the old producer. John A. Fulton, a highly learned mining engineer who had achieved numerous successes in Nevada, was B g : : : E 3 : 5 4 ; f : was that he induced the Whitney ownership to grant him bond (option) and lease. His financial resources were small but he managed to keep the Idaho-Maryland free of water pending more complete explorations. “2 MacBoyle called to his aid Albert Crase, a mine manager linking the old and the new schools of thought and who. had been engaged at seeking the illusive gold veins of the district from his sixteenth year. Within a few weeks the fabu. lous Idaho-Maryland vein again stood revealed. But the MacBoyle-Crase management was inclinded to discount any unusual mineralogical perception on their part. They said they mearely went a little further. It was disclosed that the ent had penetrated to within a few feet of the faulted lode. The Fulton management had actually cut into its wall at one point, but failed to recognize its importan e ce The Idaholand lode, under the proprietary interest of MacBoyle and was to yield other and much greater for2 tunes than those realized by the Colemans. The Brunswick and some other adjacent mines were added and developed into pro= ducers. Modern and large capacity works were installed. For fifteen years the payroll carried the names of a thousand men. +5 Up to the time when operations were slowed by war conditions ‘the shafts of the Maho-Maryland group were delivering more = than one thousand tons.of ore daily to the mills. Tnus is exemplified the saying of quartz miners: "After firing your last round of sho's—fire another round!" alt lt hd with its deep shafts and immense subterranean chambers, the phrase, “pulling the pumps,” rings out as a dirge to blasted hopes and community misfortune. The version is that the manager in charge for the Whitney group (Fulton had resigned in discouragement several months previously) was under orders to take that drastic step. But at the proverbial last minute a new element was to (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK, — — . ————— Rights reserved by the -—_—— ———————— and