Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1916 — Page 2

CHASING THE GLD GOLD DUG ISTHI —— Makes a Fellow Forget Everything Else—How Oatinan Camp Went Crazy. OVER A NEW LEDGE Paulding and Van Wert Crowd Gets in on One of Good Strikes There. C. S. Peterson) Oatman. Arlz., Dec. 29, 1915. Dear Johnny Suppose you were located in a mining camp about twelve hundred miles from home and you were expecting to go home to spend Christmas with your wife and kid and it took two days and two nights to get there, and just as you were about to leave on the trip, some bird came into the camp with a wild story about some miner hitting a ledge of high grade, and every mother’s son rode and walked and run over to the mine to find out about it, and found that It was true, and that then the camp went wild and cheered half of one night, would you go home? Os course, that is some question, but I believe that you would do the same as 1 did I was all ready to hit the high places on my trip to Denver, when the Big Jim, about a mile out from camp, shot nito a ledge on their 400-foot level and set the camp crazy. This is what we have been looking fqr, Johnny, and the thing looked too good to leave, so I have postponed my visit home until about the middle of next month. You know. Oatman is supposed to be a camp of deep mining, and as General John Ward says, "You must go down 400 feet without looking at your hole card.” Os course, this is not true in all cases, but in a good many. Now the Big Jim mine has been down 400 feet for sometime and has been drifting and cross-cutting for days looking for the main ledge, and the camp has been waiting breathlessly for them to find it. It s a whale of a mine and the camp is now surely and truly made. And. by the way, speaking of the general. Jack says to tell the boys that the next time he sees them in .Indianapolis, and particularly in the Denison hotel, that he will be able to get out on a limb with a four-flush and not care whether the limb is sawed* off under him or not. Ward is still opening up his big mine here and it's getting better looking all the time. And now, Johnny, as I’ve got to stay here a "while longer before my visit home, I might just as well give you a little more of the camp news. Strikes are getting so common with us now that it takes a big one to enthuse us, but a rather Curious one came up the other day that you might be interested in You’ve perhaps heard time and time again of big strikes being made by the bhrro of some prospector kicking onto a ledge of ore in an effort to dislodge a rattlesnake or some other reptile, and of the luck of “Death Valley Scotty” or some other miner. Well, all hail to Henry Ford and his mechanical burro! While going over the summit of the mountains here last Friday, on his way to Secret Pass, an old prospector, who had taken a Ford and trimming it down to fighting weight, has made a regular burro out of it, slid over a small precipice and on the way down the Ford kicked off a chunk of rock that assayed around SSO per ton The Ford alighted right side up in an arroya about fifty feet down and so far as I t have ascertained wasn’t even injured The prospector didn’t fare so well, however, as he sprained a foot pretty badly, but he should worry, as the j-jjge ho uncovered will make him a mine They brought him back into town on a stretcher but he is the most jubilant injured man I ever saw. Every" time I take a look around Oatman, Johnny, I find a new addition to the camp that 1 had not seen before Took a stroll trp Rattlesnake Gulch yesterday and found about 300 pepele camped in tents and ont on the ground They have come in in the last few weeks and had gotten tucked away in a place where you couldn’t find them without going over or getting on a certain elevation outside the camp The town seems to grow right under your eyes and every morning when we get up there is a new building about completed somewhere Had a fire Sunday, and for a few minutes the whole camp was scared silly. Os course, as you were rtever in a mining camp when it was on fire you can’t realize what it means. Oatman is practically built of wood and doth. Every new building that goes up is mostly frame and is built right up agains the other. If a fire gets a start the whole town will go up and there will be absolutely no way of

■saving it. And It has been my expert snce that every mining camp has been burned out sooner or later. This new camp has no fire department and not much water supply, so it we ever get going, it’s good night! The old signal In Goldfield used to be five shots from a revolver In rapid succession and then a repetition of thl same. And so Sunday when five shots rang out every Goldfield man in camp, and they are numerous, yelled fire, and started a search. Just at the head of the gulch that leads toward the main range, a small tent-house had become Ignited from a coal oil stove and was in flames in an instant. The next tent house to it was about to break out in flames when four stout men put their shoulders to the blazing structure and pushed it over into a ravine and thus stopped all chance of its spread. I’ll tell you, Johnny, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when the house hit the bottom and the other houses were saved. The poor bird who lost his home lost twenty dollars with it and :.’.l kit bedding and everything he had except a week's growth of whiskers, but thnt was soon made up by a money contribution from an over-generous mining camp crowd. The Murdock and Porter group cf claims were financed this week by bankers in Paulding and Van Wert, Ohio. They to put up a total of $175,000 in six months to operate the property, and tt is one of the best prospects in the* Oatman district, they are in for something good. It’s great the way investors are taking hold here, but there are lots of good properties that are yet to be financed and this camp will be the making of many millionaires. Very sincerely yours, C. S. PETERSON. CITY SNOWTIOW (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE! M. J. Mylott’s pay roll 187.50 Waterworks pay roll 17.55 John W. Coffee 72.80 D. F. Teeple 6.11 National Mill & Suplly C 0.... 24.23 Jesse Hurst 18.00 City Firemen 62.50 Buhler & Co 6.22 Isaac Chronister 32.50 Street Commissioner’s pay roll 24.00 Citizen's Telephone Co 6.00 Police pay roll 110.00 Wels-Fargo Express Co. ...... 1-49 o FARMS FOR SALE. 80 acres, 3 miles of town, good level soil, well tiled. 9 room modern house, Dew bam, 36x66, acetylene lights in house and bam, corn crib, garage, oatg made this year 84 bu„ wheat 41, corn 65 bu. to the acre. Price if taken soon, $11,500.00 80 acres, 3% miles of town, good level soil, well drained, 8 room house, barn 36x70, acetylene light in house and barn. Price, $10,500. 80 acres. 1% miles of town. German church and school, good soil, 8 acres timber, well fenced, two houses, one 6 room with cellar, and one two room, good hip roof barn, 40x60, corn crib and shed, 24x30; $3,000 down, balance long time. Price, $10,000.00. 20 acres, extra good soil, 7 room house, good barn, plenty of fruit, close to school and church, 4 miles of market; $2,000 down; balance long time. Price, $4,000. 40 acres, good leved soil, well ditched and fenced, 6 room house, small barn, good drove well, will take city property as part pay. Price, $6,500. The above farms are Dargains and must be sold soon.. I have a large list of farms for sale. Office over People’s Loan & Trust Co. bank. D. F. LEONARD. o

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of March; 20 head of shoats, weighing from 40 to 50 lbs. each. Farming Implements, consisting of bob sled, hog rack, set of dump hoards, fanning mill, good as new; platform scales, good as new; spring tooth harrow, l-horse cultivator, 2 Jumper plows, double shovel plow, 2-sled corn cutter, extension ladder, hay knife, hay fork, 2 post augers, clover buncher, harness, set of buggy wheels, other articles too numerous to mention; 100 shocks of corn. Terms of Sale: —$5.00 and under, cash; over $5.00 a credit of 9 months will be given, purchaser giving a bankable note with approved security; 4 per cent off for cash. No goods removed until settled for. MRS. EMILE L. EGLY. J. J. Baumgartner, Auct. W. A. Lower, Clerk. Lunch on grounds. 302t8 ——> ——■ -— MASONIC CALENDAR FOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 8. Thursday, January 6. F. & A. M.. No. 571. M. M. degree. Two candidates. All meetings- to be promptly at 7:00 p. m. DAVID E SMITH, W. M. Friday Evening, 7:15 O’clock. ; The Eastern Star will meet Friday evening at 7:15, prompt. Two candl- ■ dates will receive the work; also the , officers will be installed for the ensuing year. All members please take, notice. O T ANNOUNCEMENT. Ed L. Kintz of Decatur authorizes us to announce his irtime as a candidate for auditor of Adams county, i subject to the decision of tile primary : election to be held on March 7, , 1916. - 310t6 V

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PLENTY OF MONEY. To loan on farms, 10 years’ time. without renewal, no commission, partial payments any timo. 297tf ’ ERWIN OFFICE. — — NOTICE. Get your harness ready for spring work. We save you money on repairing and oiling. SlOtf. A. W. TAXV.' MANGOLD & BAKER Corner Monroe and 7th Sts. PHONE 215. Snider's New Process Tomato Soup, 10c; 3 for 230 Beech Nut Brand Pet and Beans 10c; 3 for 250 Bare Foot Boy Sugar Corn, 10c' 3 for f Hurrah Fancy Peas, 10c: 3 for -25 c Perfect Red Kindney Beans, 10c. 3 for 2Ec Hominy, 10c; 3 for Catsup, ail brands, 10c; 3 for . .. Ripe O'ives, 10c; 3 for Ail Brands Evaporated Milk, 10c, 3 for 25c; 5c cans, 6 for Salmon, 10c; 3 for Tuna Fish 15c and 20c Special! 30c Golden Sun Coffee at 25t Kiln Dried Sweet Potatoes, tb. 00 Bananas, Lettuce, Oranges and Oysters. We pay Casli for Produce. Eggs, 30c; Butter, 20 to 27c. five Us That Order. Mangold l Baker

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