Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1898 — Death of E. C. Bassick. [ARTICLE]

Death of E. C. Bassick.

E C. Bassick, locator of tho famous Bassick silvor mine near Silver Cliff, Col., died in Denver, Colo., Friday night of heart disease. Ho was sixty-six years old. He lived at Bridgeport, Coqn., and went to Denver last week to attend tho trial of the suit of Alexander Barclay and others against the Bassick Mining Company, which was set for hearing tomorrow. Mr. Bassick was a poor man in 1877, when he locuted the Bassick mine, out of which he took $450,000, afterward selling the property for $300,000 cash and $1,000,000 stock in tho company which took possession. The mine has not been operated for nearly a dozen years on account of litigation. Mrs. Bassick is a sister of Mrs. S. J Austin, of Rensselaer, and with her daughter, has been an occasional visitor to her sister and the other relatives here.