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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1900)
Bohemia jSTug-ot Uxlva. 10,000 ROCK A BIG STRIKE IN IJOIIEid The Old Knotts' Mine a Glitlerir, 9 Mass of Golden Ore. One of the richest .strikes in the history of Hohciuia was made at the Knotts mine 011 Grouse mountain , this week. The vein is 24 feet wide and tiie ore is a glittering mass of gold. Specimens brought to "this city and turned over to Mrs. li.J. IM11 nican, the owner of the mine, are mtcrauy anvc wun tne sinning; nietnl, and various estimates made by competent judges place its value at from $10,000 to $20,000 per ton. The .strike has set the miners in Hohcmia afire with the gold fever, and the property is thronged every day with excited miners from alt parts ol the district to see the'inar velous ore. The vein has been traced by its croppiugs the entire length of the claim 1500 feet. ' Thirty-eight years ago when Joseph Knotts, the father of Mr.s. l'innican, bought the mine from old Itohcmia' Johnson, a 5-stamp mill was' erected and twG shafts ' were sunk one 75 and the 'other 60 feet. Much ore was milled with varying .Success, and many toiiH re mained upon the dump; Forsoind cause Mr. Knotts lost heart andj closed down the mine. Nothing j further was done in the matter of development, but before Mr. Knotts died he Caused a survcyofthtj, etty to be made ami hail ,t in Ins daughter s K MU-tb'jJ About ten vear-. ajjo Mr r, can imteutcd tin- property, 'a work Iihs nine- Uva done un;;. year. The devi Jupuiciit directly upon th top of mountain, ami tin- n li yr made in the ii'-w thaft at a drfa 29 feet. Mrs. Kliznbrih Pin mean, wju first white wo nan to nsit tb I trict. going in with lit-r lathtr. the "Knotts Trail" thirty ra ago. Since then the lias nevtrk faith in the mine, md this spnt; at an advanced aire Mcrificingf comforts ol a splendid Califcr. home, in company with her to baud, dmiglitcr and ym-in-Uwu m)ii, Douglas l.add. went u tin district Kiid iniiinicnced imV nieiit work. A new shaft was sunk 50 K iiiirth'we uf the old works al, a depth of 29 feet the great was made. In speaking of future plans Finnic. could say nothing a . ... 1 fit than that the staiul-stili uayswj mine were 'over and that a d would be put in not later thann year. Ahmii u.ooo tons of ore are the old dump, the assays of wti run from $ 1 0.00 to $ 15-0 " , , Old prospectors say that tbeoa, brought to this city last wp (Thursday) is far richer than a heretofore uncovered inBoheoa