The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1897, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1897. 29 STORY OF THE GROWTH OF PROSPEROUS AMADOR COUNTY ¥ The Bank of Amador County, a new j vellow metal. Who can say but that institution started last spring, is in among the great deposits along the a flourishing condition. V. W. Gas- | Mother Lode still greater and richer kill, the presiden*®, was the father ofl | bodies of ore lie awaiting the miner's the enterprise and succeeded in inter- | pick and advanced processes of segre= esting with him several of the promi- | gating the vast quantities of bullion nent business men in and out of the | from the rock? county. F. C. Siebe of the firm of VERNE L. JOSLYN. Siebe Bros. & Plageman, San Francis- | =~ Jackson, Dec. 24, 1897. co, is vice-president; Frederick En- | dey, secretary and cashier, and S. G. | SAN QUENTIN’S GRAVE-DIGGER. ALES of life in the early Cali- fornia mining camps are s ways interesting, and perhaps in this description of Jackson, Amador County, it will not be amiss to tell of how Jackson became the seat of government. When California was organized, what is now Amador County was a part of Calaveras, and described in a tive act of 1851 as * Spagnoli, Henry Endey, V. G. Gaskill | of Jackson and Martin Madison and F. | C. Siebe of San Francisco are the di- | rectors. Its capital stock is $50,000, and as the stock-holders’ assets reach For one convicted murderer at least rter of pop- in the aggregate of $10,000,000 ample the San Quentin authorities have found where the 3 work, and Dennis McCarthy has been and was Besides the mining interests numer- ! set to digging up graves in the prison cemetery, overlooking the bay. The task assigned the murderer has been executed without complaint, and the | man whose life has repeatedly been in | jeopardy, and whom Governor Budd | has saved from a miserable death upon | the gallows more than once, has been la, on ac- security is furnished depositors. 1& | r of bottles to ous eorchards, vineyards and fertile ranches surrounding Jackson furnish | a great source of support to the town. The vast mining interests of the famous Mother Lode near the most prosperous mines of which the town } is locdted, give to it that solid founda- boast of but one ed the hotel, a des the county ed in the glory of portant place in the ne morning an enemy st from its grasp the de it important. Charles -0 Mudge, dents of story goes, smilingly court house,” invited “take a drink,” with an air uled innocence which cap- entire population which d” to be present. While -one visitors filled and refilled the of the thirst wd, the other nty archives, arrived to v r the improved meth. ious metals ught a great population, a Mother Lode. It is in the development stage, the shaft being down over 500 feet, with a drift running from that point to intersect the ore body be- lieved to be located to the east. The Good Hope, which is still nearer Jackson, adjoining the Anita’s patent on the east, has a 10-stamp mill and a funds is not being worked. Just west of the busy camp is situ- ated the Alma mine, a promising plying an occupation that to him is full | of horrible suggestions. Frequently has the grave yawned for McCarthy, but every time he has managed by influence and clever sham- ming to avert death, and now he lives to be digging the resting-places of others. It all came about in a strange man- ner, and it is also a noteworthy fact | that MecCarthy is the only man out of good hoist, but on account of lack of | the dozen condemned murderers in San Quentin Penitentiary who is not con- fined in Murderers’ Row. For some | time he has been in the prison hospital e days murderers were prompt- uted according to a then popular 1y always tak- nging tree” the tales d, and a fac- property for the owners and one in | Under the surveillance of nurses and which many bright hopes are expected | 40ctors to determine whether he was to be realized. The incline shaft has | Shamming insanity in an effort to de- now reached the 1000 foot mark and | feat the gallows. is still sinking. _Some time ago Coroner Eden of Ma- The Jackson Gate mine is due east | Fil (ou_my received word to exhume from the Kennedy property and de- | the bodies of a large number of China- ; 2 | men who had died in San Quentin "eloprgenl work is being continuously | pc - a}]a were buried in theQnrison pushed. s E 3 . | cemetery, and to prepare the bones for The Bellwether mine, owned by Chi- | spipment to their native country, cago capitalists, is one of the promising | Deputy Coroner Stephen Eden has properties, being situated on the same | had the work in hand, and Dennis Me- vein as the famous Kennedy mine, | Carthy has been assisting the Deputy south of the Jackson Gate mine. An |Coroner. This work carries him out- | excellent hoisting works has been |side the prison walls, but McCarthy is . lthe shaft several hundred feet deeper | erected, and, on account of the near- | constantly under the eye of a guard, The Kennedy mine located just|and in a short time the Amelia can be | ness of the Amador canal, from which | and has no opportunity to escape. This north of the townsite is one of the old- | recorded with the best of its neigh- | power is obtained at low rates, pros- | is probably the first time in the history res, while the electric | est in the State, the main shaft having | bors. pects of the brightest kind are in store | of the penitentiary that a murderer plant of the Blue d a depth of over 2300 feet. It| The Zeile guards.the southern en- | for the owners, of which John W. Hep- | under sentence of death has been as- located upon years been a paying in- | trance to the town and guards it well | burn, ex-City Assessor of Chicago, is | Sisned to work outside of the forbid- s owners, having pro- | with her 40-stamp mill, chlorination | the principal stock-holder and chief | 4ing stone walls of the prison. cer $7,000,000 since its location | works and hoisting apparatus. The | official. | yMcCarthy murdered a man near There are two shafts, about | company furnishes employment for | Last, but not least, is the Union Con- | Marysville, and was tried, convicted 600 feet apart, a 40-stamp mill and | about 150 men, and pays good divid- | solidated gold mine, about five miles | 2nd sentenced to death. He has chlorination works, besides a sawmill | ends to the owners. About 1500 feet | east of the county seat, which has | SNOWed signs of insanity since his in- The water supply | and other necessary works for hand- |is the present depth of the incline | been a good paying property, but is Coiel i ‘a“,:;‘?f‘“'ra"d g°‘: e sinrough the |ling the immense product of the mine. | shaft with rifts run at every 100 feet. | now closed down for reasons which the | Sr0F Budd sent the Qoo Blue Lakes of Argonaut Mining Company, | The ore is low grade, but it is a ¢ best know. There are four |in. cCarthy and report whether he ut mine, which | tinuous ore body fully thirty feet wide, on the property called the | yqag sane or not. The doctors exam- south, have | of unkrown extent. ' “Paugh,” “Gauge” and “Old | jned the man and could form noopinion, ers on the | The Amador Queen No. 1, less than | Man’s,” which afford large bodies of 3 the majority believing him to be only bably the best | a mile east of the residence portion of | ore for future development. A 30- | shamming. However, Governor Budd herever , S0 that th e tree which played so promi a part in the early tration take udg t was remove nee for the care | m Gas Works Creek Elect town with both seat for the inity, | the city, is owned by a London, Eng., | stamp mill, chlorination works, assay | reprieved the murderer a number of ¢ a 40-stamp mill | company, and the Amador gold mine | office and various other byildings are | times, and now McCarthy, instead of nodern appliances for | as well as the Amador Queen No. 2, | located upon the property. | occupying a grave, is digging them in . 18 which is said to be | now in litigation owned by the same That Jackson's future will be a |the cemetery. Rust, the proprietor. The Re- The main shaft has company, are all splendid properties. grand one and her standing among | e e a journal devoted to the nth of about 1700 feet and | A 60-stamp mill being located between | the mining camps of the world be in | Japanese auctions are silent. Each n cc h »d to sink still deeper. | the shafts treats the ore of the first | the foremost rank, will be readily seen | bidder writes his name and bid upen a located 5 prospect situated just | named, which is being worked with | when the reader considers the fact | siip of paper, which he places in a box. southeast of the Argonaut, is being | good results. that in addition to the rich properties | The box is opened by the auctioneer, vigorously worked. A hoisting plant | The Anita sits upon the hill west of | above enumerated on all sides the hills and the goods declared the property of tion upon which its business men base | has been erected capable of sinking 'the town on the west vein of the | are being prospected for the precious | the highest bidder. SEE OTHER SIDE. SEE OTHER SIDE cackles the most that™ lays the stroll throvgh life om o - ca- - sion you find €one wo - man all talk and for fin'ry in - clinea will = B :}: E—s— ,=:_1 J“‘j‘ S e S oo e e e facls. that Imprass ~themsdives ~deep on your mind The Sau - ci-est hen in the not make the' best wife young man couid find, anda man who is bragging. o e — - s T = e N IE TWORE Ty 1 ; 3 — : farm yarg; > Tho' she makes the most noise, Not the best hen s “she. She ax -myn éanmdo,m when he comes to per - form finds his talents are few. So = COPYRICHNTED BY MAX HIRSCHFELD,DEC