Thehistory of these properties is a long^and interesting one, but will be only brief^^ly mentioned here as all old timers are. fa^miliar with It. In round number* they^have produced from 8fi.000.000 to S7,(0),iKiu^in gold. I he M^ Int^ re, the original loca^^tion, was staked Oct. U. l*M by Krank^Keeves, J amen Hnlcomb, sterling Mcintvre^and llirsm l'ayne. This was soon fol^^lowed by other locations and during IMS^^the tlfJSM were patented. Jim WhitlaU'b^staked out the Whltlatch-Cnton.Ketiruary,^1806 Whitlatch began proni^e^-tmg as^sim m as the snow disappeared^and diacovered an exceedingly rich^cropping of ore. Kurther developmeriin^showed the M^ lntyre and I nlon to be one^and the same lode. After further develop^no nt. the mines increasing In richness, the^National company pnrchased a claim on^the Mclntyre tor 9.'t5.000 and subsequently^uaid .Urn Whitlatch 5100,000 for his claim,^No. 2. Several other eastern companies^hearing of the richness of the district,^bought in and in a abort time five, quart/^mills were erected, having in all ninety^tour stamps. In one year's time on claim^.No. 2, Hl'JUi ton* of ore, averaging S.'il per^ton. or 81,i^^l,5^io was produced, and thia in^a 20 stamp null. Much of the ore, and In^fact the majority of it, ran as high as $71^per ton.
Asintimated above the mine was located^on two veins; the Mclutyre is attove the^Union and ia the banging wall of the vein,^white the I'nion la the toot wall. Several^veins winch crop out on the aurface all^come together at depth. There are two^kinds of ore In the property, 'the one^known a* the I nlon is crystalled and tin^Mclnty re ore is brown iron. J loth of thfst^(Top out on the surface and at different^times, since extensive operation* closed,^quantities of this have been tnilhd. The^xe'ii in s on an incline of from twvnty rlv^to forty degrees.
