| Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from microfilm
of the Calhoun Chronicle dated 5/17/1910.
A Silver Mine In Old Calhoun
Calhoun Co. comes to the front this week with a silver mine story.Â
A farmer up there found a chunk of silver weighing twenty pounds, and he
believes he has a better thing than the Wig Bickel and Otto Lehman gasoline
factory.
According to the story E.R. Fluharty, of near Lough, recently sold an
option on his farm to a New York mining promotion concern for silver or
other precious metals.
The concern paid down $500 to bind the contract,
and in the contract it was provided that the farm should be tested and
should any metal or quartz be found in paying quantities, Mr. Fluharty
is to receive $7500 more, or $8000 in all, for any precious metal that
is found.
The option is for six months only and it is provided that
the farm is to be tested within that time, otherwise the mineral right
will revert to Mr. Fluharty.
About fifteen years ago Mr. Fluharty discovered on his farm a piece
of white ore hard as marble, yet from all appearances seemed a silver nugget.
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The ore was about the size of the crown of a hat but weighed in the neighborhood
of fifty pounds. He believed it to be silver, and told several friends
about it, and since that time has received propositions from many companies
for lease or option on the farm.
Each company making the proposition
wanted a lease or option for test free and pay a royalty on all minerals
taken out.
He has refused to these propositions, and about two weeks
ago Harry S. Jenkins, of New York, mining promoter, and head of a mining
concern, visited the farm examined the ore and took a six months lease,
paying down $500 for the privilege of making the test.
Mr. Fluharty has never secured any assay of the ore, but has succeeded
in smelting several specimens, at different times. He believes it
to be rich in silver and certainly contains some metal of more than ordinary
value. - Parkersburg Sentinel
NOTE: The Calhoun silver discovery story faded into oblivion, likely a frivolous scheme. | 
