The Nevada journal., 1860-06-29
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SILVER CRY, UTAH T'Y. June 18th.


argentiferous village and have taken scvera
tramps over the hills to see the numerous lodges
lodes or leads, found in this vicinity and said t
be rich. Thus I have become somewhat ac
quainted with the clay of the land" and. b,
conversing with the miners, have made som,
progress toward acquiring the lingo" of ths
country: " Indication, extension, continuation
are words pregnant with meaning, though o.
these three words " indication is the most DO.
tent Once good indications are found there
will always be plenty Of men ready to "take up
extension" and search for TIE continuation
yet there are often variations which knock
the best of calculations. | have several times
been shown and told of healthy rock" but have
never been favored with peep Mt any that was
sick. l cannot say as much of the owners OF
some OF these robust lodges There are hund-
reds and thousands of veins Of quartz, auriferous
and argentiferous, running in almost every di-
rection through the country, nearly every one
containing more or less of the precious metals.
The greater part of these leads are claimed and
named. the same lead having different names at
different points, and some names, as Buckeye "
for instance, are to be found in nearly every dis
trict This is puzzling and bewildering to a
stranger.
The village of Silver City is situated on Gold
Canon, Immediately below the DEVILS Gatv. The
main graded wagon road from Virginia City to
Carson City passes through the town, forming
the principal street, on which the business houses
are, as yet, erected. The town contains some
canvas houses, though there are several adobe
and framed Buildings, and one large and sub
stantial hotel nearly completed. Several neat
adobe houses are building and foundations for
others being excavated. The Indian troubles
have, no doubt, prevented many buildings from
going up, that otherwise would have ere this been
completed. Several families are living here and
children are to be seen playing about in the
street, as merry as the lizards on the neighbor-
ing hills. There is quartz machinery
on the way to this town, to be put up here, and
there is talk of a ditch being brought to thi
town from Bigler Lake; the survey has been
made though have not heard the report, which
is probably made out by this time. The water
is to be used for driving quartz mills and in sur
face mining.
There are number of arastras in operation
in this vicinity and more being built. 1t is diff
cult to ascertain precisely what these urastras
are making, but at the Sucker" lead they have
cleared up from four tons of rock S95.. The
nuartz in this yieipitv 10 ,,ostlr rol1 boo.;,- -,
least at and near the surface, and such being the
case, there is better chance here for miners
with a small amount of capital than in the silver
districts, for by means Of the arasra the owner
of good claim can manage to make living
and perhaps something more, until such time as
mills are erected for more speedily extracting
the gold. There is at present sufficient water
running through the town for any number of
arastras, also for rocking or toming; though, as
yet, but little has been done at working the
gravel dggings, the rage being for quartz lodges.
New lodges are being found and recorded every
day, and the miners say that more discoveries
Of really good lodes have been mado within the
past three weeks than at any time this spring
Since the Indians have been driven back and tie
disbanding Of the volunteers, prospecting has
been renewed with almost as much energy as
before, and there is scarce an Lour in the day
but miners to be seen coming in with speei-
mems of rock and as l write l can hear the
humping Of pestles in various directions as they
are pounding up rock to be tested.
l have been shown some specimens of rock
quite "lousy" with gold, taken from ledges dis
covered within the last three weeks; but of
course the whole led se not SO badly Infested
The majority of the leads discovered nov are
those which do not crop Out" or show them
selves on the surface, called "blind ledges -
these often the richest.
This village is quiet place. There has not been
fight or row of any kind since | have been
here, and butlittie drunkenness. Being situated
in basin, with high surrounding hills, there is
bnt little wind, while at Virginia City and Carson
City wind storms frequent and very disa-
greeable-sometimes destructive. The water
here is better than at Virginia. Of wood, there
is a considerable amount on the bill-sides to the
eastward Of the town though there is othing
except in the neighborbood of the Sierra Nevada
mountains, deserving the name of timber, tn
trees being mostly juniper and species of nut
pine. This pine rarely exceeds fifteen feet in
height, and the limbs branch out close to the
roots extending in a perfect hedge in every di-
rection, making it difficult matter to get near
enough to the trunk to fall it, and only to be ac-
complished by cutting a path through the pro-
jecting boughs.
In the Flowery" district. which l visited
one day last week, they have struck "pay roci,'
in the Cherokee" and was informed that il
consequence of the very fiattering "iniications,
said claim had advanced from 50, 80 to $50 per
foot.
We hear of the continuation" Of the Com
stock being struck almost every day. Some
times it is in American Flat, sometimes "out
east t" of Carson City, and again away down
toward Walker River. All these stories start
from rock being found somewhat similar in color
to the C, ,mstock ore, yet in many instances rock
with very healthy" Comstock look, stub
bornly refuses to yield single particle of sill
| yer.
The weather has been quite warm and pleasant
since the 10th, no rain or cold winds, yet the
evenings arc quite cool. small emigrant ira
came in yesterday from Salt Lake. They report
that they were stopped by Pa Utahs near Cold