Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-09
"JERoME,n

Who would ever think of applying the
name Of Jerome to g silver mines But
it has been done. A person named Liam
son." (whose name ought to be changed
TO "Sam, son of Wildcats" y the same
who last spring operated extensively in
Gold Hill South, Empire No. 9, and Plato
Shaft, in the cities Of Boston and New
York. representing them as fa6uIouLsy rich
silver mines in Gold Hill, and upon which
he obtained large piles of greenbacks-it
devolved upon Lamson to name some
outcropprngs of some kind of rock with
the cabalistic title of "Jerome'-the loca-
ton being casually made several years ago
in the neighborhood of Peters Station on
the old emigrant road from Van Sickles'
to Lake Valley. AS not a picayune has
ever been taken out Of any mine in that
barren region, the presumption Is that 1t
is a wildcat Of the stumpiest kind OF a
tail-and but little more than the tail.
However, a record was made of the "Je-
rome" in the archives of Douglas county,
which said record was the initial point Of
a grand scheme to swindle somebody in
the East. Three mills not long ago arriv-
ed at San Francisco, direct from New
York for jerome NJ. s. NJ. Co.'S l, 2 and
g." shipped by Lamson, and the machin-
cry is now lying at Single Springs rail-
road depot. Machinery without paying
quartz does not amount to much, and
Lamson, according to latest accounts,
has been in a quandary to find the Jerome
mine. We have taken some little interest
in Lamson's transactions regarding has
Gold Hill mines, and we must admit that
we have got "our foot il" a little deeper
than we expected. We have been deviled
almost to death by the opportunities for
information concerning his operations, all
coming from Boston and New York, and
by agents sent out here to get back what
he obtained from people whom he gulled
in the East by representations Of the
immense wealth of his mn in Gold
Hill. We doubt whether any man
Of sense, knowing all the circum-
stances, would give Lamson ten cents for
all his mining interests in Gold Hill South
or Empire No. 2. The o~utcroppings Of
the Jerome, near Peters Station, are
doubtless a horse or a cat Of q similar
color. From good authority, Il few days
age we were advised that by the exposure
in our editorial columns several months
age of this L.amson's wildcat operations in
the East, we saved a gentleman in New
York the snug sum of one hundred and
Fifty thousand dollars. Lamson was over
here, that is, he was in Virginia City,
some ten days ago, Che did not stop to see
his old benefactors and acquaintance in
Gold Hill.0 but he concluded, so we are
informed, mot TO develop his mines in
Gold Hill at present :" and he is now in
San Francisco, the agents Of the parties
who furnished the mills being DESTROYS OF
seeing him. Judging from the handsome
ly executed maps we have seen which Mr..
Lamsou exhibited to the folks in the East
who had " silver on the BRAIN" it is quite
evident that the Comstock Ledge consists
of countless lodges which extend from
Virginia and Gold Hill in continual series
to Carson city, to Genoa, and "round the
corner" some eight miles to Peters Station
and the jerome ledge" Lamson has
opened up oil Washoe tremendously, al
though he has never struck a pick in the
ground but he has done it on maps-yes,
sir, on maps! and to see his maps would
make all Washoe stare.