Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-04
LITTER FROM HUMBOLDT COUNTY
M. q.
KNOXVILLE, HUMBOLDT Co., !
November LIST, 1867.
TINES.

November lst, 1901.
PROSPECTING TINES.
EpiroR NKws:-It seems o good deal
like old times when " feet" and pros
pectiug" were all the "go," to see the
coming in and going out Of prospecting
parties almost daily, and to hear the eI-
pressious of struck it," chloride"
Thousand dollars q ton," and all the
once familiar ~by-words Of "ye happy
miner" If one-half the stories | hear
about the prospects on the eastern bor-
der Of this county are true, it must be
all that has ever been claimed for the
county-the mineral center Of Nevada.
"ToNPs."
I saw in town a few days ago our old
time friend and fellow pitcher, NJ. S.
Thompson, just from Battle Mountain,
where he had found n I" good thing in
the shape of a lode only twenty feet
wide, and rich in silver all the way
across.
%GoLCoSDA.
From Golconda we get the most fat
tering accounts. Five or six companies
are at work on what is known rs the
Cumberland Belt" and all have the
lodo, from FIVE to fifty feet wide.
In this district J. G. Fall is taking out
orc from two claims, both on the same
lode. I visited the mine a few days ago,
and was highly pleased with its looks.
The lode is three feet wide, and works
eighty dollars per ton in o rather poor,
old rattle-trap Of a mill. A new bat
terry is to be placed in the mill this Fall,
and other improvements made. "Slow
and sure" is his (Fall's) motto. / pre-
dict that he will have a good mine and
mill by next May-all paid for, and
! without levying o single dollar assess
ment. Pity there wal not q few more
such men in this State. We have been
cursed with the "big head" more than
any other people on the face Of the earth.
WHATS UP NOW WITH DE SOTO?
Your readers have all heard of the
De Soto mine, in Star District. Perhaps
some of them felt for it, felt down in
| their pockets for a few twenties, and
felt they had been swindled. Track
| layer Robertson vas at one time Super
intendent of it. He knew about as much
about working q mine as Horace Gree
ley does about consistency. 1t had lain
idle for nearly two years, but was again
started up about four months ago, under
the charge Of a Mr.. Hendry, an expert
enced miner, who, with q force of only
four men, soon developed q lode ten feet
| wide and full of rich ore. Mr.. Hendry
asked the San Francisco Board of Trus-
tees to allow him to increase the force
to twenty men, at the same time saying
that he could probably employ forty
hands in taking out ore. This was the
answer he got: "Discharge the men,
close the mine, and allow no person to
60 in under any pretense whatever" l
arrived at the mine the snme day that
the order did, and though l did not get
in, / obtained information from perfectly
"reliable sources" What's up? Gen.
tlemen, why don't you so ahead? Is
there some poor devil of n miner, who
has never lost his faith in the mine, to
be "froze out"2 Are you not satisfied
with three years of either m~ismanage-
ment or neutrality-suspicious. both7 Were
I O stakeholder in that mine ! would
try and find out the cause of this sudden
stop. San Francisco shsrps won't get
any more mines in Humboldt, unless
they buy the "whole thing" and then
they can hog each other as much as they
please.
PoLlTicAL.
The late California election has had n
remarkable clearing influence on the
political atmosphere Of Humboldt. II
was supposed by the outsiders that the
visit Of Gen. 8. had fixed things in the
Union party for the benefit Of GALORE
| alton William" and that there would
be no trouble in leading the rank and
file up to the doctrines Of tho new Cos
pei. The "great army Of progress"
| shat was to start in California or the
9Th Of September aud march with ma
jestic tread over the country, bearing
on the crest of its mighty wave a crew
Of old Gwiu Democrats, who had mount
ed the "universal" horse just because
they thought it was going to Tin, met
with an accident: didn't progress"
There might have been some negro suf-
frage men here, waiting to fall into its
ranks when Il reached Nevada, but they
can't be found now. hope that Sweet
William has been entertained by the
letters he has received from %hers.away.
| know that some of them contained
some political doctrines, though the
final conclusions could not have been
very tasteful to him. Though he has
sound friends among a certain clique in
this county, all concede that he is a
"dead duck"
When, oh, when did Jack Simmon.
become converted TO the New Gospel
Does Jack remember that he once lived
In Humboldt Does he remember who
Il vas at the FIRST meeting Of Union men
4. ~. aann4r that advocated tho for.