Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-06
HI EVENING NEWS.
wednesday Evenius,--.-Nov. 9, 1857.
Tux DgsERr MlyEs.-Many of our

reauers Will no uouot remember quite u
mining excitement which prevailed for
several months, caused by the discov-
cry of gold and silver-bearing lodes or
lodges of quartz, in the vicinity Of the
sink of Humboldt river. Being on n
visit, last week, to that neighborhood,
We took occasion to 60 and see the
mines, and to examine several Of the
lodges. The District where these mines
are, is known by the name Of Desert
District, sixty-fve miles from Virginia
city, due east, and six miles from what
is known as the last crossing Of Hum
boldt Slough, seven miles below the
lake. THE stakes Of the Pacific Rail-
road are set within six or seven miles
Of these mines.) In 1864, the miners
organized the District, which is in
Churchill county, by passing n series Of
local laws, and establishing local re-
cords of locations. \ District Recorder
made in the book containing the laws,
and which is now in charge of Mr..
James Say, Deputy Recorder, who, with
his family, is residing near the claims.
A large number of locations were made
in '64-many of them on "blind," or
supposed, ledgeS-that is to say, Tom,
Dick aud Harry, each claimed two hun
dred feet on q ridge, q bench, or a fiat,
which had no more the appearance Of
containing a ledge than the palms of
their hands-but as il was in the
vicinity of where u ledge cropped out,
and was already claimed by Jones,
Brown aud Smith, it was suspected
that something might turn up"
and the Beauregard, or the jeff.
Davis, or the General Grant claim
might be of value, and the record was
duly made, paid for, and in some in
stances, u few days work was done by
punching the aforesaid claims into the
ribs by ~excavating u hole in the ground
to the depth of five or six feet, just deep
enough to show that somebody claimed
the aforesaid premises. The local laws
allowed each locator two hundred feet
in each company formed, regardless Of
his personal presenceVand hence, a
large number Of OF persons are
found on the records who never saw the
District, and who perhaps are nawar
to this day that they were ever placed
on the record as the yeritable owners of
wildcat in Desert District. The local
laws, however, also required work to be
done on the claims TO the amount of
fifty dollars for each locator's claim
which work was to be done annually,
and on failure, the claims were and are
now subject to relocation. The law has
been complied with in a few cases-for
instance, in the Orc Fino, the Gem, the
yeni vidi Wei, the Almaden, the Great
Eastern, n portion of the Badger series,
and in a few others-but the great ma
jority of the locations have been forfeit
ed long ago-the claimants doubtless
considering them, as many Of them real
" are, nothing but wildcat. The mines
are no. considered extensive by those
who have sufficiently ~prospected the
District, but there are a few good ones
among them, and the persons who own
them have taken good care to comply
with the requirements of the local laws.
The locality Of the good mines is on a
bluff which overhangs the plain at 4
height of perhaps a hundred or n
hundred and fifty feet, which is not
less than three-quarters OF q mile
long /; also on q bench Immediately
east Of the bluE, and near the plain.
Mr.. James Say and his excellent wife
keep a clearinghouse at the mines,
and q right good place it is to stop
at in that desolate and barren re-
gion-exccpt for mining purposes. The
ountry about Desert District has not n
tree or a bush Except the inevitable
sage) in all the country around as far
as the eye can reach but is billy,
mountainous, and rolling, except q
plain Immediately in front of the mines,
which is three miles wide by seven long,
and beyond which are spread out alkal
flats and the sinks of the Humboldt and
Carson. which extend for twenty miles
10 the Eastward. Mr.. Say has laid out
Il small town, at his hotel, which may
be built up in q few years by quite
little mining population, so soon as the
Pacific Railroad is built, which ap-
proaches the place TO within six or seven
miles. We have understood that 1t Is
the intention Of some of the mine own
ers TO ship the best ores Of their mines
on the railroad up the Truckee to mill
sites, where they can be probably re-
duced. We predict that Desert mining
District and Saysyillc will loom up
very prominently in the course Of a few
years.
PIONEER BooHsroRE.-Will. Burial,
corner Union and C streets, Virginia
city, received BY this mornings express
a large supply and a full and choice Sc
lection Of all kinds of late Eastern pub
LEGATIONS, u large budget Of which he
has sent US. Among them we find Har-
per's Monthly for November; The Amer
lean Miscellany, a magazine of complete
stories; The Novelette,, No. l35; Glea-
sons Pictorial Literary Companion; The
Boston Pilot; Frank Leslie's illustrated
Newspapers, to October 10; The New
York Ledger, 10 October 10; The Ban
ner of Light ; The New York Herald Of
October II; New York Times Of October
II; The Irish People Of October IL; The
New York Tribune, October .; and For
ney's Press of October l6, and 4 large
lot Of other papers. Burial sells rs
cheap as the cheapest.
LATE EASTERN PAPERs.-Fred. Boegie,
of the Virginia City Postofice News
depot, this morning received q large lot
of the latest Eastern publications, in
Guiding the Magazines, Pictorials, Po-
lice Gazettes, Sporting Times, Chimney
Corner, etc., etc. Boegle sells his
wares and merchandise as cheap AS any
body-and he deals them out very pLen-
tifuily each steamer arrival. Don
George, his right hand man, is as lively
as a cricket, and circulates extensively
around Virginia, every time Fred gets
his supplies.
THE VIRGINIA MINERS BALL. We
never attended u more excellent dancing
seasop than that afforded last night at
the Virginia Miners Ball. The atteu-
dance was large, and yet the manage
ment was so good that there was no
unpleasant crowding or improper appro-
priation of dancing room. The compa-
nv assembled seemed to be very much