The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-12-16
HOPE VALLEY.
The Late StOrm-MintnS on the
Summit-TVvO Men Caught IN
storm-Desperate >truS-
gle for Life.

Nbllf oIu 1 hl'ICA 'N'
of Empire City, who is spending the
Winter in Hope Valley on the summit
of the Sierra Nevada mountains SENDS
rs some interesting TENS from that
elevated and frigid region. The late
heavy storm commenced there on the
9th of November. and ragged with un-
abated fury for five days. The WING
blew a perfect hurricane the whole
time and the snow fell to an average
depth Ui thirtr->iX inches, being drilt,
ed hv the wind until 1t WAS plIeu
mountain high. For the past Two
weeks the weather has beer cleaf anu
fine, but nights are very coIu.
COPPER sILVER AND GOLD.
Mr.. Barnes is making fine progress
with HI, mine, situate II mile ana a
half southeast of the trappers' camp.
The ledge j. known as the old blIlE
Roger, copper Nine. -Four years
Mr.. Barnes bought the mine ana SUNK
i shaft on ii 40 feet deep, hilulh5 ma
tha character OF the ore rapldIS
nhangaI from cupriferous TO arEentI-
farou, and aurIIerou>. >eNerdI louS
of the ore has been worked at dllier-
ont mills. and the smallest yield Oh
t.ir...] MA, 81 - the ton. 1ht VEN
j. Of immense size. a DRIFT having
been run thirty feet into 1t without
reaching the opposite wall, thus eA-
posing a vast body OF good paying ore
there being but little waste rock Ill inc
vein. Work has now been cotIilieuceu
Systematically and ia real earnest a
LouSe has been built over the SIltIt'
AN IS-hor>e power engine Is no" pe'ne
nut i'm position for hoI>tluG,anu oN 'Ht
first of January everything VIII be IL
readiness for hoisting ore III i"r5t
Quantities. Mr. Barnes Will put up. :
IO-stamp mill near the mine early IL
the Spring:
OUT IN II STORM
ON the sd of November, JONI
Uasler of Volcano, owner OF the Anna
dor Toll Road across Ia mountains
and Pat. Walsh Of suffer Creek
started troin Volcano, Anadorcount
~ cross he Sierra to Hope Valley
They had with them two saddle morse
and 4 pack horse. They reache'
silver Lake on the night OF the III
when il commenced showing an
blowing furlou>ly. Next tnorillil
saturday, 18th, the snow was SIX q
eight inches deep, and, was st!ll iailIil
RAPIDLY. There we're, up TO TINS pom
two other men with them, uut mes
concluded they had enough snow an
lurned back. but IIasler and Was
determined to come through. Inc
sent heir saddle horses back, ah'
driving their pack horse, staLte'i :
foot, calculating to reach HOPE NaL.e
~ miles distaut) that night. bu
~. l-,tl. al SnnAl ana IL
tury of the storm, they failed 10 COZ
nect. All dav they struggled with II
clements, and at 8 o'clock thai mig
reached the abandoned house OF II
Gables at summit Lakes, Il distance
seven miles from the place OF sLartlh
The snow was then full two feet dee
and the men n horse were 'ieai
exhausted. The door being open, u
house was half full OF snow; Inc
was no wood, and they had nothing
cut wood with, and, worse thah d
they had taken but II day Prov
ions with them, and now, coid' W
and exhausted, they had nothing 10 ca
In putting the horse III the barn tii'
discovered an Old scythe. VIM I'll
they cut some dry limbs OFT the ire
and managed to start IA hre, ana lyli
down wet and hungry, dreamed OF q
bright sunshine of the morrow. b
when the morning broke they ioui
it showing harder than eNer ana I
wind blowing 50 furiOusly that a nj
could not stand before it. Nothing
eat. no snow shoes, nothing to ma
them with, and il they had 1t We
inpossible to travel III such a storl
They stood it that day the best tn
could, hut the storm ragged on. III
evening Hasler proposed to XII l
pack horse and eat him, but Wa
said he would starve first. SO tn
went to sleep hungry the seco
night. Next morning the snow "
three feet deep on Il level, still fallil
and the wind was blowing a pert
gale. Walsh, seeing this, conclud
he could go" pack horse steak. Ih
repaired to the barn, slaughtered
horse and dressed the carcass i'll
style most approved among hutche
Tnev had broiled pack horse ste;
straight, for breakfast; no bread,
salt, no p~epper-and that was not
Youngest horse il Amador coun
either. Moreover he WAS "a buck
horse, and was hard to keep dow
But they worried with him TOR
days and got him so he would sticl
in their stomachs. From Eric