Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-02
THE NEW GOLD FIELDS.
Locality and Extent of the Cold
bearing Territory.

bearing Territory.
In yesterdays SENTINEL there ap.
peared a special from Hamilton, Civ.
ing an account of the reported discov-
cry OF rich placers in Eastern White
Pine, the base of jeff. Davis Peak.
In conversation with an old prospect
or yesterday, we gathered some facts
which may not be undressing { o the
general reader. Jeff. Davis Peak is
situated in The Snake range, about ITO
miles east and south of Hamilton; that
Is to say, that a line running due east
from Hamilton would leave the Feak
some Is or 20 miles to the southwark.
jeff. Davis Peak is the highest point
in Nevada, being, if our memory
serves us, l 1000 feet above the level of
the sea. II was christened in 1868; and
connected with that christening there
is a bit OF history. AS the story runs,
two prospectors, n an ex-Union SOL
der, the other IN ex-Confederate, dis
covered a number OF quartz lodges on
the eastern slope OF the grand old
monarch, when they proceeded to
post notices and lay out a district.
When it came to giving a name to the
new Dorado, they split then and there.
The Unionist wanted to call it Lincoln,
while the Reb. insisted that jeff. Davis
would be the better name. The con-
hict of taste vas not Of long duration,
however, for both being sensible men,
they soon settled upon a compromise.
The district was named Lincoln, in
honor OF the martyred President, and
the mountain, JEFF. Davis, in honor of
the Rebel chief. And here we
may say, in the wilderness of
the Snake range we have the first
outcrop of the era OF good feeling and
national unity which is 10. day the dis
tinguishing feature barring Commits
sionsl OF the National Administration at
Washington, as illustrated and exem-
plitied aud reflected in the person of
Rutherford b. But to return to the
diggings: The Fed. and Confed. didn't
do much in Lincoln District. Both
were poor, and unused to the priva-
tons and h%ardships inseperable from
border life, and neither bad much
knowledge of practical mining. 1t is
not strange, therefore, that after a
month lruitlessly spent in scratching
about among the groupings of their
lodges, they concluded to abandon the
camp and strike out in search Of the
comforts of civilization and more genial
employ ment. Lincoln District, we be-
lieve, has never been touched since
their departure. 1t is along the west
ern base, however, of Jetf Davis Peak
where the new gold fields have been
found. Commencing at Sacramento
Pass, which is nearly due east of the
mammoth stock ranch of ex Senator
A. e. Cleveland, in Spring Valley, and
stretching away to the southwark for
twenty-five or thirty miles, the whole
of the western slope OF the Snake
range is gold bearing territory. Lodges
are numerous, and nearly AL the ra-
vines show the color" The region
is we'll watered, and as early as 1859 a
number of placer claims were staked
off. Why they were never worked, we
are not advised. but the presumption is
they were abandoned because it
was found that they would not
pay. The quartz lodges are flinty
and spotted, but whenever a spot
is encountered, beautiful rich speci-
mems of free gold are sure to be
founO. for "a year or TWO q com pdny
Of miners have been prosecuting oper-
atoms on n of these lodges with
hattering prospects, and during last
winter they came upon what gave
promise of becoming a veritable bo-
nanZa. We have heard nothing from
them since, butthe rumored discovery
of rich gold diggings in that quarter,
diggings that yield 500 a day to the
man, leads us to conclude that they
may have struck it big. This, we be-
lieve, constitutes the basis of the ru-
mored discovery OF rich placers in
White Pine. 1t will now be in order
for a portion of the press of the State
to say that Cleaveland is getting mp
another excitement in his neighbor-
hood, after the style of the White Pine
!1dian war, to afford him an oppor-
lunity to dispose of his surplus beef.