The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-04-19

Jottinys ON the Ford and NJ the
Mines.

Leavin Winnemucca last Tuesday
for visit to the Paradise mines, |
mounted "Montana's" stage behind a
spanking team of four grays, having
Charley McDeid for driver. The day
being pleasant, the road in good con-
dition, and, most of all, the affability of
Charley, made the trip very pleasant
one. A more courteous driver can not
be found on any stage. At Tom Shone's
we stopped for dinner, and an excellent
one at that. Tom is doing a good
business, After dinner and the drivers
call of call aboard, we mounted again
headed for Paradise, where we arrived
at ) o'clock, after very pleasant ride.
Your correspondent laid over one
day at Paradise to look at the VILLAGE,
see old friends, note improvements, etc.
A considerable number of new build
in IS are in course of construction. |
found all branches of business driving
tolerably lively trade; but was told
that times were duller than for some
time past. / had the pleasure of a
hearty band-sbake with many an old
Humboldter, among whom were c..
G.. Biles, Alex. Middleton, Chas. KEN
ler,, Judge Ivory, L. III. Morse, Fred
Bauman, Sam. Pierce, the Luther Broth
ers and many others, all of whom are
doing well and have great faith in the
future Of the village.
Wednesday evening I went up to
.prin9 CITY, and THURSDAY; under the
guidance of Billy Burns and Uncle John
Monroe, visited number of the most
prominent mines. Spring City has a
population of over l,O0)-mostly bust
ness men and miners. There are very
lew women. The houses are mostly
frame. A great many new buildings
are goin up. Since the working force
on the. Paradise mine was reduced all
are complaining of the dull times and
scarcity of money: but look to the near
future for relief. The reasons for reduc-
ing the force are the accumulation Of
ore on the dumps and lack of MILLING
facilities. This company have over
1880 tons of good millin ore on its
dumps, not rich enough to ship without
assorting, but good pavinr ore for
mill of it's own. There are four tunnels
within distance of /, feet-in on
the lelge from 80 to l70 feet, in all of
which the top, bottom aud face is in
good ore. In fact there seems to be no
end to the ore now in sight, and piece
can not be broken off anywhere that
does not show more or less mineral
was informed that two mills, one
of ten and the other of twenty stamp
capacity, would be erected in the
canyon this Summer. If such proves
to be correct, Sprin City will be
"boomin y camp indeed.
The Bullion is also an immense mine
-l2 to Is feet wide. A force of s
miners are working it, and taking out
great quantities of very rich ore, which,
for lack of milling facilities, must be
piled on the dump.
The Big Prize and Rough & Ready
are each working small force of miners,
and while piIin. up some good ore, are
developing excellent mines.
Work is suspended for the present on
the Mount Rose and North Mammoth,
pending the arrival of new Superin-
tendent, who is expected daily.
Though times are dull at present, the
future is bri yht. and the Paradise mines
will, ere the close of the year, add ma
terially to the bullion product of the
State. HI.
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