The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-09-15

what Is BEING Done nj Mill City, Dun
Glen and Central.


A representative of the SILVER STATE
boarded the west-bound passenger train
Saturday afternoon, and was whirled
over the road, il not at the rate Of a
mile minute, certainly at as lively a
speed as ordinary folks care to travel.
A locust grove at the Rose Creek Sec
tion-house, and a similar one at Rasp-
berry, break the monotony of the
scenery between Winnemucca and Mill
City. These groves were set out year
or two ago by the Railroad Company
and are irrigated by the section men.
The trees have grown luxuriantlN re-
curing no attention except to irrigate
them occasionally, and in few years
will make refreshing shades for those
whose duties compel them to reside on
the sagebrush plain.
AT MILL CITY,
James Gould, who is imbued with the
spirit of progress, is showing what can
be accomplished by enterprise on the
desert. Those who saw Mill City
few years ago will remember it as a
station on an arid plain, sparsely COW
cred with what is known as rabbit
brush. The only water ON the place
was raised by windlass from well 20
feet deep. Now there are 100 acres of
land inclosed with rabbit and cattle
proof picket fence. On this land grain
and all kinds of vegetables are raised
in abundance. Some 5000 shade trees,
about $50 of which are catalpa, are now
growing luxuriantly, and the desert is
literally made to blossom like the rose.
This wonderful change has been wrought
since the spring of 1873. Water for ir-
rigating purposes is raised from the
Humboldt river by steam, and carried
in fume to reservoir, from which it
is distributed over the land under cul-
tivation- The arid plain is transformed
into cultivated farm, and where sage
brush would not grow few years ago,
handsome shade trees now spread their
branches. There is considerable life at
Mill City. The foundry, now one of
the most extensive in the State, is run
ming steadily on machinery for the mills
in the surrounding mining camps.
Amalgamating pans and settlers of the
largest size and smoothest finish, and
all sorts and sizes of mill castings, are
made to order. The machinery for a
small
MILL FOR CENTRAL DISTRICT
Is at the station, though it is said that
there is ore enough that will average
from $50 to 800 ton in sight at the
mines of that district to run 20-stamp
mill for years. Only eight or ten men
are at work in the district, and the re-
duction works consists of hand mill,
when, according to all reports, there
ought to be at least l50 men and 100
stamps at work. This district is stu
ated northwest of Mill City, on the
north side of the Humboldt, while d.
rectly east of the station is
DUN GLEN,
Which is now assuming considerable
prominence as mining camp in conse-
quence of the success, after many fail
ures, of the Lang Syne mine. This
camp is about eight mikes from Mill
City, and notwithstanding the scarcity
of water this season, John Nelson has
raised fine crops of corn, potatoes and
other vegetables in the canyon in which
it is situated, and near the head of
which the Lang Syne is located. The
course of the Lang Syne ledge is almost
due north and south, and it dips to the
east at an angle of about As degrees. A
tunnel 300 feet long cuts the ledge at
right angles. The groupings are very
large, and the ledge at the, point of in
tersection, in the tunnel, is about three
feet thick. The ancient tunnelsrs
could not believe that groupings foar-
teen feet wide ON, the surface could be
squeezed to three feet wide at depth
of $50 feet, and would not recognize