The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-01-15
TRINITY DISTRICT.
An Old Mining Camp Coming to the
Front Again.
OREANA, january l3, 1880.

Front Again.
OREANA, January l3, 1880.
EDITOR SILVER STATE: By every
evenings train you send some item OF
interest about the rise and progress Of
Humboldt, and all are glad that "Para-
disc" compebsates for Dung Eye; ("
that Unionville, Eagle" and Rye Patch
are compelling respect for our county;
and a smile comes over the Humboldt
face when Wadsworth contentedly
talks of it's sixty or seventy miles of
road across two deserts, against forty
miles Of roads that ''run themselves" to
TX l. from either Oreana or Lovelock;
but
TRINITY DISTRICT
Has been overlooked in all this record
of industry and prosperity, and the
possible Mt. Davidson Of Humboldt
should have some attention. The can
yon forms a triangle with Lovelock and
Oreana, occupying the west base. In
many respects it is like the historic
Gold Canyon of early days, now known
as Dayton and Silver City, being filed
with float silver and gold in quantities
that cry for water aud sluices. The
hills ar, covered with lodges that yield
noble metals on top and only need work
to develop them.
THE NUMA MINE,
Formerly known as the Evening Star,
has produced large quantities of very
rich ore. For fifteen years it has been
the tombstone that other mines have
been discovered by, and is now proba-
bly, the richest mine known in the dis
trict, and perhaps in the county. N.
Duperu, of San Francisco, patented the
mine some ten years ago, and last year
it was reopened. Assays of the ore run
from 500 to 50, 900 per ton OF 1000
pounds, and the best is at the bottom.
Numa will make somebody enormously
rich, and many will make ''fireside"
capital ont of show they might have
owned it." George Lovelock has sew
eral claims that an assayer takes de-
light in heating his furnaces for. Me-
Dougall & Duncan, Davis & Emmons,
Ladd 4 Harvey, and others have dumps
OF ore that need only mill to make"
them. The Governor Booth and Morn
ing Star have been ore producing mines
for several years, and their ore carry
both gold and silver in high values.
A CUSTOM MILL
Is very much needed, and the danger
Gus part of it's future is-there will be
too many OF them. A two-stamp mill,
with big cheese box for pan, blind
mule and a sensible man can send the
S. M. to Congress at the option of the
firm after the first three months. The
veins are small, well defined and with
perfect gauge for hanging and foot
walls. They have an aristocratic tend
ency of geological birth, and, unlike
some aristocrats, their blood is both
blue and red, the blue being sulphuret-
ish and the red golden, as it should be.
The coming Spring will probably show
as lively campas there is in the State,
and the two-story brick cottage in the
canyon (Lovelock's) will again divide
the honors with Clay B Kaufman, the
genial hosts of Oreana, who keep res
taurant, easy to enter, but hard to say
goodbye to.
THE ORE PRODUCING BELT
Leads from Trinity to Arabia, where
the famous Montezuma, Hurricane and
other mines have done so much to
swell the wealth of the world. Cen
eral Buckner has lately taken steps to
patent the Montezuma, and the idle
furnaces of the Oreana works will un-
doubtedly warm toward their old Ara
bian friends soon. Most of the now
developed mines could be purchased
cheaply, and could be easily opened by
capitalists. Plenty of mines are in the