The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-01-10
xL DIsTCICT.
The ChurchiIRers Ju3iianf Over the
Frospects-Th DISCOVERIES or the
District and where IL Is situated
The Principal Mines, etc.
Saltwater, Jan. 6, 1850.

DIlllWater, Jan. y, lOoo.
EDITOR SILVER STATE The monot-
ony of Saltwater life is at last broken,
and the county, so long noted for its
rural prochvities, bids fair to contain
at no far distant day, the metropolis of
the sa gebrush State.
WHAT THE RANCHERs LoNGED FOR.
For years the few ranchers and vaquer
oes, who composed the principal ele
ment OF Churchill's population have
hoped that some day Churchill could
boast of town that would support
saloon where whisky would be retailed
at twelve cents and half per drink,
and common country dance wouldn't
cost all individual more than $50; when
the rancher could sell his pumpkins and
watermelons for fair price or ex-
chance them for Yankee beans and
Hoosier bacon, and The cattle man
would not be compelled to drive his
beeves more than a hundred miles to
market The women have also had
yearning desire for some mns-d DOM
town to spring up where they could
purchase calico at a reasonable figure
and trade therefor their chickens and
surplus butter, for heretofore our women
have had to send to the Mechanics Store
for Sunday gown, and even the dusky
maidens could hardly suit their fastidious
tastes i'll selecting their holiday apparel.
But we had commenced To believe that
Hope deferred maketh the heart
SICK when 10! who should come al
most into our midst but score or more
OF those hardy pioneers, who open to
civilization the wilderness, and make
the mountains to yield forth there rich
est treasures-tho men who forcgo all
pleasures and pastimes OF the family
circle and the advantages of civilization,
to open mp to enterprise new fields OF
labor and to capital new opportu mites
of investment Men of this character
are w. S. Kellogg and John I. Calvert,
Messrs. Carr. Cox and Lytell and
score of others, who have recently de-
veloped some of the richest and largest
lodges of precious bearing mineral ever
unearthed in the State of Nevada.
Sometime during the month of Deem
Der the above named gentlemen came
into the
OLD SILVER HILL DISTRICT,
And commenced prospecting claims
which they had good reason to suppose
would repay them for their trouble.
Mr.. Kellogg had for years been delvmg
in these mountains, and always claimed
that there was bonanza in the Still
water range. He was at Silver Hill at
the time of the Reese river and the
White Pine excitements, never aban
doning his prospects for what others
called better ones, but ever contend
ing that the wealth of State was
there, aud that some day he would find
it. We now have ever reason to be-
lieve that his predictions have proved
true. Eureka men have come in quite
numerously, and have renamed the
camp, and it now goes by the name of
XXI MINING DISTRICT
This district is situated in the Still
water range of mountains, which run in
northerly and southerly direction,
about eighteen miles east of Saltwater,
and sixty miles at most from Wads-
worth. We have recently seen several
communications in the SILVER STATE
claiming that the freight to the new
camp would have to go by way of Love-
lock, but we have borrowed no trouble
concerning it, for we know that the
ways of Providence are the ways for
men to travel, Lovelock Station and
Lovelockers to the contrary notwith-
standing. Show me, if you will, Mr..
Humboldters, if ever in the history of
all mining excitement, the freight to
new camps would go over new, un-
| travelled and incommodious road, in
preference to an old, reliable, direct
and accessible route. If the freight to