The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-10-27
OsCEOLA.
Encouraging Prospects for Dur Neigh
boring Camp.

th0 0oCCO1A KUN hGAuAs |
and from him gets the following con-
corning tho past history, present
hopes and apparent merits of the dis
trict. He says:
The placer fields cover an area of
eel by seven miles and takes in a
number of calons. Miners work in
the gulcnes all the Year round and
average 81 50 10 80 a day. They are
using ecker now, water being very
scafce aud having to % packed III
barrels 10 the claims. They are get
ting what they can out OF tue gravel
Dy this process and saving it 10 work
over with the snow water this winter
or next spring. Nuggets are being
found all the way from 81 to $40. The
digglngs have been worked for a good
nIauy years and have supported quite
a settlement OF miners and their lam
lies. Al the store miners bring III
their lust AS in the early days of Cali
fornla. II Is weighed and taken for
c0in III pay for groceries and other
supplies. AT the store-tiIere Is only
one Al present-you can get a nugget
of any value WITHIN the limits men-
TONED. These nuggets have Ut times
been found IN considerable numbers
and OF very great value, the largest
weighing SOME ~ pounds pure gold.
The ore Is generally "a white quartz,
carrying free gold, though ia some
rIcn specimens tne precious metal
canIot De seeu Win the naked eye.
The working OF the placer diggings
hua 4.a.4a aaa.tA Vra4 a Hmm "a
aud, for the want vi water, has not
been very encouraging. Could a
working stream OF wafer be intro
duced into the placer iieIds, the VA
ter would be worth las weight In gold.
Ihere are streams two Dr. three
creeKs-soIne 10 miles dis
Iaut, which, " is thought, may be
brought III and made available, but
the cost OF d,verting them Is 50 great
tnat the enterprise has not yet tempt
Ell anybody sufficiently 10 make hun
IuNes UlIc fortune Tor The sake OF IN
other and larger one Qn prospect).
Tine prospect la gold quartz mining
looks UIg also, ana more flatterlng
Than that OF The placers, BECAUSE
more definite. Cnariey lozier's 70
oiahAR bAaAA " hCAAAJ oOhf1a "a
buaIding Is complete and lie machin-
cry Ii all sci. SonIc nnIsning up work
remains ~ De done, and 1t 10 expect
ed that the stamps Will drop early III
November. I0zler Is Oue of the
Osceola Company, anu Is largely M
II crested himself. johnny Turner Is
the foreman OF the company. whose
mining properly comprises three par
aiIei leuges, each oil which Is from
ten 10 IN / feet in width. The
property has beef worked by the
meu h owned II IN a sinai way for
seven or eight years, tue greatest
depth attained being 100 ieet, the
ledge holding we'll at that depth, and
showing timely IN "A number ot pros
pect workings.
The ore Is quartz, generally white
and carrying free gold. There is any
quantity of 1t and II will average from
SI2 10 so per ton. IL is very easy
rock To work, and ii is calculated thai
the mill will work three tons TO the
stamp daily, or sixty o altogether.
The mill il situated about three miles
below the mines, near some springs,
from which plenty OF water for mill
ing purposes is readily obtained.
II costs 81 per ton 10 haul the ore
from he mine 10 The mill, and 1t Will
not cost moro than 81 80 or 81 to ex-
tract IL. The cost of reduction will
be very light, Oh account of the ma
ture of the ore and the price OF fuel
TO run the mill.
Tozer has let a contract to some
Italians to furnish him all the cord
wood (pine) that he wants for. 50.
The country around aboundsi in wood
and timber. Lumber for building
can bs had for from $25 to $50 per
thousand. There are two sawinills,
one twelve miles and the other about
thirty miles from Oceola.
Ii il be rue that the company's ore
supply is as large as reported, and
that il can be turned into bullion at
such light cost hardly as much per
ton as So. and all reports are 10 that
effect, the property is surely a
bonanza.
There are a great many otherelaims
located, and some of them are doubt
less rich. Mike Kearney, our report
err, has made two or three locations,
out of which he thinks he may yet
make something worth while. He
says Mike Ahern has a couple of fine
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