The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1884-07-26
TIA YLOR AND OscEOLA,
As Viewed dad Reported on BY = Cor
respondent Of the Phoebe Record
OscEoLA, July I3, 1881.

OscEoLA, July Ii. 1884.
As to Taylor, I cannot say much, having
remained there only a day, but from obser-
vations taken on the fly, and what little !
could learn, l should judge it to be a very
dull camp, and a good place for those in
search of employment to remain away from.
The Monitor is undoubtedly n good mine,
and is paving its lucky owners-who, by the
way. are Woodworking, industrious miners
a lndsome monthly dividend. The ore is
free milling, and. as | have been informed.
assays I0 ounces per ton. Some thirty men
are employed in the mine. and more would be
put on but there Is n surplus of ore at the
compnny's mill. The Argus is distant four
or five hundred feet up the hill, and is also a
valuable property. At the tims OF my visit
there were only twenty men on the pay-r roll,
the company having laid off some fourteen
men a short time previously, but [ was in
formed that they were being put on again as
fast as there was room made for them. So
much for a very limited knowledge of tho
camp. Taylor, however. Is a pretty little
camp, being located about 100 feet above
the valley among the pine and cedar trees.
and on the morning of ms arrival 1t looked
tralv pict lresque, each citizen having SEEM
ingly tried TO out-do his nsighbor on the
Fourth by a liberal display of starry bunting
from his dwelling. The saloon business is
overdone in Taylor, like every place else.
Johnny Quinn has a neat little establishment
in which he turns the tiger loose every
evening for the amusement of the boys.
Billy Bassett and Bob McKercher have u
fine gin establishment and are doing well.
Finding the camp rather quiet. | departed
at 10 p. v. for Osceola, in company with Badly
Saekstt and two other fast girls. and am
thankful that | am on deck to relate the fact.
but as this is q letter on matters more prosaic
I will conine myself to the heading of this
epistle. 0sceola is at present very dull in
consequence of the water giving out. As l
write there are only five men chloriding in
the gulch. and by the time this reaches you
there will be nix. Thore has been consider
able work done here this past Spring; how
ever, but few have made any money, notwith-
staining all the letters from this place TO the
contrary. This is dua to the fact that most
of tho ground gone over had been worked
before, the large gravel deposits. OF which
there are some 100 acres, being owned by
Messrs. Godbe. Hampton and st. Perrie.
This company has been busily engaged here
for the past five weeks in prospecting said
deposits. and alter a little over four weeks
labor in washing, cleaned up tho snug little
sum of Is ounces of gold, They realized
from one pit Of 5000 Gu bic yards l0i ounces,
or an average of b cents 10 tho cubic yard.
In this pit was found a nugget weighing l5%
ounces. Another pit on tho upper end of ;he
saiRe gulch PANIED out nj the rate vt 81 Is
per enbie yard. The company. although 10
ing very we'll, were under heavy ex ponse, be-
cause in prospecting from one place to an
other they had to cut bitches. build dams,
etc. whereas if they handled all their water
on one piece of ground. with a large nozzle,
they could have accomplished ten times the
labo.. In conversation with one Of the firm
r~eeeltly he said hat the test was highly sat
isfaetory. proving concluslyely that there was
millions upon millions in the large gravel de-
posits. If they only had the water to take 1t
out. When asked If there was any truth in
rumor that the company intended laying pipes
with a view towards bringing water 10 camp
right away, he answered mo, but that
they intended doing so as soon as sufficient
funds were raised for that purpose" We
have it upon good authority. also. that said
funds would be forthcoming Immediately, ii
the Godbe company we're willing to sacrifice
what appears to them too largo q share OF
their interests here.