Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-04-22
IrnE STATES GOLD aIsE.

and the Reno
Prison Wall.
As was to be expected, the dis
covery Of pay grit in the State
Prison quarry caused great deal
| Of excitement in this community.
| When this journal first published
the good news. last sunday morning
there was a few people who feigned
not to believe it, and some went so
far as to say it was only an Ap-
PEAL joke. Later on, these doubt
ing ones we're COMPOUNDED by the
confirmation of the story, and
joined with the rest of our people
in rejoicing over the happy disccv-
cry. A great number of claims
and extensions have been staked
out and recorded, and several
thousand dollars in coarse gold
have been taken out. The, Homo
|. Nevadcnsis claim, owned by Gen
eral Powcing Of Reno and Major
Dennis Of Tuscarora, is showing
UP in fine style. A mil! is to be
erected at once for the reduction Of
the rock. The metallic plate pro-
cess will be used.
The State authorities will make
an effort to keep this valuable de-
posit within the possession Of the
State, aid our people will have
cause for congratulation if this can
be accomplished, for then the $780,
900 school bonds can be lifted, and
money enough to run the entire
State Government taken directly
from the ground at very slight cost,
convict labor being used, Of course.
It being the law of the land that
all auriferous rock or ground is To-
catable by citizens of the United
States, and it having been shown
that several buildings in this city
are built of this rock, they were at
once located by enterprising pros
pectors, but it is doubtful whether
these locations will hold. James
X. Kinney located the Capitol I'M
der the placer mining law, but
Thomas L. Burgess of Reno, came
along soon after and located it as
ledge, which takes precedence,
claiming the building as his crop
pings.
Yesterday The assayers were
kept busy making tests Of specimens
clipped off the Capitol, Mint and
other buildings constructed Of this
rock. The returns never fell below
$500 a ton. An estimate Of the
value of this stone used in build
ings in Carson is as follows:
Round House, 10000
tons. ..$J,UUU,VUV
Capital, 10000 tons. -. 100000
State Prison, 10000 tons. 100000
Mint, $4,000 tons. $500. 100000
Mrs. Curry's residence g.
600 tons. -. 100000
Rails store, 5000 TONS. /. 1,500,010
Muller & Schmitt's store,
5000 tons. -. 100000
G.. N. Folsom's residence,
5000 tons. =. 100000
T. J. Edwards residence,
1900 tons. 100000
Other buildings, 1000
tons. -. 100000
1t is within the possibilities that
Carson may have to tear down her
public buildings for the purpose of
getting the gold contained in the
building stone, but if so, she can
easily afford to rebuild them OF
marble.
There is dash of wormwood in
all this joyful prosperity. This is
caused by the reflection that the
Prison walls at Reno being built of
stone from this quarry, is in Wash
oe county, and so will be available
for tax purposes in that county, IN
stead Of in Ormsby, where it right
fully belongs. This wall contains
not less than 100000 tons of rock:
and must be worth about $500, OOO,-
600. Two Carson men went to
Reno to locate the claim, but were
too late. When they arrived at
the place they found it swarming
with Renoites. Every man, woman
and child, armed with picks and
crowbars, had moved from Reno
and camped around the valuable