The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-01-03
SILVER p,RK

| lowing sketch OF old SILVER tara anu Ie'
licres that Felix Knight will dispose Of
the property The Times says
Silver Park Mining District lies about
sixty.fiye miles west Of Frisco in Lincoln
county, Nevada. About fifteen years
ago il wa, one Of ,be livliost camps in
Eastern Nevada. A great number OF To-
cations we've made, and enough ore WIS
extracted from the different claims to in
duce California capitalists to erect a ten
stamp mill for its reduction. Everything
indicated at that time that Silver Park
was about to become a great camp. Then
came the White Pine excitement, and the
glowing stories that were circulated
throughout Nevada and California Of the
fabrlously rich strikes made in this dis
trict reached the miners at silver Park.
The prospeetors caught the iever--picks
and drills were cast aside, claims were
abandoned aud a stampede was started
FOR the new FL Dorado. At the time of
the exodus from Silver Park, there was
not sufficient prospecting done to deter
mine whether there was Hlne III the
camp or not. The deepest shaft was not
down fifty feet from the surface. Among
the first discoveries Of this camp was
Felix Knight. He had immense faith in
its future and stayed with it. For fifteen
years he has lived there and worked his
claims, the greater part OF which time he
was the sole inhabitant Of the camp.
His mines improved as greater depth
was reached, the ore became richer in
quality, and the ledge proved to be regu-
lar and well defined. Mr.. Knight was
well aware that he possessed bonanza,
and for several years past he has worked
to develop his property. Whenever he
desired TO raise few thousand dollars,
he would 60 to work and stope out few
tons of rich ore and ship it to the reduc-
ZION mills at Phoebe, or TO the smelters
at Salt Lake City. Some time during
last summer, Mr. John Epply, of Salt
Lake, hearing of the property, went out
TO Silver Park and managed to secure a
bond on the mines from Mr.. Knight.
MIR. Knight passed through here during
the first part of the week, on his way to
Salt Lake City, where a sale of the prop
erty to syndicate of Eastern capitalists
will be finally contaminated. We under
stand that Mr.. knight will realize some
$50, 900 out of the sale.
the property consists of three patented
claims, which take in 2,200 feet of the
ledge. The ledge is contact between
quartzite and granite. There have been
three shafts sunk on the ledge about 40t
feet apart, being 100, go and 23S feet
respectively in depth. The shafts are in
clnes, having been sunk in the ledg,
matte. The ore has been exposed iron
tie top to the bottom in each of til,
soafts, Nj. Knight having followed thu
ore when prospecting his property, anC
drifts have been run east and west OIL
tie ledge from the shafts at ditieren
places. At the bottom of the go foo
sAaft on the Sam Tilden, q drift has beel
run for distance of 300 feet The ledg,
is s feet in width, through which runs .
feet of clean ore, which samples "a,
ounces silver to the ton. The ore i
qrartz, bearing horn and native silver
We have seen specimens taken from tn
llines which will assay over 1000 ounces
M. Knight has made shipments from tn
mines which samples over 1000 ounce
to The ton.
Barney Mulhall, who came in with Mr.
Knight, says that the company has lease,
The old mill, which will be repaired an
put in running order in a short time
There is between Sl2,0 and $4,000 c
ore on the dump, and several hundre
tons exposed in the different workings c
the mine ready to be stopped out. Activ
operations will be started as soon as tn
mill is in proper working order, whic
will! be soon after the LIST of January
1881. Silver Park has all the nature
facilities requisite for prosperous mir
ing camp, There is any quantity of WOO
and water, and, what is more desirable
an abundance of mineral. The o,e
free milling and rich in silver, so that tn
| camp will not he handicapped with til
low price of lead, and the uncettainte
, arising from the tariff question, whic
are inc .fe. Jag to SO great an extent, wit
the prosperity OF base bullion mining dii
t.icts at t1e present time.
George Gilbraith, a workman engage
on neighboring ranch, came into town
few evenings since, says the Reno Jour
nal, and after visiting several saloons
started for home, taking with him
demijohn of the same exhilarating hui
of which he had previously imbibe
rather copiously. After proceeding
short distance he became fatigued an
t lay down to sleep in the shelter of
| large sagebrush, with no companion sa,
f his demijohn. On awakening some hou
+. later he discovered that some unscrup
, | Ions scamn had robhel him Musir