The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-06-02

tniDg IN the ieuSS assays, anu Oho VIZ
improves in appearance as depth is at
tanned
The Snowflake is another ledge eight
feet wide, belonging to the same parties,
and from which they have trken some
good looking rock They are now work
ing both properties.
Across the gulchl from the Sunbeam
and on Gold Hill are the properties lately
bonded to James Hutchinson, represent. !
ing San Francisco capitalists, by Samuel
Reed Mr. Hutchinson recently returned |
from San Francisco, and engaging force |
of men to whom he pays $500 per day
each wages, has begun the work of driv-
ing tunnel into the hill to open up the
property
The Nevada Spy is on the western end
of Gold Hill, and very promising look
ing prospect. The ore is exactly the
same in appearance as the Magnolia and
containing large per centage OF manga
nese. A pan of dirt alongside of the
ledge showed gold enough to place tho
value Of the deposit at $1,000 per ton at
very conservative estimate.
There are about one hundred and fifty
people in Ferguson district, ! should
think, and they are scattered from Cedar
Springs on the south. five miles from
Helene, to Grassy Springs, about six
miles in the opposite direction. Some
very fine looking prospects have been
found in each extremity Of the district.
/ There is room here for about ten times as
many prospectors as are now in the hills.
| Those now there are almost to man
residents Of Lincoln county, and they
don't seem to worry that people from the
outside don't flock into the district
either, for while numbers of men are
rushing to the rich finds of Colorado and
few deluded ones are securing the
Deep Creek country, the prospectors Of
Ferguson are picking ont the hest looking
locations and preparing to realize some
thing from sale as well as development o
their properties.
l take notice that Mr.. H. A. Cohen
Morey, and Mr.. Chas. II. Wilson o
Chihuahua, Mexico, are interested II
, everything that they could get an inter
est in, and as both Of those gentleme
are of wide experience in mining mat
| tiers, they are investing in the distric
, not merely for the purpose of owning
+ mine or number Of mines, but for tn
: purpose Of making money out OF then
a Water is scarce article in Helene an
e has to be hauled from Cedar or Grass.
9 It is warm work tramping over the hill
and as the protecting shade of
# "Joshua" does not afford anything b.
|, the festive lizard a. guard against I'll
If SUM- moisture absorbing rays, the We
u come shade of our friend Cooper's habit
y ton and goodly quantity of MI
!. Shaeffer's Highland beer came in We
,e handy upon our return from our tri
y over the hills.
C. There will be a sawmill within fife
III miles Of Helene this summer, there
lis bringing down the price of iumb
he which is now $4,000 per thousand,
he more reachable figure for the pc
e. prospector Several more frame bull
or ings are to be constructed soor
81. of lumber brought from Phoebe, Clio,
,er and Pine Valleys, and were it not for
re- high price of that material at prese
in a number of Others would put up fran
,rs on their lots, which are now occupied
ritz tents or simply camp outfit under Gt
it. blue sky.
ais The "Joehua, of which have spok
of is most peculiar plant. 1t belongs
till suppose, to the cactus variety, and is
to most repulsive looking thing / ever $
the in the vegetable kingdom Spring
ok, from the ground the first year is bul
&C. Of thorns, in length from six to Ell
are inches each, sharp as needle at
but point toward which each tapers frol
ock half or three fourth inch width of /
owe with saw like edges. This buncl
les, thorns grows around common stem
Q is like chival de -frize, points its barb
rom every direction. The next year
this young thorna appear at the top point
of upward, while those of a years gro
car. point downward along the stem; the
,on, thorns are always green in color and
.rds old ones lying close to the trunk beco
ying of dark drab or weather beaten "
lue. hue. This process Of growth is kept
the until the tree or plant has attain'
ness height of twelve or fifteen feet and i
.pril large at the butt as good sized q
cen. tree, and has immense branches of
able shapes and sizes, some growing arc
soon others, some growing into the gro
dict and others seeming to reach their tn,
men arms out to tickle tho hide Of the
, are venturesome approacher, All par
,und the tree are covered with thorns an
Nor. except the new ones pointing DOWN.
now This plant furnishes the prospector
the fuel, for it will burn slowly and is b,
dely than the rabbit brush and grease ,
III as for camp fire 1t would make al
and penetrable fence for stock, and
the two uses are about all can concei
,kers to be good Tor, except that 1t gives s
Colo and safe retreat to the swifts or liz