The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-06-02
FERGUSON DISTRICT
General Description of the Country
and its Present Valuable Pros
pect Claims.
The District is Bound 90 Come 90 the
Front, and ut no distant Day
Ore $50. QUO TO the Ton


the Raymond & Ely, on account of its
smoothness is an easier road to travel and
therefore ''the quickest way home" or
in this case to Bennett Springs. From
Bennett Springs to Golden City and
Helene, Mr.. Shuman preferred to take |
the road via Dry Lake and the Point OF
Rocks, although there are two reason
ably fair roads leading to Helene, be.
tween BENEFITS and that place, one
going to Cliff Springs and the other via
Grassy Springs. Yet in this case also
the longest way round is the quick.
est way to arrive at ones destination.
Golden City is deserted with the ex.
ception of few, principally the Mag.
nolia owners and one or two Others inter-
ested on that side of the hill, Going
over the hill from Golden to Helene, a
distance of perhaps half mile, the trail
passes directly by the Magnolia. on the
dump of which are ten or fifteen tons of
ore similar in character to that recently
shipped to Salt Lake. The shaft is now
down about fifty feet, so we were in
formed, but as there were none Of the
owners of the mine present at the time
we visited it we did not go down the
shaft.
The town OF Helene is prettily situated
between the hills and consists of about
dozen tents and two frame buildings,
scattered over about ten acres of level
spot in the canyon. The business houses
consist of drug store, boarding house,
lodging house and two saloons A
stock of merchandise is soon to be
brought to Helene, and Mr.. j. A. Denton
will soon open feed corral and stable,
where he will supply water, hay and
grain. Messrs. Denton and Cooper have
part of the camp digging a well during
the week past, and having obtained .
good flow of water at about twenty five
: feet propose to put in pipes and bring the
. water into town
u Across the high hill to the southeast o
Helene the April Fool mine is situated
being an immense ledge cropping out o
the ground in places to height of tel
i. or twelve feet, and running northerl,
n and southerly, encounteriug at its north
It ern extremity an immense porphyry dix
N which cuts through the guartzite countr
ID rock in an easterly and westerly diret
in tion, and which can be traced throug
ne the entire district. The owners of th
he claim are at present looked upon as til
&c future millionaires Of the camp. I'll
40 mine turns out exceedingly rich gold or
y. and they already have enough out fl
n. any reasonable man to commence bus
ness On. They were offered $500 p
ry sack for their ore on the dump and +
I'm fused it. This rock ia most peculiar
at its character for gold ore, for it appea
a to be nothing more than piece of quar-
nd or quartzite upon first glancing at
No A closer examination, however, revel
fine particles of yellow in the brown
the rock, which when examined ST
et more closely with glass, are shown
inc be particles of gold almost as fine as t
Az finest -four. The weight of the roc
however, proclaims its mineral char
the ter. Some specimens OF free gold
an found about the size of knife point, |
era these rarely occur, the most of the re
the being of the character described abb
DOL and containing gold in very fine particl
ext yet in such quantities that the ore
immensely rich, assays running fir
,v,s 800, 900 per ton to 5000 Besides t
,ro. extraordinarily rich streak, streak
inc soft ore about eighteen inches wide {
,llv ries from 5000 to $500 in gold per t
and whilst outside of this again, and iowa
mas the footwall, is horn silver ore rang
d of from looo o. TO zooo o. IN val
Taking everything into consideration,
a.. extent Of the ledge, width and richr
ID of the ore, it is my opinion that the A
Foil is the richest mine have ever 81
and is destined to become veriti
-, bonanza, A shipment of ore will s
~ be made to Salt Lake City, and pre-
-, an influx of prospectors and mining
49,. to this district as soon as the returns
made known. Had this mine been 70
in Colorado or Montana, or even in \
lSco' mon Utah. ten thousand souls would
heie have peopled the district. Whom
nafu merits Of the district become more VII
II oi known through shipments of ore sue
ooA' have been made by the Magnolia,
.he such especially az will be made by
"iAo April Fool, the thrush of fortune-see
wv" will be fully as great as any boom {
'n'"' RADIO or Montana has ever known,
not ginia and Leadville not excepted
e de- Below the April Fool, and an exter
es to Of it, lies the Gold Cup, claim
mbie very promising in its infancy The
eady ers Of this claim have as yet done
are ing in the way Of development upc
up in Just west of the April Fool, and
gn to allel with 1t, are the Jim Crow N
April and 2. No. shows an exceed
fine ledge, rich in horn silver and
an at tanning some gold, but how much &
when could not ascertain, as none Of the
/ that ers were to be seen at the time Q
It'll us visit. Some fine particles Of gold
E. E. visible in the rock
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