The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-09-10
Duck Cresk District.

A correspondent of the Salt Lake
Tribune, writing from Duck Creek un-
der date of August goth, says:
Our destination was Duck Creek
mining district, White Pine county,
New, which is on the west slope of the
Schell Creek range, just over the di-
vide from Muncy Creek.
After pitching our tent and taking
little rest, | proceeded to inspect the
country rock or formation, and few
of the mines located by the Brown
brothers.
The country rock is composed of diff
ferent species of limstone the hard
black shelly lime which is non-mineral
bearing, white silicious lime and a
blue lime; the two latter I found to be
mineral bearing formation.
inspected three of the Brown broth
ers mines, the Bullet Rock, Big Injun
and Boannza. The Bullet Rock and
Big Injun cover the apex of Galena
Hill, which is full of mineralized fs-
sures that seem to emulate from some
great mineral reservoir in the bowels
of the earth. These mines bid fair to
become heavy producers of the heavy
metal. The Bonanza is rightly named
for it is veritable bonanza, showing
mineralized chimney from twenty to
TWENTY-FIVE feet wide.
a.oo Sc AL:a J;s4~.oA ovo haoxyxy
block galena and carbonates in all the
different stages of carbonization, from
the PARTLY carbonized galena to the
full soft carbonates.
The grade of the ore is low, but the
meager developments on the Bullet
Rock demonstrated that the ore in
creases in value as depth is attained.
At depth of ten feet the ore show
ed an increase of twelve ounces of sill
yer per ton.
On the morning of the LIST of August
I shouldered my pole, pick, canteen
and lunch sack and struck out over the
hills in search of bonanza. had
not gone over 500 yards from camp
when / discovered piece of mineral
lied float, which I traced to its source
and found it to be one of the much
talked-of bonanzas.
/ found numerous mineralized Chin
neys on the vein and showing heavy
galena and carbonates. Practically
speaking the vein is in chimney for
200 feet. On one of these chimneys I
found bed of soft carbonates in which
I could drive the pick up to the eye
and haul out the carbonates as though
they were bed of gravel. chris
tened this mine the Overland. Ipros-
pected on either side of the side lines
on the east and inside of the side lines
of the Overland l found another vein
some ten feet wide but not SO well
mineralized as the Overland. The
Overland shows mineralized vein mat
ter from ten to twelve feet wide. The
surface showings of this mine indicate
bonanza of no small magnitude.
My next tramp was northeast of our
camp about one mile. came across
the Grace mine, owned by Dooley &
Davidson of Pleasant Valley. This
mine has good surface showing of
galena and carbonates, the mineralized
vein matter indicating strong vein.
This district should have been
named "Bonanza," as all the mines
located so far seem to be bonanzas.
The upheaval of the country rock is
favorable for the forming of large ore
bodies as depth is attained. What we
lack in quality we make up in guam
ity.
The Duck Creek district has an ample
supply of water and mining timbers,
sawmlll in the district and ranches
within one and one-half miles of the
mine; also postoffice at one of the
ranches. The name of the postoffice
is Monitor. We have semi weekly
mail.