Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-09-30
OUR GOLD MINES.
Richer Diggings Than Seen liz
California.

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most promising gold fields on tn
e Coast. If Zirn's Pine Nut strike haC
been made in California there would
q have been a rush to the new dig
giDgs. Some of the Nevada colo
fields are worth considering.
Three and half tons of ore from
the Palmico mine, Hawthorne,
yielded 81, go in gold.
A lot of fifteen tons of ore from
the Irish Boy mine, Kennedy dis
trict, sent to Selby's smelling works,
San Francisco, fer reduction, paid
S5l2 ton. The vein is from two
to four feet wide.
| A ledge, mile and half from
Unionville, Humboldt County, as
says from S140 to 81, 800 a ton in
gold. The vein is two feet wide.
In Lincoln County, Scott Allen
accidentally found vein of iron
stained quartz. He did not think
much of his find, but an assay showed
that the material contained over
| So, 600 ton in gold This find was
made in a section of country some
distance south of where Captain De
Lamar is operating.
These paragraphs are in regard to
only few districts or sections of the
many gold belts. In the Kennedy
district-frst discovered in July,
1S91-are the Cricket, Imperial and
many other mines AS rich as these
ones mentioned above. Indeed, it is
region full cf rich veins of gold
bearing quartz, and finds are still be
ing made almost every week. No
place in Nevada is more worthy of
the attention of the capitalist or pros
pector.
A railroad down through Nevada,
one that would connect Salt Lake !
City with Los Angeles, would open
many good gold camps. The whole
route would be through region full !
of mines Of the precious metals. |
Down toward Death valley lies
Montgomery district, a good gold /
camp, but one that is almost out of |
the world as regards transportation.
Also down near Death valley, in
Tule canyon, some rich gold mines
should be opened, On this canyon
rich dry diggings were discovered
some fifteen years ago. In 1880 a
few men were at work there. They |
had no machines for dry washing,
and did not even winnow the dirt by
tossing 1t up IN the wind, Mexican
fashion. They simply dug over the
ground with picks, collecting such
pieces of gold as they happened to
see. In this way they made good
wages in ground from two to four
feet deep. Working in this rude
way they found one nugget that
weighed five pounds, and very many
worth from 50 to SO. Pieces of
gold worth about fifty cents we're
about the smallest saved working in
this way, "by eye" With water or
even dry washing machines, such
ground should have paid immensely.
As all the placers in the Great Basin
GRO of Local or;cr;>n I'll. -. |
yon must cut one or more large and
rich veins of gold bearing quartz. At
present we hear but little about these
diggings, though there is always more
or less gold coming from them, which
is said to be ground out in arrastras
by some of the ranchers living in the
In the early days an impression
prevailed among our miners and pros
pectors mostly from California ,
that the gold veins on this side of the
would not prove perma- =
lent. They said it was merely a
surface production and would not y
hold out in depth. This soon came :
10 be accepted as an established fact; ,
therefore little attention was given to
rsins that were purely gold bearing
Dy those who went forth on pros, q
Decting raids. Now the truth is that
our gold mines are the most perma-
nent in the country. The first gold
mines opened and worked were in
Devils Gate district, at Silver City.
These have been worked right along
INCREASINGLY for over thirty years,
and today are paying their owners as
well as at first. Wherever paying
gold mines have been found in Ne