Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-03-24
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silver star MIning District.


what protracted visit to the gold
mines situated in Silver Star Min
4 ing District, Esmeralda County,
last week, and was very favorably
impressed with what he saw there.
The mines are situated about
eight miles westerly from Soda
xille, on: the line of the c.. & G. r.
R,,. and about thirty-seven miles
frsHn the town Of Hawthorne. The
:anea, or belt containing the quartz
Fedges'dr veins, is about four miles
! in length and two milesin;width.
Within, this area hundreds Of veins
from.: eight inches to Six feet in
width may .best.aeedl !:foEra mile,
in many instances, running over
and through the hills and cropping
out in. the canyons. Up to the
time 'thexeporter left there 115 To-
cations had been made and on each
location "a vein ofquartz containing
ore assAying from Eve to sixty dol
lars per ton in thecroppng had
been found.
Thg quaytareoatainsqno mineral
except gold, and rs soft and easily
worked. Shafts, or iaclines are
sunk on theiya1s and the SSsxtrac.
EtiOn Of ore commences with the first
work done on the mine. The deep
est. Of these inclines' is on. the
Orphan Boy, owned by Messrs.
Douglass, Robb, Fuller and others,
and shows vein at q depth Of As
feet, stronger and better than at the
surface. About sixty. IONS Of good
paying ore lis on the dump Of this
mine. ...,-.r,. E..
The richest miRe yet found is
owned by Ed Brown He has an
incline down AZ feet, and about so
tons of ore on the dump which will
work more than 5000 per ton.
This reporter was shocked and
panied to learn that the above
named mines are situated in Rebel
Canyon; said to have taken its
name. from a genial old gentleman
living there, known as the sRebel
Brigadier."
! Ore is being extracted from a
number of mines; some Of them be-
ing in Union Canyon and others on
the noFthesly slope ofthe noun
tain, and within fanr' miles of the
Garfield Nall. .s.,,s sscvs,, s,r "
Plenty of nut pine wood covers
the mountaifssan springs efpure
WATER sufficient for: domestic and
other purposes, are. fonnd in the
canyons, adjacent tc"theSmihes.i y
The best way to get To- the mines
is to go BY C. u C: R. r. to Soda
vile and from thence by teams.
This reporter was met at Sodaville
by Elk Sheriff Robb, Mr.. Douglass
and others, and pursuaded that a
walk from thence to Douglass" as
the Metropolis of the mines is call
ed, would be conducive to his
health. He walked, or rather trot-
ted, the eight miles to the mines
and arrived there more dead than
,halive. ,'',Then;ait was necessary to
kvisit each and allsof the LIS loca-
ltions. The reporter visited three
days. and until his legs gave out,
and he q helpless wreck, when be
decided that a better outlook for a
rich mining camp had never been
found in this State.
Persons going there should take
bedding and provisions, as there are
no accommodations for strangers.
The miners live in cabins and tents
of which there are but few as yet,
but prospeetcrs were arriving daily
while the reporter was there, land i,
will be but a short time until a
town will have been laid out, and
stores and hotels erected. s.,. :,
The reporter will ever have a
tender place In 'hfs memory fol
4 Dan,' 'Robb, Douglass, Fuller
Brown, Pepper and others, for theil