The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-07-10
MINING NEWS.

From this point you travel over a good
road to Clark's Station on the Central
Pacific, whici, is some 10 or l. miles,
thence down the river to Wadsworth
10 miles. To reach the mines from
Wadsworth you travel some 8 or . miles
in IA north-westerly direction until you
strike the mouth OF Olinghouse canyon.
You can recognize it by a clnmp OF large
cotton wood trees, that can be seen some
two or three miles away. The whole OF
this canyon is taken up hy placer min
ing. You begin to see stakes and monu-
ments before you enter it and you find
them all the way TO the top, which is
four or five mics. There are quite "a
number OF small springs in the canyon
that would afford water Tor rocking pur-
poses but not enough 10 sluice at this
time of the year.
They claim that the gravel and The dirt
all carry free gold. | prospected Il few
pans and found some gold, but not in
very large quantities. About a mile and
4 half up the canyon you come to Me
Clanesburg, which consists OF two wood
N houses, three or four tents and sever
al brush w%ickeups. AT this point the
road forks, a branch of the road contin-
Ies iii up he main canyon to Proctor d
Norris mine called the Ora, which pros
poets in places in free gold. They have
a two-stamp mill about completed to
u by horse power. A small amount OF
ore is at the mill and some on the dump
at the mine. They have a fine spring
affording some two or three miners
inches Of water, and a garden patch OF
vegetables. The other road leads to the
northeast about Il mile to the base OF
what is called the Green Hill, on which
are located numerous, claims, some OF
which ! consider the best in the district.
The Butte, Gold Center, Cabin, No. |,
2, 3, 4 and 5 owned by Brooks McClane
and others. There is the Mountain Boy,
which is small, but you can see free gold
all through the rock. The Hutchinson |
consider one of the best mines in the
camp. They have a 4ax5R foot shaft
sunk to the depth OF 45 feet and a ledge
from three to four feet wide that PROF.
poets we'll all the way through in free
gold. At the base OF the tireen\ Mount
ain there Is a fiat that prospects. The
lI.tI..an loo, .,nt On tn,o al ~. ~,
the dump, which they claim will average
$!2 per ton.
| went to The southwest OF Olinghouse
canyon some five or six miles. The top
of the mountains Is covered with an
overflow of lava so that you cannot see
the formation at all. As you come into
the lower range OF hills you strike q
chalk or silicon formation. In this local
ity | was OF what they call Person can
yon, and several others that | did not
learn the name of and found nothing.
Then l prospected to the east and north
OF Olinghouse in Frank Free canyon
and Tiger canyon. Here | fonnd the
Indications better. | found quartz in the
Frank Free canyon, but the prospects
were light. There is a high peek that
lies at the heads Of Olinghouse Canyon,
Tiger and White Horse Canyons. AS
cended to the summit and from there
had q magnificent view OF the surround
ing country for miles. could see Pyra-
mid Lake. Mud lake. the Indian Reser-
v%etion, the Sink of Carson, Camp Storey
and the place where the Ormsby mas
sacre took place OF which l am a suryi-
vor which occurred the 18th day of May
1860. Your respectfully,
.. c. STEEL.