The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-06-30

The editor. accompanied by G. IL.
Wilbur OF Salt Lake, Utah, visited the
mines in O,inyhouse canyon the other
day. Mr.. Wilbur was surprised ut the
amount Of free gold shown in the
porphyry in the camp, and pre- lets a
great future for the camp. he says 1t
must be taken into consideration that
wherever they go they find gold III all
porphyritic rocks, and though some OF
the greatest outlines are in the quartz
seams that are found traversing the
porphyry in all directions, all the por-
phyry carries values, and the only
phonolite porphyry he has ever seen
uutside OF the famous Cripple Creek
district il in the Hutchinson mine in
sliis canyon. Either the surface indica-
tions are all wrong or this will develop
into a great camp.
Oscar j. Smith returned from a Sec
ond visit to Olinghouse Friday night.
MI. Smith has had large experience in
mining and mining camps, and told a
Gazette reporter this morning that he
was willing to go on record as expressing
himself as well pleased with the surface
indications of the camp, and that If the
camp did not develop into something
permanent in the near future it would
be strange. 4.
Alyara Evans visited the camp a
day or two age and got some rock
from. tho bottom of the Hutchinson
shaft, now down ffty-odd feet, that gave
the handsome returns OF 1857 to the
on, saws the Gazette. Every one who
visits Olinghouse tells the same story,
experts and all, to wit: that the indica-
tions are very hattering.
Speaking of cheap gold mining, they
have it down to a science in Amador
county. According to the report OILS r.
Porter, superintendent OF he Beliol
tiold Mining Company, at Suffer Creek,
addressed to its president, the cost OF
mining 1886 tons in April, 1897, was
FL, 1885. -. The cost of milling the same
was 81 $40. 10, q total OF 81, 533.42, or go
and a fraction per o n The ore is taken
FROM an open cut and brushes readily,
say about 5la tons per stamp every
twenty-four hours.
For wears Nevada has been known
and regarded solely as a silver mining
State, and worked as such, and,
though gold was known to exist, it was
simply regarded as. a by-product incl
dent in the production OF ores. With "
few exceptions gold mining was confined
10 work on a small scale in placer claims
generally given over to Cinnamon. Of
Gate years, however, a change has taken.
place owing to the unrelenting wal on
silver. and we 10Y see capital eagerly in
yesting enormous amounts of money in
gold propositions that for years have
been passed over as worthless on az
count of extraction aud reduction. Sci
enti6c metallurgy has kept pace with
the lessening in the grades and in re-
ducing refractory and low-grade ores to
q point Wheto III 10 NJ" posei"'o w
p~roftably work lodges heretofore i'm
practicable, says the Tuscararo Times
Review.
The country is full of prospectors and
fresh discoveries are reported daily.
Giving all allowances for the we'll.
Enoxn habit Of the average prospector
TO exaxgerate the value of his discovery,
the fact remains that were tho same
condition to exist in a more accessible
and advertised section OF the country,
many properties now lying idle would
be worth millions and producing daily
more than the prices asked by the own
ers for the mine or prospect.
The last weeks experience at the