The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-09-22
A PROSECUTORS TALK.

William johnson who has been a
miner and prospector for the greater
part OF his life dropped into this Office
on business and we did the rest. He
said he did not want to be interviewed
or quoted because he knew nothing OF
"book" mining and all he knew about
the vocation he had learned through
experience and he didn't feel qualified
to speak and did not want to be quoted.
About that time we told him we we're
not looking for an expert opinion upon
any particular mine nor a "book' ex-
pert opinion upon any group OF mines
but we would like to talk to him a few
minutes about things in general, mining
in particular and preferably the mines
in Olinghouse Canyon. Before he could
hold up both hands in protest we had
him seated in an upholstered chair and
lthere is so much difference between that
chair and the soft end of a candle box
that he though he was hypnotized. Copy
was short. we wanted to 20 to the Fair,
and PROPRIETOR johnson just then bore
resemblance to an angel IN our hungry
eyes.
Mr.. Johnson says he cannot see into
the ground, and all that, but he has
~prospected that country some and so far
he has formed certain opinions, only
opinions, but backed by personal obser.
walton and experiment.. He says the
country is heavily mineralized but he
thinks the main mineral belt is, judging
from what prospecting he has done,
about four miles long and IL mile
wide. The pay stuff may differ in color
in different mines that have been devel-
oped the trihe they have to Gate but in
general it is the same ore. The district
has done remarkably we'll for so young a
camp and the prospects in general are
hattering. He has not seen d true assure
vein there but there is much in the
camp he has not seen and it is there to a
certainty some place if not on the sur
face then at some depth. There is no
doubt but there are some good mines
as far north as White Horse Canyon but
he has his doubts about the belt extend
ing to Ft. Defiance Canyon. Work is
necessarily slow with 20 many poor men
holding claims and some of them hold
ing D,any. If the claims can be worked
to any extent at all, within three years
we shall see in Olinghouse a large and
prosperous mining camp with some very
valuable mines. So far from what he
has seer in Olinghouse and White Horse
the general formation dips to the west.
1t may with depth go to the east but he
does not know. There should be a large
and prosperous mining camp and valu-
able mines because the work to date
shows quite a number OF pay veins, the
gold having been forced up, and when
pay veins are found and followed they
lead to very large bodies of pay ore.
He feels no question about that and
that course persued to depth and success
will settle the permanency of the camp.
1t would take, the way things are going,
about three years, but something might
happen in the meantime. He, himself,
intends to stay with the camp for that
length of time and taking conditions
into conditions he does not see much
good sense in anybody interested in
O~linghouse leaving the prospects there to
strike out for Alaska. And about this
stage of the proceedings Mr.. Johnson
said he had not intended to say any
thing, got quite figety and made a break
for the door. A newspaper man has his
seasons OF joy and sorrow and they are
much mixed.
BORN.