The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-06-19
0LlNGH0USE CANYON.
A Gazette Reporter Visits
the New Eldorado.

X. Stewart Gazette reporter visited
the most promising gold find that has
attracted attention in the west for fifteen
years, and one that will surely bring
Nevada and Washoe county into promi-
nence before snow flies. 0linghouse
Canyon is situated about eight miles
west OF Nadsworth, and we spent the
day visiting the mines.
The first claim visited was the Hutch
inson, owned by Robt. Pollock, y. A.
Hummel, W. Ii. McInnis and W. J. Sill.
They are down on ledge about 33 feet
from the surface. The shaft is 5x6 feet
and in solid ledge that has assayed all
the way from $500 to $40 ton, from the
grass roots down. They have about 80
tons of ore on the dump.
Ii the Hutchinson does not make its
owners rich the Gazette will give up
guessing.
The next claim visited was the Gold
Center, owned by Brooks McClane. He
has tunnel in twenty feet, and hardly
a piece of rock that comes out but what
shows free gold. About a hundred
yards from the Gold Center is claim
he is plea sed to call the Wire-Gold Cen
ter, that has a seam of wonderfully rich
stuff. The seam starts in at the surface
about as wide as ones finger and widens
so, at depth Of six feet, it is four
inches wide, and the reporter picked a
piece from the seam that was fully hall
wire gold.
The Mountain Boy was our next OBJ
jective point, and is owned by Messrs.
Gri iwoll, Mcpherson, Anderson and
Plane. 1t has tunnel in thirty feet
They are sacking the richest of the or,
taken out, and il. they can get one ton
apiece they win have all the money they
want.
No. 2 extension is down thirty feet on
ledge full thirty feet wide. This mine
is owned by McClane, Poole and Bellam,
and is one OF the most promising loca-
lions visited.
Proctor and Norris have two claims,
the Ora and Jennie G., that h9ve Ger
tainly very llatterIig prospects. In fact,
the Ora is without the range nf "pros.
pect" now, and is q well defined mine,
with eighty tons of ore on the dump,
hardly piece OF which will not assay
big.
Yesterday they came into the camp
with a two-stamp mill, removed from
White Horse, which they propose setting
up right away.
The Crown Point parallels the Ora on
the north, and is owned by Jack Shee-
han. He is taking out some very rich
ore.
The claims visited are mostly located
on green ,olored butte, about 800 or
1000 feet in circumference, which SEEM
ed to the reporter to he practically one
mass of wealth, and if McCanesburg,
as the new camp has been christened,
does not startle the world as a gold pro-
ducer, out-rivaling Cripple Creek or any
other mining region discovered in late
wears, not even excepting the Comstock,
the Gazette will be very much mistaken.
Brooks McClane and Fred Plane first
discovered gold in Olinghous Canyon
sometime early last winter.
The camp is the most fattering pros
pect Nevada has had since the flush
days of the Comstork. We are in nc
sense II mining expert, hut it don't seem
to us to be possible that such wonderful
rock can all be on the surface, for yo
can hardly pick up piece that does moi
carry free gold. We shall watch the
development ut McClanesburg with
reat interest, and shall not be surprised
TO see camp of three Thousand enthu-
siastic gold hunters by the first OF Sep
tember.
Over $500 has been taken out OF "a
pounds of rock, and 500 out of p
pounds.
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