The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-03-03
NEW COAL FIELDS
Reported to Have Been Disc0y.
cred Near White Horse,
Nevada.

mines out there.
The discovery Was made ahouta month
ago by Il Frenchman by the name OF
Frank Legay. The mite is located
about eight miles from Nadsworth,
twenty miles west OF Pyramid lake and
four miles from White Horse City.
1t has been known for IA number OF
years that there was coal in that vicin-
ity, but no one had ever been able to
find anything but small stringers whicl,
would not justify working.
To encourage prospecting the railroad
has had a standing offer OF s50,0 0 re-
ward to be paid to anyone who would
find "a good coal mine in Nevada. The
State al-o offers IL reward Of $4,000. No
one, however, has found anything be-
fore that was OF value. But Mr.. Legacy
claims, and is fully satisfied in his own
mind, that he has found the main depos-
it.
The discovery came about in this way I:
He and his brother have been prospect
Ing for gold in the vicinity of White
Horse City for about a year past. The
water where they were camped, being
strongly alkali, did not agree with his
brother, so on their prospecting trips
they kept a look out for better water.
One day they came upon a grassy place
which indicated that there was water
near by. In looking around they found
a spring. They drank some of the wa
ter and found that it had a strong taste
of coal oil.
MIR. Legay, who had worked in coal
mines and was familiar with the indica-
tions of coal, Immediately turned his. at
tention to prospecting for a coal mine.
He and his brother sunk fifteen holes
without success, but in the sixteenth
they were rewarded by finding a pros
pect. They followed it down. and at a
depth of 81 feet it had Increased to four
feet in thickness.
1t is of first class quality. and accom-
panied by every indication OF being all
that could be wanted in a coal mine.
The surface OF the ground is limestone,
and under it is a layer OF slate beneath
which. the coal lies. Under the coal t re
formation is granite.
About Il week ago, Mr.. Legav, berom-
ing convinced that he had mal. Il valu-
able discovery, went to Reno to see il
he could not get mrn interested who
would help develop the mihe and place
the coal on market. The propositions
he received in Reno were so unsatisfac-
tory to him, and having had experience
in losing the profits OF a discovery in the
past, he left Reno AMI started to walk to.
sacramento, where he has friends and
can get the proper kind of assistance.
He got as far as here and fell in with
Mr.. Meloche, to whom he confided his
business.
He has stayed here ever since and the
news of his discovery has been quite
we'll circulated around town. A number
OF the citizens here have interview ed
Mr.. Legacy, and everyone seems to think
that he has struck something worthy OF
attention.
There is strong talk OF a number OF the
leading business men here making loca.
tons in the vicinity Of the discovery.
They will probably not be able tn do
anything for some time OF account Of
the mine being situated in a mountain
u country, and very difficult of access
in the winter.
MIR. Talbot, who ranges his sheep near
White Horse City, and is acquainted
with that couptry, was in town Thurs.
day. He says there must be at least
four feet of snow ont there nov anl
it would be very difficult to do anything
just at present. The distance from
Wadsworth to White Horse City can be
made on horseback, but the rest OF the
journey would have to be made on snow
shoes.
Should the discovery prove what it has
been represented to be, it is OF great inn
pofLtucc, ana tIlOSe VINO are fortunate
enough to make good iocations there
will have fortunes, Gays the Truckee
Republican,
Walsworlh people have been startled
IN and Oh Tor the past twenty Years by
the cry OF II Ill 'covery OF coal near White
HORSE. We hope it is now like the old
fable in OF school books OF the boy
shepherd who cried "rhe wolfl" AMI
fooled the people several times and
couldn't arouse them when the wolf did
put in an appearances, and trnst that