The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-01-08
WIINNEM MUCCA NOTES.
A GENERAL REVIEW OF THE
TOWN AND THE RESOURCES
OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY.
OTHER STRAY lots
OTHER STRAY JOTS.

WlDnemucca received considerable set
back when it ceased to be the passenger
division, but other causes more stable,
and which will be fully described later
on, have set the town again on her feet
to steadily improve as the years roll on.
Paradise, from the time it sprang into
existence had to make this town its dis
trlbutlng center, aud that farming dis
trlct has more than doubly increased its
output in the last two years. Hundreds
OF acres of sagebrush land have been re-
claimed and live stock has increased, in
proportion, to considerable extent.
Since Central District" has asserted
itself in the production of gold and sill
yer, Winneinucca is reaping all the
benefit by furnishing the means of trans
portation of the ore from the mines,
distance of % miles to the railroad depot.
Rabbit Hole" district, with its galena
and sulphur products, has also proved of
monetary benefit to the town.
Winnemucca is the county seat of
Humboldt county and will remain such
for an indefinite period. Lovelock dis
trict has been generally described in
previous issue of your paper.
Take it in all Humboldt, as one of the
centrally located counties of the State,
is the peer OF any of her sisters in size as
well as farming center. AS to its min
eral wealth, in sight and prospective,
Humboldt perhaps stands first as to
variety. In addition to the above mem
toned industries, there is Kennedy gold
district, as good as ever, only languish-
ing for outside investors with sufficient
capital to put in good reduction works.
There is an iron bearing belt, also vast
deposits of coal in and about Lovelock,
whose development is still in embryo;
there is the famous silver producing
zone in and about Unionville, with its
famous "Arizona" mine now lying dor
mant the same as the rich Paradise dis
trict, owing to the depreciation OF the
white metal, through national legisla-
tion. Last but not least comes Golconda,
which bids fair to become the most
thriving mining camp in Nevada. The
copper belt, which was thought to have
been confined to the Adelaide mines, IL
miles southeast of Golconda, has so far
been ascertained to extend fully 30 miles
northeast of that town, where Osburn
and Granite Greek canyons are situated.
From the fact that the northern ores
bear close resemblance to the mother
lode as to quality and quantity, it is in
ferred that all the copper strikes i'll the
shape of recorded claims, are either in a
continuation of the Adelaide ledge,
which is fifty-fve feet in width, or
branches thereof. There is no wilde
or "salted" schemes extant. The Glas-
gov and Western Exploration Company
of Glasgow, Scotland, with headquar-
at Salt Lake City, owns the Adelaide
mines. They erected their mammoth
concentrator, with daily crushing ca
pacity OF $50 tons, because they knew
that their undertaking rested on a sub
stantial foundation with acres of ledge
in sight. Add Gold Run district in its
vicinity, which abounds in placers and
quartz lodges, Golconda may confidently
look ahead to bright future and the
prospect of becoming populous town.
THE TOWN pRopEE
For sedate appearing town with a
population OF 1900 souls and well govern
ed, Winnemucca is up to date in every
respect, and exhibits in many things
even more than an average progressive
spirit. It's schools, conducted in splen-
did brick structure, are presided over by
bevy of competent home teachers as
follows: K. E. Winfrey of Reno, princi-
pal; Miss Alice EIDE of Reno, grammar
department; Miss Laura Miller of Win
nemucca, intermediate department; and
Miss Rose Gardner of Elko, primary
grades. Professor Winfrey is in his
ninth consecutive term, while the rest
have each served no less than three
terms, which fact reflects favorably on
the exceptional intelligence of the pres
ent Board of Trustees, composed OF S. j.
Bonnifeld Jr., Chris. Wolf and Jas. V.
Mcbride.
Educational ambition has also taken
| root in the grown people, i'll this that