The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-11-09

! to mans life, he made it known to his
nelghbors that he had found ore, some of
which had assayed as high as $40. 400 per
the story goes. He. then had $4,000 in
bank for ore he had taken out. Now he
has retired, and his chief pleasure is in
thinking, as he expressed 1t to Call
correspondent:
ITO have my friends find out that I am
not an old fool, as they said 1 was, is as
! better the mine
Prospectors Flock In.
Wedekind's discovery, which was I'M
wholesale prospecting on the hills and
mountains of w ashoe County, near Reno.
The odd story connected with Wedekind
IS mated with another equally queer con-
about thirteen miles from Reno.
Steamboat Springs has long been known
to the tourist. From time immemorial
from hundreds of crevices in the rocks
jets OF steam, accompanied by a sulphur
Gus smell and subterranean noises re-
sembling the violent bubbling of large
quantities of water, have given testi-
mony to natures incessant work in her
laboratory. These jets have been visible
from far off. During several years they
justified the maintenance of hotel and
By. and by the partial failure of the
supply of hot medicated water from the
springs near the hotel led to boring for
wells. Then some metal was discovered
The hotel caught fire and was burned
some time ago. The ground formerly
familiar to tourists is now staked out in
mining claims. There are scores of stakes
and other evidences of mining interest in
the view of all visitors to the steam
springs: To the casual observer it would
seem that the entire region had been
claimed. There is gold at Steamboat
Springs. That fact is certain. How much
there is may be another question. The
ore that comes to the surface is accom-
panied by scalding hot water.
We have tapped, said a grim miner
while the steam from the water made it
the mother lode. of HE'LL,
Rich Ores in View.
The Steamboat Springs exploitation has
increased the rush of prospectors. All the
hotels in Reno have been filled during the
last year and the hotel men have been
reaping a rich harvest The Riverside is
by a $40 600 structure. Everybody here is
anticipating boom. There are prospec-
ct Tuscarora, at Pyramid at Olinghouse
Canyon, in the Wedekind district and at
Steamboat Springs, all of which are trib-
utary to Reno. At each of these places
actual mining is progressing.
The Wedekind property was purchased
by the Sparks Mining Company in which
the principal owner is John Sparks. Adj
joining is the property which was worked
for short time by Bell of Colorado.
This is now tied up by litigation to. de-
termine the rights of the Sparks Mining
%oHpdlly " Inc Idnu GAINED Dy Bell and
his associates. The superintendent of the
Sparks Mining Company is c. L. Crane.
who is well known to mining men from
California. He. came here from Hayden
Hill There are thousands of tons of ore
in sight Crane says that nothing worth
less than 500 per ton is sacked. Some of
the ore assays $1,000 per ton.
The most striking statement made by
superintendent Crane is that, car for car.
the ore at the Wedekin discovery has
assayed higher than that taken from the
famous discovery in the Tonopah dis
trict, sixty miles from Candelaria. The