The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-05-19
KNOXVILLE NOTES.
Newsy Notes from the Famous Old Southern
Humboldt Camp

uumUOiut Numps
The Salt Lake Mining Review of May
18th publishes the following letter from
it's regular correspondent at Unionville,
in this county:
Work is progressing on the pipe line
between Indian Creek and Spring Valley.
Mr.. Fitting, the manager, who has been
in New York on business, is expected to
return today.
H. Pfuger of Los Angeles has paid his
mining property In Cottonwood a visit.
He expressed himself as being greatly
pleased with the outlook for the mine
One of his partners, j. G. Harvey, re-
mains at the property as manager.
J. Taylor of Bloody canyon continues
to work his antimony mine, occasionally
| making a shipment of high-graGe ore.
| L. III. Bradley returned short time ago
| from a visit to Fishers canyon, where
he has some very valuable copper prop
critics.
| The old Peru mine, which is being
worked by Mr.. Kelley, is being furnished
with an air compressor. Power is pro-
vIued by a large stream of water which
issues from an old tunnel This stream
| is sufficient, with the tremendous fall 1t
has, to run a mill were 1t to be situated
| tat ha hoe af he taf,
! About the most progressive work that
is being done in this vicinity is on the
stantly increasing and improvements are
being made, one of the latest of which
feet is to be emptied of water. A track
is laid on which two cars are made tc
the other. The larger car, in running
| down the incline, causes a bucket o
about 1872 gallons capacity to be lifted
from the shaft. The contrivance is yer,
interesting to watch in its operation. ant
does It's WOrk perfectly.
The Nevada Mining & Smelling Com
pany is continuing work on its proper
ties south OF Unionville. They have or
on each of the five dumps, and the Bad
ger, on which work is now being pushed
with energy, has three distinct veins
each of which is being followed. Thi
mine has about 100 tons of ore on th
dump at present.
1t is understood that quite larg
amount of prospecting is being done II
Limerick canyon. The mines in this can
yon were once valuable producers, and ;
small city was built there, but, like 81
many of Nevada's mining towns. all tha
is left is old ruins.
A strike has quite recently been mad
In property owned by Messrs. Cook an
Bartel. In American canyon. This can
yon has been rich producer In place
gold for many years. or late years, how
ever. II has been prospected almost en-
tirely by Cinnamon and it must be SAL
that many of them have made vast for
tunes In a few years. The annual output
shipped through express companies. be
ing high in the thousands.
About five or six years ago Messrs
Cook and Bartel invested in the lro
Hill. a quarz ledge. 1t seems that tn
whereabouts of this ledge has bee
known to the Cinnamon for some time
but reaping a sufficient harvest from tn
placers they made no effort to develo
1t and carefully guarded it from whit
prospectors; but after the present own
ers succeeded In acquiring the propert.
they have done quite lot of developing
work and have run on to the main ledge
which has a width of about twenty-tlv
feet and washes from rs cents to 81 pc
400 pounds. 1t contains quite good dea
of hard quartz which is entirely waste
in the washing process.
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