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bar berfor en- ifps 90 lopenbe Srem-
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II 9partieftioner I. ,ss 90 sSf; :r, msa !ssr &
nnpb~sS feoIaHb. fom pi bar ilialas bel sire Topus
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fieste. Ten riae 9crbbuRb. hen ~npnsrliee @rnsreri
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The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-08-07
WILL SUE FOR
SHORTAGE

committed some years before they
were arrested and before it was even
detected.
Friends Of the parties who will be
made defendants to the action If
brought, say that they have no fear as
to results, and that beyond possible
annoyance 1t will not result seriously.
The testimony at the trials showed
plainly that the shortage occurred be-
fore Mr.. Adams administration and it
Is reasoned that he cannot be held
responsible for shortage that existed
before he had the mint, even though
he did execute receipt In full to hi.
predecessor in ofiice.-News.
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-08-07

1t is understood from good authority
that United Statss District Attor-
ney Sardis Summerfisld has been in
structed to begin action against Ex-
Governor ]. w. Adams and his bonds
men for the recovery Of the amount Of
the Mint Shortage.
The amount is $75, 600 and fraction
and Mr.. Adams hondsmen were Il. NJ.
Yerington, T. B. Hickey and Jacob
Klein, the latter being deceased.
The action comes somewhat as a sur
prise when 1t Is considered that the
two men convicted Of the crime have
both served their sentences and are
again at liberty and that the crimewas
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-08-07
Working q Gold Nine.

Allen b. Lemmen, postmaster of
Santa Rosa, Cal, accompanied by A.
b. Lennon Jr., came in from Mono
county last evening where they are
engaged In operating the Almono
mine. They continued on to Santa
Rosa. Almona mine is property that
was discovered half dozen years ago
and which has been worked intermit-
tity producing a considerable quantity
of gold bullion. The pay streak is
eighteen inches wide and carries 9s per
cent of is values in gold.-Journal.
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-08-07
THE FORESTS THAT
SUPPLIED COMSTOCK
HISTORY OF THE LAST DRIVE THAT
FLOATED DOWN THE RIVER.

gagged In the business and all doing
well. They each employed crew Of
men and when payday came at the
end Of the drive there was the liveliest
time that this section remembers of.
At the time the Bonanza people,
Joe Douglas, Sharon, and in fact all
the mill and mine owners on the Conn
stock and along the river depended OH
the supply from the head of the Car
son river. The supply was furnished
and what could not be hauled by the
railroad was taken from Empire to
the Cemstock by tsams which kept
many animals and men busy the year
round.
time ON the amount averaged about
10000 cords for this flrm alone. Every
stick was driven into the river, some
OF 1t going as far as Dayton, where the
Douglass and Rock Point mill and the
Sutro tunnel made the demand. Others
followed in the wake of the pioneers
and in 1888 half dozen men were en-
THE COMBINATION DRIVE.
1t WAS not until the year of 1875
that the wood contractors at the head
Of the Carson conceived plan. They
were to make II combination drive.
The idea was to combine tissues, take
the wood to Empire, and thus save a
separate drive for each individual.
The plan was agreed upon and by the
nood water Of the spring everything
was ready. 5000 cords of wood was
thrown into the river. By the time
that the first stick reached Empire
the last stick was in the stream at
Silver King, the head water. The
amount was more than the contractors
figured on. The river was simply one
solid mass Of wood for the seventy-five
miles and men were stationed from
one end to the other. mi spite of the
immense drive very small per cent
OF the wood was lost. The plan of the
drive worked to perfection, but the
amount of wood on hand glutted the
market. Wood that sold for $40 a cord
the year before could be bought for s4
and the result was that most of the
wood men were broke when the settle
ment came. Those who sold by con-
tract before the drive came out all
right, but those who waited for the
market had to unload in order to pay
the men. The wood was sacrificed
and most Of the wood contractors went
out of business for good and all.
After the drive, the wood was corded
along the river bank and double tier
Of wood extended from the mills at
Empire to the Cook ranch. 1t was
gradually sold of and before the last
stick was disposed of some of it had
rottsd to the ground. This was the
last big drive that ever came down
Carson river, and people along the
banks from Markleeville to Empire
date history from the time of the COM
bination wood drive
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-08-07
STATE
NEWS

A thief stole coat from Constable
at Winnemucca a few days ago, which
seems TO be carrying the thing too far
The Gazette says the work of laying
out the Southern Pacific shops at East
Reno has commenced.
The Reno Gazette says that Town.
send, recently appointed mechanic at
the State ASYLUM, is resident of
Sacramento.
The Revellie is authority for the
statement that Austin Is In danger of
becoming depopulated shortly. People
are leaving the camp every day.
The Bradley Land and Cattle Com
pany, of Deeth, will cut four thousand
tons of hay on it- Elko county land
this season.
The Searchlight miners and mine
owners are still playing a freeze out
game over the wage question aud busi-
ness houses Of the camp are going out
of business.
Buyers are busy all over the state
securing horses for eastern shipments
Good horses are reported as being
rather scarce at any price.
Ore running S32 In gold and $l2 in
silver has been discovered near Pedro
City, Churchill county, and no little
excitement has been created Twelve
distinct lodges have thus far been en-
countered.
Martin Bargon, tailor of Austin,
has been bound over to appear before
the grand jury on two different charg-
es of selling whiskey to Indians. Bar
gon Is an old offender.
The De Lamar Lode warns all men
looking for employment to keep away
from Southern California and Nevada,
As the mines are closed down at pres
ent and there are hundreds of idle men
In those sections.
The Tonopah ball pine won the
game played with the Esmeralda nine
at Hawthorne last Sunday. Besides
the $500 bet between the two sides, 1t
Is said the Tonopah sports cleaned up
M several thousand dollars
The Journal announces that Aleck
Mckenzie, the Carson City boy, who
has ,een riding this season with the
Reno wheelmen, will be unable to ell
ter any more races this year owing to
the injuries he recently received.
There is a controversy over the ques-
ton whether the preliminary hearing
Of Frank Smith for the murder of
Walter Dunn should be held in Bel
mont or Tonopah. The sheriff refuses
to take Smith to the latter place, fear
ing he will be lynched
The sheepmen, numbering seventeen
and representing 10000 sheep, held a
meeting in Bridgeport last Saturday
evening and raised $4,000 to cover the
expenses of lawyer fees aud witness
expenses in the case before the Circuit
Court In San Francisco, in regard to
the injunction cases Of sheep herdinl
in the Stanislans Forest Reserve.
Walter Chedia will test the practi
bility of pumping water by electrica
energy, to irrigate land Rear Carson
Mr.. Chedc has forty acres close a
hand and a well will be sunk immed
lately. A small motor and rotary
pump is expected to do the rest. Th'
result Is highly important to that sec
ton of the country.
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-08-07

Should the average citizen stop to
consider the amount Of timber that
has been buried in the Comstock mines
he would be surprised and amazed.
Whole forests have been cut to supply
the demand, and as q hundred differ
ent parties have had hand in the cut
ting and bartering Of the timber the
amount used will never be known.
All that is left to mark the record 10
the fast decaying stumps of the man,
moth pines and other trees that are sup
porting the dangerous ground hundreds
of feet below the surface of the old
lake.
The mountains west of this town
were cleaned for the purpose of furn-
shing timber and wood for the mines
and mills. The axe of the woodchoper
then went further back and raked of
the hills about Lake Tahoe. 1t was 4
crime, but that Is ancient history.
Thousands Of train loads of dimension
lumber was sent to the mines where
they are buried in drifts that are
abandoned and In number of instan-
ces the timber went into wild cats that
never gave back dollar for the value
cut into the ground. The amount
used for timber will never be known,
as most Of the books of the old com.
panies have gone to the waste heap
and the contractors who cut the timb-
er are either dead or have moved to
other sections. However the old tim
er remembers the old bell teams that
hauled the forests to the Comstock,
and most of them can recollect when
the forests back of Genoa were covered
with the virgin pine and the big trees
extended down into the valley.
ON CARSON RIVER.
Carson river, or the valleys at the
headwater, furnished most of the fire
wood that steamed the boilers that
brought the bullion to the surface
The mills along the river that crushed
the rock were also supplied with wood
from the river and the number Of
cords that they required would reach
into the million mark. A trip through
the section that furnished the flrewood
is interesting. For miles and miles
the hills and valleys are denudsd Of
the best timber that could be found.
The wood man had an easy game. He
cut along the banks Of the Car
son, waited for the high water
mark and made drive down the
river. The distance IL fully seventy
five miles, but there was little loss on
account of the distance.
Among the first men to go into the
business of driving the river were
Sabin and Bryant. The went to the
head of the Carson in 1883. The first
years cut amounted to 5000 cords.
The wood was cut in four foot lengths
and was split when it reached Empire.
The following year the wood was split
on the ground and the amount in
creased to 10000 cords. From that
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-08-07
SILENT MONUMENTS
OF BRITISH FOLLY
How They Were Built
with England's Gold
in Alpine County.

Alpine county, California which is
now coming to the front as a mining
section and which promises to be the
next center Of mining industry can
boast of more monuments of folly In
the mining way than any section that
can be pointed to In this Western
country.
SILVER MOI NTAIN.
In the early days some NorweIgen
prospectors uncovered what Is now
known as Silver Mountain. Specimens
of ore brought In proved to be high
in value and a mad rush was made
for the camp. Before the people rea-
lized it, camp of goodly proportions
started and the wild times of the
Western mining camps followed. There
were stores, saloons, residences and In
fact substantial town to greet the
people when Chalmers, an Englishman,
came to that section and in a short
time had his English hackers produc-
ing hard English pounds to carry on
the work that was proposed.
When Chalmers purchased the mines
the old IXL and Exchecquer, it was
being worked through a shaft and
considerable bullion was taken out
Some Of the ore removed from the
shaft was exceedingly rich but as the
water was coming i'm Chalmers decided
to run tunnel into the mountain and
tap the ledge at depth of nearly q
thousand feet. He went to England
raised the necessary fee and started to
work He palnned on a mamoth scale
The tunnel was cut 8xil feet in the
clear and two mules could pass each
other In the workings. Pending thu
development OF the tunnel, Chalmen
erected mill of twenty-five stamps
The very best material that could bt
purchased was put into this work
Judge Arnot's father afterwards
erected another mill, almost dupli
cate, and all before the tunnel had
tapped the ledge. The mills wert
erected pending the uncovering of the
ledge
ExTRAvAaANcE AND DELAY
The company's houses were built o
the best material that money could
buy. There was comfort and luxury
about the camp and Chalmers was
busy taxing his English hackers. The
big tunnel was pushed Into the hill
over four thousand feet and when hi'
efforts Seemed ready for crowning
word came from London to shut dowr
the works, as the funds had given out
Chalmers begged 10 be allowed t.
finish but his financiers were deter
mined and the work was abandoned
with few hundred feet of tunnel ye
to drive. Chalmers returned TO Eng
land, deserted his wife and babies, ant
left them to struggle with the fast de
caying camp. He never returned ant
and today his wife remains in one o
the houses that marked his extrava
gance In the early days. 1t is said tha
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-08-07

Onallnen spent over ulltilon uuu q
half dollars in the prosecution Of the
work and only left a monument to his
folly. The mills were gradually dis
mantled. One was bought last year
by Alex McCone and 1t had never turn
ed wheel nor had there ever been a
fire under the massive boilers that
was meant to drive it.
Power drills, water drainage pipe,
air pipes and thousands of dollars
worth of tools were left in the tunnel
or east aside when the final breaking
up came. The miners hurried to other
places of note where mining could be
carried on and the camp in a few
months was as deserted as it Is today.
The material has either been stolen or
carried off and Is now in use In other
sections.
LEFT THIS BEHIND.
After the breaking up of the camp
there was an article that the miners
and those who followed, left behind,
and this was the powder magazine.
In this magazine there is stored today
fifteen tons Of giant powder with fuse
and caps. The glycerine has seeped
out Of the powder and left it In a con.
dition that no one cares to trifle with
it. Just how this escaped the hands
of someone who likes to see fireworks
Is not known, but the powder is there
for anyone who has the nerve to move
it. Some one had the nerve to tear
the door from the house and the party
has free access if he has pluck TO carry
Off the explosives.
AT Loope, or Monitor, the same ex
travagance and expenditure is in evi.
dence. Tunnels thousands of feet long
can be found on either side. The big
porphyry hills are drilled full of holes
that cut wide open hole in the treas
ury of good old Englands' coin. There
was enough English money used in
this section to carry on war for sew
eral months, and the worst of it all,
the Englishmen received no bullion
values in return. Every Superintend'
ent that went into this section tried
to outdo his neighbor IN extravaganza
and from appearances each made a sue
cess In his line. The decayed ruins OF
mining ventures can be found along
the river, Air pipes, drain pipes,
broken down mills and useless engines
decorate the side of the big hills, all
monuments to folly of men, who
mined without knowledge of what they
were after, and monuments to the
wealth of British money advancers
The failure of the many projects In
Alpine county resulted in genera
determination on the part of the Brit.
ish people to keep out of American
mines for a good many years 1t Ii
only of recent years that mining
venture of any kind sounded good tc
foreign capital but they are taking &
shy glance at the workings of year
ago.
Today there is bright prospect o.
revivalin these districts that cost Sc
much money and resulted in so little
production. A few mines are now
turning out bullion. The mines art
being worked in modern way, th'
men in charge are miners and arr
working to make the properties pay
This is having good effect, and with
the Loope property on the bullion pro
ducing basis, the future of Alpine coun
ty is brighter than at any time sine
Chalmers and his associates buried th'
millions Of English money in the hill
of old Alpine.--Appeal.
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-08-07

A ranch in the vicinity of Lovelock,
consisting of 240 acres, was sold for
$l5, 900 this week.
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Stir $500 nad 9elltidlanO.

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