Lovelock tribune. (Lovelock, Nev.) 1898-1912, 1907-02-01
EARLY HISTORY
OF COAL CANYON
Uncle" Geo loveIock Tells Of
Experiences in Early Days.
L0vELOcK DISTRICT ORGANIZED
How the Canyon Got its Name and
About the Discovery of the An
tim0ny Mine.

EDITOR TRIBUNE: Let me inform
you about the Coal Canyon, how it
got the name. In 1868 | discovered
the mines in Arabia, to the northeast
of Trinity District, and A. w. Mason
& Go. put up Smelling Works at Ore
ana. When the railroad came along
there was piled up by the roadside
2250 tons of sacked pig" Bullion
weighing about S0lbs each. The Bull
lion carried about $3.50 per ton in
gold and silver, smelted from the
Arabia ore. But on account of carry
ing one-half lead and the other half
antimony it was very hard to separate
and was the cause of shutting down
the smelter. Now, for the smelling
of the ore the charcoal had to be
made in the East Range and that was
the way it came down through that
Canyon, before the Antimony was
thought of, hauled by OK teams.
MINING DISTRICT ORGANIZED.
Having duly posted notices atthree
different prominent places, meeting
of the miners was held at the house
of Geo. Lovelock, Sr., Lovelock Hum
boldt County, Nevada, for the purpose
of organizing a mining district on the
East side of and from Lovelock to be
defined as follows:
Commencing at Lovelock and run
ming in southerly direction down to
the south side of the Humboldt Lake
to the County line between Humboldt
and Churchill Counties; thence east
erly along the line to the White
Cloud wagon road; thence northerly
to Rochester Canyon; thence wester-
ly to Oreana Station on the Central
Pacific railroad; thence south west to
Lovelock, place of beginning. The
same shall be known as the Lovelock
Mining District.
The meeting being called to order
Frank Francis was chosen president
and Franklin S. Reeves, Secretary.
Art The following resolutions
were made and adopted as Articles of
Government of the District.
Art 2-We adopt the above Dis
trict as laid out and TO be known as
Lovelock District.
Art 3-That we adopt the Mining
Laws of Congress as they now stand.
Art 4-That the miners shall have
Thirty days to complete putting up
monuments.
Art 5-That for working assess
ments five dollars per day shall be
counted for assessment work per man
and six dollars per day for Overseer.
Art 6-That all work done on
building roads, trails, mills, etc, for
the benefit of the said Mines, shall be
counted as work done on the mines.
Art THAT thirty days shall be
given for recording, after finally
erecting monuments.
Art 8-That the recording be done
in the County Records of Humboldt
County, Nevada.
Meeting adjourned subject to call
of President.
The foregoing approved and signed
May 23. 1894. FRANK FRANCIS.
President
FRANKLIN S. REEVES, Secretary.
Received for record and recorded
in Book of Notices, Humboldt County
Nevada, May 27, 1893 j. j. HILL,
County Recorder.
Correct Copy of Record)
HISTORY OF ANTIMoNY NINE.
Now about the history of the An
timony. In 1868 was up there af-
ter fire wood and in the ravine found
some large heavy Jumps of Anthony
and made a location. After that |
gave 1t to old DR.. Pollard and he did
some work on it and it showed very
good ore. One year after Pollard
got sick and went to the Hospital at
Winnemucca, | located it in my own
name. for Pollard Some little time
after, Hans Bender came down to
me and said, Il see you have relocat-
ed the Antimony mine.' | said, "Yes,
| located it for DR.. Pollard" and he
said What do you want for it?' !
said. IF it is for Pollard will take
one dollar for il that will mako II