The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-11
NEWS OF Dis
TRICT BEYOND
NJ. CREEK CANYON
Almost Virgin Field For the Pros
pcctor-Immensc Quartz
tie Starta.

head of hurry Creek canyon Satur-
day morning | began the descent
through a rolling, heavily-wooded
section for perhaps twenty miles.
There was plenty of evidence of the
.'grasping American" reaching out
to some distance from Ely for the
land, both mineral and wooded, had
surveyors stakes in every direction
River valley, Lund and Preston
could be seen away off in the dis
lance across the sagebrush and white
sage fiat. AS drove along near the
base of the mountains | could trace
an immense quartzite strata running
through the range for many miles.
The range seems to be heavily min
eraliZed and should say that it pre-
sents an almost virgin field for the
prospector, for with but few excep-
tons the range seems to be a total
stranger to the prospector's pick,
and, by the way, i will say right here
that this seems to be the case in
every section | have visited. The sur
face roots have hardly been disturbed
yet. and there lies hidden beneath
the earth's surface in every hill in
White Pine county untold wealth
that future generations will find
Away back in 1865 a stock range
and farm was located where Lund
and Preston stand today by James
Wetherington, man who did
things in the good old days, and
was one of White Pines leading citi-
zens. He located ranches, mines and |
water and built a large brick block |
in Hamilton, but lost it all in the |
whirlpool of depression that came to |
the state few years later. He
moved to some place in California |
and put out his light by bullet from
pistol, a disappointed man. In
1898 the ranch was bought by the
Moran church, subdivided and laid
off in two townsites, Lund and Pres |
ton, six miles northwest of Lund. |
The town of Lund is laid off in eight
acre blocks and the farming land is
divided into five and ten acre plots
and watered from four springs in
or near Preston. These springs fur
nish approximately, 1.400 inches of
weirdam measurement. Lund cult
Yates 1900 acres of land in grain,
vegetables and hay. There are three
pastures lying four miles south con-
tanning 1900 acres. Lund is colon
lied by forty families and has a
school population of 1872, perhaps
the largest number of children ac-
cording to population of any district
In the county, If not in the state, and
shows that our Mormon friends take
no stock in the race suicide question
that seems to be worrying so many
people. The control of the colony
Is under the management ecclesi-
astically of Bishop o. H. Snow, who
Is assisted by two councilmen. The
colony has a Sunday school num-
bering 125 and services are held in
the church every Sunday afternoon
The average acreage of land cult
waited by each family is about IS
acres. There is a tithing of ten per
cent OF the net income paid into the
church fund by every family every
year. This, however, is optional
with the tillers of the soil, but if
they are good church members they
Will pay it without a question, but
| the custom Is taught by the Mormons
| as financial law. The Lund col
| ony own about 1000 head of cattle
and all the work horses necessary to
he successful cultivation of the soil.
The colony is very prosperous and
every farmer is making a good liv-
ing and laying away little every
year for old age. Bishop Snow is
much beloved by every member of
the colony and is very popular
Bishop Thomas Judd was the first
bishop of the colony and laid the
foundation for the high standard it
has attained. Bishop Judd had the
selling of the land and fixed the price
per acre. After the colonists had
paid for II the church gave the pur-
Chaser a clear title to his holdings.
They were given five years in which
to make final payment. Lund has
store owned by corporation of
| which Bishop Snow Is the principal
stakeholder, and everything in the
line Of general merchandise is car
| ried in stock. 1t also has a pnblic
| school In which two teachers are en-
ployed and the trustees of the dis
| trict are M. w. Harrison and Heller
G. Smith. w. M. Harrison is also
the postmaster at Lund. Lund is
one OF the few places in Nevada that
has not single saloon. The Lund
colony seems very prosperous and
happy in little world by itself
Saw Mill Canyon.
Saw Mill canyon is seven miles
northeast OF Lund and is heavily
mineralized on either side. Long
years ago there was a saw mill there
which manufactured the lumber used
at the old camps OF Taylor and Ward.
There are several promising pros
poets IN the danyon. but as vet they