The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1907-04-30
Mine FOUND AFTER
"a YEARS

After 60 days of plodding over the
mountains and across the desert in
search of lost mine. Hamilton San
born and A. A. McKinnon returned to
Rhyolite Tuesday fully rewarded for
all the hardships and privations which
they had undergone. They found the
old mine, staked out thirteen claims
and brought with them samples of ore
taken from the surface that carried
$116 in gold and 5 per cent copper to
the ton
Hamilton Sanborn, who is an old
time miner and assayer, discovered the
property nearly quarter of Gen.
tury ago. He staked out claims at the
time, took away with him samples and
assayed them and found that they ran
high in both copper and gold, but ow-
ing to the isolation of the place he
could not interest capital and gave
them up.
For all of these years he has
dreamed of the place and wondered if
some lucky miner had stumbled upon
his claims The property lies in a rug
ged country just across the Colorado
river in Arizona. Tt is 35 miles from
Gold Butte, New, and 55 miles from
blackberry, Arizona At the time San
born made the discovery "a years ago
it was in the neighborhood of what
was then known as Scanlon's Ferry
on the Colorado river.
The name of the ferry has been
changed since that time and Sanborn
and MeKinnon had great difficulty in
locating the place.
They spread the news of their dis
covery upon their arrival in Rhyolite
Tuesday and stated that rush would
We made to the place. They say that
aside from the thirteen claims taken
by them Mike Scanlon, the old-time
friend of Sanborn, and the man who
owned the ferry when he made the
discovery first, fled on six other
claims. A large scope of country still
remains unstaked. The property lies
near the corner of the three states OF
Nevada, Utah and Arizona and may be
reached from blackberry, Ariz.. OF
from Las Vegas, New. From Las We
gas the first point is Moapa, thence st
Thomas and thence Gold Butte and te
Griggs' Ferry, the new name which
has been given to the ferry. 1t is
within sixteen miles of the GRAND
Canon of the Colorado.
The ore exhibited in the Miner office
is of splendid quality Tt fairly made
the heart of Sanborn, the old miner
and assayer, beat with pride. In de-
scribing the property he said:
"Both gold and copper. abound
The surface samples which we took,
we had not the time to do anything
else, give returns of SIG in gold and
show s per cent copper There is an
s-foot vein which is traceable along
the surface for 5000 feet. 1t looks
Just like the mother lode of California
The top or surface is composed OF cop
per and iron gossan on tapborite, un-
derneath of which is gray copper. The
country is granite, danked by lime
contact.
"The vein, which runs southeast.
after going about 5000 feet lntersects
a ledge running north and south. This
is called an aubuttle intersection.
eve located seven claims on the
mother lode. Four of these we de
nominated the Gold Coin group and
the other three we named the Jack
rabbit group. We located group OF
six claims which we named the Pearl
about mile east of the other prop
erty. My old friend, Mike Scanion
also staked out six claims. Aside from
these the country is virgin. Bull
frog Miner.