Lovelock tribune. (Lovelock, Nev.) 1898-1912, 1909-10-01

of Spring Valley and American and
Limerick Canyons, is the center of the
greatest activity in mining of any of
the various CAMPS tributary to Love
lock. While operations in all of the
various other camps is practically sus-
pended, or if not suspended being con.
Quoted in a small way, operations at
these pioneer old camps of Spring Val
ley and American Canyon are being
pushed forward with greater zeal, with
the general prospects brighter, than
ever. There is something about Spring
Valley that reminds one of "The
Eternal City, There has always been
something doing in Spring Valley
since the camp was discovered, nearly
60 years ago-always men working in
some properties. When Virginia City
was in its glory mining was going on
in Spring Valley and American Canyon
on a large scale and there are many
old works of 700 and 500 feet depth
that were dug so yaars ago. just be-
fore the Tonopah boom, when mining
in the state of Nevada was at its low
est ebb, and when operations in Hum
boldt county were suspended with the
exception of one or two producing
mines, active work was still being car
ried on in this vicinity. Now, when
neighboring camps of younger birth,
that have suddenly flared up and held
the very center of the stage of public
interest, and have quieted down to al
most stagnation, these old camps of
Spring Valley and American Canyon,
never booming, never being doomed,
are still pegging away, buster than
ever, the prospectors brighter than
ever. In our rounds for news this
week, as we picked up the following
stories of what is going on in a mining
way in Spring Valley, we wondered
why it was that so much money had
been spent there, and why the big ex-
penditures for development that were
to be made. We asked one of the dis
trict claim owners, man who own
ing property in that vicinity has year
after year pushed ahead on its de-
velopment, why the faith in that dis
trict never semed to waver, or if the
old faith wavered, it was supplanted
by new blood and new faith. There
has been little shipment made from
these camps in the past. There are
stories to the effect that millions in
bullion were taken out in the earlier
days, but this has been stated to have
been greatly overdrawn, and it is
doubtful if there was ever the big
production accredited to this section
by some promoters. At any rate there
has been no production of late years
to warrant the hundreds of thousands
of dollars expended annually in this
district. So we questioned the mining
man as to the reason.
"The reason" he said, "is simple.
Pick up piece of float in this dis
trict and it may assay in gold 10 cents,
it may assay $50, it may possibly be
high grade, but always there will be a
showing of gold in it, The hope of
finding this in place has been RESPONSE
BILE for much of the continuous opera
tons. On my properties / have had
high grade ore of so pounds weight,
and / have been offered thousands of
dollars for the claims but l have re-
fused, and still I have never been able
to find this mineral in quantity in
place. The values are so generally dis
tributed that there is a showing in ev
cry cropping, sufficient to warrant ex-
tensive development. While 1 have
worked on one side of the mountain,
others have worked on the opposite
side, and we have gone on for years
developing our properties trying to find
our ore in place and in quantity, while
other property owenrs have been do
ing the same. have marveled at the