The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-05-04
REPORTS FROM
CAMP HIGH GRADE

A letter was received this morning
from Dick Brennan, who is at the new
camp of High Grade, California, from
which the following is taken:
As to letting you know what kind Of
country it is, will say that it showed
about foot last night and added to
what we have got makes about IL feet.
Have been at the snow line with camp
about four miles from the High Grade
district for the past IL days, and can
not get any closer. AS to the mines,
personally | have not been able to see
anything but snow, but the snowshoe
men coming out are bringing gold
with quartz in it, so / guess they have
the goods, but as to the extent of the
district or the mines / am unable to
say. l will be in the district in the
next 10 days, as we will have q trail
open. New Pine Creek, Oregon it ON
the line between Orgon and Califor-
MIA and the High Grade district is at
Pine Creek, about eight miles from
the postoffice, in Modoc county, Cali
fornia. They surely expect a whole
lot at New Pine Creek. Every one is
busy putting up buildings. One can
not get lumber, and town lots shot up
from nothing to two and three thous-
and dollars, and plenty of takers at
that. The loot hills of this whole
range is situated on Goose lake. The
lake is about 45 by 25 miles and there
is about mile between the mountains
and the lake. Anything will grow here
that has root. If they haven't got
the gold in here they have the best lot
OF drilled home guards in the world,
for they all sing the some song.
As Seen by Other Eyes.
Two well known Utah mining men.
John Cleghorn and Henry Jones, have
reached High Grade, the sensational
new gold camp in northeastern Cali
fornia, 200 miles north of Reno, says
the Salt Lake Herald Republican. Mr..
Jones sends word back that there is
still lots of snow on the hills. He
had seen good looking ore from the
mines, but had not had time to give
the camp any kind of sizing up, and
in order to study surface conditions
in general would have to wait for the
snow to disappear.
Relative to the camp, the Fort Bid
well News says that the scenes in Fort
Bidwell these days remind one of the
early times along Feather river. Daily
there can be seen prospectors and min
ers panning rock and looking for COL
ors. They all carry a pocket full of
location blanks and are ready for a
rush to some new discovery to plant
them. 1t is picture of the early
mining days.
In the Lakeview Examiner the fol-
lowing unadorned view of one of the
properties is given:
The Sunshine mine is about nine
miles from New Pine Creek and is at
an elevation of about $500 feet. The
elevation at the creek is about 5000
feet, so you see we had some climb.
The snow got deeper and deeper as we
went up and in some places it was
soft. Your correspondent not only
occasionally up to the neck. The
weather was delightful and SO warm
that yours truly had to wipe the per-
spiration off the editorial brow.
"We made the camp of j. P. Bassier
on the Big Four by 1880 and after
good meal there climbed up to the
Sunshine. Mr.. Laughlin took US
through the 200-foot tunnel he has run
on that high grade property and we
both came away thoroughly convinced
that the High Grade camp has the
goods. Mr.. Rounsevell, who has been
through many of the Nevada strikes,
took samples of the ore and got big
colors in the pan from them. We took
samples of ore which assayed from
800 to $4,000 per ton. Besides the
200foot tunnel, the Sunshine has two
shafts down, one twenty and the other
forty feet. The average width of the
vein in the tunnel and in the two
shafts is seven inches. The average
values in the tunnel and in the forty
foot shaft are 5000 per ton and in the
twenty foot shaft the value of the
vein is $1,000.''