The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-03-11
(Staff Correspondence.)

Sunday being a fine summer day, it
was decided to make the trip TO Sun
shine, in order to personally determine
whether there was any ground for all
the reports of great strikes that have
been current for the past month.
Although the Silver State, in its
Sunshine article Saturday, stated that
the camp is 20 miles distant from
Winnemucca, it is not that far--prob-
ably not more than is or IL miles. The
road leads down the valley south to
the Sonoma ranch, and when at a
point opposite the second windmill,
turn to the right and follow the road
to the camp. Sunday temporary sign
posts were placed along the road, one
at each fork, and there should now be
no difficulty for even stranger to
find the way. At this time of the
year the road is good, practically free
from dust and with but one or two
bad spots, which can be easily rene
died. Shortly after turning south
from the Southern Pacific track, in
leaving town, there is heavy stretch
of sand for two or three miles,, but
there is an abundance of sagebrush
growing near, which can be cut and
placed on the road, at a trifling ex-
pense. After leaving the Sonoma
ranch, the road crosses a drv bed,
which carries off the waste waters of
Clear creek at certain seasons of the
year. This should have a culvert.
1t is predicted that before the
Fourth of July there will be as many
people in Sunshine as there was at
Rochester at the high tide IN that
camp. and conditions would seem to
warrant this belief The camp will be
compelled to draw exclusively on Win
nemucca for its supplies, and will
prove an important feeder TO the
town. There have already been enough
mines discovered to support town as
large as Butte, Montana. Saying
nothing of Barber and Auburn can
yons, the entire range is heavily min
eralized, and in fact has been staked
from Sunshine to Mrs. Floyd's ranch,
a distance of over four miles.
An Ideal Situation.
Sunshine is certainly an ideal loca-
tion for a mining camp. Nestled in
the canyon, surrounded by hills on
three sides, it is protected from the
wintry winds, and the weather is so
mild that the miners go all winter
without wearing coat. There is an
abundance of water, in fact enough to
supply a town of several thousand in
habitants, and there is wood enough
in sight to run a good-sized mining
camp for long time. Standing in the
center of the camp and looking east a
view can be had of the Sonoma, Mel
son, Clear Creek and Floyd ranches,
from which an abundance of vege-
tables may be procured at reasonable
prices.
A Busy Day in Camp.
Although the day was Sunday, there
were large number of outsiders in
camp. C. P. Hoskins was there with
one of Haviland & Hoskins' machines,
having taken in Col. ]. P. Hutchinson
and l.. J. Kaiser, the latter Seven
Troughs operator. Col. Hutchinson is
an old Nevadan, having been foreman
of the Consolidated Virginia, on the
Comstock, for nine years during the
70's. From there he went to Mexico,
where he secured control of the fam
GUS "San Toy' mine, near the city
of chihuahua. Some two years ago
he sold this property to Charles M.
Schwab, the ironmaster, and returned
to his first love. In conversation with
the Silver State representative, Col.
Hutchinson expressed himself in the
following terms regarding the camp;
''I like the formation here better
than any have seen in Nevada. 1t
is of porphyry and lime, which always
takes kindly to mineral Mr.. Kaiser
and myself have just closed an op-
tion on a property here, which runs
for thirty days, and at the end of that
time will undoubtedly locate here and