The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-03-05
district didn't look good to them.

district didn't look good to them.
| In the Silver Peak district, the first
discovery was Of the Vanderbilt group
(silver- lead), In the southern part Of
! the district made by teamsters haul
ing salt from the Silver Peak salt
marsh to the silver mills at Reese riv-
er (Austin). Their cattle were turned
out to Craze and stayed up to the hill
where these large lodes Of good lead
silver ore outcropped, and attracted
the attention of the teamsters. Later
ReinZi Hughes. tinsmith from Col
umbia, Tuolumne county, went to Es-
meralda district (nOw Aurora) Not
| finding anything TO suit him there,
sters, he went down there. He went
prospecting in canyon about four
miles north and discovered the large
gold veins upon which the property of
the Pittsburg- Silver Peak Is situated.
and which are keeping 100 stamps
dropping regularly. The Garfield dis
trict, which produced about $4,000. 900,
was found by a wood chopper. The
Indian Queen mine, near Benton, Mono
county. large producer. was found
by an Indian who showed 1t to Will
liam Witherell. The first discovery
in Bull Frog district was made by an
Indian, who showed it to Bob Mont
gomery. The Rawhide district Is on
the old Wadsworth road to Columbus
(the main freight road to southern
Nevada for many years). The lodes
were in plain sight. but no attention
was paid to them, until prospector
who had learned that it wasn't always
necessary to find a quartz outcrop to
get ore came along. The new camp
of Rochester is in an old mining dis
trict, but these large lodes were over
looked and neglected for many years.
Many deposits have been found,
worked for time, and abandoned for
one reason or the other and many of
these, when properly developed, will
be revived. Among the number are
such districts as Grantsville, Downie-
vile, lone, Lodi, Benton, Troy, Typo,
Liberty, Aurora (now being develop
ed), Belmont (again to be worked) },
Candelaria, Silver Star Garfield, Haw-
thorne. and hundreds of others. AS
these are revived and reestablished
the prospectors will get to work again
and with better conditions and better
knowledge Of ores many more dis
coveries of Importance will be made
The prospector relies, as a rule, on
the general average working out. He
realizes that he must expect to ex-
anime many lodes before finding a
good one, and therefore takes dsap-
pointments philosophically. Our most
successful mining men-Hearst, Lane,
Hayward, Haggin; and before them,
John Gashwiler, Henry Allen, Isaac
Bateman, Steve Roberts, and others
operated on the same general plan
except in a larger way: promising
prospect always appealed to them, anG
when they reached the position where
they could afford the loss of few
thousand dollars many prospects were
examined or developed. If they go
one mine out of dozen trials, ant
some Of these expensive, they came
out on the right side of hel edger
Companies organized to operate or
this basis, with sufficient capital to
handle the properties acquired, ar,
practically certain of success wher
carefully and economically managed
Give the prospectaor a fair show
Help him when you can, If you fint
him square, If 1t is only with an en-.
couraging word. When ne finds {
good prospect, don't try to beat hin
out Of 1t, but give him a fair chance
so that II it proves good he will de-
rive some benefit from his labor ant
exertions, and he will continue t
look for and find new and now un.
known mineral properties that vii
keep up and add to the mineral pro-
duction, and he won't ask or need any
government aid.