The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-11-09
Groom District Scene
Of Much Activity Now.

drift made sometime ago. This rises
to the 100 level, and with further
work is expected to increase in guam
tity. 1t is proposed now to unwater
this section and prospect it, and af-
ter finding what quantity of water
can be relied upon. to adopt a bet 4
ter method of jigging ore than has
been heretofore used
II may take a considerable amount
of work to determine that water
enough exists for general mill use. n
The country generally. is desert and N
springs a few, small, and far between,
have nearly all been appropriated by 1
cattlemen Ii
heavy duty steel truck capable
of carrying from 6 to 10 tons of ore
at load, is now being tested out \
on the road to Indian Springs. II h
it works as the makers expect, 1t 4
will cut the ore-haul cost on that &
part of the road, in half. The road
is dry and dusty and will not be 4
good until after a storm. so that the /
machine so far, has not had a fair I
chance to demonstrate just what ad- i
vantages it possesses, If any, over
the one formerly used.
new road, intended to cut out
Quartz Springs, and leave it sew
eral miles to the east, is being locat-
ed. Only two miles or so Of 1t will
require any particular work. 1t is
expected to shorten the distance be-
tween the mine and Indian some sew
on miles, and will be naturally hard
er, and will last longer than the
present one under heavy traffic. The
present road, on the dry lakes near
Indian, and in the Groom valley,
running over silty, soft ground, 60
es to pieces in few weeks dry
weather under heavy loads and can
not be relied upon.
Groom residents hope to see the
, county road outfit working on the
road between camp and Pahranagat
valley. This part of the road is al
so part of the old overland road to
California and the number of travel
ers over it since autos have become
, in common use, is growing greater.
Only few places on it require par
, ticulars work to make it swift and
a sure road We need it to get to
and from the county seat Phoebe
people are interested in this district
: and we do not like the idea of hav-
ing to go via Indian Springs, Las
Vegas and Caliente-about 275 mil
: es, at loss of two days time and
considerable expense, when a run by
6 Pahranagat valley of 80 odd miles,
I dependent on how the road is finally
" finished up, can be made in seven
h hours or less. We realize that there
h will always be a good line of COM
a munication between Caliente and Pah
ranagat, and Pahranagat being only
n 43 miles from Groom, general freight
\ and express matter from the east
~ and north, can be brought in cheap
IS er than by way of Las Vegas.
,s The Groom Southend company is
"A about to resume operations and we
- hope to see others owning claims In
IN the gulch take up work on them. The
Y fall and winter months are good fol
Il work in this section. Oak Spring!
k district 20 miles west across tn,
valley from here, promises to hav,
~ considerable work done this comm,
~ winter. w f. Smith lately made
,b shipment of ore from there that raj
- over 40 per cent lead, 22 or silver
with gold enogh to be paid for. Lac
of water keeps prospectors out dur
ing the summer months. The dis
" trict has extensive copper and silver
lead veins and indications, with gol
bearing quartz and has big promis
at for the future; but it is not ye
spoken of as poor mans caml
at meaning that it will take more or les
capital to open it up and may not b
av self-supporting from the start
The postoffice established at II
dian Springs has proven a big col
ess venience to this camp. We get quicl
on er delivery of mail and with LEI
ur- change of loss than formerly, and
DIS, brings the parcel post service to
ire point where we can get big benel
he from it. Before the opening of tn
ak Office our mail came from Las Vega
on which is 100 miles away.
,st. Groom now has ten resident fan
ped lies and ought to have school di
ev- trict This has been talked of for
time and may yet take definite shar