The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-11

Recent discoveries of gold and sill
yer ore on the Rose group of claims
in the Tuscarora district have arouse,
interest among mining men of thu
State. Last Sunday, says the Elk
Free Press, three of the best-knowl
mining and business men from tn
western part Of the State visited TIL
district and were shown about thu
property. They we're State Bank Elk
aminer Gilbert c. Ross, of Carson
City; Charles A. Stout and Sam Viii
OK, both prominent business men o
Reno. They were taken to Tuscarora
in autos and were accompanied by
Sheriff Harris, Editor S%teninger of the
Free Press. and C. d. Seymour. who
recently has interested large capital
from the East in mining property in
the Lynn district.
The mining claims. five in number
known as the Rose group, are situ-
ated two and a half miles west of the
old town of Tuscarora, and really are
a part of the original district in which
the discoveries were made that put
Tuscarora on the map. The first dis
coveries were made on placer grounds,
on what is known as Six-Mile creek,
just west of the Rose group.
Here the original town of Tusca-
rora was started, but with the opening
of the placers, miners from all parts
of the world began to flock to the new
strike. the most sensational since the
great placer strike in California. The
prospectors soon found the outcrop-
pings of the great Tuscarora ore
bodies, where the town is now To-
Gated, and in a few years the town
was moved to where it now stands.
Just below the hill on which the
Rose group is located, and in fact
tapping onto the lower claims. may
still be seen the workings of the great
placer from which more than $1,000
900 was taken. The old water ditch
is still visible, winding it's way across
the hill, that carried water to supply
the big hydraulics with which the
hills we're torn down to extract the
gold which had lain in Natures store
houSe for centuries
When the placer excitement haC
passed this ground was taken up BY
A. X. Rose, who, during his lifetime,
always maintained that the placer
gold came from this hill. He ran a
tunnel into the hill, and was killed
just at the time he had struck a rich
vein. Since his death his widow has
done the work on the claims, but
never developed the property.
Last spring Frank l.. Reber exam
ined the property and was so favor
ably impressed with it that he secured
control and formed a company, known
as the Rose Gold Mining Company.
Development work was started under
his direction, with the result that nu-
merous outcropping veins were found
with values running into the hun
dreds of dollars.
At the present time a tunnel is be-
ing driven to tap a series of lodges
at a depth of about 100 feet, the tun-
mel now being in about sixty feet, with
still about 240 feet to go to cut the
main vein shown on the surface.
Since the increased price of silver
has directed attention Of the mining
world to the old Nevada silver camps
resulting in the revival of the Eureka
and Austin mines, the old camp Of
Tuscarora has come in for its share
of attention. Prominent mining engi.
neers have visited the camp and news
of the finds on the Rose group has
gone forth. Without exception these
men have been of opinion that the hill
IN which the group is located will
develop an ore body that will equal
any Of the old Tuscarora mines from
which millions Of gold and silver have
been taken.
The party, under guidance of Johr
Flynn, superintendent of the company
vas taken over the ground and shown
the rich groupings at various points
and given actual demonstrations o
the values in both gold and silver, tn,
real stuff being PANIED out of the or,
taken from the veins by members o
the party. The ore was reduced witt
mortar and pestel, and PANIED on thu
spot, and long strings of colors awak
ened enthusiasm seldom seen in con
sentative and practical business mel
and miners. AS Governor Ross ex
pressed it, "Tuscarora. like Virginia
Eureka, and Austin. has a future il
keeping with its splendid past"