Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-08-07
Broken Hills is in
Mineral County

Churchill County is out OF the run
ning in so far as its claim is concerned
to Broken Hills being within its boun.
Diary lines. 1t has just been definitely
determined that the camp is situated
partly i'll Nye County and partly il
Mineral County. Nye county work
men have already started removing
the sagebrush from Main street here
and will grade it for its iull length.
Surveyor l.. B. Spencer, employed
by the Mineral County Commissioners
to establish the lines between Nye and
Mineral Counties, stated today that
the Broken Hills mine, the camps bic
property, now being operated by the
Broken Hills Silver Corporation, is
III both Nye and Mineral Counties.
The townsite is located OH the Crack
er Jack claim OF the Broken Hills Sill
yer Corporation at the Southeastern
end of IS property. 1t is here that
Nye County has started removing
sagebrush from the streets prior TO
grading for a distance. Surveyor
Spcncers official statement that part
al the Broken Hills property is in
Mineral county, taken in conjunction
with Nye county's activity i'll street
grading, makes it apparent that the
northern end of the Broken Hills mine
is in Mineral County and the southern
end i'll Nye.
This line of demarcation places the
Silver Trailer property adjoining the
Broken Hills Silver Corporation OH
the southeast, in Nye County, and the
Thompson group, adjoining the Bro
ken Hills on the west, in Mineral
county.
The Mineral County commissioners
will on Thursday hold a meeting il
Hawthorne and hear the report OF Sur
veyor Spencer 1t is expected that
before the meeting convenes some adj
judication will be reached between
Mineral and Nye counties as to tn,
exact boundary lines ii indeed this has
not already occurred.
Reports from Fallon, county seat
OF Churchill County indicate that
the county commissioners thereof have
given up hope of establishing valid
claim to even portion oil the camp
This is source of surprise to many dor
was located about mile south OF the
Churchill County line, but did not at
tempt to definitely fix is location as
in either Mineral or Nye county, for
the reason that in making his calcutta
the reason that the camp has been gen
orally supposed, prior to the present
controversy, to be located wholly with
in Churchill county When +. c.
Shrader Of Washington, d. c., geolo-
gist for the u. S. Geological Survey
visited the camp several weeks ago
he gave it as his opinion that the camp
tons the only government map avail
able was an old one. Apparently the
Churchill county people have accepted
his calculations as correct. They now
say that when the Nevada legislature
fixed the boundary line separating Nye
and Churchill counties, the latter was
deprived OF the territory embracing
the district.
The telephone line connecting Bro
ken Hills with the outside world is
completed between here and Fallon
and will soon be in commission. Sup
erintendent Gilkyson, o; the Pacific
Tel. and Tel. Company with
headquarters in San Francisco, Of
which the Utah, Nevada, Idaho Tele-
phone company is now subsidiary
is expected here to install the new
line. Mining camp enthusiasts who
have flocked here from all sections Of
the state proclaim the fact that the
camp di Broken Hills, situated %
miles from the nearest previous tclc-
phone point, has established telephone
facilities quicker than any other new
mining camp in Nevada's history.
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