The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1922-02-24


he tradition of this old camp has <
become refreshened in memory. The :.
itories of Pioneer days is ever inter n
esting but it is doubtful II any of d
the old mining camps has had a 4
more picturesque history, or setting. +
than has Atlanta a
The figures of production of this G
famous old camp, as is usual in such $
cases, have disappeared for one
cause or another, but the history {
remains untarnished by the passing {
years, and the County Records show |
that the first mining clans were
located by Felix knight, and others
of hardy band of pioneers, in the
fall of 1867. The Roadside, Sam
Tilden and Summit mining claims,
from which, in the next decade fol-
value of silver in the camp, were
the first claims located and the
ground upon which these claims
were off was known as Mineral
| Hill" and in the Wheeler-Powell |
surveys of later years was mention
ed as such. The Bradshaw, Miners
Delight. Great Eastern and Conway
Lodes were located shortly after
those on Mineral Hill.
In 1870 Rossiter w. Raymond, in
his report of the district mentions
the fact that upwards Of one hun
dred claims had been located ada
cent to the new discovery and the
population at that time was upwards
of six hundred people, and reports Of
the population in the years follow
ing seem to indicate that at one
time there were three thousand peo-
pie in the camp.
AS early as 1879, daily schedul-
: ed, six-horse Concord coach made
! trips to Palisade, and in later years
> a coach made trips to points In Utah.
J The first United States monument,
Number One, was surveyed in, for
. the purpose of patenting the several
e most important claims in the dis.
N trict; this was in 1875 1t is worth,
Us of mention that patents in those
10 days were taken only when the
x claims We're of exceptional value.
'e Stories of the production vary
but conservative estimates place {
2 gross production of approximatel,
81 $4,00o,0o0 for the camp.
G. The operation OF the Knigh
Group was interesting, and the meth
re DDS of Felix Knight in working hi
'h ground forms rather pcturesqu
De tale of conservative methods, whel
III he would go, to Salt Lake City b
a ox-team and induce from twenty I
thirty freight outfits to return wit
" him to the new camp for the pun
pose of hauling out his ore. Knigl
employed the shrewd method If a
loting certain sections, or blocks, c
Ground to these freighters. takin
tribute from them, in the manne
er employed in recent years as "ro.
'N atty" on the ores extracted. BY tn
OF method he secured greater tol
mage and revenue then he otherwis
of would; his ore was mined largely |
IL the freighters, and his own ore hau
Dot ed for a mere trifle of what it wou
he have cost him by other method
he This worked also as an advantage
gh. the freighters for they made, fro
be- the ores they dug, much more tht
uc- the freighting of the ore would ha
; a brought them, the only differen
ar being that they were compelled
ute virtually mine their own freig
er- loads
it At one time the camp of Allan
the boasted three mills but the metho
employed were so crude that tn
ion were abandoned for the more pro
Two table method of shipping In rece
the years the old tailngs dumps ha
lies been remilled or shipped with han
the some profits.
'uc- Due to the long distance the c
Wis had to be shipped 1t was necessa
of that only high grade be mined, as
ross result large tonnage of the low
pro gades of ore were thrown aside a
to into the dumps, some Of the higl
ling grades of ore, but Improbable ey
on then were piled upon the lower gre
t. dumps. Superintendent Ward,
the Adra mines, in speaking OF
feature of the property, estima
that there are approximately 4.
to tons of recoverable ore in, and
tav- the old dumps alone, this does
Dian include the gobs of the old sto
mar and workings, OF which there
ltely approximately $500 feet, OF wi
den. the Adra Mines company has
are plored, reopened and sampled {
about 1000 feet.