White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16

" flGll lSlC II Va HIS wv q
fifty years ago and find and identify
an old shaft that at that time he
helped to sink, was the unusual lot
of w. c. Taylor, pioneer of 1871,
who visited here for a week, leaving
for Salt Lake Friday morning.
AS related in last weeks issue Mr.
Taylor left here in 1874 and has
never been back until now. He want
ed to again view the old scenes, to
see the great mines that have been
found since, which are due to the
efforts of other pioneers and him
self, and as he tacidly admitted at
the time, he came to look uD some
thing which he has had up his sleeve
all these years.
Wednesday a White Pine News
representative accompanied Mr.. Tay-
lor to Keystone to look for the old
shaft in which he worked. Reaching
a point 100 yards below the second
railway tunnel and mor than hall
a mile below keystone, Mr.. Taylor
said he wished to 60 up a little
gulcl.y entering the main canyon Or
the south, as that might be the one,
He could not remember the hills,
their appearance being strange, but
he was sure hat he was not far from
the place.
He said he remembered that
there was a bluff on the right goina
up and that there vas a blanket
vein on the top of the hill beyond
the shaft, where he had helped a.
some chloriding where two carloads
of ore had been extracted. In this
gulch there was not a sign of a pick
having been driven into the ground
and the cedar ard pinion trees stood
as they must have for the past 100
years or r
ut was a granite formation, but
this in lime. This cannot be The
place. said the seventy-five year old
pioneer, as he easily climbed about
among the rocks and rims. There
was a contact near by" he added.
This caused the paper man to have
a slight feeling of dubiousness, moi
knowing of a granite formation iii
this region. Mr.. Taylor was asked
if it might not be a different gulch
leading soutbwesterly from above
Lane City. No, he WAS sure it was
the gulch leading to Ruth-Ro',in-
SOL canyon.
Some pieces of rich looking f1oa.
were picked up. Mr.. Taylor remark
ing that it would he a good thing
to take them along. but when re-
minded by the paper man that this
was all owned ground. belonging to
one of the big companies, he re
marked that packing them would not
be worth while and threw them
down.
Three ridges and little gulches
were crossed and at last came in
sight that little peak just south OF
Keystone and the fat to the east of
it where chloriders had worked many
years ago.
That's it," shouted the aged
man. "But they've done a lot of
work there since"
The fiat which be called the blan-
ket vein was approached from above
the deep draw crossed in reaching
and scaling it. The work of chlor-
iders was abundantly plain. One
tunnel goes north and south under
a surface slat not more than three
feet thick. and various open cuts and
little holes are all about The rocl.
is a black. brown, purple and lead
color. There r all sorts of signs
of work done and wealth extracted
at least thirty years ago.
Beyond to the northwest as the
pair approached and going in thai
direction YER the remains of sew
eral old-time dumps. shafts and cats.
One in particular could be seen with
out the aid of Mr.. TAYLOR to be the
one where he worked fifty years ago
Mr.. Taylor expected to find a large
dump. at least a reminder Of the one
left there when the shaft was sunk,
but it was suggested to him several
times that fifty years were a long
time and MANY cloudbursts and 9th
er forces Of nature could have ear
ried It away. 1t proved that there
We're Just two ancient piles of dirt,