White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-07-29

had not seen the place in twenty-five
years last week went over the old
scenes that once were teeming with
humanity to such an extent that a
team and buggy could not be driven
through the masses of people on the
streets for more than two or three,
steps at a time, which are now empty,
the houses vacant and most of them
gone, the old-time mines idle and
some of them deserted.
Il am glad l went and saw it all
once more. No, l am not sorry and
it did not give NE the blues, but |
never want to go and see it again"
Thus spoke Mrs. e. W. Clay, one
of the party, who for several years
was a teacher at Treasure Hill. Two
of the others of the party were Mrs
l.. s. Schumacher, Mrs. Cday's sis
ter, and Mr.. Clay, all of them from
Burbank, Utah, five miles south of
Garrison.
e. X. Willard Jr., a o of the pic
neer doctor of that name, was in
the visiting party, coming up from
his home at Anaheim, Cal, to make
the Hamilton visit and to see his
relatives.
All of them Hamilton pioneers,
Mrs. Clay, then Miss Burbank, was
the first to arrive there. She is 4
e ~. l. II1;l1a, 1 rr1,yN nn,
trolled the E%Berhardt, Keystone anG
Hidden Treasure mines and who was
one of the big factors Of Hamilton
for a number of years. Miss Bur"
bank left her home in Massachusetts,
November 8, 1868. She went by
steamship TO Panama, crossing the
isthmus by rail, and embarked on
another steamer to San Francisco.
She came by train to Argenta, New,
which then was the eastern end of
the Central Pacific railway. Argenta
is not heard of now but is believed
to be west of Reno. At any rate she
took a fast stage and after two days
and one night of steady travelling,
changing horses every ten miles, she
made Austin. Mrs. Clay says when
the stage drove up to a station the
hostlers were out to meet them with
fresh horses and it was not two MIN.
utes until they were off. The only
stops were for meals.
From Austin she came direct to
Hamilton, where her uncle was
awaiting her.
Mr.. Clay arrived in 1870 and the
couple were soon married. He had
been on the coast for several years,
mining at Virginia City part of the
time, then had gone back to San
Francisco. When he came to Hamil-
ton it was by way Of Palisade, com
ing down by stage.
Mrs. Schumacher, then unmarried,
came west with her mother in 1869.
The railway had been completed in
August that year and they came in
September. She lived at Hamilton
several years and also at Phoebe. She
is the mother Of Fred Schumacher,
a rancher of Garrison, residing half
a mile south of town. She lives with
! Tic SldyS. HcI HuSD.lu ud'lhS pass
ed away several years ag,.
Burbank postoficc was named for
a brother of the two women, willard
Burbank, who was the first post
master 1t was a historic old post
office but a few years ago it was
discontinued.
E. X. Willard .Jr. was born at Sher-
mantown upward of forty years ago.
Mr.. Clay at Hamilton for some
years was in the employ of the late
Jake Shallenberger as bull team
driver. He used to drive eight yoke
of bulls with four wagons and haul
a ton of hay TO the animal, or twenty
tons at a load. The route was up
Cathedral canyon, which looks I'M.
possible to view it now, but he says
he made it without dropping t%railers,
making free use of the pointers at
the sharp turns. The hay was packed
into 250~pound bales with old Peta-
luna presses, tied with ropes and
projected over the sides. Often the
loads grazed the great canyon walls
but seldom was harm done thereby.
Alex Muir, father of Carl Muir, the
present Hamilton merchant, used to
drive a ten-animal team down from
the crest of Treasure hill with ore,
landing it safely at the International
mill.
This and other roads were %perilous
going those days. but most of them
were gone over in safety this time
by the visitors in an automobile.
Including Hamilton, Treasure
City, Shermantown and Eberhardt
there were $4,000 people," says Mrs.
Clay. MY uncle always kept a fine
buggy team and we would drive UP
through town, making u way
slowly through such a mass of peo-
pie that the horses could not make
more than two or three feet at a
time, when we would have to stop
and wait. Now the same streets are