Show MINING DISTRICT FORMED Walker River Indian I Reservation Res Country Organized by Miners The he Walker River mining district cm I bracing the entire Walker River Indian b reservation I and stretching many miles mies on J either cither side sid in places has been formed by miners und and prospectors who gathered at Schurz a few days ago go says the Reno Gazette After electing officers and otherwise completing the thc formal organization rules were adopted supplementing the tho federal and state laws to mining One rule most mOEt unusual in character r forbids 4 the th bringing of firearms or other weapons Into the district until after the day of November 1906 19 and provides further that any person committing such an act ar i o threatening to assault assaul anyone with fire firearms firearms firearms arms knife rock club clu etc shall forfeit location on rights and ald be b ejected from the district distrct The mining district is the th largest in in the state tate and probably the largest in the en entire entire J tire tre country containing about 1700 square milos milc miOs and extending into three counties Emeralda Esmeralda Churchill and Lyon countes This Tiis district is pear shaped and begins southwest of the reservation near Hot Springs fifteen p een miles mile west of Hawthorne From this starting point the line lne runs east ast and north passing north of Haw t orne to a point eight miles mies northeast of that town then runs north to San Springs in Churchill Churchil county count thence southeast striking the Yerington district passing passing cast of Nordyke to the place of begin beginning beginnIng beam ning Its Is total length is IS about sixty miles with wih a H width varying var ing from twenty to miles It I includes the entire entre reservation and mountain ranges on both SIdes feldes of the tho lake lae |