Show picturesque story of picturesque delamar nevada which new blood and new methods are to the gold camp of delamar nevada which was extremely active twenty years ago is is a again b ain being I 1 considered by capital as a field for profitable investment says a recent issue of the pioche record negotiations are pending for the sale of the Delar delamar nar mine aline in which it is stated a large C tonnage tonna b e of ore still remains that would be suitable to more modern milling illing in processes particularly the flotation process and that such ore could be made commercially profitable A large working capital would of course be necessary to obtain results and the negotiations are being made with this end in view the large tailings piles now owned by different parties also will be worked shortly and the negotiations conducted along sound business lines should make this separate enterprise profitable the following description of the famous camp in the liht light li 6 ht of what is doing now will without doubt prove of interest int erest at this time delamar the camp that has perhaps produced more in ore millions in bullion with the least ex expenditure pend iture of capital than any other camp in the state of nevada delamar the camp that roared for y years e ars with the crushing and the grinding b of three hundred tons of golden rock each day delamar the camp to and from which ran the swiftest stages and the biggest freight outfits of the desert delamar the camp of the deadly dust delamar lies sleeping and uninhabited a deserted and silent city on the slope of the desert mountain awaiting the day when some adventurous prospector will strike it and the news of the gold find will again call the miners to the mountain side to again awaken the silence with the sounds of industry and life the deserted streets of Delar delamar nar which once surged with the wild life of the golden west today slumber with the stillness of expectancy the large buildings on each side are locked the windows boarded or closed with the iron shutters of another age from the miners cabins there comes no smoke or sound of life and many of these stone cabins are falling into signs of ruin A few frame buildings remain only a few although there are many foundations upon which frame buildings at one time stood and these vacancies but intensify the feeling of desolation derelicts of bygone days leave much evidence behind peering between the boards protecting a window of one of the saloons one may see the bar and mirror back of it and as the eye becomes accustomed to the dim light within there appears the billiard tables and the furniture and next even the glassware and fittings of the bar on the shelves behind it through another window a completely equipped barber shop is visible and as seems proper in the dreamy solitude the furniture and fittings are of another period and match the old fashioned furniture of the saloon the dance halls once blazing with that wild abandon miscalled mi life which lured so many through sleepless nights 6 of drunken pleasure from which the miners would go to work and after working feverishly in the glassy dust only long enough to make a showing the heated men would breathe a slow death by dozing in the draughty drifts while the delamar dust was being damned for making widows these dance halls are now closed and only a tawdry feather clinging to a flattened hat pressed into the ground by some vagrant foot remains to remind one of the deadly dancers everywhere are the signs of age the blac blackens kend boards are split and warped by the burning suns the sagging buildings have lost their lines and even the massive stone buildings are cracked and show the beat beating ingol oi the weather the signs of the ba business siness houses ses are dimmed but well known names remain legible every where signs of age but not of death no one th thinks inks rather of men who have departed expecting b to return and A are delayed the buildings seem to be awaiting pancy some few of the buildings are in utter rula rul others have lost a wall or part of the roof but most the buildings s remaining seem preserved and cared for ii if the passing years could be arrested and the structure turi kept ready for the use of those expected huge mountain of tailings contains wealth untold to the left and above the town there is the hushed mine marked by the scarred hillside and below the cut and dumps there is the bleaching b mountain of tailing from the mill surmounted by a long 6 trestle now a broke w wreck reck and in this bleak white pile there is locked UPI up million dollars some engineers say more against the tl heaped up tailings there looms the dull and rusty red i an apathetic mill building with squares of darkness anark mar ing the missing sheets of corrugated iron siding over the 6 ghastly town there broods that awful calm cali in desperation the beholder pictures the activities the busy days and peoples the streets with spirit figu ghostly teams and phantoms of the life that has ceased twenty three years ago dave meikle was pro babli building the fine brick house for the butch and J W palmer was building the business block westi the he lynch block while other buildings were being bein gerec erect b t in in various parts of town governor adams tenda taid of the mint at carson city was a visitor and no dou do I 1 said that delamar was the coming camp of nevada subscription was perhaps being circulated to provide some sort of fire protection while the boys were prep t ing to organize the best volunteer fire department ot of 11 t 1 state the sunrise mine owned by john vietti J mrs lynch and robert mclaughlin and located east cast 0 the april fool was perhaps being bonded for sor neone I 1 d town through the agency b of one of the two young youla benjamin benjami n sanders and F R mcnamee estepho step head of the april fool mill was hurt good reports were derew 1 from the magnolia george C fetterman J wu besot tt brothers D L company and john were doing a rushing business payday pay day 0 on n the ath passed with but few fights although the gan gamblers iblas usa 02 i things fairly lively during the next few days As oat u d someone started the rumor that the big mine was 0 IV ore and the mill would close within two weeks bullion team had left and the outfits unloading on oil street were hauling merchandise and lumber glo A busy scene but a dream and under the pitiless ba of the burning sun the picture fades and only the ide street remains when delamar was in glory pioche was almost deserted yet at about this time in the worked out an and d A fort f 1 av 0 th camp of pioche only a few families remained and a sch oj for th the sake of the children who were attending ze thompson willie carman charley osborne john v ale frank eddie deck una reilly pearl adelmann liz reilly and john jose were in the A class of the lie school and getting gettin an average of 99 in deport grammar nunar I 1 in the B class jennie sawyer amy osborne lili ment ent stoddard katie hunter jimmie nesbitt grace stoddard lie leonard carman isabelle osborne willie nesbitt and harvey reilly were doing well the tiny lots attending 0 the primary department were alex lloyd george franks mammie wheatley sadie wheatley eva hulse vary stevie carman robbie nesbitt ainsle campbell a m p b ell katie lynch and jerry reilly W D prewitt and W J campbell were the teachers at delamar there was not only one school but three not only many saloons but there was the big b hospital up in inthe the canyon the big postoffice post office the dentist and dicks restaurant there was the delamar lode to chronicle the news of the night and day the newspaper that was destined to supremacy in the literary circles of lincoln county but which did not survive the official paper at piuche I 1 but everything suggests a bygone day and pictures a calm tranquil and unmolested peace yet there is that indefinable expectancy it seems that everything is waiting for some signal when the mill will roar again and the buildings open to a crowded street as industry returns i but few mourners Mour Aers are left to guard once famous camp and some are waiting pete is the watchman of a well preserved property and spoke of opportunity waiting for the right man joe Pan chiero the charcoal burner was at his cabin but in his eighties he is not as strong and husky as he was in days when a tree was a light burden only one other two dog joe seventy six years old but with the heart of a boy and the spirit of the west though crippled by a fall from a house which he was painting years ago his little monthly income has been topped stopped but as he had been given a rabbit that morning things were breaking pretty well for him and he cheerfully gave an account of the early days oh not the johnny come lately days of delamar but the e good old days when after he had fought and lost in the civil war he came west and hauled and put up the no 6 western stern overland wire the days when he knew sam cl who was then a reporter and not a very good omens on the territorial enterprise the same sam who afterward the after than yard used the name mark twain the days when bannock indians were put down things were decidedly y different in those days for one onetha I 1 to thing money 10 was free and easy y to earn and it seemed hin r it that nat i lt t would always be easy but he had not found it so lie ased expressed the boyish wish that he had kept ke p t some of cof collect the atlon lioney he had made as his present occupation 11 collecting cans 08 and of them was inot not pounding the solder out it metal profitably profit coil abl e 1 he had some property in the shape of bunds bollt ed around the e deserted town several hundred balso o of ck b rass and lead and much more had 0 too there sone secondhand second hand d tools which he would sell then I 1 which ch he w ia as furniture sufficient to fill two or three sheds athe e mine amne had gleaned abed and which he had repaired when two started c these would become valuable b y n dog joe f joe is wealthy bihy ihy or he would be if he could alty pity that me le rare r 0 chance ce sell some of his holdings it is a then th en T two th e metal and furniture ta are not edible because bebau se wod wo D ause duri d 09 joe would not oed need to lo suffer hunger betor did aring he n ap an hour r of conversation he be made no murmur ness te il n vo ia 1 ce complaint com Plait except at some past reckless n he was at fault and if hungry surely he would have mentioned it his neighbors had said that he was in need so two dog joe lives on hope and an occasional rabbit and speaks of the time when he will sell his property and pay his bills the day when the mine is worked again and the people return the spirit of the west is hope |