Show GOLD IN DONNELLY the recent reports of gold bein y fuad donnelly mountain ne near ar the line lineba beaw Z washoe and humboldt counties says th es ver state of winnemucca nevada r to mind some of the stories told eq by old about that section zel one in particular is to the effect ft while one job taylor kept a trading g t in indian valley durino during the fifties th the india einai frequently brought i in n good sied pieces 3 0 gold and traded them for flour brought tb the from the honey lake country in Cali califore Califor forn 2 this happened so often that the trad trader erJA jo taylor concluded to find the source of oi flu t gold if possible to this end he bribed bri bedone one of the indians to take him to the place thi 11 indian took him to deep hole springs whet they camped intending to travel from there them by night on account of the near presence ol of hostiles ho stiles taylor s guide informed him this the place was but two sleeps fur further thera and started out at a brisk pace in fact apace a pace to swift for taylor who after a few minute lost sight of the indian and never saw 1 him again taylor undertook to find the goldal several different times afterward but eidi ea time his indian guide would give him to j slip blip that the gold was found by the mn and somewhere in the neighborhood of donnelly mountain or in granite mountain to tl immediate south of it is beyond question 14 fc the fact can be verified by several people bov living livina Z the indian story moreover is not the oj oil one for reports were common in those daood gold in large larae quati quantities having been adon to exist in that neighborhood and hundred of men have hunted for it two men camped in a canyon in eitha donnelly or granite mountain one afternoon after noo and found gold they started with to knives to pick out the gold from the seama the rock cre as it is known badi they had a yeast powder can full and it under some bark from a tree and sleep the next morning one went fords horses and the other continued crevice the former was killed by the indians anan and tte latter made his way to honey lake cheren of of I 1 died shortly after reaching the ranch man to whom he showed the gold he is that morning mornin cr before his killed this rancher rancher made search for B place described by the man but could belef efio oi he find it so positive however was existence that the mere mention of an esc sion to that country would command all 01 wealth he could raise gold there certainly is in donnelly m tain but has it been found |