Show THE OLD MINE express caliente nevada along in the ahe years of the later sixties when silver was king and the comstock was attracting the attention of the world two hardy prospectors by name mcmurray and russell came from the troy district north of the quinn canyon mountains southward until they reached the range prospecting that range until they came to the southern portion of that range they located a group about one mile from what afterwards became known as tim piute diute city working this property and going down on the lead they extracted large quantities of high grade ore which was shipped to the smelters shelters sm elters by the way of the lumbering ox teams to eureka a distance of a little over miles at about the date that they made their locations a man named smith located a piece of ground which mcmurray and russell claimed As the property developed into a paying mine the dispute was renewed and smith was ordered off the ground refusing to go shots were exchanged with the result that mcmurray was killed and russell seriously wounded smith immediately gave himself up to the authorities was tried at a regular term of the court and acquitted the friends of mcmurray and russell believing that a wrong had been committed threatened smith with viole violence fice and he was thus forced to leave the country it is reported that he later died at pioche after russell had recovered he went north with a friend named young on the return trip both having been drink mg ing heavily met their deaths by fire the cabin in which they were staying having burned after their deaths the property dropped into other hands and the ground is now patented by the mother of our townsmen ed and angelo dark clark the latter an assemblyman sem blyman for lincoln county among the claims of this group are the former well known legal tender silver standard and Coa chlis which carry very high values in silver ore from these mines in early days was shipped which gave returns as high as per ton it is reported now that eastern parties have negotiated a bond and lease on this valuable property and active work will commence at once |