Show MARVELS OF ROSEBUD DISTRICT BY W J LAWRENCE george N lawrence W J lawrence and R L dow returned to salt lake december from a hurried trip to rosebud which they reported to the intermountain inter mountain republican as booming to about the limit considering bad roads from the railroad and difficulties in getting lumber and supplies about people were in the camp on the way out they met nine teams heavily loaded most of them with four and six ready the new town of powhattan is having quite a real estate boom lots which sold for when the towns te was laid out are bringing now while is offered for those at first put on the market at 50 the survey of the western pacific railroad is only two or three miles from the town and it is believed belle vod the road can be induced to run directly through the camp in view of the activity there it being claimed aw 44 rosebud nev november horses while outfits were going in from three or four different railroad points including mill city humboldt Love locks and Rye patch the best route by which to go in until spring at least said W J lawrence is by way of mill city A tri weekly stage line is run from this point leaving mill city on tuesdays thursdays and fridays four horses are worked on the stage with a change at willow springs fourteen miles from rosebud the fare for the round trip IS 1250 and one way this fare is made lade necessary by the extremely high prices of 01 grain and hay and other necessities from the way people are going in mr lawrence has no doubt inhabitants there will 11 be from 2500 to by spring al that the change of survey could be made without any increase of distance the railroad should reach the camp next fall C D and malcolm mcallister are arranging to establish a bank and other business enterprises in the early spring material is on the ground for constructing a telephone line from mill city to humboldt house and from thence to rosebud 17 re aliw golden anchor camp rosebud and it is expected that the camp will be in communication with the outside world by january mr lawrence has let contracts for sinking a shaft and driving a crosscut tunnel on his golden anchor group of claims the dreamland ledge has been stripped for a distance of more than a hundred feet and is found to be three and a half to four feet wide with the high grade surface values characteristic of the camp mining operations are getting fairly started and within the next month the rich veins will have been explored to considerable depth reports from the new rosebud mining district continue to be of a very favorable nature and that the sturdy pioneers of the rapidly growing camp have the greatest faith in its surroundings is attested by their hustling activity in the erection of buildings securing of business facilities and projecting substantial roads connecting with points on the southern pacific A good stage line is operating between the camp and mill city station and a wagon road to be built at once from winnemucca assures another A mail route between rosebud and winnemucca has been petitioned for the athe schedule time over the road will be eight to nine hours if present projects materialize by early spring rosebud will have two banks a number of gen eral stores several restaurants a newspaper and the usual complement of saloons also many residences in course of construction scarcity of lumber is a serious matter at present while much of the district was staked before the la late te snowstorm it is 18 given out that there is still plenty of ground open to prospectors tors preliminary work is only beginning on many claims but the sensational discoveries in those opening up are such as to make it probable that rosebud is to be numbered among the richest and most pr prolific of the new districts on the map of nevada given in the last number of the mining review rosebud camp was shown sixty five miles west of winnemucca it is located about thirty miles west of mill city two or three miles south of the western pacific survey and is thirty miles north of seven troughs which is in the same range and said to be on the same mineral zone |