Show SILVER LAKE DISTRICT index san bernardino colo the silver lake mining district is going to furnish one of the greatest camps on the desert according to the opinion of L F florman a miner of 30 years experience who arrived in the city this morning to file location notices for 55 claims florman and his partner went into the district last september and have been busy there ever since in the meantime a town of about 75 inhabitants has sprung up along the tonopah tidewater railroad and there are about 20 men at the camp where florman is interested seven miles from the station the country is located for miles around and men with money are preparing to enter the district which was originally discovered by the amos boys about three years ago at that time the district was far from the nearest railroad and it only needed the coming of the tonopah tidewater to give the district a great push forward the amos brothers recently disposed of three claims to E J of salt lake who has a force of men engaged in bevolo developing the property mr florman sold a number of his claims to los angeles parties florman says he is not a hot air miner for he has been too long in the business he was the second white child to enter the black hills district and has been following mining ever since he went to the silver lake district from rhyolite and has since induced a large number of his friends to desert the nevada field for the san bernardino county country he believes the ore will develop richer than the famous greenwater Green water ledges the surface indications are far ahead of those at green water while in the city today mr florman saw to the filing of the papers for the organization of the mining district according to law |