Show PLACERS AND QUARTZ tho the auriferous riches of osceola nevada GREAT HYDRAULIC WASHINGS two ditches one ona sixteen and ono eighteen miles xong long the operations pay curious moraine placer drifting Drift ings with rich elch results osceola la is an old place not much success thus IM far la in quartz mining experiments la irk treatment railing correspondence tribune I 1 osceola Osce oli nov april 7 1800 osceola was located as a mining dig dl brict in 1870 after the of a few 1011 ledges until 1877 2877 only assessment work wits wn done on tho the claims in 1877 1807 the placers were discolored and located aca led causing consider considerable atle of a 11 ruh here since that date the district has put out gold to the amount estimated it at between lOO OOOO and 1100 Wo in 78 thoro there were or goo COO people here anil and the little town was quite lively at pres present ent will probably number tho the population THE LOCATIONS while bile in the district t there here have been many of 0 the present bona bon 1110 are estimated by recorder about fifty quartz quarta lodes and placer or caal claims mo tho the district takes in all of 0 tho the northern end of 0 snake ran range and its jeff daila peak hence covers I a very largo area osceola Is bated located ca ted in a gulch well towards the northern end ena of 0 tho the r ranee a the tha peak one of the ho highest reaching an altitude of nearly feet la Is known as aa jeff devitt by tho the masses while the government surveys call it mount wheeler in honor ot of capt wheeler so long in the geological g flogl survey under prof II ayden and who spent pent much time in utah some years ago consists or of but a few build mug in a narrow gulch the tha town bring being in the main gulch and its two branches glascock and marriott Marr lott carry a good line of general merchandise fw fis does data also J A scott find and one 0 r saloon is running ind and alyo also two res restaurants t tyrants like many of the nevada mining districts this Is held bade back much in development from lack ot at water to lor r mill mining operations this Is especially 11 y the case this year usually tile range Is covered fully with snow on the entire aart range go while near nearly IY all th tho 3 money so far taken out it ha a s e com 0 T from the placers there li Is ci a hopeful h ope f u I 1 baltri of future prosperity in the quartz lodes interest in these Is increasing and only it a want of capital prevents active development of tho the ledges some of these have been opened enough to show their value ond and lie herewith reIth I 1 mention some a of them cumberland osceola the cumberland and osceola gold cold mining and company otter after going through the experimental stage now propose getting down to real business with an excellent prospect 0 of f succors success they have A will mill in the town of osceola osccola v alch was first arranged for tile the common cyanide process and afterward chari changed ged to a mill a boston production for pulping the 0 ore r 0 both processes failed on an tho clasa of 0 t oro ore belonging to the company and class now 0 w they ore are arranging to put in awen twenty t Y stamps tor for fre free milling for this ill Is purpose tile the company compan Y with headquarters in boston aro are disposing of bonds to the amount of and which it Is understood axe are largely being taken by stockholders in the company tho the stamps are prof proposed ased to be put in within the next few weeks and the ore to bo be worked Is such as to insure success in tree free milling the cyanide and trl let cono processes only saved caved about 40 per cent of the anay a nay value of ores run through ind and that with very treo free milling ore the company has f for r its president william J rounds hounds a of f boston mass and its directory numbers some prominent boston people thy they have here a group of four mines in which they have oie ate blocked out estimated et at fully and which will mill an average of about IS 13 per ton in gold their cumberland lode Is about twenty feet wide being a contact between a quartzite quart site hanging and shale toot fool walls on oil this they have a haft down 71 feet and a crosscut showing shaming the vein to be 20 feet mido at that point and with rood good ore along it a drift run next to tho the hanging wall on oil the osceola they have two tunnels respectively and fett feet long their royal flush lies lias a shaft down 00 feet shoeing ing four feet of ore at the bottom which will mill til 12 sonic some drifting lies has been done on oil this on their revenue they have feet of tunneling with ore in the lower one of the tuo atto that will average 20 per ton in these four claims they have two velna veins the big contact and a fiss fissure ure running through quartzite and shale with their mill and mines the company ought to make a success when tho the stamps are put in ope operation operatic ratio a mr A J meldick Mell Mel lck fick who mho it has been in I 1 the it 0 district disi almost from its disco discover vei y 1 li ma min n aging the affairs of the company here NEW FINDS A late dige discovery overy made and located on april ath th one and it a halt half miles south of osceola pola li Is that of a 8 small lole car dying two feet of ore which will run it Is thought lio 60 per cent lead 70 ounces silver and 6 in goll cold this was mas located under the title of new state stat by the e ML fifick chiq find may prove very valuable ablo to the district since it Is the arft clr t lead silver liver proposition found here with the L e very small amount of bori work lone done on it it looks all I 1 light ight and Is to be further exploited at once OSCEOLA QUARTZ COMPANY about ISSI 83 82 the osceola quartz quart mining con company ithe pany put in I a twenty stamp mill mil t at on alie east eal side about four our miles from os osceola ecola and hauled some nomo two or three bundled tons of ore three and a halt half front from their mines find and milled it the mill ran some three or four weeks on this ore and then lien closed don down n and the plant Is 1 still there citizens attribute the failure to bad management and the sending of intel eilor lor ore and wall rock to the mill there Is a pro to move this mill over to osceola it will be within one rolli mile of the mines and it if th that a t should he be done success Is pretty sure a re to follow the company owned U four our leesi locations covering three parallel veins in size from two to SIX sit feet and all carrying good tree free millina mil linc sold gold ore on tine ono of these an incline tins lifts run down don TO 0 feet from which there Is now nov on the dump over tons tona of ore that will t ill mill ta 7 or ts SS per ton this may soon form tile basla bals for a good group aich with tile the mill will make an property CREEK willard creek although eight miles south ot at osceola Is still till in the district the sunday group of five ve claims has been developed to some gains extent tests of eighty live five assays essays gave cravo an average of 0 in tree free gold besides looting out one demay of tin in the lost in all about 2000 worth we r tit of work has been put in on ill tha group including hornc ho unc shops and oil n the tha 1 agos there there tire iwu parallel purall fl lodea laded about GOO COO foft feet apart allart and one of them Is thirty feet aide they are contact between tilte 1 an and d alca ceist st sons are r the owners one sl 0 1 of 0 iho ta sunday group I 1 1 0 blaair t wept y 0 on n w which h t c h b but ut lit little t 1 e w ivari work b ben done eaje T the h e v vein e 1 n 1 Is s b be e t elt r anete te anil 1 1 rt i t e 1 Is 0 w e y 3 r e L 1 a bil bt t li anle dip P a d 1 I 1 I 1 T euliar for the 1 l c in carryl carrying ig gold silver and lend 11 but t little work half ha h been done on it there 10 are FL i umber number of 0 quartz quart loca eions i a on which hah but bt little work hm hits been w done tit y ca and here and there all over the district are a quartz quart locatto locations locut ions III w bile hi in the entire lle district there Is not and hoist greater than it 11 single ale crank wind lavy i A PLACER GROUP three miles southwest of 0 osceola coll there is ID a n small group of 0 men working placers tl erb botne years ana ago one on man located several gulches and year after year relocated no as to hold without doing work some one pu our 91 a name to commer commemorate orate this thin t incident n and the place has haa ever e r banri e 0 b been ee rith k known n a as s il hog e g e em a spelled ve elle d w without elin t h u t tho a now hyphen he n S since i n c e figr 9 much gold cold h has alq been hi cn extracted here this is Is in a tin contracted placer c camp in P A gulch c coming ming down from the range ranee in the long ago poured out and unread around its lower end a great delta extending a long distance both north and south from the th mouth of the th canyon tit imi delta Is 1 composed of broken limestone and lime cement jn in places I 1 it 1 very deep its condi tinna point to the fact face that the water down from rom the canyon and while joining the delta had bad certain channels channel in find and over the lime toot not or bedrock in old channels wn was i deposited the gold old after tho delte delta was wa fully built up new channels chann cla wre formed bv the process ot of cutting down making mr kang the kuithe retches of today many of 0 which are barren of kold gold without outward signs this delta has boun been unk sunk into by prospect holes over quite quit it a large area exposing in rome homo places L rood good gravel next the bedrock wherever the old channel can be b found and followed up there is 1 ble big pay mr J A skinner who bag ra been mining thre there th re since 1389 has haa followed up one of theme Is about fret feet with good results re aults lie ile runs runa the dirt taken from lust just above the bedrock where it yet shows how the th washing ot of the ancient channel and wheeling outside lets it dry then rung rum it ahr through ough it a it freeman dry placer machine and ret gets good ray pay ills ilia tunnel la Is ive five or six elx feet wide it at the bottom and nal he be works A arks it a few inches inched of dirt near the bedrock then takes up the rock tor for a few inches down getting gold in all the iho crevices RICH men RE Rr TURNa TURNS T D tilford he has claims just below skinners and has bag been working them over ever since ance ISIO 11 lie has used the freeman dry washer ever since the spring of lie ile has also done some alula ins ing his claims claim being below the ditch belonging to the osccola placer mining company in an all he has taken out about in gold from his cealma he found th old channel in a gulch which was retained partly in form after tho the original deposit next to bedrock thira there thi ra Is I a few fet feet of soft cement and above that cornea conics a hard bard lime cement ile he birtt drifted ln in ind and took out the pay dirt 80 90 feet wide and sot feet long lone hold ing the hard cement roof up by props after which lit he blew out lit th proem and let the root rent fall in since then he haa bag gone bone up tip feet ert further and Is 19 still working there ile he estimates that much of this dirt paid him 3 34 cents per shovel full while some home of at it went as a high as 17 per wheelbarrow load it was mostly extracted by tile tho dry wash wanner aich which with a boy to turn tho the crank one nian man to feed and another to remove the would put thirty tons tona of dirt through in a day tito tho dry washer with this clas cla S of coarse unpolished rold gold appears to have been I a success hert herl the question of such rich placer place r channels in this clues class of gr aund alm ilm a cement chiefly la 13 ono one of interest mr tilford says that high up tho the mountain at the head of the gulch there li is a similar deposit caul quite te large in which nome game rold la is found but they have not located the great idge beuge from which it must have came OS CrOLA PLACER COMPANY but the greatest operations opera tlona here have been by the baccola placer mining company this company own the ground in the gulch below osceola osccola tor or a a distance of over three miles chev started operations in 19 79 but did not begin washing on a largo large scale until 1895 after their wert ditch sixteen miles long lone was wan put in this beacht 1 from rom the west wert base of mount wheeler to the tha mine in 1889 and io amo another canal eighteen miles long was put in on the east side of the range extending from tile the gulch below mount wheeler to tho the mine the two dit ditches clies emptying into the tha same famo reservoir hilow hi low osceola and far above the mine these canals have tour four drops from 10 to ot feet vertically either cither one of which would give out great pat power er it if harnessed to wheels in mining the water mater Is run through pipes and turned on to the banks banka through eight inc inch it monitors two beins being used at each place all the water and gravel pass down through gh a six bit loot fool flume to the ino dump fitter after aich the water la Is ca caught in a basin allowed to settle and then then put to work again on the banica farther down the gulch thus getting betting double service ix out of the ewo inches head when running full some forty or more nien men are employed in usual seasons this mining N 1 carried on about nix months cars and tracks are used to get gel rid of ble big boulders but the small ones are carried to the dump by the water the plant la is provided with houses shops machinery run by water tor for shop uses operating electo lights etc in fact everything icedo tor for success in mining W V n kunhardt Kiin hardt of new york city Is president and general manager inan and J 11 Ala so la superintendent perin here what tile the company Is doing in the way of baying gold Is not made mada public but it Is well known that tho the product la is large that the ground Is enormous ou in extent and also rich and the only it thing 1 ing which troubles them Is the am amount aunt of witte water r available fur operating |